This week, I’m back at my tremendously irregular Django tips series, where I share small pieces of code and approaches to common themes that developers face when working on their web applications. The topic of today’s post is how to implement a counter that isn’t vulnerable to race conditions. Counting is everywhere, when handling money, […]
Earlier this year, I decided to explore Redis functionality a bit more deeply than my typical use-cases would require. Mostly due to curiosity, but also to have better knowledge of this tool in my “tool belt”. Curiously, a few months later, the whole ecosystem started boiling. Now we have Redis, Valkey, Redict, Garnet, and perhaps […]
The last couple of years have been dominated by the advancements in the Artificial Intelligence (AI) field. Many of us witnessed and are currently experiencing some sort of renaissance of AI. It started with generated images from prompts, then it was all types of written content, and in the last few weeks we’ve seen astonishing […]
A few years ago, I covered here in the blog the “security.txt spec”. A standard place with the security related contacts, designed to help researchers, and other people, find the right contacts to report vulnerabilities and other problems. At the time, I added it to my personal domain, as an example. When I wrote the […]
Bitcoin Atlantis is just around the corner. This conference, happening here in Madeira, is something unusual for us locals. The common pattern is that we have to fly to attend such conferences. I plan to attend the event, and I will be there with an open mindset, since there are always new things to learn. […]
To be sincere, I have a strong preference for written content. There is something with audio and video (podcasts and streams) that doesn’t fit very well with me or how I consume content when I’m at the computer. Nevertheless, there is a lot a great content that is only available through podcasts. So sometimes I […]
Reporting application errors to a (small) list of admins is a feature that already comes built in and ready to use in Django. You just need to configure the ADMINS setting and have the application ready to send emails. All application errors (status 500 and above) will trigger a new message containing all the details, […]
Today, let’s go back to the topic of the first post in this series of Django tips. At the time, I focused on the python manage.py check –deploy command. In this article, I will explore the feature on which it is built and how it can be quite handy for many other scenarios. So, the […]
If you are a frequent reader of this blog, you might already know that I created a small tool to generate a simple webpage plus an RSS feed, from the content of multiple other RSS sources, called worker-planet. This type of tool is often known as a “planet”: In online media a planet is a […]
We reached the end of another year, and generally, this is a good time to look back, to evaluate what was done, what wasn’t done and eventually plan ahead. While dedicating some time to the first task, it occurred to me that I should share some of this stuff. I doubt it will be useful […]