@beecycling Don't chase your dreams. Humans are persistence predators. Follow your dreams at a moderate pace until they become too exhausted to flee further or fight back. --Athena L.M.

Very short work week. Went to the beyond tellerrand conference and it was as great as always. Fixed two small bugs in django-cast (1, 2), but didn't have time to release a new version. Right now I'm working on a really weird bug found by some unsolicited software testers (thanks!) that only happens on postgres not on sqlite. But when you see a "DataError: PostgreSQL text fields cannot contain NUL (0x00) bytes" caused by some garbage in a filter parameter, something is probably not quite right.

Articles

• Trends in Software Development
  • Learning from the object-oriented mania | Yep
  • Big Data is Dead | Ok, now it's official!
• Frontend
  • Look Mum, No Breakpoints! Have to play around with this
  • Just Speculating: You May Not Need a SPA framework | Ah, htmx has something similar in Javascript, nice to see the browser vendors adopting it
  • Recent CSS Bookmarks 16 | Didn't follow all of the links there, but really interesting!
• Python: Mock an inner import | Cool!
• Zero-to-the-Zero and the Do-Nothing Machine

Weeknotes

• Weeklog for Week 19: May 06 to May 12 | Johannes

Videos

• Safe Space or Trap? Creating Software like DuckDB in Academic Institutions | Great talk. "You know this one weird trick VCs hate? Bootstrapping!" - I think he's 100% right here.

Fediverse

• "What radicalized you?"
• Apple’s new pencil / attention to detail | It casts a shadow 😮?

Software

• blacknoise is an ASGI app for static file serving inspired by whitenoise and following the principles of low maintenance software | Not just static files like whitenoise, but also media