For the unfamiliar, Ludum Dare is a 48 or 72 hour game jam. The organisers announce a theme and begin a countdown, then you have either 48 hours to create a game by yourself and enter it into the "Compo", or 72 hours to work in a team of any ...
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Here you will find various writings on subjects which I deem interesting enough to write about. That typically includes web development, miscellaneous programming with python and the Godot game engine, and linux things.
If you wish to discuss anything you read here, feel free to open an issue over at the Github source of this blog.
Learning a Compiled Language as a Python Fan
It's probably no secret that python is my favourite programming language. The speed at which you can get a complicated program up and running is amazing. My day job as a web developer is one of the places where python shines the most, and so I get to work ...
read moreUsing asyncio to speed up Flask API calls
For a work project I am currently building, I have been tasked with creating a stats page for a particular site. This is completely the norm at my workplace, with one exception.
Typically we have an in-house database / service for amalgamating all sorts of numbers and dates, and we query ...
read moreHow to get Flask to auto-restart despite syntax errors
When developing a Flask application, the auto-reloader is incredibly helpful. Each time I edit a python file the server will restart, so that my changes are immediately implemented. However, there is still room for improvement, which is what I will briefly discuss and fix in this post.
First, for context ...
read moreLudum Dare 43 Results
If you didn't read my previous post on LD43, check it out here.
The Ludum Dare results came in, and I managed to break top 100 in two categories! There were apparently 506 ranked entries for the Compo.
My results were:
Overall: 144 th (3.645 average from 33 ...
read moreSome common python interview questions
My first job out of university was entirely LAMP, using Zend framework. However, I had always loved writing python, and when it came time to leave that job I was mainly looking for something which would let me use it.
As you can imagine, recruiters were slightly sceptical of my ...
read moreOvertime - Ludum Dare 43 Post Mortem
For the unfamiliar, Ludum Dare is a 48 or 72 hour game jam. The organisers announce a theme and begin a countdown, then you have either 48 hours to create a game by yourself and enter it into the "Compo", or 72 hours to work in a team of any ...
read moreMaking a Cutscene with Text Dialogue in Godot 3.0
When making a more fully-featured game in Godot, I often find myself needing to create a cutscene which displays an image and some text.
I typically lay this out with the image taking the top 2/3 or 3/4 of the window, and a black box taking up the ...
read moreHow we use Circleci and Ansible to Automate Deploying Flask Applications
At my workplace we like to use CI/CD to automatically deploy any changes to the master branch into production. This involves two main pieces of technology - Circleci and Ansible.
In this post I will be going over how we use these two pieces of technology to deploy a flask application. read moreA Super Helpful Decorator For Peewee/Flask Unit Testing
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As of peewee version 3, the test_database context manager was removed, and models are instead bound to a new database via a bind method.
There is a comment by the author of Peewee over on a github issue providing a new way to achieve this.
I have adapted this ...