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Weeknotes 2023-04-24

, Jochen
Me, walking up to the front desk of the hotel: I have a weird question
Clerk: there are no weird questions
Me: I have an NFC chip implanted in my hand, and I was wondering whether you'd be willing to enroll it as a new key for my room
Clerk: you want me to do what?? I need to see this. What room?
Didn't even ask for ID.--Quinn Wilton
Btconf via midjourney


This past week was quite eventful 😅. On Monday morning, I had an emergency dental appointment due to a broken tooth crown 😬. Following that, I attended the Beyond Tellerrand conference on Monday and Tuesday, which proved to be an excellent experience filled with inspiring talks and engaging conversations with fellow attendees. A special shoutout and warm greetings to the hosts of the WWSIV podcast 🎙️!

Throughout the week, I attempted to make django-cast compatible with the upcoming Wagtail 5 release, but faced challenges mainly due to the usage of modules from 'wagtail.core' in migrations 🐛 and the removal of 'image_node.filter_spec' attribute. Additionally, I had to resolve an issue with old comments being invisible on python-podcast.de as a result of the migration to Wagtail and changes to the Django episode model's primary keys 🔧 - thanks to Norbert for the heads up. Unfortunately, there was no django-cast release this week 😞.

In my spare time, I delved into my new LLM hobby by starting to read the "Natural Language Processing with Transformers" book 📚. On Friday morning, I attended a Creative Mornings talk discussing ChatGPT and midjourney, though it didn't present much new information for me 🤷‍♀️ but the room was packed and there seems to be a lot of buzz around this topic. Later that day, I attempted to record a screencast with Manuel about the "nlp with transformers"-book and some LLM implementation stuff, but we faced technical difficulties with real-time collaboration on Jupyter notebooks. I subsequently wrote a TIL post about the experience, hoping that for our next screencast, it will work better 🤞.

Lastly, I managed to take some time and enjoy the outdoors – very good! 🌳

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Weeknotes 2023-04-17

, Jochen
I use keming as an adjective to describe bad kerning --Xe

Worked a little bit on the upcoming pytest-course. My wife made a website for Thomy Saurk which was going live last week. Then there was a new django-cast release. It provides some fixes for the podcast_audio field (if it's not set there's no twitter-card and the episode is not showing up in the feed) and it's now possible to add custom templates for error views (for 404, 500, 403 etc HTTP status codes) if you create a theme for django-cast.

And after two or three years of using PyCharm or vs code for writing Python almost exclusively, I started to use vim and neovim again and spent already a significant amount of time on their configuration 😅. But I missed using vim for sure.

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Weeknotes 2023-04-10

, Jochen
"for legal reasons this is a joke" --julia, serial project starter

Lots of colored eggs. Short work week where I was collecting some material for an upcoming pytest-course and did some research about this whole shiny new LLM field which is completely wild atm. Recorded a podcast episode about LLMs. Released a new django-cast version with some minor improvements. Fixed a 500 error on this site caused by the csrf-middleware raising an error and context-processors weren't run so the custom error template didn't get its base template (this needs more fixing).

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Weeknotes 2023-04-03

, Jochen
if my editor reads this: everything’s totally fine --Ethan Marcotte

Not much work, but a fair share of paperwork, and finally traveled to Erlangen. New django-cast-release and applied with django-cast to the prototype fund🤞. Downloaded the LLaMA weights, and hope to find some time to play around with LLMs locally next week.

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