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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

I am wondering what should be the color of this bikeshed? --@kushal

The usual work and usual chores. Nothing interesting here.

Finally tried out Obsidian - wow, this is a deep rabbit hole. Syncing also works with iCloud folders between iOS and macOS. It's not great but sufficient for my needs (sharing links with the daily note).

Split the blog and podcast model and released a new django-cast version.