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Self-hosting and Coolify

Yesterday was the end of two gruelling days trying to setup Coolify on a Hetzner server. First, Hetzner servers' Ubuntu update mirrors were syncing, which meant I couldn't run apt upgrade on the server (because there were errors). I created and deleted a dozen servers in the

A lot of frontend progress

Today is was feeling in such a state of flow, it was extremely rewarding. Even though it doesn't look like much, I managed to implement search and multiple filters (for categories), thanks to AI. There are still a few quirks I need to work out, like proper styling

Day of days

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Day job got the best of me today

OpenAI categoriser

Today I finally ported the OpenAI categoriser over to my Django project for jobsinenglish.dk. I didn't take as long as I had thought. Now the most dreaded task is ahead of me, porting the NextJS frontend over to Django templates. I think the part of this that

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July 2024

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Local tourist

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More progress, thanks Ai

I keep on trucking along with the port to Django and how smooth coding has been these days. Here's the "to-do" list from yesterday: Things to do: * Get scraper to work with pagination (for now, it just scrapes the first 20 jobs that appear in the

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At last, success!

Yesterday was the day. It all paid off. I wouldn't have been able to do it so fast, especially the debugging, without Ai. But it is working! I have the first version of my scraper live (in my development environmnent) in Django! 20 jobs scraped and saved to

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Figured out how not to...

So yesterday was not yet another failure, but it was a way to discover how not accomplish the task. Yes, I failed again yesterday. But not to be confused with me not making any progress! Plus, I made a new "friend". I really struggled yesterday with trying to

A little bit of failure

So yesterday, I failed. I failed to integrate Django and Scrapy under the same project. I am using a very opinionated boilerplate. What I like about it is that it installs Tailwind (with node) and makes it work with zero config, it includes auth, celery and many other things that

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Resolute

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Health Challenges

A full week of work

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Selflessness and Altruism

I am often amazed how it is in the world of "computers" and how awesome some people are. For a long time, I had been wondering how difficult it would be to integrate Scrapy, a powerful python scraping library, and Django, my webdev framework of choice. I had

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Kind

Slow down. Think about where you were last year. All that uncertainty. All the complexity. The moving pieces! You made it! You made it happen! Have you slowed down, stopped, and marvelled at it? Cut yourself some slack and give yourself a breather. You are being unfairly hard on yourself.

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Ups and Downs

Work Permit

Permit Application Submitted

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Word of the Month

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The Cult of Done

I came across an interesting [youtube video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJQj1uKtnus) that led me to read the [Cult of Done Manifesto.](https://arc.net/l/quote/fxlwfuhc) I will copy paste it here for quick reference: 1. There are three states of being. Not knowing, action and

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Youngest Son's Birthday

Something is happening

A sigh

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Being an Immigrant