Weeknotes 2022-12-05

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.

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 😇