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This time, as you can deduce from the title, I will address the topic of how to use feature flags on Django websites and applications. This is an incredible functionality to have, specially if you need to continuously roll new code to production environments that might not be ready to be released. But first what […]
Last January I made a small post about setting up a “Content-Security-Policy” header for this blog. On that post I described the steps I took to reach a final result, that I thought was good enough given the “threats” this website faces. This process usually isn’t hard If you develop the website’s software and have […]
I haven’t written one of these supposedly weekly posts with small Django tips for a while, but at least I always post them on Fridays. This time I gonna address how we can test emails with the tools that Django provides and more precisely how to check the attachments of those emails. The testing behavior […]
A couple of weeks ago, I gave a small talk on the Madeira Tech Meetup about a set of HTTP headers that could help website owners protect their assets and their users. The slides are available here, just in case you want to take a look. The content of the talk is basically a small […]
First of all, DoH stands for “DNS over HTTPS”. So last week Mozilla announced that future versions of Firefox will use DoH by default, a decision that at first sight might seem innocuous or even good but thanks to some implementation details it ended up being very controversial. The reaction that followed the announcement on […]
Learning to program in Rust is as easy like other languages out there, because it ends up having different constrains and new concepts that you will have to go through, in the beginning everybody fights the compiler at least a little bit. I started this journey a while ago, however I’ve been progressing slowly just […]
In this post I’m gonna list some very useful tools I often use when developing a Django project. These packages help me improve the development speed, write better code and also find/debug problems faster. So lets start: Black This one is to avoid useless discussions about preferences and taste related to code formatting. Now I […]
Like I did in previous years/versions, this year I participated again on Pixels.camp, a kind of conference plus hackathon. For those who aren’t aware, it is one of the biggest (if not the biggest) technology event in Portugal (from a technical perspective not counting with the Web Summit). So, as I did in previous editions, […]
One of the oldest and most frequent advises to people working with computers is “create backups of your stuff”. People know about it, they are sick of hearing it, they even advice other people about it, but a large percentage of them don’t do it. There are many tools out there to help you fulfill […]
Django is an awesome web framework for python and does a really good job, either for building websites or web APIs using Rest Framework. One area where it usually fell short was dealing asynchronous functionality, it wasn’t its original purpose and wasn’t even a thing on the web at the time of its creation. The […]