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.

Articles

• Git Notes: Git's Coolest, Most Unloved­ Feature | it would be great to have all the relevant information directly in the repository. what happens to the history of a project when GitHub goes away? We should plan for that.
• Thoughts on my first machine learning project | One of the creators of Django in ML land 😁- insightful
• Energieflussdiagramm für Deutschland 2020 | I’m sure there’s a lot of valuable information, but the UI makes it hard to find
• A quote from Will Larson | hint: do whatever works for you
• An Interactive Guide to Flexbox
• Prioritizing Pragmatic Performance for Dask | Most data processing is IO bound, don't loop in Python, it's not the GIL
• The Essential Django Deployment Guide | It's hard to find useful information about this topic out there. This article is long but unclear in the details (whitenoise won't serve your media files). Personally, I would go with real servers (not virtual, no docker, etc) and a bunch of ansible playbooks.
• Python Type Hints: case study on parsy | Good article. It's far from clear to me whether the trade-offs involved justify the effort. It probably depends.

Fediverse / Indieweb

Seems this should get its own category by now 😎.

• Scaling Mastodon: The Compendium | I really like the attitude here
• Scaling the Mastodon | Article by Leah, one of the admins of chaos.social
• The fediverse and the indieweb
• moving to the fediverse and indieweb
• Fediverse
• Mastodon
• The IndieWeb for Everyone

Twitter / Mastodon

• In 1951, Adelbert Ames created the mind-boggling ‘Ames Window’. It’s so effective that even when you know how it works you can’t break the illusion [video from The Curiosity Show: https://buff.ly/36DvRNs]
• I am impressed. | chat.openai.com writing a poem
• OK it's hard to over-emphasize quite how much fun this new OpenAI chat Interface is
• So, a horse walks into a bar and orders a pint. The barkeep says, "You're in here pretty often lately. Do you think you might be an alcoholic?" The horse replies, "I don't think I am," and then vanishes from existence. You see, the joke is really about Descartes' famous quote, "I think; therefore, I am." but if I had explained this before the joke, I would've been putting Descartes before the horse. ... I'll show myself out now.
• OK so @OpenAI 's new #ChatGPT can basically just generate #AIart prompts. I asked a one-line question, and typed the answers verbatim straight into MidJourney and boom. Times are getting weird...🤯
• You can add a “Mastodon” link in your project_urls now and it will get the Mastodon icon on PyPI 😇

Software

• Movetodon: Find your Twitter Followers on Mastodon
• django-syzygy - Django application providing database migration tooling to automate their deployment
• SeaweedFS | like min.io but easier to extend, but maybe not as compatible to s3

Podcasts

• Butter CMS - Jake Lumetta (Django Chat) | Ranting about WordPress is always appreciated 😆
• Kunstgeschichte - Von Kunst, guter Form und schlechtem Geschmack (Hörsaal)
• Folge 2: Über die spätmoderne Gesellschaft sprechen (Andreas Reckwitz im Gespräch: Die Gesellschaft der Singularitäten)
• #341 – Guido van Rossum: Python and the Future of Programming (Lex Fridman Podcast)
• WR1431 Zeitenwende bei den Wirtschaftsweisen (Wirtschaftskunde)
• Folge 3: Die Ökonomie der Singularitäten (Andreas Reckwitz im Gespräch: Die Gesellschaft der Singularitäten)
• Folge 4: Der Wandel der Arbeitswelt (Andreas Reckwitz im Gespräch: Die Gesellschaft der Singularitäten)
• Folge 5: Digitalisierung als Singularisierung (Andreas Reckwitz im Gespräch: Die Gesellschaft der Singularitäten)
• Folge 6: Der Wandel der Sozialstruktur (Andreas Reckwitz im Gespräch: Die Gesellschaft der Singularitäten)