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Web apps are distributed systems. The client's observed world state should be an explicit input to every API call.

Mar 26, 2026

What are we actually doing when deploying Django applications

Oct 24, 2020

What is hashids, why it's useful, the challenges I had when using it in django and how I solved them.

Aug 27, 2020

Part 2 of building an ASGI framework - WebSocket

Aug 6, 2020

Learning about ASGI by building an ASGI web framework!

Jun 21, 2020

An asynchronous Django 3 task runner that does not require other services and separate worker processes

Dec 30, 2019

Why Watermarking?

Oct 18, 2015