Background

A bit of background before we start the article. When I develop a Python web service I use the Connexion library created by Zalando. It’s a great library which is built on top of Flask. It uses an OpenAPI Specification (OAS) file to handle input validation and routing for you…

Recently I’ve been working on a new personal project called Banter Bus, a browser-based multiplayer game. I’ve been working on a REST API to add new questions to the game. The API is built in Golang and uses MongoDB as the database. Since Golang is a strongly typed language, we…

In this article, we will go over what the yield keyword is used for. We will also cover how you can use a yield with a pytest fixture to allow us to clean up data after our tests.

Background

Iterables & Iterators

Before we can look at the yield keyword we will need to…

A lot of people, I included, are using Gatsby to build their own blogs. One of the things I wanted to add to my blog was a table of contents (ToC) 📝. A ToC will show you all the headings of an article and when you click on a heading…

In this article, we will briefly go over what DNS (domain name system) is and explain how it is used in conjunction with Docker 🐳.

DNS

You can think of DNS like a phonebook, except instead of people’s name and phone numbers, it stores domains names and IP addresses (this can…

In this article, we will go over how you use proxychains to proxy our traffic through a socks proxy.

Background

Recently like everyone else, I’ve been working from home a lot more often. This means to access resources at work I need to use a VPN. However, to access some resources…

In this article, we will go over how you can manage your markdown blog posts from another git repository (repo). Separate to the git repository for your Gatsby site. This is the same process that I use to manage this repo.

So what this entails is the source code for…

In this article, we will look at how we can add an “edit post” button, to your Gatsby blog. When this button is clicked it will take the user to your markdown file, on github/gitlab that was used to generate the blog post they are currently viewing.

Setup

Before we…