Coursen's Corner

Author: Stephen Coursen

  • Most annoying thing about Docker’s swarm mode

    The most annoying thing about running a Docker swarm — something that for the most part was pretty easy to set up and get going, has to be the flood of log messages that dockerd generates. According to this issue of github, fixing it “will require a code change, at the moment not being a […]

  • Annoyance-as-a-service

    Annoyance-as-a-service

    So, I’ve been looking for a new side project for a while, before finally settling on playing around with some phone APIs.  Not sure what else to do, I opted to make a tool for annoying people.  Try it now. It’s quite simple, but effective none the less.  For a modest fee (starting  at $1.00), […]

  • Using ElasticSearch As a Data Source in Django Tutorial

    Using ElasticSearch As a Data Source in Django Tutorial

    We use ElasticSearch in many different ways at the company I work for.  Since we’re partly a Django shop, we decided to put together a little walk-through tutorial on building a Django app. In this app, we’re using ElasticSearch as the backing data store for everything related to the tutorial.  Part 1 of the ElasticSearch […]

  • Google PageSpeed and How I Learned To Love The mod

    Google PageSpeed and How I Learned To Love The mod

    I’ve spent a lot of time fighting against plugins and WordPress in general in attempt to get my Google PageSpeed over 90. I had basically given up on getting into the high 90s due to my reliance on some external resources that don’t set long expire times or, in at least 2 cases, sheer laziness […]