adamghill

I write (Python|Django|JavaScript|HTML|CSS) and sometimes it's useful.

- 1/2 of https://beesocial.dev & https://djangostickers.com & https://djangobrew.com 🧠
- For perfectionists with deadlines: https://alldjango.com 📖
- Reactive component framework for Django: https://www.django-unicorn.com 🦄
- So much code: https://github.com/adamghill 🛠️
- All the links: https://adamghill.com 💥

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adamghill.com 🏠: https://adamghill.com
Unicorn 🦄: https://django-unicorn.com
Sponsor 💙: http://github.com/sponsors/adamghill
Code ⚙️: https://github.com/adamghill

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2026-02-12 16:00:42 GMT

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Some concrete thoughts: https://dev.to/adamghill/checking-django-settings-12g4.
I have prototype code for this, but wanted to get feedback about the ideas first. Might post in the Django forum eventually…
#Django #Python

2026-02-12 14:44:22 GMT

https://jvns.ca/blog/2026/01/27/some-notes-on-starting-to-use-django/#the-settings-file-still-feels-like-a-lot continues to live rent free in my head

2026-02-12 03:33:35 GMT

Looking forward to quite a few of these talks about #Python and #Django
Also ❤️ this design
https://lp.jetbrains.com/python-unplugged

2025-12-07 20:02:06 GMT

0.6.1 of django-new has been released. 🚀
- Lots of UI tweaks.
- `--data` flag for data-specific applications.
- Generate `summary.html` for a user-friendly explanation of the newly created application (h/t @npub12q0…sm0v).
- BETA: `--install` to install packages (only `whitenoise` currently supported).
🛠️ https://github.com/adamghill/django-new
📦 https://pypi.org/project/django-new/
#Django #Python #WebDev #API #HTML
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2025-12-06 22:24:51 GMT

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I've been playing with Auphonic a little bit. Do you have suggestions for good settings to remove filler words? In my testing, it sounds a little choppier than I wanted, but there are also a lot of knobs to tweak.

2025-12-04 14:32:14 GMT

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oooh they had Leuchtturm1917 at my local shop, but no dots. Maybe I should just take the leap and order one. 😅

2025-12-04 14:12:26 GMT

I still take a decent amount of handwritten notes, so I tend to try out lots of different stationary paraphernalia.
For pens, previously used LePen, Sakura Micron, and even Sharpie Pens. Currently really enjoying the Uniball ONE: https://www.unibrands.co/collections/uni-ball-one-top-sellers.
I've tried Moleskins, Field Notes, and lots of no name notebooks, but I tend to like grids for some reason. Really loving this Kleid right now: https://yosekastationery.com/products/kleid-2mm-grid-notes-a5.
Would love other recommendations!

2025-11-23 15:02:43 GMT

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For context: it takes me around an hour for every 10 minutes of finished audio just for the first pass edit.
And I used to be slower 😫

2025-11-23 12:47:42 GMT

Looking for #podcast editing recommendations. @npub1vxf…0y8f currently uses:
- free tier of Riverside for recording the audio
- Audacity for the first round of edits, removing um’s, etc.
- Ableton for the second round of edits, intro, outro music, etc
- $19/month Buzzsprout for hosting
The process works, but turns out I dread editing so it takes me forever.
Some ideas:
- pay for Buzzsprout magic AI
- pay for Riverside magic AI
- pay an actual editor
- stop being so picky
- just deal with it

2025-11-22 02:54:26 GMT

Released 0.23.0 of dj-angles with some additional features for integrating with https://github.com/carltongibson/django-template-partials.
dj-angles is the way to build HTML-first Django templates.
- Add support for inline template partials
- Add support for using named template partials
📖 https://dj-angles.adamghill.com/
🛠️ https://github.com/adamghill/dj-angles
📦 https://pypi.org/project/dj-angles/

2025-11-09 18:12:08 GMT

My wife creates a lot of #stainedglass projects that are a little outside the norm. 👻
Here is one she made before #Halloween to pay homage to Stanley Kubrick's classic #film, The Shining.
Read more details about this piece at https://glass-o-lantern.com/the-shining/.
Follow her at https://www.instagram.com/glass_o_lantern/ to see what she works on next.
#cinemastodon #cinema #letterboxd #horror #art
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2025-10-27 21:28:50 GMT

