CATHOLIC CHURCH: No meat on Fridays

PEOPLE: Ok so no eggs for breakfast

CC: No, eggs are ok

P: But eggs are chicken

CC: Not until they hatch

P: So the thing isn't the thing until it's born?

CC: Correct—um, no, wait. --Sean Kelly

Lots of work. Didn't have time to do much else. At least the weather is getting better.

Released django-cast 0.2.7 with:

• New API endpoints for pages and images
• A noindex option for excluding a blog and all posts from search engines
• Some small bug fixes

Articles

• ER Diagrams with SQL and Mermaid | Interesting approach but I couldn't get it to work with the mermaid live frontend - my notebook just got warm and I decided to kill the browser tab after a few minutes - maybe I used a database with too many tables...
• pandas 2.0 and the Arrow revolution (part I) | Apache Arrow as a backend for pandas 2.0
• The Great Gaslighting of the JavaScript Era | Well, yes.
• The case for frameworks | Have to add some pro SPA pieces just for the balance (I think the article is wrong and not very clever)
• Build things that work, even when parts of it break | Some cool ideas for progressive enhancement
• Django: How to profile and improve startup time | Pretty deep dive 😅

Video

• A Critique of Realism | Impressive analysis
• tony ann - iPhone alarm as a piano ballad

Mastodon / Twitter

• Manuel showing a short video using copilot for programming
• A fun sequence of ChatGPT prompts. I won't provide the output, just the prompts..

Software

• ControlNet - Official implementation of Adding Conditional Control to Text-to-Image Diffusion Models.
• FFmpeg 6.0 release notes
• QuickMacHotKey | Global hotkeys for macOS using Python

Podcasts

• Folge 153 - Domain-driven Design - nur vernünftige Software-Entwicklung? (Software Architektur im Stream) | Yes, good episode - need to ask those questions more often in projects:
  • Has the code to be reusable?
  • Will it be subject to a lot of changes?
• HB #07 - mit Jochen Lillich von freistil.it (Happy Bootstrapping!) | Enjoyed hearing from two ex-colleagues again, cool episode
• Klimakrise und „Bewusstseinskultur“ – In Würde scheitern? (Sein und Streit)
• Was kann zwischen Philosophie und Meditation entstehen? (WDR 5 Das philosophische Radio) | A little bit of a downer but well presented 😅
• Dev Environments - Calvin Hendryx-Parker (Django Chat) | Ok, I have my doubts about all this docker and k8s craze but lots of interesting pointers, too
• #23: Season Finale (TOPP: The Open Podcast Podcast) | Cool project, hope it will proceed to provide interesting results. And I couldn't agree more: It takes a lot of time to gain knowledge about a new domain (more than a few months, probably).
• Revision 558: Per dualer Ausbildung oder dualem Studium in den IT-Beruf (Working Draft) | Lots of interesting facts in this episode. Didn't know for example that "Fachinformatiker" is the second most popular apprenticeship in .de - but I'm still wondering where all those people end up working since I can't remember seeing many of them around.
• Clean Code in Python (Talk Python To Me) | Meh.
• Sprache - Unfaire Rhetorik erkennen und vermeiden (Hörsaal)
• The Greatest Myth About Learning (Build for Tomorrow) | Never believed this learning types stuff

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