Yaroslav de la Peña Smirnov's weblog

Some thoughts on web design 2018-10-20

I am no designer by any means, I mostly prefer to deal with the technical side of things. However I do appreciate when things aren't an eyesore, and most importantly regarding technology, when the design doesn't get in the way. That is, I value more UX, than an overtly designed UI.

New w3blog release, version 0.5 2018-10-10

After some months without much free time, I finally could sit down a week ago and start working on an update to my blog engine that had been sitting on my to-do list for quite some time. This update brings improvements and new features to w3blog.

Free and easy SSL with Let's Encrypt 2018-08-12

We all know that in this day and age security is an important factor when developing sites, and not only. Also let's not forget about that sweet Google SEO which rewards sites which use https instead of the old http (Although I couldn't care less about Google, however some people I might work with do, and I bet most of you reading also care).

How to break pip, and how to repair it... 2018-08-03

Sometimes a program may suggest to you something, and you may following said program's suggestion, because, why not, you trust the devs because they've done an amazing job developing the program, and heck, they should know what they are doing with their tools.

w3blog, a simple blog engine 2018-07-23

w3blog

In this post I will be explaining how to use my blog engine for the Django framework, w3blog.

Building and deploying a personal site with blog. Part 2 2018-07-21

Welcome back, this post is a continuation of the previous post in which I wrote about how to initialize and setup a Django project for a personal site with blog locally. Now we will be focusing on the juicy part, getting your site deployed so that everyone on the interwebz can get to see ~~your nice new dank memes in your very own site!~~ the fruits of your sweat and blood.

Building and deploying a personal site with blog. Part 1 2018-07-21

I will be explaining in this guide how I built, and how I deployed this site. This will be a really simple tutorial, on how to do it using Python and Django. You might want to have a little knowledge of Django and Python previous to attempting to follow the instructions laid out in this tutorial, as the goal of this tutorial is not to teach you the basic principles of either the Python programming language, or Django framework. It is just meant as a little guide on the basic workflow when building and deploying sites with Django.

A weblog by Yaroslav de la Peña Smirnov 2018-07-21

Hello, and welcome to my weblog. As you may have read in my home page, I will be writing here mainly about what I do, and how I do it. That is, I aim to make a sort of compendium for myself as a self-learning tool; for future reference, when I need to refresh my memory, and of course for anybody else that shares my interests and wishes to learn something new. I am by no means an expert, but I believe that it is easier to learn by sharing your knowledge.

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