Nov 18, 2024 (updated Mar 18, 2026)

Managing Disk space

Managing disk space on your development machine/server can be pretty annoying if you don't know where to start.

Feb 16, 2026

Email Filtering

At work I am a part of an email group where I receive automated updates from users interacting with our app.

Jun 08, 2023 (updated Feb 06, 2026)

Testing Advanced Emails

I recently ran into a problem when I was trying to send test emails with PDFs attached to them.

Nov 04, 2025

Downloading YouTube videos

Most of the websites which allow free download for YouTube videos look extra sketchy, so I recommend using the yt-dlp library to download videos. 1.

Sep 17, 2025

Two-factor-authentication (2FA) in Django

Why talk about this? 2FA uses an open standard, defined in this RFC and can be easily implemented on a website for free.

Sep 10, 2025

VS Code: Django syntax highlighting

With the Cursor 1.1.3 update, the Pylance extension is no longer supported in Cursor (from now on you can only install it in the official VS Code IDE, not in its forks 😭) This is really annoying,...

Aug 27, 2025

Install PRO Elements Plugin

Why would you want to do this? The Elementor Pro plugin requires a paid licence to enable some basic functionality eg.

May 29, 2025

Migrating a WP server

Get the original files On the original server open the Duplicator plugin Create a new package and change the file name to the current date Download both files - installer.php and the...

Nov 23, 2023

VS Code: How to use Snippets

What are code snippets? Custom code snippets are a useful VS Code tool for quickly inserting commonly used code patterns with fewer mistakes.

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