I have been working on a new python-based API recently, and on a colleague’s suggestion we decided to use fastapi as our framework. Fastapi is a python-based framework which encourages documentation using Pydantic and OpenAPI (formerly Swagger), fast development and deployment with Docker, and easy tests thanks to the Starlette continue reading…
This is a talk I did at London Node User Group on January 23rd, 2019. You can watch the talk below or on youtube.
My personal website is one of the places where I can easily experiment, and it has been written and rewritten a few times. Having said that, laziness meant that it was stuck on its previous PHP-laravel implementation for a while. PHP was one of the first things I learned as continue reading…
I like experimenting with and learning new things. I’d never looked at Python before, because its syntax put me off, coming from a background of languages with C-like syntax. However, I eventually convinced myself to at least have a play with it and I’ve started working on a simple application continue reading…
Typescript and the Beanstalk Deploying typescript apps to Beanstalk with CircleCI Before we get started, note that this post assumes that you have your CircleCI/Beanstalk integration working already. The reason for this is that setting that up itself is a very long-winded process. I may make a video about it continue reading…
How to fix your node dependencies’ es6 causing browser errors If you’re doing anything with modern JavaScript this day and age you’re probably using es6 and using babel to transpile it back to es5, which works with most browsers. This works fine for the code you write, but what about continue reading…
These are just 5 helpful Linux tricks I’ve picked up in my career and thought would be nice to share, in case there are others that don’t know about them! Did you know that you can use cd without any arguments to go back to your home directory? You can continue reading…
Getting started with express and typescript I recently started an ExpressJS project, and I wanted to use Typescript, as I thought my project would benefit from the typed language and stricter structure. I had a bit of trouble setting up when following other tutorials, so of course the right thing continue reading…
Getting started with NodeJS, nvm, npm. I’ve recently been playing with NodeJS, and wanted to share my findings. This is just a quick ‘hello world’ tutorial on getting started. I (as of writing) code perl for a living, so you should definitely take my word on nodejs ;). Ok, enough continue reading…
I did a talk on Perl Dependency management and using Carton at the London.pm technical meeting in Steptember. This is the talk: You can see my slides here.