Lewis kori

Lewis kori @lewiskori

About: What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.

Location:
Nairobi, Kenya.
Joined:
Jul 15, 2019

Lewis kori
articles - 31 total

The Quiet Power of Starting From Scratch

A few Sundays ago, I found myself on the rooftop of a mall restaurant, catching up with friends over...

Learn More 5 2Jun 16

Why I Haven’t Blogged in Years (and How I’m Overcoming the Fear)

It’s been over three years since I last wrote on my engineering blog. Three years of growth, new...

Learn More 4 0Mar 23

Tools to supercharge work productivity

Freelancing is becoming a popular trend in the modern work environment. A lot of people go into...

Learn More 6 0Mar 21 '22

Deploying Next.js apps to a VPS using Github actions and Docker

Recently, I had to deploy a project to a DigitalOcean droplet. One of the features I really wanted...

Learn More 171 21Dec 17 '21

How to programatically unzip files uploaded to google cloud storage buckets

I've been using google cloud services over the last year and I thoroughly enjoy their range of...

Learn More 5 2Jul 29 '21

Learning react as a Vue developer

I've been a long term vue.js developer and I have to say, I enjoy every moment of working with it. Ho...

Learn More 43 14Mar 31 '21

How to auto-refresh jwts using Axios interceptors

I've covered JWT authentication in some of my previous posts. For a quick recap, I'll briefly go over...

Learn More 53 3Feb 6 '21

User authentication with JWTS in a Django and vue.js multi-tenant app

On the last post of the Django multi-tenant series, we set up a Django project from scratch. In this...

Learn More 10 0Dec 28 '20

Introduction to no code web scraping with prowebscraper

Over the course of the web scraping series, we've covered a number of approaches to scraping the web....

Learn More 6 0Dec 10 '20

How to set up a new Django project

This post is a continuation of the django multi-tenancy series. In this part, we'll begin to implemen...

Learn More 9 0Dec 2 '20

Handy resources and tools for python and django developers

I've been developing software using Django for a while now and over the years, there's a couple of re...

Learn More 45 0Nov 13 '20

How to create custom commands in django

When developing django projects, there comes a need to write one-off scripts that automate a particul...

Learn More 13 0Sep 15 '20

Introduction to multi-tenant apps with django

What are multi-tenant apps Multi-tenancy is an architecture in which a single instance of...

Learn More 19 3Sep 6 '20

Building my new site with gridsome(vue.js)

Originally published here. I'm really excited to finally launch my new website 🥳. It's been a labor...

Learn More 10 4May 19 '20

Which book has had a lasting impact on you of late?

A post by Lewis kori

Learn More 23 19May 16 '20

Letter to aspiring software developers

Over the last few months, I've been asking myself what it means to be a great developer. Having looke...

Learn More 53 0Apr 18 '20

How to clear screen in python terminal

Originally posted on my blog. When working with the python interactive shell, you may end up having...

Learn More 8 0Apr 9 '20

User registration and authorization on a django API with djoser and JSON web tokens.

Originally published on my website In the first part of the intro django rest framework, we set up t...

Learn More 69 26Nov 14 '19

Building web APIs with django

Originally posted on my website. Introduction Hey there, I'd like to introduce you to mak...

Learn More 65 0Nov 6 '19

What's your opinion of doing free work in exchange for "exposure"?

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Learn More 11 16Nov 3 '19

web scraping: Managing proxies and Captcha with scrapy and the Scraper API

Originally published on my website In the first and second part of this series, we've introduced our...

Learn More 64 3Oct 7 '19

Maintaining balance in tech through hobbies.

I woke up to the news that someone on youtube had taken one of my articles and done a whole video abo...

Learn More 6 0Sep 16 '19

Lessons learnt from building and deploying a portfolio website

"Experience is the best teacher." I started making my portfolio site as a means of getting out of...

Learn More 21 4Sep 10 '19

Beginner's guide to web scraping with python's selenium

Originally published on my website In the first part of this series, we introduced ourselves to the...

Learn More 96 0Sep 4 '19

List of resources for junior developers

Originally published here Starting on programming can be very exciting but at the same time scary. A...

Learn More 236 6Aug 29 '19

Introduction to web scraping with python

Originally published on my website What is web scraping? This is the process of extractin...

Learn More 130 5Aug 23 '19

How working out has influenced me as a developer

This article was originally published on my personal website. In my journey into being a software en...

Learn More 71 12Aug 14 '19

Best resources to learn vue.js

I've heard alot of talk about vue and looking into it, I'm really excited about the tech. Which are s...

Learn More 11 7Aug 8 '19

Steps I am taking to improve my writing skills

while I am not a fan of making new year resolutions, writing is something I've been interested in doi...

Learn More 5 3Aug 7 '19

Deploying a python-django application using docker

This was originally published on my personal website Hey there I was inspired to write this post bas...

Learn More 55 4Aug 2 '19