Posts relating to software development and engineering; ideas from my career experience and reading.
Donation of the month: Ghost
For September, I'd like to highlight Ghost: The best open source blog & newsletter platform
Running Flower on AWS ECS for Celery Monitoring
A guide for running Flower for Celery in production, using AWS ECS.
Donation of the month: Coolify. Open source Vercel alternative
August's donation is for Coolify, which is an open-source & self-hostable Heroku / Netlify / Vercel alternative.
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.
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
How to host a highly scalable ghost publication for free
TL;DR: Spin up a local container running Ghost, crawl the frontend to generate a static site, and upload to a free static host.
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