Really enjoyed the https://djangochat.com/episodes/django-survey-2025-jeff-triplett podcast that was released today about the latest Django survey.
💯 to all of the talk about the #Django ecosystem page at https://www.djangoproject.com/community/ecosystem/! Really glad this got over the hurdles to make this live. 😍
@npub120g…wm7n

2025-10-26 13:55:29 GMT

I wanted to add a progress SVG to my new project's #Django template via https://github.com/adamghill/dj-spinners.
1. `uv add dj-angles dj-spinners`
2. Add mapper to `dj-angles` settings in my project (https://dj-angles.adamghill.com/en/latest/mappers.html#string-value)
3. Add `"dj_spinners.templatetags.dj_spinners”,` to `TEMPLATES[0].OPTIONS.builtins`
4. Instead of `{% spinner "3-dots-bounce" %} ` use `<dj-spinner name="3-dots-bounce" />`
Voilà!
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2025-10-01 19:30:03 GMT

1. Start new Django project by copying my last project and manually changing everything
2. Thought “I bet there is a starter project”
3. Looked at a few starter projects, but realize I’m probably too opinionated for someone else’s starter project
4. Thought “I should make a cookiecutter”
5. Remembered I have a cookiecutter, but I never finished it
6. Look at cookiecutter
7. Realize I’d have to keep it up to date
8. Get distracted and think I should start a new project
Cycle repeats ad infintum

2025-09-28 02:39:12 GMT

I've been messing with the benchmarks in https://github.com/FarhanAliRaza/django-rapid all day and I can't get Django ASGI (with uvicorn) to perform any faster than Django WSGI (gunicorn). I have a feeling I'm missing something and it's not a fair setup, though.

2025-09-27 03:25:32 GMT

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I wrote down some thoughts about doing a redesign of the #Django homepage, why it’s important, “competitor” research, etc.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1huzCQFrYISa-377eSJX8s8_3guH-kNVSaaDMkV28-0U/edit?usp=sharing
I’d love any feedback here, as comments on the doc itself, or in the forum thread: https://forum.djangoproject.com/t/want-to-work-on-a-homepage-site-redesign/42909/28. 🙏

2025-09-25 16:09:19 GMT

I love this so much https://owickstrom.github.io/the-monospace-web/

2025-09-23 18:35:00 GMT

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I’m curious to hear what you decide to do here. Most of the major CSS frameworks use NodeJS toolchains (I think?). What would be the alternative you are thinking about?

2025-09-21 17:22:06 GMT

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Posted a call to action on the forum: https://forum.djangoproject.com/t/want-to-work-on-a-homepage-site-redesign/42909

2025-09-21 15:18:46 GMT

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Caveat: when it comes to design, everyone is a critic. And don't read too much into any of this -- it’s a first draft after a few hours of throwing together HTML. 😅
With that said, if anyone is interested, DM me your GitHub username and I can add you to a private repo where I'm messing with a redesign of the #Django homepage.
Currently just regular HTML + TailwindCSS + a tiny bit of vanilla JavaScript.
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2025-09-21 03:56:42 GMT

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>until people see a proper design, it's not gonna advance
The flip side: hard to ask people to spend time on a proper design if there is a limited chance of getting traction. Sounds like maybe that's not a concern, though. Good to know.

2025-09-20 20:25:42 GMT

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I may or may not have cloned https://github.com/django/djangoproject.com yesterday 😭

2025-09-20 20:04:34 GMT

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Not trying to beat a dead horse, but I've recently (again) been looking at the homepage of a bunch of different web frameworks.
It's interesting to see how they market and position themselves. Personally, I think Django does a disservice to itself by not making it super duper clear how it can solve common use cases.
(I know there is a working group and I wish them godspeed; if people are interested in WGs, they are here: https://github.com/django/dsf-working-groups/tree/main/active)

2025-09-20 18:51:30 GMT

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🌶️🌶️🌶️
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2025-09-20 17:14:14 GMT

I was interviewing someone the other day who had 5+ years of Django experience and he said that Django “can't be used for microservices”.
🤔
That's going to live rent-free in my brain for awhile I'm afraid.

