I needed to grow my skill set, and fast.
I had been working as a freelance software developer. At the time my now-husband and I traveled constantly, living nomadically out of one or two carry-on bags each. All my worldly possessions fit in my 40L backpack. Like a fine wine, I paired this lifestyle …
For a few weeks of my childhood - which at the time, of course, meant forever - I had a single most prized possession. It was a blue 150-page spiral bound notebook that I carried with me everywhere. In it, with a painstakingly-chosen professional artists' mechanical pencil, I was writing my first …
Faker and fixtures are my favorite f-words.
I can hardly imagine a more relaxing start to a development workday than typing make start.
I like Django. It’s a well-considered and intuitive framework with a name I can pronounce out loud. You can use it to to quickly spin up a weekend-sized project, and you can still use it to run full-blown production applications at scale. I’ve done both these things, and over the years …
Try this one simple trick to avoid having to build your own custom tools: use ones that already exist! 🤯
GitHub recently interviewed me for their blog editorial entitled GitHub Action Hero: Victoria Drake. Here’s a behind-the-scenes peek at the original interview questions and my answers.
What is the name of your Action? Please include a link too.
Among the several Actions I’ve built, I …
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It’s the small decisions that define you.
This article isn’t going to tell you about saving your neck with a Roost stand, or your wrists with a split keyboard - I’ve already done that. This article is about saving your brain.
When I first began to program full time, I found myself constantly tired from the mental exertion. …
Does your repo rely on @djangoproject?
I now have a GitHub Action that helps you continuously monitor and fix common security misconfigurations in your Django application. 💚 https://github.com/victoriadrake/django-security-check