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Notes on software, tools & projects

Things I build, and what I learned.

Programming notes, project writeups and small technical guides, written while building real things.

Featured · spring boot

How to Cheaply Host Your Full-Stack Side-Project: Serving it From Home

How to deploy a full-stack application on a home server cheaply

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2023

spring boot

Here is the backend to my IMDb Clone!

How a movie apps spring boot backend with a MySQL db is build up

2021

Python

Managing Environments with Conda and pip

Some basics about anaconda, a scientific package manager for python

 Python

Turning a Website into an API

Showing how to build an API which scrapes data from Githubs trending repositories/developers.

 Python

Publishing at Anaconda and Automating the Process - 9/9

Publishing a Python at at Anaconda and automate the packaging process

 Python

Releasing a Python App at Github/PyPI and Automate it - 8/9

how to release a Python app at Github, the python packaging index and automate this with Github Actions

 Python

Documentation - 7/9

how to make solid documentation in python using clean code, docstrings, comments, git commit messages and Sphinx

 Python

Testing and CI - 6/9

a Python app is tested with Pytest, Tox and Github Actions

 Python

Distribution via Setup File - 5/9

the normal workflow for distributing apps in Python is shown: using a setup.py file

 Scripting

Distribution via Installation Script - 4/9

we try to distribute a Python App via Bash script

 Python

Argparse Module - 3/9

Pythons argparse module is used to simplify and professionalize the making of a command line app

 Python

Sys Module - 2/9

Pythons sys module is used to create a tiny command line app.

 Python

The Evolution of a Script - 1/9

A script for http requests is written.