2025-09-02 21:59:33 GMT

My wife is on a stained glass kick recently and this #Godzilla is amazing.
I love the fire everywhere, atomic breath, and the textured glass for its body.
#art #stainedglass #movies #artist #cinemastodon #Letterboxd #monsterdon #japan #cinema #horror
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2025-08-23 03:04:40 GMT

🚀 New #Django library: dj-raincheck ☔️
Quickly schedule functions to run after a view request is completed without setting up any complicated background task infrastructure.
⚙️ https://github.com/adamghill/dj-raincheck
📦 https://pypi.org/project/dj-raincheck/
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2025-08-09 21:47:31 GMT

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Updated dj-lite for #Django to 1.0.0! 💡
- Add kwargs for all default pragmas
- Allow adding additional pragmas if needed
- Substantial updates to the readme
- Add `temp_store=MEMORY` pragma by default (from @npub1nyl…ltu2)
Default #SQLite pragmas are now:
```
PRAGMA journal_mode=WAL;
PRAGMA synchronous=NORMAL;
PRAGMA temp_store=MEMORY;
PRAGMA mmap_size=134217728;
PRAGMA journal_size_limit=27103364;
PRAGMA cache_size=2000;
```
🛠️ https://github.com/adamghill/dj-lite
📦 https://pypi.org/project/dj-lite/

2025-07-27 22:25:58 GMT

Made a little library to ensure that #SQLite is setup for production use in #Django.
📦 https://pypi.org/project/dj-lite/
🛠️ https://github.com/adamghill/dj-lite
Based mostly on https://blog.pecar.me/sqlite-django-config from @npub15wd…rte4.

2025-06-22 11:20:14 GMT

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We think social platforms can be a force for community-building and collaboration, so we wrote a manifesto for BeeSocial.
https://beesocial.dev/manifesto
Help us build something better by signing up and giving us feedback! We'd love to hear what you think and what could be improved.
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2025-06-21 21:05:41 GMT

@npub1tga…xqfr and I have been working on a fun side project and we are finally ready to launch a very early MVP.
✨ https://beesocial.dev ✨
Current features:
- sign up
- create a profile with a description, social media, and skills
- add links or collections of links
We have some (read: lots! bordering on too many) ideas for other features, but would love to hear any early feedback.
Want to see an example of what a profile looks like? Check out https://beesocial.dev/@adamghill. 🐝
#WIP #WorkInPublic
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2025-05-18 15:19:16 GMT

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I built/support a few #FastAPI applications in prod, my $0.02:
1. Focus on one explicit use case. No templates, no ORM, etc. so the surface area/ramp up much smaller than Django.
2. Defined happy paths, less analysis paralysis.
3. I personally feel that all-async is a little overblown, but others obviously don't. Plus, “the fastest x” is always good marketing.
4. Ride the AI boom.
TBH, I think #Django can learn from some of this. 😅

2025-04-18 14:28:55 GMT

Did you know that the #Django admin can be themed?! 🤯
Here are 10 packages for the Django admin which can transform it with a Dracula theme, #Bootstrap #CSS, #Tailwind, and more!
Jazz up your Django admin today! 🎷
https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2025/apr/18/admin-theme-roundup/

2025-03-16 02:19:03 GMT

Ever wonder why the #Django `date` filter uses formats from PHP?! I did! 😂
So, I made a `dateformat` filter which uses the normal #Python `strftime` format strings (cheatsheet here: https://strftime.org). Docs for the new filter: https://dj-angles.adamghill.com/en/latest/filters/dateformat.html
New `dj-call` and `dj-model` mappers were also added. Docs for the tags: https://dj-angles.adamghill.com/en/latest/tag-elements.html
Both included in the newly published 0.17.0 of `dj-angles`. ✨
📖 https://dj-angles.adamghill.com/
📦 https://pypi.org/project/dj-angles/
🛠️ https://codeberg.org/adamghill/dj-angles
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2025-02-08 22:17:44 GMT

Released 0.13.1 of dj-angles, a way to make #Django templates look more like normal HTML. 🎉
Changes:
- Handle newlines in elements (very helpful for those automatic HTML formatters!)
📚 https://dj-angles.adamghill.com/
🛠️ https://github.com/adamghill/dj-angles
📦 https://pypi.org/project/dj-angles/
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2025-01-20 18:09:02 GMT

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One thing I'm still investigating: how to make #SQLite as similar to #PostgreSQL as possible via pragmas (https://www.sqlite.org/pragma.html).
I'm ok sacrificing some speed for referential integrity. I'm currently looking into:
PRAGMA strict = ON;
PRAGMA case_sensitive_like = ON;
PRAGMA recursive_triggers = ON;
PRAGMA automatic_index = ON;
PRAGMA encoding = 'UTF-8';
Anyone have experience with these? I'm thinking about modifying @npub15wd…rte4 benchmark in https://blog.pecar.me/django-sqlite-benchmark to see what the impacts are.

