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This Rust crate gives you a way to keep types in sync between Rust, Python's Pydantic, Typescript, Go, etc.

It is easy to miss that docker compose reads and honors environment variables set in aa file named .env without the user taking action.

How did you learn to cook?

I ran into a surprising error with some tests failures locally in Orbstack

Hi Frank, I am a fellow techie with a very low real-life industry experience.

Are there any best practices you use or thoughts around how to help a django web app do the least environmental harm as possible?

Found a couple of file watching utilities I didn't know about previously

Avoid Django dumpdata and loaddata conflicts by excluding framework-generated permissions, content types, sessions, and admin log entries.

I'm curious about the projects people bring to you that were initially deployed to a PAAS.

Github has a not so helpful error message when Actions aren't allowed to make PRs

What are your do's and don'ts when starting a new Django project?

I've always avoided overriding compose.yaml files locally until I found the `COMPOSE_FILE` environment variable.

Did you know you can add nice colored boxes to your Github READMEs?

The more I develop applications these days, the more I'm inclined to enable meaningful logging and an observability stack in place as modern web apps tend become more and more complex.

I’ve always been curious, how do you and your team at REVSYS prioritize what to work on?

What are tech companies looking for these days that you don't see in job descriptions, and are unlikely to come up in interviews, but still usually looked out for?

Is AI really bringing/brought undeniable doom to Junior web developer roles.

Running an development agency vs building own products.

When should I use Django vs Flask vs FastAPI?

I've been struggling with optimizing Django ORM queries for a high-traffic dashboard.

I asked people to vent about the worst tools or processes they ever had to use for work.

Turns out you can use the tag in Github READMEs

We need to stop doing big tech "modernization" projects as a concept.

You can heavily customize your IPython shell experience when using it inside Docker or in a Docker Compose project.

Frank's current favorite CLI tools, configurations, workflows, and tips for developers and ops folks.