Setting Up Environment Variables to store API Keys Safely in Python Virtual Environments Introduction Working with APIs often involves handling sensitive keys. …

I’ve been using Hugo for my personal website, ajot.me, since migrating from Ghost, and I’ve really liked it thus far.

The 2023 Cricket World Cup is in full swing, and like many fans, I wanted to keep track of the points table.

I recently moved my website from Ghost to Hugo. Ghost provides a built-in export function for content in JSON format (found in Labs under Settings), but it …

While reviewing my week in Day One, I like to kick things off with a heading that reads something like "Week of Date 1 to Date 2." Sounds simple, right? But …

I wanted to cycle through and fix all spelling errors in a VS Code markdown file. I already had the spell-checking extension installed but couldn't figure out …

I recently built my very first app using ChatGPT's API. Just followed @greggyb's super helpful guide to write my first ChatGPT app that queries a PDF …

As someone who loves experimenting with Python libraries and APIs, starting new projects quickly is important. Setting up these projects can sometimes be …

I had a bunch of todos in the Things app that I wanted to move to my notes. Manually copying them from the app didn't grab the notes in the todo, which was …

So, I wanted to customize the number of posts displayed per page on my Ghost CMS website using the Dawn theme. The default setting was showing only 5 posts, and …

So, I got tired of adding `.DS_Store` to every git repo on my Mac. I was pretty sure there would be a better way to handle this on a global way on my Mac, so I …

Woke up to a 504 error this morning. It's hosted on Digital Ocean, so I reached out to support, which wasn't very helpful. They basically said this, and then …

I've been playing around with warp.dev, which is a new terminal app for Mac (Windows coming soon it looks like) with a focus on improving developer …

This answer on Reddit helped troubleshoot. I just commented everything, and it made the load lightening fast. Then, on a closer look, I found this mess. No idea …

Adding an alias to zshrc file Wanted to add an alias to quickly open Sublime Text editor from the command line. Here's how -

Now that I am playing around a bit more frequently with APIs, especially Twitter’s v2 API, and Airtable’s API, I have found myself playing around a lot more …

I have known of Postman for a while now - it's a tool you can use to explore and test APIs. I just never got down to using it much. That changed quite a bit in …

Saw this Quick Start guide on Canva's developer portal that walks you through creating a content extension for Canva's users. It uses Node.js and Express.js as …

I recently went throught the process to put my side project howbigisthebaby.io on Digital Ocean's new app platform, and wanted to document it in case anyone …

I recently saw a tweet that it's a good idea to have a CTA at the end of each article. In fact, Daniel Vassallo argued that the CTA should be pointing to …

I had written a bunch of short essays as part of Ship30for30 challenge over the summer. Now that I was redoing my website, I thought it would be nice if I could …

It took me some time. Fine, it took me a few years, but I finally got around to creating my first iOS app, using SwiftUI.

Here's the Apple script that will get the track information from Spotify for the current track. Once you have this, you just need a way to print the result …

Just setup Ghost on this website (ajot.me). Had been running a home grown version of Flask + Flask-Frozen for a couple years. It was cool, but I was starting …

Been meaning to write this post for my future self, who’s invariably going to forget the steps to set up Django on a new machine. So, here are the steps to set …