2025-01-20 15:20:08 GMT

I wrote up how I’m currently using #SQLite in production with #Django because I couldn’t find one place with everything. Hopefully it’s helpful!
https://alldjango.com/articles/definitive-guide-to-using-django-sqlite-in-production
I’d appreciate hearing feedback about anything I might be missing. 💚
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2025-01-14 01:16:39 GMT

Based on https://blog.pecar.me/django-sqlite-benchmark (and https://blog.pecar.me/django-sqlite-dblock) by @npub15wd…rte4 this is my current settings for #Sqlite in #Django. It seems more stable than the default, although I've only done limited testing.
I'm still unsure about the foreign_keys pragma, but coming from PostgreSQL, it at least _sounds_ like something I want.
Feedback appreciated!
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2025-01-05 22:27:35 GMT

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I have! Trying to decide if I think $99 is reasonable or not. 🤣 It might be…

2025-01-05 22:15:27 GMT

I realize this is very subjective, but what is the “Postico for SQLIte”? I've looked at most of commonly cited tools and none are really fitting the bill imo. Willing to pay if it's reasonable.

2025-01-04 13:20:11 GMT

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I don’t really care about 9 9s or anything, I was mostly thinking about blue/green deployments.
I guess https://litestream.io/reference/restore/ could be called when the new container starts up?

2025-01-04 01:44:15 GMT

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“better to use MongoDB instead” no thanks once bitten twice shy

2025-01-04 00:25:16 GMT

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ok... so maybe I wasn't missing anything. 😂
https://github.com/maxpert/marmot looks like an interesting approach if I ever need more than one container I suppose.

2025-01-03 18:00:17 GMT

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ok this is the part I don’t understand.
1 webserver -> 1 SQLite file (in the same Docker container?)
How do you scale to 2 webservers? I’ve read through litestream/marmot docs, but I’m missing something. They replicate to S3. Is a process running on all of the webservers keeping their SQLite db file up to date?
Sorry if this is a dumb question, I searched around a little bit but was looking for a step-by-step tutorial and failed. 🫠

2025-01-03 14:22:03 GMT

Is there a https://github.com/oldmoe/litestack for #Django? The ORM already supports SQLite, what else can it be used for?

2024-12-22 13:57:11 GMT

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Two thoughts
1. print debugging for life
2. how many different ways can I misspell “template”?
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2024-12-20 12:26:43 GMT

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What started as a way to just configure multiple sites for Coltrane has escalated into
- brand new TOML configuration file for all Coltrane settings
- rewriting large parts of the code for settings
- handling three different directory structures for coltrane apps
- adding a default healthcheck url for sites
- custom static templatetag which overrides Django’s

2024-12-03 14:44:52 GMT

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Prototyping a sites.json file to configure multiple sites.
- Dictionary key is the site name (and corresponding folder)
- Dictionary value is an array of domains associated with the site
I should probably make this structure more explicit (and verbose, but whatever).
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2024-12-03 14:33:46 GMT

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The version on the right has the same negative as templates in Django apps where they need to be namespaced in another directory so they don’t conflict.
e.g. sites/adamghill/templates/adamghill/base.html and sites/alldjango/templates/alldjango/base.html
Although, maybe I could solve for that since I know which site should be handling the current request. 🤔
I also don't know how to deal with the static site building with multiple sites. Maybe output just has sub-folders for each site?

2024-12-03 14:31:08 GMT

Thinking through approaches for serving multiple domains from 1 https://coltrane.adamghill.com deployable.
Left is how it currently works: directories inside templates, content, etc for each site.
Right is what I’m thinking about: directories for each site with templates, content, etc inside.
If I squint, the version on the right almost looks like Django apps — a probably useful analogy, although they _are_ slightly different. The version on the left feels messier, especially with a lot of sites.
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2024-11-09 21:16:12 GMT

Anyone have a recommendation for having sub-domains in a #Django project? Theoretically, I could set it up in nginx, but I'd like to avoid that because I'm lazy.
https://github.com/jazzband/django-hosts seems promising?

