I was working on a client project yesterday where I needed to use a proxy to make HTTP requests with the Python requests package.

In my use case, I needed to create a session and I wanted to just specify the proxy settings in one place and use that for all requests made through that session. I didn't see how to do this in the documentation so I thought I'd share my solution here.

Here's …

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 …

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 …