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There’s nothing quite like tight kerning to make a design look dean and modem. --Chris Shiflett

I didn’t manage to accomplish much this week. I was generally busy but not really making any progress. However, I attended a great local green software meetup, which was solid fun - this talk about sustainable web design for example.

Fediverse

• Something to add to your CSS reset from now on

This week, I released a new version of kptncook that includes a fix for Windows by setting the default encoding to UTF-8. I also attended a meeting of the Django User Group in Cologne and enjoyed a really good talk comparing Django and Laravel.

Today I learned that type annotations in Python, while being valid code, can sometimes lead to unexpected problems. In a Django view, I had the following line:

This line doesn't raise a SyntaxError because the colon is interpreted as part of a type annotation, which is ignored at runtime. As a result, the line effectively becomes just context["form"], which is a no-op but still valid Python code.

It took me some time to figure out why {% if form.field.errors %} used later on was was always false. 🤦‍♂️

Be nice to us folks who wear glasses. We paid money to see you. --BobGolen

I just released a new version of kptncook because my wife's attempt to export her 800+ favorite recipes from kptncook to Paprika broke the process, so I finally had to fix it. Turns out that when you're generating JSON using Jinja2 templates, you need to remove a lot of junk characters if you want to be able to parse them again 😅.

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WHY WAS IT CALLED SINGLE-SIGN ON WHEN SIGN-ON 37 TIMES PER DAY WAS RIGHT THERE --Joe B

I'm rereading Every Layout and practicing some CSS on my own—it’s going well so far. There’s finally a new django-cast release, but I could barely remember how to put it together. Maybe I should just stick to a weekly release schedule.

Fediverse

• #CSS View Transitions during local development for a next-gen vibe | Nice!
• 2000s: "extend Python with C" 2010s: "extend Python with Python" 2020s: "extend Python with Rust" I have many conflicting feelings about this progression… | Interesting 🧵 - this Fediverse thing is really the place to be atm!

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