2024-11-05 15:08:19 GMT

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I’m being a little hypocritical because I have side projects like that, too.
However, I think it’s reasonable to hold VC-backed (or acquired for $20M) products to a different standard than my nights and weekends projects.

2024-11-05 13:57:51 GMT

The hill I will die on: not allowing sign-ups with an email/password is an anti-pattern.
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2024-10-26 19:57:24 GMT

The trusted publishing workflow on #PyPI is pretty magical! 🪄
Now every time I create a release in #GitHub, it will be published to #PyPI automatically -- no more manual building and publishing from my local dev box.
Steps:
🔐 Set up a trusted publisher for your package on PyPI and test PyPI
📃 Add a GitHub Action workflow like https://github.com/adamghill/dj-angles/blob/main/.github/workflows/publish.yml
🧠 Bask in the knowledge of automating a previously manual process
Next up: move all my other #Python projects to a similar setup.
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2024-10-21 00:10:57 GMT

✨ 0.9.0 of dj-angles, a library to incorporate more HTML into #Django templates, is now published. ✨
The main feature is (beta) support for slots in components! 🎰🚀
Slots documentation: https://dj-angles.adamghill.com/en/latest/components.html#slots
📖 https://dj-angles.adamghill.com
📦 https://pypi.org/project/dj-angles
🛠️ https://github.com/adamghill/dj-angles
#Python #HTML #WebComponents #CSS #DJT
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2024-10-20 21:07:04 GMT

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Of course, now I have ~0 CDs and a growing vinyl collection. So, I’m also part of the problem. 🎧

2024-10-20 19:30:23 GMT

As someone who grew up buying CDs — I probably had a couple hundred at one point — this is bonkers. https://www.theverge.com/2024/3/26/24112369/riaa-2023-music-revenue-streaming-vinyl-cds-physical-media

2024-10-20 14:30:57 GMT

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Oh, yeah `uv add --editable .` adds the `tool.uv.sources` section and is documented in https://docs.astral.sh/uv/concepts/dependencies/#editable-dependencies. I think that was how I figured out the right incantation for pyproject.toml, so maybe that's good enough?

2024-10-20 14:09:51 GMT

I have to re-figure out how to include an editable dependency with #uv every time I need it for local development. Not sure why this isn't more clear in the documentation, but adding a source and a path works fine for my use case. Not sure if I should make a PR or not. 😬
Workspaces are sort of similar (see https://github.com/astral-sh/uv/issues/8195), but I have separate repos because I have different libraries, so it's not the same. I think.
#Python
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2024-10-19 13:54:37 GMT

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Do you use a library for it?

2024-10-19 13:42:23 GMT

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I followed all the Python/Django people I could find there, but it still doesn’t feel as vibrant for tech discussions as Mastodon. Yet?

2024-10-19 13:32:02 GMT

TIL https://zuplo.com/blog/2024/10/10/unlocking-the-power-of-json-patch

2024-10-13 22:44:03 GMT

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“20 to 30-hour sample app” hard pass 😂

2024-10-13 21:47:36 GMT

I'm not actively looking for a job, but if I ever was my _hope_ is that instead of doing take home assignments, I could just point at my 100+ GitHub repos and be like, check it out. I kind of know what I'm doing sometimes.

2024-10-11 03:57:13 GMT

I can't believe there are 2 Meow Wolfs in Texas and neither are in Austin (one is outside Dallas, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FkPsX06hrnI, and a new one opening soon in Houston, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2TJ9M7PCbI).
I might have to go other places in Texas at some point.
#MeowWolf #art #weird

2024-10-10 01:05:36 GMT

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Nice! I’m rocking a very similar setup although I don't quite understand the need for direnv? I tend to run all commands via `uv run …` which ensures the virtualenv is up to date and uses the appropriate virtualenv when running the command.
After using poetry and uv I almost never “activate” the virtualenv anymore. Maybe there is a good reason to, though!
btw, this is where I've landed (for now 😂) for my config files: https://github.com/adamghill/dotfiles.

2024-09-22 03:49:05 GMT

Looking at https://github.com/andrewgodwin/django-singlefile from @npub160z…49wu again and the read-only models is a neat idea I didn’t remember from last time.
However, what made me laugh was putting the `singlefile` module under a `django` folder. Like, I would _not_ have thought to do that.
Feels very cheeky. 😆 I like it.

