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I have a few projects running on dokku. One day I deployed a new release and unexpectedly was greeted with an error message at the end of…

Introduction I started using PostgreSQL for a project recently. For deployment of that project, as usual, I am using dokku in a VPS. This…

Introduction I have been using MongoDB Atlas for my hobby projects for over a year now. Usually I deploy all my hobby projects to my VPS…

I transfered my blog from Wordpress to a Gatsby powered engine.

This post is going to be a quick one. Problem I encountered a hairy problem today with my - setup. I was fetching new data from an API…

I created a hockey player fansite. I have been super busy lately between vacation, day job and my first ever full-blown fullstack…

Introduction Doing media queries in CSS is as mundane as it gets. We use media queries to make responsive web designs that are functional…

Introduction Sometimes when you are designing a database schema, you may encounter a situation where you would need to define more than one…

One-layer population If you found this blog post, you most likely already know what populating a field in a MongoDB document means, you are…

Recently I have started learning how to use styled components CSS-in-JS library for styling my React application. I am still quite a…

This post will be one that I will update in the future when I find new interesting and useful extensions. For now I have three of them that…

Deploying to Heroku is not difficult, if you follow the basic convention that they expect you to follow. This convention is that you need to…

I am working on a web application that needs a notification system (almost every app does need one…). I call this hook , as it is the naming…

I have recently stumbled upon a cool library that allows you to run frontend and backend in the same terminal window. This way, you need…

I was browsing GitHub today and I found something really interesting. Algorithm Visualizer is something that you want to take a look at, if…

You may have had the need of coding on different computers while working on the same project. One common case could be that you need to work…

This week I am just going to share with you a nice and simple custom hook for controlling an input field in React. Let’s start with the the…

Setting up a new project can be a long process sometimes and usually requires a few web searches. You usually know what needs to be done…

In this blog post I will show you how to do a dynamic search with Javascript. With dynamic I mean that the search results update while the…

Update on 14 Feb 2020 I moved my block and the code highlighting and row numbering is not working 100% correctly. I am sorry for the…

In the last blog post we saw how to create a simple react app by using the command. In this post we will quickly go through what are the…

In this short guide we’ll go through the necessary steps in order to make a simple React app. Initial setup The first thing you need to do…

For now I have been writing blog posts only about Python and its libraries. This will probably change in the future. Before starting to…

In this short tutorial we are going to convert a Python program into a self-sufficient, stand-alone .exe file that can be run on a computer…

Introduction Pathlib is a Python library used for creating and manipulating path objects. Working with paths with module can be clunky…

In this post I will show you how to implement a dynamic command line menu in Python. In most tutorials and posts that I have seen online the…

In this blog post I will share with you easily in one place the best sources to learn about the Python Global Interpretation Lock (GIL). If…

A simple guide for creating Python C extensions.

Helping a guy to fetch some data. Part 2

Helping a guy to fetch some data.