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Illustration of code being packed into a truck and shipped off to a server factory, featuring a neon color palette with purples and pinks and a matrix-like tech-themed background.
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Deploying a Dockerized Django Application to Production

Discover how to efficiently deploy a Django web application using Docker, Gunicorn, and Nginx on DigitalOcean. Follow this comprehensive guide to set up your environment, configure your application, and ensure your web app is scalable and production-ready.
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How to Set up Django with Docker, PostgreSQL and React

Figuring out how to set up Django with Docker, PostgreSQL, and React can be a complex task, especially if you, like me, don’t really code much nowadays. The boilerplate effort…
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  • Recruiting

How to Craft and Optimize an Awesome Tech Resume

Most tech resumes suck. As someone who’s worked in tech for years, and spent time on two startups in the human capital space (ProjectSherpa and Scouted) focused on analyzing resumes,…
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  • Parenting

Most Common First Baby Words

Every day during her first months of life, I would tell my daughter, “Where is daddy’s nose?  [dramatic pause…]  There it is!”  It wasn’t surprising that her first word was…
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  • Parenting

12 Proven Ways to Improve Baby Name Recognition

According to Parents magazine, “most babies learn that their names refer to themselves” between 5 and 7 months.  Babies hear their name often, and it quickly becomes one of the…
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  • Parenting

Don’t Read to Your Kids

Sorry, it’s a bit of a clickbait title.  What I actually mean is, don’t always read to your kids, but sometimes let them read to you. Clearly, it is very…
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Flappy, the Awesome Elephant
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  • Parenting

Flappy the Awesome Animated Elephant

Our youngest daughter’s great-grandma recently bought her GUND’s Animated Elephant.  Flappy!  ‘Awesome… another f’n stuffed animal.’  But then we pressed the Sing button, and holy crap but is this thing…
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  • Parenting

The 9 Best Baby Teethers

Inevitably, your newborn’s teeth will start to cut the day after you feel settled in a routine.  Often this is somewhere around 4-6 months, but it can also happen much…
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  • Topical

Do Newborns Have a Right to Digital Privacy?

When you’re preparing for your newborn, you’ve got big fish to fry: where will the baby sleep?  How will you feed the baby?  How do we take care of a…
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  • Parenting

How to Teach Your Toddler Piano Lessons

When I was 5, my parents asked a piano teacher to start giving me lessons. The piano teacher scoffed – I was too young, wouldn’t have the attention span, and…
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