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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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Latest posts

How to import your old MP3 music collection into your Spotify library, and stream it anywhere

This is a guide for importing music files into Spotify, or any of the other major music streaming services. To be clear, I'm talking about reading your MP3s, and constructing a playlist in Spotify, not streaming the actual files themselves.

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Running Flower on AWS ECS for Celery Monitoring

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

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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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