Hi, I'm Aaron Crowder. Or—if you know me online—CrowderSoup.
Father of two, Software developer, and lover of the open web.
I like to take things apart (and sometimes even put them back together).
I can frequently be found tinkering with some bit of code in my spare
time.
I've been sharing a lot of links to my blog on social media lately. I figured I should probably help those of you still stuck in the social silos of big tech break free from the chains of the algorithmic feed. It’s time to remind you of tech long forgotten by many, but still widely used if you know where to look.
RSS
Remember that orange square with two quarter circles and a dot?
Yeah, this thing! RSS (short for Really Simple Syndication) was developed in the late 1990s and early 2000s as a ...
I recently started my journey of rebuilding this blog using Django. It's a learning experience for me, with the side benefit of nudging me to write more. Something I wanted to add was some super basic analytics to help make sure this site is actually being used by someone other than me.
I wanted to see things like a (somewhat naive) count of unique visitors, total page views, where requests were coming from (both referrer and geographically), and response codes (mostly so I can find 404s).
Th...
Have you ever noticed the "verified" badge next to a commit on GitHub? A few years ago I did an wondered how I could get that on my own commits. After a little googling I realized it was because those commits were signed.
Signing a commit with a GPG key is something natively supported by Git as it turns out. Now this is one of the first things I set up on a new dev machine. Setting it up is fairly straight forward.
Prerequisites
You will need to have gpg and git installed. Additionally you w...
