David Winterbottom

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Posts

An LLM TDD loop

Writing Markdown in Vim

Tips for using Github Copilot in Vim

Creating pull requests with GPT3 and random artwork

New project: Food price scraper

OpenAI Git poetry

"It was the system. We can't change it."

Auditing 1Password activity

Flakey tests in a large Python/Django codebase

Explaining

Vim's useful lists

A Vim mapping for opening virtualenv files

Setting up a 2020 MacBook Pro for Python development

Conditional nested blocks in Terraform

Maintainable Terraform CIDR lists

Easy Github URLs from Vim

Software development tips – part 2

Resolving conflicts during a Git rebase

Software development tips – part 1

Vim text-objects for Python development

Debugging Vim by example

Beware of changing the 'related name' of a Django model field

Using black and isort with Vim

Avoiding package lock-out when provisioning Ubuntu 18.04 machines

Installing the latest RabbitMQ on Ubuntu 18.04

Easy to change

Listing groups in G-Suite

Advanced pull-request crafting

Shortcuts of the old and minimalist

Joining between date and timestamp fields in Postgres

Little-known words relevant to software development

Using a custom Sentry client

Why your Django models are fat

Bash error reporting

Using pgbadger with AWS RDS

A mnemonic for mock decorators

Your codebase is your house

Git tips for working with pull requests

Converting JSON into CSV data for Google Sheets

Podcast.__init__ on Oscar

Reorganising a Consul key-value store

Lies you're told on a software project

Hugo

Django, ELB health checks and continuous delivery

Testing for missing migrations in Django

Octopus Energy

A useful template for commit messages

Copying Postgres output into a spreadsheet

An SSH tip for modern AWS patrons

commandlinefu.com is in new hands

Backing up Postgres database rows before deleting them

Avoiding clashing Django migrations

Bootstrapped virtualenvs

Integrating Django application metrics into Zabbix

Linking to Github

Continuously rebuild your project

Using the silver searcher with Vim

The road to Oscar 1.0

Command-line tips for effective release announcements

How to install PostGIS and GeoDjango on Ubuntu

Enhancing your Git commit editor

Dumping and restoring a PostGIS database

purl, URI templates and generated tests

A deferred logging file handler for Django

Conditional logic in Django forms

PyPI README badges

A useful Git post-checkout hook for Python repos

Disable database access when writing unit tests in Django

How to install PIL on 64-bit Ubuntu 12.04

Converting Github issues into pull requests

Altering Postgres table columns with South

Configuring logging for Postgres.app

Mathematics and engineering

Effective pull requests and other good practices for teams using github

How to chroot a user in Ubuntu 12.04

Prefer WebTest to Django's test client for functional tests

Cacheback - asynchronous cache refreshing for Django

Use models for uploads

Vim macros for adding i18n support to Django templates

A data migration for every Django project

Django, Nginx, WSGI and encoded slashes

purl - immutable URL objects for Python

Embedding HTML in Django messages

csvfilter - a Python command-line tool for manipulating CSV data

How to reload Django's URL config

Validating international postcodes in Django

How to sync PyCon videos to your iPhone

Tips for using a git pre-commit hook

Confoo 2012 presentations

Testing HTTPS handling in Django

Prefer data migrations to initial data

A Fabric function for git tagging

Solving MySQL connection problems caused by a dead name server

Auto-setting terminal titles for python virtual environments

Introducing unittest-xml: testing XML in Python

Rewriting codeinthehole.com

How to set-up MySQL for Python on Ubuntu

Using pip and requirements.txt to install from the HEAD of a Github branch

Console logging to STDOUT in Django

Running django cronjobs within a virtualenv

Multi-scp: copying a file to all hosts in your SSH config

Coloured output while doing TDD with Django and Fabric

Domain-model-mapper - A PHP Data Mapper implementation

Commandlinefu presentation at Confoo 2011

The British way of dealing with foreign APIs.

nurl - an immutable URL object for node.js

mysqldump with wildcard table matching

How to sync a MySQL table between two remote databases.

Phing trick for avoiding deploying debug code

Return false with prudence

Javascript refactoring for customising shared libraries

A pseudo-code job advert and its discontents

Deploying cron jobs using Phing

Auto-generating an FAQ with Prototype

Inspecting Javascript objects

Phing, Xinc and Nabaztags

Ingenious use of an anonymous function

Using a Phing filter to flush browser caches

The most important command-line tip - incremental history searching with .inputrc

Current pet project: Command-Line-Fu

Phing task to create an Unfuddle message

Phing task to update Twitter status

Deploying to a shared hosting environment using Phing

Monitoring MySQL with Ganglia and gmetric

High Performance Web Sites by Steve Souders

Checking all MySQL tables

Javascript cookie objects using Prototype and JSON

Date conditional redirects with mod_rewrite

Creating large XML files with PHP

Monitoring MySQL

Following log files with tail -f

Writing a Thesis in LaTeX

Tutorial: the complex Ginzburg-Landau equation