All articles by Marco Louro

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Introducing Amygdala, a JavaScript REST client

We’ve been working on a new UI and front-end architecture for our communication tool, Ginger. In doing so, we built a new JavaScript library to communicate with our django-rest-framework powered API(s). Inspired by hood.ie but aimed at custom API back-ends, …
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Installing Node.js and npm into a Python Virtualenv

With things like LESS and RequireJS, we’re starting to use Node.js’s npm (think pip for JavaScript) on every other project. However, installing Node.js globally means some dependencies are also installed globally, which might be a problem if different projects use …
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Running your own Self-Hosted Etherpad Instance

Etherpad is an amazing real-time collaborative editor with a very low barrier for entry (no logins, no additional software, etc.). In case you missed it, Etherpad was acquired by Google and after a community uproar decided to release their code …