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Building with AI: Lessons from Devloping a Django App with Claude

I’ve recently been exploring AI-assisted development, specifically using Claude to build a Django-based inventory management application for scout and youth groups. So how did it go? In a couple of weeks of part-time work, I built and deployed a functional MVP to production: www.armaria.club (app.armaria.club). Here are my key takeaways. These aren’t universal rules, just what worked well for me while developing a real application with AI assistance. I’m also very aware that with the Read more

By albertw,

Passing REMOTE_USER through mod_WSGI

I need to change the way we authenticate a django application.

Currently we authenticate by an apache module which sets the REMOTE_USER header and passes it to the python app in the environment of mod_wsgi.

The new approach will be to use an app gateway. The gateway works like a reverse proxy and intercept requests to the application. The app gateway authenticates the user and if succesful forwards the request to our application with the REMOTE_USER header set.

The problem with this approach is that mod_wsgi will drop that header. Read more

By albertw,

Django Q function

When querying objects in django the simplest way is to use the filter() query. If we have a set of systems for example and we want to filter out those that have a SPARC architecture we could do: >>> System.objects.filter(architecture=”sparc”) And if we wanted to narrow that down to only sparc machines that use NIS for name resolution we could do: System.objects.filter(architecture=”sparc”).filter(name_resolution=”NIS”) But that is narrowing down the selection. It’s an AND. What were asking Read more

By albertw,