Writing tagged Web Development
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w/e 2021-01-03
Upgrading things and The Newsroom.
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Comments are back
I’ve turned commenting back on, plus some optional technical details.
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Search forms
What are the best, most accessible ways to make website search forms? I tried to find out. Here are some examples.
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Invalidating items from Django’s cache
I poked around at Django’s per-site and per-view caching to work out why I couldn’t invalidate pages from the cache. I eventually worked out how to do it.
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Exploring City of London Councillors data
I scraped data about the City of London’s councillors, and their interests and gifts, and made a site to browse and search it using Datasette.
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Describing events in code
Describing how I thought about writing code to catalogue 28 years of visits to cinemas, theatres, gigs, etc. and the decisions I made.
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Combining HTML files with a Django website
Wondering how to host and serve lots of old HTML files when I move most of this site to Django.
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D3.js book series dates charts
I’ve written a thing in D3.js to draw charts that show when books in a series are set, compared with the dates on which they were published.
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Add a Google map to Django admin to get latitude and longitude
How I added a Google map to the Django admin page for a model that has latitude and longitude fields.
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Two blogs, one WordPress
How to make two blogs in one WordPress install.
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Last.fm added to Django Ditto
I’ve updated Django Ditto, which can now also archive your Last.fm listens.
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Django Ditto and archiving your stuff
About making Django Ditto and whether it’s worth archiving all your ephemeral digital stuff.
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WordPress.com, and user testing, by phone
On WordPress.com’s two confusing interfaces, and wondering if user-testing of websites should include a remote support scenario.
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On spending too long setting up one webserver
I learned how to use Ansible and it took way too long because I like to do things properly.
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Planning for closure
Maybe we should think about how long we expect our websites to live before we start making them.
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Teaching web development to design students
What I taught to students at Goldsmiths and how it went.
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API “mashup” suggestions
Suggestions for quick things to make with JavaScript APIs.
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Any ideas for quick API “mashups”?
Looking for ideas of things to make with Goldsmiths students.
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Parsing a Wikipedia page’s content with python
How I ended up grabbing and parsing HTML from Wikipedia pages
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Mappiness development
Some thoughts on the development process of my Mappiness chart
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Clumsy-footed idiot
Trying to learn D3.js. It’s hard. I’m an idiot. I made a simple thing.
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The Twelescreen code
About the code I wrote to make Twelescreen, and what else it can do.
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Decades-long projects
What I considered when starting the ten-year Pepys’ Diary project again.
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Storing private files on Amazon S3 with Django and giving authorised users temporary access
How to do what that long title says, using signed URLs and all that stuff.
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Password protecting a Django site
Adding simple htaccess-style password protection to a Django website.