This #weeknotes cover Python sentinel values (spoiler: avoid them unless necessary), IndieWeb integration with django-indieweb, and setting up a new M4 Mac Studio for local model testing. Plus: the perils of switching to US keyboard layout.
Websites and blogs of people that attended a Homebrew Website Club Düsseldorf.
Weeknotes 2025-07-28 - Sentinel Values, IndieWeb Updates, and New Hardware
Weeknotes 2025-07-28 - Sentinel Values, IndieWeb Updates, and New Hardware July 28, 2025 Jochen Wersdörfer ...
What Have I Been Listening To Lately - July 2025
What Have I Been Listening To Lately - July 2025
Living the Artist’s Way – How this Book is Transforming my Life
Living the Artist’s Way – How this Book is Transforming my Life
TIL: Managing Editable Dependencies in uv Without Committing Local Paths
TIL: Managing Editable Dependencies in uv Without Committing Local Paths July 27, 2025 Jochen Wersdörfer ...
New blog post: Managing Editable Dependencies in uv 📝
If you're developing multiple Python packages that depend on each other, this might help!
Shows how to:
- Keep editable installs working with uv sync
- Avoid committing local paths to git
- Automate the workflow with pre-commit
🎬 12 Angry Men
Pretty perfect movie, if you ask me. The 12 more or less angry men are all so good. The whole concept of only talking about a murder case after the trial, surfacing ever more details and eliciting more of the jurors characters, was so good. Suspenseful and entertaining. A timeless classic.
🎬 The Blob
This was more high-quality than I expected beforehand. Great story, great acting, great visuals, some good humour, and above all: great special effects. Those kills were really fun and well done. My favourite was the whole action in and around the restaurant. When The Blob gets bigger and bigger towards the end, the effect quality sadly suffers quite a bit, and the end itself lacked a little something. But overall, it's been a very entertaining evening!
Lean into your fear
Lean into your fear
Mutable Defaults in Python: When None Isn't Enough
Mutable Defaults in Python: When None Isn't Enough July 23, 2025, Jochen This post walks through Python's mutable default gotcha and explores modern solutions for when the standard None w...
Why is it that Chrome is the only browser that ignores inputmode="none" on inputs?
I want inputs in freshly opened <dialog> elements to not trigger the soft keyboard right away on (auto)focus, but instead when the user signals that they want to enter something, e.g. by a tap on it.
Safari works ✅
Firefox on Android works ✅
Samsung Internet works ✅
Chrome shows the soft keyboard ❌
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Do I really have to inject a dummy element with tabindex="0" before the first input for it to catch focus?
Interestingly, inputmode="none" seems to work here, when dynamically applied: https://codepen.io/mustaqahmed/full/gOYxLaL
What's going on?
memories from the future
memories from the future
Weeknotes 2025-07-21
Weeknotes 2025-07-21 July 21, 2025, Jochen I guess you've heard some bad jokes about Fibonacci sequences?
Well, this one is as bad as the last two you heard put together.
--Kit Yates
St...
#Weeknotes: django-cast docs ✓ Voice dictation experiments ✓ Data science podcast recorded ✓ (catching up with my 2 week lag posting those)
https://wersdoerfer.de/blogs/ephes_blog/weeknotes-2025-07-21/