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Many legitimate YouTube channels upload movies with the wrong title, and it is hard to know what movie you are watching. I don't know why they do that for sure, but I suspect that this is their business model. They acquire the licenses of badly rated and little-known movies…

Automating social media accounts can be annoying, especially because of the shenanigans Big Social put us through to obtain our API keys. Here is an updated guide on how to post to X from python code. I. Get a X Developer Account Open a private window and login to x.com as the…

JavaScript-based projects tend to rot quickly. Very often, when I come back to them a few months later, nothing works. Today simply running my Gatsby blog after a few months made my MacBook Pro crash. Like most programmers, I have many side projects, and I want to minimise the…

I often find myself needing to implement Google OAuth in Django projects but keep forgetting the exact steps. So, I'm documenting the process here for future reference. Step 1: Install django-allauth First, install django-allauth using Docker Compose: Step 2: Update Django…

The goal is to show a modal when the user clicks on a link, rather than redirecting him right away to the auth page. It just seems less confusing. In a file called , we add the following code: Now we need to include our modal code in our , so it is accessible from everywhere: And…

My current Mac doesn't have enough space to install Xcode Command Line Tools and it turns out it is almost impossible to install Ruby and Rails locally without it. Instead I decided to install it inside docker right from the start. The first step is simply to create the following…

I was hoping that moving to Cloudflare would improve my site loading speeds and solve a bot problem I had, but it did neither. After moving to Cloudflare, the site immediately went down with this error: I had to change the Cloudflare SSL setting to "Full (strict)" to resolve the…

I was trying to migrate from MySQL to PostgreSQL using loaddata and dumpdata. For this to work, everything needs to be flushed, but the command: Flush everything except the contenttypes and a few other (mainly auth related) tables. So we inevitably end up with conflicts and…