I've been using SSH agent forwarding with Ansible for the last few projects I've been working on and I thought I'd just share my setup here.
The neat thing with SSH agent forwarding is not having to store your SSH keys on your servers when pulling down your Git repo during deployment.
For example, I can deploy new code to my servers through Ansible from my local machine using my local SSH keys. The servers …
Bangkok is one of my favorite cities and I wish I could stay here for a few months straight without having to do visa runs.
If you have a U.S. passport and entering Thailand by air, you'll automatically get a 30-day visa on arrival as a tourist. If arriving by land, you get 15 days.
As a digital nomad, I like to stay in my favorite cities for a few months at a time throughout …
A couple of months ago, one of our Shopify apps, Slacky (Shopify integration with Slack, currently free), was featured on the main banner of the Shopify App Store.
Our app was featured there for about 10 days, which really boosted the installs for our app. As of this writing, Slacky now has over 560 active installs. We're actually at a point now of thinking about offering a paid, premium version of the app as …
In Django 1.10, the django.contrib.postgres.search module was added to make it really easy to use PostgreSQL's full text search engine with a Django app.
I currently use it for this blog, Remote Python's job and developer search, and our knowledge base for Highview Apps. I'm really impressed with how good the search is and how little code is needed to get it working. Unless you have huge amounts of data/traffic and need really …
These last couple of days, I've been working on a dashboard for one of our Shopify apps so we can get a quick overview of how our app is doing revenue-wise.
One of the metrics we'd like to be able to see instantly is the month-over-month revenue growth rate. For a subscription-based SaaS (software as a service) product, this is a very important metric to track as it tells you if your business is growing …