After playing games such a MTG, Hearthstone and Slay the Spire for quite some time, I wanted to create a board game taking some of the ideas behind those games. Deck building, in particular, has been an enjoyable aspect for me. I initially crafted a prototype featuring a crew of…

Installing python packages on every CI run can be adding precious seconds before you can get a feedback. For my current project it was up to a minute. Github cache action can help us here. My setup uses pipenv, but potentially a similar setup should work with pip…

There is many ways to handle i18n with Django and DRF. This document describe a small ad-hoc solution using DRF serializers and a naively translated Django model to provide a seamless experience to the API user based on its language preferences. Lets consider you have this artificial Product model #…

When using DRF and in in the context of Django middleware I have often found to be the case that request.user is an AnonymousUser. Why is that? It is because the DRF authentication classes are executed after all the normal Django middleware are already in their get_response stage. class DjangoMiddleware…

After years of experimenting around on how to write an efficient compiler in JavaScript, I decided to test my latest creation by creating a language that can be used for something in the real world: a language for the web. My contempt for Angular’s dependency injection and React’s Redux boilerplate…

This guide explains how to setup a Django project and Docker together for debugging sessions within VSCode. We will follow the steps detailed here. The specifics in this document are about Django but it should work all the the same for FastAPI or any dockerized Python code. Given that you…

When working with a Python service it can be daunting to make all those tools work together and output useful logs with proper meta data. This document is a step by step setup guide for Django. But is can be also applied to FastAPI or flask with minimal changes. First…