andrew-chen-wang/base-django-project

Minimal Django Project with Registration for easy re-use during testing.

Hey 👋 I'm Andrew

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About Me

I'm looking to help with whatever I can; this is my public GitHub account where I host personal, public projects and WIP hobbies.

I've had a lot of fun learning web + mobile applications, cybersecurity, NLP, DevOps, databases, and caches. I specialize in high performance backend architecture. I play a lot with Django and implemented asyncio features in Django such as its cache and ORM and assist developers in taking advantage of websockets for Django. I also maintain redis-py asyncio by RedisLabs + aioredis, cookiecutter-django, django-cachalot, Jazzband, and SimpleJWT.

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Monthly quote

Wars are social, not economic

Current public projects

• Tarda (Browser extension that lets you loop YouTube videos at any specific timeframe, enables Picture-in-Picture for YouTube, and displays images in comment sections)

• Hear Ye (A React Native app that offers you political perspectives of both sides of the aisle on issues)

• Donate Anything (search up items you'd like to donate and we'll suggest how to handle it)

• Natural Gravity Engine (Incomplete; conclusion: Game devs are hardcore; Rust physics engine that allows researching into the natural properties of gravity and gravitational waves without programming them)

• Django Async Redis (async Django-Redis package as a next step to making Django completely async capable)

• RichEditorView (a Swift WYSIWYG editor for iOS)

• mobile-auth-example (My template for creating native mobile apps with auth, using my favorite network file structure. Re-publicized for SimpleJWT)

• github-wiki-action (a ReadTheDocs-like webhook system but for GitHub wiki)

• Crowd Sourced Translations (a Dolthub repository for crowd sourcing translations which were not done by automated services)

• Words in Political Media (data collection for my NLP model to detect how "entertaining" news is becoming)

• Securing SPAs with HttpOnly cookies

• ArgueBot: Devil's Advocate ChatBot with evidence

  

Projects I help maintain

• Django (the only web framework that makes it coding secure websites fast)
• django-cachalot (a Django ORM automatic caching system that monkeypatches the sh*t out of the internals of the Django ORM)
• djangorestframework-simplejwt (simplified JWT stateless auth)
• cookiecutter-django (deploy-ready template for new Django projects and experimentation for new Django features)
• aioredis (python async Redis API)
• fcm-django (Migrated the entire repository to use Firebase's v1 API)
• Jazzband (an organization dedicated to maintaining Django ecosystem packages)
• django-oauth-toolkit (OAuth 2.0 and OpenID integration with Django)

Tutorials and Fun Learning Projects

• Stateful Auth via HttpOnly cookies (Creating stateful, session-backed cookies safely at Instagram to avoid XSS)
• iOS Chat App (iOS Swift 5.0 live chat app as a first time using Django 3.0 native websocket support using the single-user per-socket approach)
• cookiecutter-django-ec2-github (Extremely thorough DevOps tutorial for AWS deployment for Django projects using GitHub Actions and AWS EC2, CodeDeploy, RDS, ElastiCache)
• cookiecutter-django-ecs-github (Same as above except we're using ECS and Dockerhub image repository or ECR image repository)
• OAuth Provider and Consumer Tutorial (React Native and Django Web app tutorial for implementing the full OAuth protocol and OpenID Identity Layer)
• Getting user's Congressional District (a React Native app)
• psycopg3 (experimental PostgreSQL Python adapter with native support for coroutines)

📫 How to reach me: [email protected].