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A Christmas Ramble

Let’s put a bow on this website-making project. We set out to create a website in Django and to host it in AWS. The primary goal was to learn the Django framework because that was what we did at my workplace at the time. These days, however, I no lon...

FinOps is a conspiracy by big Ops to make you use more Fin

There's an episode in season 2 of Community where Jeff, while doing his very best not to do anything, gets caught up in a comically layered conspiracy about the risks of trying to do nothing. Now I'm not trying to do nothing but right now I don't hav...

Getting S3 Connected to my Django Website

In my last Devlog, I got my Django website hosted on Elastic Beanstalk by uploading a packaged zip of all the application code and the static files including my sample photos. While it was a success and it got the website live, it's not... comfortabl...

Hosting my Django Website

Setting I've been working on a photography website as a project to force myself to actually learn Django. I enjoy coding and I love taking shitty photos but I've never deigned to host my own work anywhere other than Instagram. By setting a project fo...

Oh *THAT* Extension, it's called "Emmet"

How to fix html boilerplate extension in vs code after installing Django extension for the Django Templating Language: A very specific help article I'm looking for why something in my code editor broke. It's late, I have work tomorrow, and this can w...

Its AWS Time Baby

I've been working in AWS for over 2 years now, and I've always put off acquiring my official AWS certification. I've known it's a worthwhile goal and ever since I started working with cloud applications, I've wanted to do it. Nevertheless, I fall bac...