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Miscellaneous things. Mostly Weeknotes and links I stumbled upon.


Weeknotes 2024-10-28

, Jochen
From Facebook .....
I just learned the professional way to say "I told you so":
"This was identified early on as a likely outcome." --Christos Argyropoulos MD, PhD

Last week, I wrote a lot of Playwright end-to-end tests, and I really appreciate how easy it is these days to copy a snippet of HTML from a website and simply ask an LLM, 'How do I click the submit button?' or 'How can I select option "x" with Playwright?' It quickly generates a working line of code that I can drop straight into my test.

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Weeknotes 2024-10-21

, Jochen
ACAB includes Paw Patrol. --Prof Kemi FG

I attended the local Django Meetup in Cologne and listened to an interesting talk about Hyperview, which is based on React Native. It's probably more of an early adopter thing at the moment, but the idea is really intriguing.

I published a podcast episode about arrays and sequences , which had probably the longest gap between recording and publishing we've ever had—but I just wasn't able to do it earlier. We revisit the first chapters of Fluent Python because, why not? This book is really good.

On the infrastructure side, I updated all my databases to PostgreSQL 17 and found my old post about upgrading PostgreSQL still helpful. I'm also using uv now in production deployments, and it works really great. This uv thing looks like it will simplify a lot of workflows for me—yay for that!

Then I attended SUBSCRIBE 11, a podcasting-related conference. The conference was great, the weather was superb, and I talked to a lot of people about podcast publishing software. I even accidentally held a workshop about pods-blitz, a great new podcast publishing software written in Rust by Ulrich Dürholz. Here's a cool list of all the podcasts whose hosts attended.

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Weeknotes 2024-10-14

, Jochen
"To whom it may concern"
- vague
- weak
- ignorable
"To whom it will concern"
- ominous
- strong
- alarming
--Aelfred the Great

Released a new version of django-cast with support for Python 3.13, which was just released last week. Made some progress on my frontend-heavy side project using htmx (still not published). Otherwise, it was a fairly typical work week.

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Weeknotes 2024-10-07

, Jochen
hey sorry I missed your text, I am processing a non-stop 24/7 onslaught of information with a brain designed to eat berries in a cave --Janel Comeau

I spent some time outdoors and noticed mushrooms growing everywhere—so cool! I have also been working on an upcoming project that should be easily extensible with plugins. Lets see how that works out.

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Weeknotes 2024-09-30

, Jochen
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.

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