Weeknotes 2023-02-13

Feb. 13, 2023

The logic of the world is prior to all truth and falsehood. —Ludwig Wittgenstein

Been sick for the umpteenth time this winter. Tried to do some chores on django-cast to pass the time:

The test coverage is now at 100% (failed to configure codecov.io to report the right number..)
Nearly complete type annotations, which created a bug in production (failing isinstance call which got necessary to make mypy pass)
Wagtail 4.2 compatibility, which led to this bug report
Fixed the pagination feature

Updated my self-hosted mastodon instance to 4.1, which was just a redeploy - smooth.

Articles

Python’s “Disappointing” Superpowers

tldr - have to do some "dynamic meta-programming" by myself 😆
The Django Developer’s Guide To Vite

Of all things javascript I used, vite was one of the "only minor" PITA libs
A historical reference of react criticism

Good article
100 Days Of More Or Less Modern CSS
Use TOML for `.env` files?
Big data is dead

Yep, it's not big, grande, or venti - it is just undead data most of the time...
Bit Hacking (with Go code)
Late initialization with mypy

This is a problem I had this week, too. And I used isinstance instead of hasattr and it caused a bug in production. And I added this just to be able to have type annotations. Bah.
Journalism is Lossy Compression

I'm not a big fan of journalism either

Mypy 1.0 Released

And it's faster 🥳
SiYuan

An obsidian alternative
slippers

Build reusable components in Django without writing a single line of Python