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Hi, I'm Steve a developer from London, UK. I'm currently Director of Technology at Steplab, helping schools become their best.
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Software Engineering

Running Flower on AWS ECS for Celery Monitoring

A guide for running Flower for Celery in production, using AWS ECS.

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Running Flower on AWS ECS for Celery Monitoring 4 min read →
Software Engineering Donation of the Month

Open source of the month: peewee ORM - A small, expressive Python ORM.

Peewee is a lightweight and straightforward ORM that is both easy to learn and intuitive to use. It features a small set of expressive concepts, which simplifies the learning curve without sacrificing functionality.

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Software Engineering Donation of the Month

Donation of the month: Espanso, A Privacy-first, Cross-platform Text Expander

Each month for the next 6(?) months I'll showcase and donate to a software project that I've found really useful. For June I've chosen Es

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Tools

WhatsApp as a note-taking app

For short form note taking, WhatsApp is actually the best option I've found. It's fast, secure, available on all my devices, synchronised, searchable and free.

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WhatsApp as a note-taking app 2 min read →