https://www.joelsleppy.com/blog/All posts from Joel Sleppy's blog.en-usWed, 30 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://www.joelsleppy.com/blog/hares-on-the-mountain/Chords and lyrics for Shirley Collins' modern take on the centuries-old British folk song Hares on the Mountain.Wed, 30 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://www.joelsleppy.com/blog/hares-on-the-mountain/https://www.joelsleppy.com/blog/parse-eml-with-python/Without setting this poorly-documented argument, you will get junk results when parsing email (.eml) files using Python.Wed, 28 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://www.joelsleppy.com/blog/parse-eml-with-python/https://www.joelsleppy.com/blog/use-django-auth-to-protect-other-applications/Use Django's authentication and permissions to secure any other application.Sun, 07 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://www.joelsleppy.com/blog/use-django-auth-to-protect-other-applications/https://www.joelsleppy.com/blog/docker-logging/How to ship JSON formatted logs from your app's stdout to fluentbit and VictoriaLogs for visualization and analysis.Sun, 26 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://www.joelsleppy.com/blog/docker-logging/https://www.joelsleppy.com/blog/all-sveltekit-data-ends-up-on-the-client/In contrast to a traditional server rendered web app, you need to be aware that all SvelteKit page data ends up on the client.Wed, 08 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://www.joelsleppy.com/blog/all-sveltekit-data-ends-up-on-the-client/https://www.joelsleppy.com/blog/remote-docker-host/Some interesting consequences of Docker being a client-server tool.Thu, 10 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://www.joelsleppy.com/blog/remote-docker-host/https://www.joelsleppy.com/blog/square-foot-garden/Documenting how I built a Square Foot GardenFri, 02 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://www.joelsleppy.com/blog/square-foot-garden/https://www.joelsleppy.com/blog/get-production-ready-with-me/Finding the best way to deploy to production with Docker Compose.Thu, 20 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://www.joelsleppy.com/blog/get-production-ready-with-me/https://www.joelsleppy.com/blog/how-to-run-concurrent-python-code-with-asyncio/The correct, non-obvious way to run Python code concurrently with asyncio.Mon, 30 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://www.joelsleppy.com/blog/how-to-run-concurrent-python-code-with-asyncio/https://www.joelsleppy.com/blog/notes-on-paul-graham-how-to-get-startup-ideas/My summary of Paul Graham's 2012 essay "How to Get Startup Ideas"Fri, 11 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://www.joelsleppy.com/blog/notes-on-paul-graham-how-to-get-startup-ideas/https://www.joelsleppy.com/blog/notes-on-refactoring-ui/Notes on the excellent web design book Refactoring UI.Sat, 18 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000https://www.joelsleppy.com/blog/notes-on-refactoring-ui/https://www.joelsleppy.com/blog/django-orm-cheatsheet/A compact reference for the most useful parts of the Django ORM.Sun, 22 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000https://www.joelsleppy.com/blog/django-orm-cheatsheet/https://www.joelsleppy.com/blog/planets-by-emily-haines-the-soft-skeleton/My transcription of the song Planets by Emily Haines & The Soft Skeleton.Sat, 11 Sep 2021 00:00:00 +0000https://www.joelsleppy.com/blog/planets-by-emily-haines-the-soft-skeleton/https://www.joelsleppy.com/blog/i-apologize-for-the-poor-sound-quality-ive-subjected-you-to-over-the-years/A recent Hacker News post inspired me to test my setup for video calls. It was awful, and Bluetooth was to blame. Here's how I fixed it.Wed, 21 Apr 2021 00:00:00 +0000https://www.joelsleppy.com/blog/i-apologize-for-the-poor-sound-quality-ive-subjected-you-to-over-the-years/https://www.joelsleppy.com/blog/automated-deploys-with-fabric/How to automate SSH sessions with Fabric to deploy a Django application.Mon, 12 Apr 2021 00:00:00 +0000https://www.joelsleppy.com/blog/automated-deploys-with-fabric/https://www.joelsleppy.com/blog/removing-tags-and-patches-from-clothing-with-a-seam-ripper/How to remove tags and patches from clothing with a seam ripper for comfort and style.Sat, 06 Feb 2021 00:00:00 +0000https://www.joelsleppy.com/blog/removing-tags-and-patches-from-clothing-with-a-seam-ripper/https://www.joelsleppy.com/blog/gunicorn-async-workers-with-gevent/How to run gunicorn async workers with gevent and a PostgreSQL client.Tue, 26 Jan 2021 00:00:00 +0000https://www.joelsleppy.com/blog/gunicorn-async-workers-with-gevent/https://www.joelsleppy.com/blog/gunicorn-application-preloading/Learn how to use preloading to reduce memory use in a Gunicorn app, and when not to use it.Thu, 21 Jan 2021 00:00:00 +0000https://www.joelsleppy.com/blog/gunicorn-application-preloading/https://www.joelsleppy.com/blog/gunicorn-sync-workers/Understand the memory use and throughput of Gunicorn sync workers under different workloads.Tue, 19 Jan 2021 00:00:00 +0000https://www.joelsleppy.com/blog/gunicorn-sync-workers/https://www.joelsleppy.com/blog/sitemapxml-in-a-wagtail-bakery-site/How to generate a sitemap.xml from your wagtail-bakery static site.Sun, 03 Jan 2021 00:00:00 +0000https://www.joelsleppy.com/blog/sitemapxml-in-a-wagtail-bakery-site/https://www.joelsleppy.com/blog/syntax-highlighted-code-blocks-with-wagtail-cms/How to add code blocks with syntax highlighting to a Wagtail project.Sat, 02 Jan 2021 00:00:00 +0000https://www.joelsleppy.com/blog/syntax-highlighted-code-blocks-with-wagtail-cms/https://www.joelsleppy.com/blog/baking-a-static-site-from-wagtail-cms/How to build a Wagtail project as a static site and host it on Netlify.Fri, 01 Jan 2021 00:00:00 +0000https://www.joelsleppy.com/blog/baking-a-static-site-from-wagtail-cms/