Fighting an N-headed monster with recursion

A while back, I came upon this problem: “You need to kill an N-headed monster. To do that, you have two swords. The first sword(A) cuts cutA heads, however, in case the monster doesn’t die(ie no. of heads > 0), it will grow growA heads. The second…

A first look at provisioning with Puppet(on a Vagrant box)

In my previous post, I talked about deploying a Flask app on a Vagrant box using Gunicorn and Nginx. The response I got was mind-blowing, so I’ve decided to write about another neat tool that’s awesome for deploying web apps- Puppet. Vagrant actually encourages its users to use…

Flask + Nginx + Gunicorn(on a Vagrant box)

I had some difficulty in grasping how exactly to set up a server when I tried to do so recently, so I decided to write a tutorial that will guide you through the process. Hopefully, this post will help you avoid at least some of the confusion that I encountered.…

Videodropper- Behind the scenes

My previous post about my new web app- Videodropper, which lets you send Youtube videos to your Dropbox account got quite huge on Hacker News yesterday(At least, much more than I’d anticipated). So, I decided to write another post about Videodropper on how it works. Videodropper is powered…

Videodropper

<img src=”/images/videodropper.png” style=”width:500px; height:300px; float:left; padding:10px;”/> If you’re constantly troubled by having to wait for Youtube to buffer videos, or want to keep some videos with you so you can watch them again and again without wasting bandwidth, then…

Instamator is now open source

Instamator, which I released just a few days ago is now open source. You can find the source code on Github. Instamator is powered by Flask and makes use of Redis.…

Instamator

I have been wanting to create a serious web app for some time now, and I think I just did. Well, to be more accurate its a pretty simple web service. Let me introduce to you Instamator, it lets you easily grab and use the photos you’ve liked on…