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A no-fluff deployment runbook for getting a Cookiecutter Django project live on DigitalOcean using Docker and Traefik. Covers the full path from droplet provisioning to a working production deployment
If you’re switching between networks with different trust levels—home, café, coworking space—you probably don’t want your VPN behavior to be static. This guide walks through a clean, system-level way
Why this script exists If you've ever watched your free disk space quietly shrink over a few weeks of active development, you know the feeling: yesterday you had plenty of headroom, today your IDE is
A message from a colleague dropped into my inbox one morning: Hi Ice, now that we pushed the changes sa site, we need to scour the site for mentions of Level 1, Level 2, Level 1/2 and change them acc
Backing up your WordPress site is one of the most important maintenance tasks you can do as a site owner. While plugins like UpdraftPlus or Jetpack make this easy, knowing how to do it manually via SS
The Incident On March 31, 2026, a high-profile supply chain attack targeted Axios, a critical HTTP client for the JavaScript ecosystem. By hijacking a maintainer's NPM account, attackers injected a ma
When you publish a series of articles on your Hashnode blog and consume it via their GraphQL API for a custom portfolio or website, you quickly run into a common roadblock: Hashnode’s API natively ret
Authentication and onboarding are often the highest-friction points in a new user's journey. If the process is clunky or requires too many redirects, users drop off. Recently, I set out to build a str
We've all been there. You have a massive audio file—a two-hour interview, a long lecture, or a recorded meeting—and you just need it converted to text. You do a quick search for "free audio to text tr
If you were gaming in the late 90s and early 2000s, you likely remember the thrill of text-based trading simulation games. Today, we're taking a look at a fantastic modernization of one of those class
Hey everyone! 👋 Today, we're solving a popular string manipulation problem: Longest Common Prefix. The Problem The goal is to write a function that finds the longest common prefix among a list of str
If you're using Hashnode's GraphQL API to fetch your blog posts for a custom frontend (like a React or Next.js portfolio), you've probably run into this incredibly frustrating issue: You publish a new
Adding Google Analytics (GA4) to a standard HTML website is straightforward: paste the tracking snippet into your and you're done. Every time a user clicks a link, the browser fetches a new HTM
A portfolio is more than just a list of links; it's a narrative of problem-solving, creativity, and technical execution. Recently, significant updates were pushed to the portfolio to refine its presen
In the world of web development, "Headless" has become the architectural gold standard for high-performance applications. But for those of us who have spent years in the comfortable, PHP-driven embrace of traditional WordPress, the jump to a decouple...
As a Shopify developer, the most common "crossroads" question I get from growing brands is: "Should we go headless?" With the rise of Hydrogen/Oxygen and frameworks like Next.js, the allure of total creative freedom is stronger than ever. However, "H...
Hey everyone! 👋 Today, we're solving a classic mathematical problem: Checking if a Number is Prime. The Problem The goal is to write a function that determines whether a given number is prime. A prime number is a natural number greater than 1 that ...
Weekly Sprint Report: February 4 – February 6, 2026 This week, we executed a comprehensive technical overhaul of the Oatopia Shopify theme. Our focus shifted from foundational modernization of legacy assets to high-level performance tuning and UX pol...
Hey everyone! 👋 Today, we're tackling a popular interview question: Group Anagrams. The Problem The goal is to write a function that groups words that are anagrams of each other from a given list of strings. An anagram is a word or phrase formed by...
In the world of web performance, every millisecond counts. We’ve all been there: you open a site, the text loads, but the main hero image—the thing you actually want to see—stays blank for an extra second. That lag often kills your Largest Contentful...