I launched my Django app, GlucoseTracker, the beginning of this year and I’ve already added a few new things to it. To notify users about these new features, I used this nice, simple app called django-sticky-messages. It was written by a friend of mine for his Django app, Pool Manager.

The app lets you set the message to display to the users in the Django admin. You can set a start and …

Since I was traveling last year and had almost no earned income, I decided to look for some ways to take advantage of possible tax savings before the year ended.

I have some investments in index funds and it seemed like a good idea to sell some of them as the major indexes hit record highs last year. I found out that long term capital gains are taxed at 0% if your earned income is …

I’ve been spending a lot of time working on a project lately where I found myself having to use some commands over and over. It’s gotten to a point where I decided to create some scripts to execute the commands for me. But then even calling the scripts started to become tedious that I created short bash command aliases to execute them instead.

If you’re using the bash shell, all you have to do is …

I finally launched a project I’ve been working on the last couple of months just in time for the new year. It’s a web application for tracking blood glucose levels using all open source software: Python, Django, Twitter Bootstrap 3, PostgreSQL, Nginx, Gunicorn, and a bunch of others.

I originally started this project over 2 years ago to teach myself how to use the Django web framework, but I lost interest at some point …

I was looking for a library to create charts to use for my Django app about a week ago and a friend suggested to try Highcharts as he had heard good things about it from fellow Python/Django developers.

Highcharts is a charting library purely written in JavaScript. The charts look really pretty and interactive. Using the library is quite easy, too, thanks to the well written documentation with lots of examples. You can view a …