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Weeknotes 2023-08-28

, Jochen

"The first principle is that you must not fool yourself — and you are the easiest person to fool." (Feynman)


Started working on a new project, which is always exciting. Refactored django-cast filters.py -> it's almost readable now 😆. Facet counts are now available via the API, so cast-vue got an update showing filters for categories and tags.

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Weeknotes 2023-08-21

, Jochen

We begin in admiration and end by organizing our disappointment. --Gaston Bachelard


Attended a local Django meetup in Cologne and had to learn that the one in Cologne is unfortunately the last active Django meetup in Germany 😢. The topic was django CMS which I knew nothing about, and I was surprised how similar it is to Wagtail which I use a lot.

Added a categories/tags feature (beta) to django-cast, which I postponed because I was afraid that messing with the faceted navigation code in filters.py (based on django-filter) would be hard. It turned out to be as hard as I expected, but now it's done 😅.

On Saturday we went hiking in the Neandertal 🥾, because that's where I live. And we managed to leave it the way you want to find it: as a fascinating puzzle for archaeologists. We did this by throwing a baby carriage (without the baby) into the Düssel (the river that formed the valley).

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Weeknotes 2023-08-14

, Jochen
Just as most people are not going to stop eating fast food because home cooking is better, they’re not going to abandon social media because blogging is awesome. But that doesn’t mean you have to line up for a Big Mac. And it doesn’t mean your internet experience has to suck --Mike Grindle

Normal working week. Improved media file backup for django-cast (#99) and wrote a TIL blog post about how to test Django management commands with pytest. Attended a rust meetup for the first time and am now looking for a use case for rust as it seems to be really cool (I learned static typing via Java and got burned, but static typing in rust is much better - might be time to revisit that).

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Weeknotes 2023-08-07

, Jochen
Mit so radikalen Aktionen wird das Klima absolut nichts erreichen. --Christoph Dolna-Gruber

The new Wagtail 5.1 release broke the video and audio choosers in django-cast so there's a new release 0.2.17 that fixes that. While I was at it, I also added some more documentation for the video and audio features. Lots of distractions this week with school and kindergarten stuff, but hopefully things will pick up soon 😅.

Last week I picked up a musical instrument for the first time in over two years. I hadn't been able to play before because I just didn't have the time. Now I'm thinking about getting back into the habit.

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