I use [ReadTheDocs](https://readthedocs.org/) for several of my projects. It's fantastic: among other things, it makes it easy to publish the docum...

Day 25 of 90 Days of DevOps - Ansible Introduction and Playbooks. Part of the Infrastructure as Code series covering essential DevOps concepts and hands-on practices.

I learned this trick today while [browsing the code](https://github.com/tersesystems/blacklite/blob/main/blacklite-core/src/main/resources/com/ters...

Day 24 of 90 Days of DevOps - Terraform Modules and Best Practices. Part of the Infrastructure as Code series covering essential DevOps concepts and hands-on practices.

Day 23 of 90 Days of DevOps - Terraform Resources and State Management. Part of the Infrastructure as Code series covering essential DevOps concepts and hands-on practices.

Day 22 of 90 Days of DevOps - Terraform Basics and Provider Setup. Part of the Infrastructure as Code series covering essential DevOps concepts and hands-on practices.

I wanted to write a bash script that would start a Datasette server running, run a request against it using `curl`, then stop the server again.

This classic Peruvian cocktail recipe is particularly useful if you have both a lemon tree and chickens producing fresh eggs!

Day 21 of 90 Days of DevOps - Infrastructure as Code Concepts. Part of the Infrastructure as Code series covering essential DevOps concepts and hands-on practices.

I save things like API keys in [1Password](https://1password.com/). Today I figured out how to access those from macOS terminal scripts.

Day 20 of 90 Days of DevOps - Building Your First CI/CD Pipeline. Part of the Version Control & CI/CD series covering essential DevOps concepts and hands-on practices.

I had [a Django project](https://github.com/natbat/cbwg) that used `pipenv` (in particular a `Pipfile.lock`) to manage dependencies and I wanted to...

I stumbled across an interesting little detail of SQLite today, running the following query:

Day 19 of 90 Days of DevOps - Jenkins Setup and Configuration. Part of the Version Control & CI/CD series covering essential DevOps concepts and hands-on practices.

Day 18 of 90 Days of DevOps - CI/CD Pipeline Introduction. Part of the Version Control & CI/CD series covering essential DevOps concepts and hands-on practices.

Today I learned how to use the Python [trace module](https://docs.python.org/3/library/trace.html) to output every single executed line of Python c...

OpenAI's DevDay event yesterday (October 1st 2024) didn’t invite press (as far as I can tell), didn’t livestream the event and didn’t allow audienc...

Day 17 of 90 Days of DevOps - GitHub Collaboration and Pull Requests. Part of the Version Control & CI/CD series covering essential DevOps concepts and hands-on practices.

When I'm working with Python I like four space indents, but for JavaScript or HTML I like two space indents.

[Read The Docs](https://readthedocs.org/) has a handy feature where documentation for older versions will automatically link to the latest release,...

I'm writing some code that accepts webhooks from Stripe. I wanted to simulate hits to this endpoint in my Django tests. Stripe uses a `Stripe-Signa...

While [upgrading CodeMirror](https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/948) in Datasette I figured out how to minify JavaScript using `uglify-js` ...

Day 16 of 90 Days of DevOps - Advanced Git Workflows and Branching. Part of the Version Control & CI/CD series covering essential DevOps concepts and hands-on practices.

Day 15 of 90 Days of DevOps - Git Version Control Fundamentals. Part of the Version Control & CI/CD series covering essential DevOps concepts and hands-on practices.