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Miscellaneous things. Mostly Weeknotes and links I stumbled upon.

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Weeknotes 2025-03-17

, Jochen
This Is Just To Say

I have shaved
the yak
that was in
the icebox

and which
you were probably
planning
to shave yourself

Forgive me
it was so tempting
so rough
and so hairy
--Rob Ricci


I didn't get much done on my open source projects last week. I'm considering reusing the Auphonic transcript editor for the transcript detail page. I've been thinking about how to handle transcripts with speaker annotations, but that's going to take at least another week of work. I spent a lot of time outdoors though, so I don't regret it.

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Weeknotes 2025-03-10

, Jochen
On behalf of the United Kingdom, I would like to welcome the United States of America into the select club of countries that have voted to impose economic sanctions on themselves. --David Chisnall

Carnival is finally over and the weather's improving! I just released an update to django-cast where transcript models for the feed are now retrieved through a repository, and the feed is primarily generated from cacheable data. This turned out to be more challenging than I expected.

There are still four queries I haven't been able to eliminate yet: one because caching the site object is difficult, two because podcasts have additional fields compared to blogs that prevent me from using the cached blog object, and one query that fetches a post model for reasons I can't figure out. For now, I'm satisfied with the progress - eliminating those remaining queries isn't worth the effort at this point. I might work on transcript detail pages next week.

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Weeknotes 2025-03-03

, Jochen
just putting this out there but: the technology has emerged. it is no longer "emerging technology." the technology is now a seeping ooze --allison

I managed to avoid going overboard with carnival festivities. Finally published the podcast episode about Auphonic that had been sitting in the queue for over two months. I'm hoping to prevent such long delays going forward. I had planned to release a new django-cast update with properly cacheable transcript data, but it turned out to be more challenging than anticipated - hopefully I can get to it next week.

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  • framework | Nice, but maybe I'm waiting a bit for the new mac studios?

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