Greg Chapple

Deploying Django

I've been working with Django for almost ten years now. In that time I have had the privilege of working with extremely talented teams in building enterprise applications for clients all over the world. From deployment for governments to multi-national corporations alike, Django has

Linux

Creating Linux swap files

Following on from my last post I've been migrating more services into EC2 from my current hosting provider. Another task I found myself needing to do was creating swap files for my EC2 instances. This was another task for which I had completely forgotten

Linux

Auto-renew Let's Encrypt certs with systemd timers

Recently I've been migrating some of my sites to a new hosting platform. During this process I found myself re-creating configuration for various things, and realizing that I don't quite remember all the steps I took to configure it in the first place. One

What happened to 2016/2017

My last post on this blog was in August 2016. That's almost 18 months ago as of this writing. I wanted to post an update and explain why I've basically disappeared from from this site and my open source projects. In September 2016 myself

Rust

Rust compiler walk-through - Introduction

This post is the introduction to a new series which aims to give a walk-through of the Rust compiler, starting from the initial entry point and going right the way through the compilation process. The goal is to give a decent understanding of what

Iota

Syntax highlighting in Iota

Iota editing itself with syntax-highlighting enabledFor the past few months I've been thinking about syntax-highlighting in Iota. I did a good bit of research into how this is acheived in other editors to see how I should go about implementing it for myself. Regex

Git

Discovering git-cherry

Today I discovered the git cherry command which lets you view the commits from one branch which have not been picked into another. Using it is pretty simple: git checkout my-branch git cherry <upstream> <head> Where <upstream> is

Greg Chapple

Software architectect and engineer

Deploying Django

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Deploying Django

Creating Linux swap files

Auto-renew Let's Encrypt certs with systemd timers

What happened to 2016/2017

Rust compiler walk-through - Introduction

Syntax highlighting in Iota

Discovering git-cherry

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