~ephes

Whenever someone at work tries to make you do something hard, simply because "you did it last time", remember that Elrond had been to Mount Doom before.

Sometimes you need to make the hobbits do the work so they stop seeing it as a zero-cost action. --John Bull

Covid has returned for a second round. Considering the amount of work to do, I hope it will be mild this time. We already had to cancel two podcast appointments because of sickness, so no podcast episode this month.

But I'm pleased about the progress achieved on django-cast last week. It's now possible to switch between themes using the wagtail admin (for the complete site or a single blog). You can also add your own bunch of theme templates in a new directory and select it in the admin. At the moment this only works with Django template loaders that are filesystem based. I also fixed a little bug causing a broken backlink when you commented on a post without Javascript (wagtail pages do not implement get_absolute_url by default).

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CATHOLIC CHURCH: No meat on Fridays

PEOPLE: Ok so no eggs for breakfast

CC: No, eggs are ok

P: But eggs are chicken

CC: Not until they hatch

P: So the thing isn't the thing until it's born?

CC: Correct—um, no, wait. --Sean Kelly

Lots of work. Didn't have time to do much else. At least the weather is getting better.

Released django-cast 0.2.7 with:

• New API endpoints for pages and images
• A noindex option for excluding a blog and all posts from search engines
• Some small bug fixes

Video

• A Critique of Realism | Impressive analysis
• tony ann - iPhone alarm as a piano ballad

Podcasts

• Folge 153 - Domain-driven Design - nur vernünftige Software-Entwicklung? (Software Architektur im Stream) | Yes, good episode - need to ask those questions more often in projects:
  • Has the code to be reusable?
  • Will it be subject to a lot of changes?
• HB #07 - mit Jochen Lillich von freistil.it (Happy Bootstrapping!) | Enjoyed hearing from two ex-colleagues again, cool episode
• Klimakrise und „Bewusstseinskultur“ – In Würde scheitern? (Sein und Streit)
• Was kann zwischen Philosophie und Meditation entstehen? (WDR 5 Das philosophische Radio) | A little bit of a downer but well presented 😅
• Dev Environments - Calvin Hendryx-Parker (Django Chat) | Ok, I have my doubts about all this docker and k8s craze but lots of interesting pointers, too
• #23: Season Finale (TOPP: The Open Podcast Podcast) | Cool project, hope it will proceed to provide interesting results. And I couldn't agree more: It takes a lot of time to gain knowledge about a new domain (more than a few months, probably).
• Revision 558: Per dualer Ausbildung oder dualem Studium in den IT-Beruf (Working Draft) | Lots of interesting facts in this episode. Didn't know for example that "Fachinformatiker" is the second most popular apprenticeship in .de - but I'm still wondering where all those people end up working since I can't remember seeing many of them around.
• Clean Code in Python (Talk Python To Me) | Meh.
• Sprache - Unfaire Rhetorik erkennen und vermeiden (Hörsaal)
• The Greatest Myth About Learning (Build for Tomorrow) | Never believed this learning types stuff

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"Maintaining a successful open source project is Good Will Hunting in reverse. You start out as a respected genius, and end up being a janitor who gets into fights." — Byrne Hobart (@ByrneHobart@twitter.com)

Good progress on work-related stuff. Didn't have much luck with my own projects this week. I tried to lower the number of database queries django-cast has to do to show the list of all posts for a blog, but it went nowhere. Then I spent way too much time trying to add a pages endpoint to the django-cast API. At least I found out how to integrate a Wagtail API into a local namespace. And finally, there was this cool PR from Dorthe Luebbert I got to merge adding Paprika-Export-Support for kptncook 🎉.

Last Thursday, I had a chaotic neutral encounter at a print shop. As I was getting some documents printed, I noticed a struggling man trying to navigate his iPad. Being the good Samaritan that I am, I offered to help by connecting his device to my phone. But little did I know, I was about to embark on a wild ride of confusion and identity crisis. The man turned out to be none other than Jochen Busse, and as fate would have it, he had also named his phone "Jochens iPhone" just like I had. I couldn't believe it - a Jochen convention right in the middle of the print shop! And to add insult to injury, I now have to change my phone name because apparently, I'm just a regular Jochen. (credits to chatGPT for making this paragraph more "accentuated" 😅).

Articles

• My favourite 3 lines of CSS | Need to learn more HTML and CSS 🤓
  • Learn HTML | Yes
  • Learn CSS | OK, got it
• Building a lightbox with the Dialog element | I'll have to redo the modal image stuff to show galleries in django-cast soon, this might be a starting point
• devdata - Improving developer velocity and experience | How to generate data for your development environments in Django
• Safari 16.4 Is An Admission | PWAs for iOS getting more interesting

“Raw data is both an oxymoron and a bad idea; to the contrary, data should be cooked with care.”—Geoffrey Bowker

Work, carnival, and some progress on my side projects. Finally managed to try out the cool new openpodcast stack for podcast analytics. Hmm, first I have to find a way to get it to work with postgres instead of MySQL. Looking forward to shooting some pictures again, since I forgot the charging cable for my camera two months ago and now got it back 📸.

django-cast release 0.2.6:

• Got codecov.io to show 100% coverage (fixed the GitHub action submitting the coverage results)
• The release of django-crispy-forms broke tests and comments and stuff -> I was able to fix it after reading the migration guide
• Documentation for Pagination

homepage / python-podcast:

• Tuned down traces/performance metrics for sentry
• Fixed date facets breaking out of the form-control container for python-podcast.de

kptncook:

• Worked a little bit on a cool PR adding Paprika export for kptncook by Dorthe Luebbert

Articles

• Data Classification | Hmmm
• Science and Technology links (February 12 2023)
• ChatGPT provides solid entertainment
  • Bing: “I will not harm you unless you harm me first” | It's also fascinating that this whole thing is still amusing, but it is 🍿
  • What Is ChatGPT Doing … and Why Does It Work? | Longish but profound explanation
• Modern Javascript doing just great
  • The balance has shifted away from SPAs | I'm not sure about even the omnipresent chat or audio/video player. Might be possible with htmx and fragment rendering. Have to try it...
  • The (extremely) loud minority | Boring tech might be more widely used than expected
  • Rethinking the Modern Web
  • The case for Flex applications
  • Why I'm not the biggest fan of Single Page Applications
  • What to expect from your framework
  • The modern web’s underrated powerhouse

The logic of the world is prior to all truth and falsehood. —Ludwig Wittgenstein

Been sick for the umpteenth time this winter. Tried to do some chores on django-cast to pass the time:

• The test coverage is now at 100% (failed to configure codecov.io to report the right number..)
• Nearly complete type annotations, which created a bug in production (failing isinstance call which got necessary to make mypy pass)
• Wagtail 4.2 compatibility, which led to this bug report
• Fixed the pagination feature

Updated my self-hosted mastodon instance to 4.1, which was just a redeploy - smooth.

Video

• Alles ist Eins. Außer der 0 - Dr. Waus Chaos Computer Film | Surprisingly good