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Miscellaneous things. Mostly Weeknotes and links I stumbled upon.


Weeknotes 2022-12-19

, Jochen
modern js frameworks are only possible in a negative real interest rate environment --htmx.org

Got more stuff done last week - getting better I guess 😀:

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Weeknotes 2022-12-12

, Jochen
Due to personal reasons, I've decided to replace my hair with snakes & turn people who stare at me into stone. @roxiqt@mastodon.social

Had a stressful week due to private turmoil and couldn't get anything done.

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Weeknotes 2022-12-05

, Jochen
my work is terrible, and if *you* like it, well that says more about you than it does about me @carnapping

Worked the whole week with sick kids at home and finally got sick, too. Using the new Wagtail-based django-cast in production revealed lots of little bugs I tried to fix:

  • Fixed the title tag for post detail pages - thanks to Johannes for reporting this
  • Fixed gallery.html images to link to the original image source image (not relevant for this site, but sometimes relatives are trying to print out photos, etc: now they get at least a fair chance to print decent-looking images)
  • Lazy loading for gallery images (the image sizes are not quite right, yet this is just a mitigation)
  • Increased Gunicorn timeout to 10 minutes -> it's now possible to upload big videos
  • Fixed the size of the feed logo for my homepage (the python-podcast logo is inside a javascript blob called subscribe button, I have no idea how to put a size on that)
  • Upgraded from raven to sentry_sdk for my homepage and python-podcast (depleted my sentry transaction immediately, I have no idea why)
  • Fixed traefik config for mastodon: removed the separate config file for streaming
  • Fixed x-forwarded-for logging for Gunicorn for django-template, homepage, and python-podcast.de
  • Updated bootstrap and jquery for my homepage and python-podcast, removed popper
  • Added Plausible to my homepage and python-podcast (my own analytics stuff is still broken, maybe someone fixed this in the meantime by providing a suitable SaaS?)
  • Fixed a small bug in django-cast causing wagtail preview to fail

Merged a PR to my little kptncook command line scraper. More about this in Kptncook and Mealie.

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Fediverse / Indieweb

Seems this should get its own category by now 😎.

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Weeknotes 2022-11-28

, Jochen

Did some cleanup after switching to the new wagtail-based django-cast for my homepage and python-podcast.de. Had to rename the users, backup, and remove the old services. Made sure the new backup is working. Then I deployed a self-hosted Mastodon instance and migrated my user there, which worked out well.

Went to the trivago Tech Get Together event to meet with friends and former co-workers. Had a lot of fun and heard about openpodcast.de - an open platform for podcast analytics, which is an interesting and promising project.

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TIL this week

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Weeknotes 2022-11-21

, Jochen
"Better to sink in boundless deeps, than float on vulgar shoals; and give me, ye gods, an utter wreck, if wreck I do." —Mardi

Lots of stuff happened last week besides work. After we finally found time to meet for some podcasting the week before last week, I finished producing our podcast episode about Python 3.11 😎.

Last week I wondered how long it will take to migrate the content after being able to deploy my new wagtail-based django-cast version. Turns out it didn't take that long, because now both this website and python-podcast.de are running the latest Python/Django/Wagtail combination. Ok, I have to admit it was a lot of work, and I broke some stuff, but now it's done. Finally 🍾! I started this project around 2019, so long ago that I don't even remember exactly when!

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No images this week, I was busy sitting inside staring at computer screens.