2024-09-22 02:40:22 GMT

I see Mastodon servers for: Ruby, JWM, PHP, Clojure, and Drupal. None for Django (maybe too niche?), but also none for Python (which is a little surprising).
https://masto.host/ seems relatively reasonably priced.
Moderating is the tricky part of hosting a Mastodon server, though, right?

2024-09-19 12:54:21 GMT

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Ironic that Django came about because a company paid the developers to build it.
We just need to go back to our roots! 😆

2024-09-19 12:31:30 GMT

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I think about the Rails vs Laravel vs Django vs NextJS communities a lot. They definitely feel different to me, especially the “willingness to pay” for a high quality library.

2024-09-18 19:30:45 GMT

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yeah, not sure a BDFL is actually required. Consensus-driven development is good, actually! Definitely multiple ways to arrive at the same destination.

2024-09-18 17:59:45 GMT

Take 45 minutes and watch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31pBMi0UdYE launching Flux UI for Laravel.
Who is doing similar work for Django? Who is pushing the DX forward?
Rails has always had a marketing machine behind it because of the creators. Laravel has been building over the past few years.
I, personally, would love if Django inched slightly closer toward that ethos. Django is world-class! I wish more devs knew how awesome it is — that requires better marketing IMO.
More details: https://dev.to/adamghill/django-roadmap-2024-2ocn

2024-09-14 20:25:59 GMT

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“1 million bucks” I think I chose the wrong profession

2024-08-28 13:06:27 GMT

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As he mentions on his podcast, 1 MILLION dollars sounds like a lot (and it is!), but it's taken 5 years to get there. If he didn't quit his job at the beginning and was a senior developer making $200k (which is doable depending on where you work) at a "regular job" he'd end up at the same financial outcome.

2024-08-28 13:02:55 GMT

https://calebporzio.com/i-just-cracked-1-million-on-github-sponsors-heres-my-playbook
#IndieDev #IndieHackers #OSS #OpenSource
https://cdn.masto.host/indiewebsocial/media_attachments/files/113/039/780/804/992/883/original/e7cb46d2fa9ffe7e.png

2024-08-25 13:49:23 GMT

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Oh, I didn't see this part. I just noped out of the logging in to GitHub for Copilot for now. I'll tinker with the AI integrations at some point later.

2024-08-25 13:34:02 GMT

Downloaded https://zed.dev to check it out.
The peak AI-ness marketing spiel on the homepage is like _whatever_, but it _is_ giving Sublime Text a run for its money for the “I need to open up a file real quick and make a few edits" use case. I also enabled vim mode for extra cool points (although that might get disabled real quick).
- `pyright` for #Python static analysis, same as VSCode Pylance
- Configure venv: https://zed.dev/docs/languages/python?highlight=python#virtual-environments
- Ruff integration: https://docs.astral.sh/ruff/editors/setup/#__tabbed_3_1

2024-08-21 11:49:45 GMT

I need to check how https://astral.sh/blog/uv-unified-python-packaging works with https://pypi.org/project/django-unicorn-playground/ now. When I tried it a month or so ago I ran into some snags, but maybe the issues have been smoothed over at this point.
#Python #PEP723 #uv

2024-08-04 15:00:17 GMT

What's the most popular non-Python static site generator?
By which I explicitly mean “what do you think is used the most/has the most installs?”, not what you personally think is the best.
Poll options are based on the number of GitHub stars, but feel free to reply if I'm missing one (Hexo? NextJS?) or if there is a better approach than GitHub stars.
#StaticSite #HTML #CSS #SSG

2024-08-03 02:44:16 GMT

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Pinboard dying a slow death is basically why I built my own. I have literally 0 paying users, but I built it for my own purposes so it’s still useful to me.

2024-07-24 12:08:42 GMT

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Turns out I don't love having a conversation with a textbox.

2024-07-24 12:07:34 GMT

First I went to kagi and searched “three letter English adjectives” and the first click went to a site which gave me some ideas, but was mostly meh.
Then I thought, hey! the robots are smart now, so I went to ChatGPT and entered “what are some good three letter english adjectives” and it... gave me the same list from the earlier search.
Yay, technology!

2024-07-02 11:54:50 GMT

I was listening to a podcast that was referencing recent Twitter drama about frontend frameworks and, once again, I was glad to have completely missed all of it.