As a rule, software systems do not work well until they have been used, and have failed repeatedly, in real applications. — Dave Parnas

Last week working on SSO using django-saml2-auth. Didn't get much done besides work because the kids were sick and we were traveling a lot. Fixed a small bug in the post preview for django-cast. After I heard the latest core.py episode where Łukasz Langa asked if maybe someone could try to update python.org to a newer version of Django, I thought, ok, maybe I'll give it a try. But Jacob already submitted a PR 🚀, so I did a review instead. I also spent some time outside, the cherry trees over here are in bloom 🌸.

Articles

• My binary vector search is better than your FP32 vectors | This is a bit like using a conventional inverted index..
• Fixing a Bug in PyPy's Incremental GC | Cool article 😎
• Talker’s block | Now you know what I'm doing here 😇
• TDD: You're Probably Doing It Just Fine | Yep, no reason to get dogmatic about this
• Every dunder method in Python | nice
• The Django admin is a CMS | Yes and no
• What You Need to Know about Modern CSS (Spring 2024 Edition) | Nice overview!
• xz | Oh dear
  • Technologist vs spy: the xz backdoor debate
  • Everything I Know About the Xz Backdoor

Videos

• Speaking with the Creator of Pandas on the Future of Open Source (Wes McKinney) - KNN Ep. 184 | good interview

Mastodon

• Simon Riggs, Gründer von 2nd Quadrant und PostgreSQL maintainer, starb in einem Flugzeugunglück
• So satisfying... | we tend to assume everything is linear and normally distributed - and sometimes, it is!
• what's your favourite way to simplify your life with git? mostly interested in slightly unusual tricks to reduce the number of git features you're using, like:

Weeknotes

• Weeklog for Week 12: March 18 to March 24 | Johannes

Software

django-singlefile - This is a small library that makes it easier to write single-file Django applications

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