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Part 6 of building a full-stack URL shortener in Rust. We serve the Yew frontend from Axum, Dockerize the whole thing, and deploy to Shuttle.

Part 5 of building a full-stack URL shortener in Rust. We build a Yew.rs frontend that compiles to WebAssembly and talks to our Axum API.

In the final part of the Django Bootcamp, we add user authentication with Django's built-in auth system and deploy our bookmark manager to production with Railway.

Part 4 of building a full-stack URL shortener in Rust. We add API key authentication using Axum middleware and Tower layers to protect our write endpoints.

In this beginner-friendly guide, we build out the views and templates for our bookmark manager — listing bookmarks, viewing details, creating new ones, and deleting them.

Part 3 of building a full-stack URL shortener in Rust. We add custom error types, URL validation, and structured JSON error responses to our Axum API.

In this beginner-friendly guide, we define our bookmark model, run database migrations, and explore Django's built-in admin panel to manage our data.

Part 2 of building a full-stack URL shortener in Rust. We swap our in-memory HashMap for SQLite with sqlx, write migrations, and persist URLs across restarts.

In this beginner-friendly guide, we create our first Django project, explore its file structure, and build our first view to display a page in the browser.

A practical guide to writing Python docstrings effectively, covering the __doc__ attribute, help(), Google, NumPy, and Sphinx styles, choosing the right structure, avoiding common mistakes, and generating docs with Sphinx, pydoc, and MkDocs.

AWS SES is one of the most cost-effective ways to send transactional email, but getting it configured properly takes a few non-obvious steps. Here's the complete walkthrough.

A step-by-step walkthrough of how I added a copy-to-clipboard button with a language label to every code block on my Astro blog using a single component and no external libraries.

Part 1 of building a full-stack URL shortener in Rust. We set up an Axum backend with in-memory storage, CRUD routes, and a nanoid-based slug generator.

This beginner-friendly guide covers the basics of Python, setting up virtual environments, installing pip, and why Django is the best choice for building powerful web applications.

Learn how to build a word count command line utility in Rust from scratch. This step-by-step guide shows you how to create a functional wc tool that counts lines, words, and bytes in files. Perfect for Rust beginners and those interested in command line tools, this tutorial covers argument parsing with clap, file handling, and test-driven development to create reliable utilities for text processing.

I recently took some time to add ESLint and Prettier to my Astro blog. Here an easy todo to follow and some of my lessons learned.

In this blog post, we talk about what JSON-LD is and how I implemented it on my Astro.build blog. It was quick and easy; definitely worth a look!

In this blog post, we walk through building an example app with Rust, Axum and HTMX. This is really cool and a simple way to build web apps. No Javascript framework needed.

A deep dive into Python's Collections module. There's a lot of helpful tools there that everyone should know about!

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This blog post shares my Astro.js component to share similar posts to readers. It's nice, simple and gives an extra layer of discoverability to my readers!

In this blog post we start from scratch and write a full command-line application written in Rust. We use Clap for argument parsing, and Reqwest for hitting the API.

I changed my prompt configurator from Oh-My-Zsh to Starship.rs and with that changed my shell to Fish. This blog post tells the story of my upgrade and the pitfalls and benefits of moving to Fish Shell.

I recently had an issue installing Truffle locally on my computer. There was an issue with my version of Node.js or NPM... Instead of messing up or polluting my global NPM installs further, I took to Docker to get Truffle and Ganache working for me. This post details that journey.

In this blog post we discuss how to use ASDF to install and manage different language runtimes in a newly created Ubuntu VM on Windows Subsystem for Linux.

In this blog post we will learn how to leverage the Rust programming language to compile WebAssembly which we will then use in our React application. This gives us access to low-level components to speed up our code!

Set up React with TypeScript, ESLint, Prettier, and organized component structure for modern development.

Migrate Gatsby from Markdown to MDX to use React components in blog posts with cleaner rendering.

Switch from Markdown to MDX in Gatsby to embed React components like Link and custom Unsplash credits.

Skip complex LaTeX installations on macOS by creating a portable Docker container for generating PDFs.

A reusable Python Dockerfile template featuring dumb-init, non-root user setup, and best practices.

Build Express API routes to serve JSON data and connect React components using the request library.

Use npm-check-updates to safely upgrade React and other packages by reviewing changelogs for breaking changes.

Create reusable Job components in React: build nested components that iterate over data with props and state.

Add Bower, Bootstrap SASS, and Gulp automation to a React/Express app for better asset management.

Automate JSX compilation with Gulp, Browserify, and Reactify for efficient React development workflow.

Build a job board with React and Express: set up JSX compilation and create your first component.