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Weeknotes 2024-05-27

, Jochen
OH: “Or, as Randall Munroe once said: «This quote is taken out of context»” --hukl

Normal work week, nothing to see here. Fixed a nasty bug in django-cast. Having a lot of state attached to the feed instance in combination with caching caused posts from blog A to be served to the feed of blog B 🫢. Big thanks to Niklas for reporting this. Johannes also pointed it out and, to add insult to injury, suggested I switch to his static site generator for blogging. If there's any truth to the sunk cost fallacy, it's too late for me now. That ship has sailed. Managed to release an update for django-cast with some additional fixes. Notably, I had to pin “wagtail < 6.1” again because I found out that the audio and video chooser are now broken, and fixing them seems quite challenging.

Over the weekend, I went to watch a kids’ bouldering competition because of reasons.

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  • The pencil test | What really creeps me out isn’t that we’re great at imagining non-conscious things as people - that’s just a harmless quirk. It’s that we might be just as mistaken about actual people, and we’re stuck in a cosmic horror plot.
  • I brought beer! | Webcomic
  • Git cheat sheet by Julia Evans | Oh, this is great. Can't wait for the "How Git Works" article! 🎉

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Weeknotes 2024-05-20

, Jochen
@beecycling Don't chase your dreams. Humans are persistence predators. Follow your dreams at a moderate pace until they become too exhausted to flee further or fight back. --Athena L.M.

Very short work week. Went to the beyond tellerrand conference and it was as great as always. Fixed two small bugs in django-cast (1, 2), but didn't have time to release a new version. Right now I'm working on a really weird bug found by some unsolicited software testers (thanks!) that only happens on postgres not on sqlite. But when you see a "DataError: PostgreSQL text fields cannot contain NUL (0x00) bytes" caused by some garbage in a filter parameter, something is probably not quite right.

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Weeknotes 2024-05-13

, Jochen
Everyone seems to be obsessed with passive income but I’m set on passive-aggressive income, so you should probably pay me back if you care even the slightest amount about our friendship and how much I thought it meant to you. --Alice McFlurry

Short work week. Normally, I just sport a Neandertal look at work, but last week I decided to go full method-acting by working directly from the actual Neandertal!

Released a new version of django-cast that introduces cover images for posts. For podcasts, the iTunes artwork is used as a fallback. There are also some bugfixes and documentation improvements.

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  • Self-Hosted Open Source - Michael Kennedy | Yep, the vibe is mostly right. Personally I go a step further and ditch Docker as well (Michael made the argument that using Docker increases security somehow, which is false, of course ).

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Weeknotes 2024-05-06

, Jochen
Journalism is making the same mistake with AI that they made with bloggers. They jumped to the incorrect conclusion that we were trying to do what they do. --Dave Winer

Made some solid progress on django-cast. It now has support for Podlove Web Player version 5. Although it still works, version 4 is no longer officially supported. I wanted to switch to version 5 for a long time, mainly because I see it as a prerequisite for adding a transcripts feature. What is also possible now is to heavily customize the appearance of the audio player. For example, if you go to my Python Podcast site, click on the little 'B' in the menu bar, and then select the 'Python Podcast' theme, you get a completely different looking player. This is also important because it might be possible to have a good looking podcast template (yes, I'm finally working on one).

And then there's support for the new Wagtail 6.1 release. All I had to do was to implement the new expand_db_attributes_many method in my custom PageLinkHandler to avoid database queries.

It's really warm in the great outdoors, so I spent some time there. And I enjoyed watching a ballet performance at the nearby opera house.

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