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Rapid Django Project w/SQLite

A full stack web app boilerplate in minutes

Mar 27, 2025

Rapid Django Project w/SQLite

Mar 27, 2025

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Populate GitHub Repo with Existing Folder from Command Line

We’ve all done it before. We started a project, made some changes, and things got out of hand. You think “Dang, I should’ve created a Repo…

Nov 15, 2019

Populate GitHub Repo with Existing Folder from Command Line

Nov 15, 2019

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Non-Binary Image Classifying CNN Tutorial (5 categories)

There are a ton of datasets and tutorials out there for building binary (2 category) CNN image classifiers. However, there are some…

Nov 16, 2019

Non-Binary Image Classifying CNN Tutorial (5 categories)

Nov 16, 2019

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Parsing HTTP Params in Python Heroku Starter App

A lot of stories I write here (if not all of them) are a result of me spending what I felt was WAY too much time to find a solution to what…

Sep 14, 2021

Sep 14, 2021

ADHDev Tip #6: Get Google Authenticator off your phone and on your work computer

Two Factor Authentication/Multi Factor Authentication have become established security best practices. Many websites require you to…

Oct 22, 2025

Oct 22, 2025

Celery Primitives (Chain, Group, Signature, etc.) Demystified

Celery is a task execution queue for python applications with asynchronous capabilities. In muggle English — it allows you to outsource…

Aug 4, 2025

Celery Primitives (Chain, Group, Signature, etc.) Demystified

Aug 4, 2025

ADHDev: Identifying and Overcoming ADHD as a SWE

I am a developer! I also have ADHD. I was diagnosed later in life. My parents never got me tested because I got good grades. Unfortunately…

May 19, 2025

ADHDev: Identifying and Overcoming ADHD as a SWE

May 19, 2025

Easy, Breezy, Beautiful… Django Unit Tests

I’m thinking of getting back in the tech circuit and want to appy to DjangoCon (and maybe others!) Let me know if this is a talk you would…

May 2, 2025

Easy, Breezy, Beautiful… Django Unit Tests

May 2, 2025

Rename Branch after Pushing to Remote

SOS! Save our SWEs!

Apr 21, 2025

Rename Branch after Pushing to Remote

Apr 21, 2025

Why I Took a 35% Paycut Only One Year Into My Software Career

I remember the day I got the offer for what would be my first full time software engineering job. It was October of 2019, I was a senior in…

Nov 9, 2021

Why I Took a 35% Paycut Only One Year Into My Software Career

Nov 9, 2021

Colleen Dunlap

Colleen Dunlap

I’m a free-spirited techie who loves Social Impact Projects, Hackathons, and the Circus. You can follow me on Twitter @ColleenDHere

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