About Frank
Husband. Father. Internet Plumber. Tech Author. Amateur Photographer. Decent Cook.
Internet and efficiency expert by day, father and husband by night.
Spend my days working on complex software development, operations, and business problem consulting. Usually web based and often using Python, Django, ReactJS, PostgreSQL, and Kubernetes based infrastructure.
In the evenings, I focus on my amazing family and friends. Between the two I'm constantly busy, but never bored.
Posts
Random thoughts on tech and life.
/usr/bin/just do it
just is a better way of documenting project specific commands than using a Makefile or a folder full of scripts. It is easy to get started with, powerful for the long haul, and written in Rust.
Git Pulled What???
Ever git pulled changes and wondered what they were? Here are two handy git CLI aliases that give you clarity on what changed.
Installing a specific version of PostgreSQL in your Dockerfile
It's common to need a specific version of PostgreSQL installed for things like pg_dump in a Python docker project (which is often based on Debian). It's not hard, but it's easy to forget the exact steps, so I wanted to walk you through how to do it step by step.
Your pytest fixtures can return containers
It's easy to have your pytest function's argument signatures explode with a bunch of fixture references. And sometimes you need things that depend on each other, both separately and together which can be hard to keep straight. I suggest using an object to contain them.