OH: “Or, as Randall Munroe once said: «This quote is taken out of context»” --hukl

Normal work week, nothing to see here. Fixed a nasty bug in django-cast. Having a lot of state attached to the feed instance in combination with caching caused posts from blog A to be served to the feed of blog B 🫢. Big thanks to Niklas for reporting this. Johannes also pointed it out and, to add insult to injury, suggested I switch to his static site generator for blogging. If there's any truth to the sunk cost fallacy, it's too late for me now. That ship has sailed. Managed to release an update for django-cast with some additional fixes. Notably, I had to pin “wagtail < 6.1” again because I found out that the audio and video chooser are now broken, and fixing them seems quite challenging.

Over the weekend, I went to watch a kids’ bouldering competition because of reasons.

Articles

• Django / Python
  • Django: Getting a full model instance from a Subquery
  • How Python Asyncio Works: Recreating it from Scratch
  • Django Commons - A home for community-maintained Django packages
  • ✨ What's new in Django 5.1
• CSS
  • contrast-color() is a good thing, but also solving the problem at the wrong layer
  • Why UI designers should understand Flexbox and CSS Grid
  • We’ve Got Container Queries Now, But Are We Actually Using Them?
• Rust's iterators optimize nicely—and contain a footgun
• htmx sucks | 2.0.0 beta 4 got released a few days ago..
• Reclaiming Agility with Simple Principles | Considering the effort invested over the past 20 years, the results of the entire agile movement are quite underwhelming. I’m almost ready to admit that my bet on agile didn’t pay off. On the other hand, my bets on Python and Machine Learning have been wildly successful, so overall, I’m net positive. However, my bets against the cloud and SPAs are still undecided. Let’s wait and see 😇.
• On Fire Drills and Phishing Tests | These phishing tests are nuts. How can you be a serious company with a letter box and tax accountants and then perform obviously crazy shit like this?

Fediverse

• The pencil test | What really creeps me out isn’t that we’re great at imagining non-conscious things as people - that’s just a harmless quirk. It’s that we might be just as mistaken about actual people, and we’re stuck in a cosmic horror plot.
• I brought beer! | Webcomic
• Git cheat sheet by Julia Evans | Oh, this is great. Can't wait for the "How Git Works" article! 🎉

Videos

• I Read The Most Misunderstood Philosopher in the World | Unexpectedly, this was really good!

Software

• eGenix Micro Benchmark
• WezTerm is a powerful cross-platform terminal emulator | I was using iTerm2 for a long time and now running kitty - haven't looked into WezTerm yet, but save it here to remember to try it later 😅

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