Django translations using Transifex
How we set up Django translations through Transifex at Fenerum after .po files became a bottleneck — including the trade-offs that made it harder than expected.
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Setting up umami on kubernetes
A walkthrough of self-hosting umami analytics on Kubernetes — storage, Postgres, and the manifests I use to track multiple sites in a privacy-friendly way.
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Setting up my homelab
Building a homelab on microk8s after deciding to migrate Fenerum to Kubernetes — what I learned, what surprised me, and how to set it up yourself.
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Choosing a deployment tool for kubernetes
How we chose a Kubernetes deployment tool at Fenerum after migrating off Heroku — what we evaluated, why Spinnaker stood out, and the trade-offs.
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Python coverage very slow in side docker - and the possible solution
Python's coverage.py adds heavy overhead in Docker, pushing our test runs from 50 minutes to 1h20. Switching to Slipcover got most of that time back.
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How we moved from Heroku to AWS and improved our setup
Why Plecto outgrew Heroku and migrated to AWS Auto Scaling Groups — the constraints that pushed us, the architecture we landed on, and the lessons learned.
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Dealing with 'psql: could not connect to server' on OS X
Stuck with 'psql: could not connect to server: No such file or directory' on macOS Homebrew Postgres? Here's the stale postmaster.pid fix.
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Installing and setting up OS X Mavericks for python development (WIP)
A clean OS X Mavericks install for Python and Django development — case-sensitive filesystem, ZSH, Homebrew, PostgreSQL, virtualenv, PyCharm, and the rest of the stack.
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New version of django-hvad
django-hvad 0.3 is out: support for Django 1.5 and a stability and performance pass, ahead of a 1.0 release that drops the 'nani' compatibility module.
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SockJS and Tornado for Python real-time web projects
Building real-time web applications in Python with SockJS and Tornado — including a Django auth handshake, a Redis pub/sub bridge, and the gotchas on Heroku.
