Blog Posts (51)

Weekend project update: Open SEC Data

This project uses Django, DRF and Celery to read public SEC filings from sec.gov, build it into an API which is consumed through a Vue.js application.

How to authenticate Django REST Framework API calls from a (Vue) JS client using Session Authentication and HttpOnly cookies

This article will describe an authentication strategy using Django REST Framework with a Javascript frontend application. I'll be demonstrating this with Vue.js (Qusar Framework, using Vue 2), but the concepts should transfer to any other Javascript framework.

How to add an email signup form to a Nuxt site with MailChimp

This is a guide for setting up a MailChimp-powered newsletter signup form on a static Nuxt site hosted on GitHub Pages. I wanted to implement this on my personal blog to grow a mailing list so I can update readers when I puslish a new blog article. I haven't done too much work with MailChimp before, but I've definitely subscribed to plenty of MailChimp mailing lists.

Migrating my personal GitHub pages blog from Jekyll to Nuxt

Jekyll has served me well for a long time, but I've decided to switch the static site generator I use for my personal blog from Jekyll to Nuxt. This article will hopefully be the first new article in my Nuxt blog.

Deploying Django applications with docker swarm on DigitalOcean using GitLab CI, Traefik, NGINX and REX-Ray

A guide to deploying Django applications with docker using popular open-source tools

Deploying serverless Django applications to AWS with CDK on a tiny budget using Lambda, API Gateway, awsgi and the Lambda proxy pattern

Using AWS CDK, GitLab, Fargate and CloudFront for Django + Vue.js applications

Setup, Development and Deployment of a web app using Django, VueJS, VuePress, Docker, nginx, traefik and GitLab

This project is currently deployed on https://verbose-equals-true.tk. The source code is available at https://gitlab.com/briancaffey/verbose-equals-true.

Generating MIDI files from guitar tablatures with Python and regular expressions

Recently I have been playing lots of classical guitar. I use classtab.org, a website with hundreds of classical guitar pieces in tab form. Here's an example of a guitar tab:

Display, filter and export geographical data in a Django app with Leaflet, Mapbox, DataTables, Bootstrap 4 and Travis-CI