Weeknotes 2023-05-08 May 8, 2023, Jochen "The worst thing that ever happened in software engineering was when Kirk asked Scotty how long something would take and Scotty said thirty minute...
Weeknotes 2023-05-15 May 15, 2023, Jochen "Adam Smith's invisible hand — the idea that free markets lead to efficiency as if guided by unseen forces — is invisible, at least in part, beca...
TIL: Using django-filter Filtersets in Wagtail API v2 May 18, 2023, Jochen For this blog I have a "Filter / Full text search" box at the top. Now I wanted to build a Vue.js theme for the ...
Weeknotes 2023-05-22 May 22, 2023, Jochen "sorry about that, i wasn’t making a strange face because of what you said on the team sync meeting, but because i’ve been watching my own camera...
Weeknotes 2023-05-29 May 29, 2023, Jochen can't wait to quit my day job and start my new landscaping company, Move Fast and Rake Things --Annika Backstrom
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Weeknotes 2023-06-05 June 5, 2023, Jochen "I don't want to be offensive, but there is a very fine line between...
... numerator and denominator.
It's a divisive issue." --Ten
Slowly ...
Weeknotes 2023-06-12 June 12, 2023, Jochen "I was born in 1994"
- boring
- heard it before
- tells you nothing
"I was born in the year of Cotton Eye Joe"
- arouses curiosity
- who was C...
Weeknotes 2023-06-19 June 19, 2023, Jochen Interviewer: do you have an example of projects you spent too much effort on?
Me: I suppose the work on Mambo 1 to 4 was a bit of a waste... --C...
Weeknotes 2023-06-26 June 26, 2023, Jochen Treason doth never prosper, what's the reason? For if it prosper, none dare call it Treason. — John Harrington (1561-1612).
Took a closer look ...
Weeknotes 2023-07-03 July 3, 2023, Jochen I find OOP philosophically unsound. It claims that everything is an object. Even if it is true it is not very interesting — saying that ever...
Weeknotes 2023-07-10 July 10, 2023, Jochen I run my own Mastodon instance because I don't trust random admins to fuck up what I am perfectly capable of fucking up on my own. --moliver
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Weeknotes 2023-07-17 July 17, 2023, Jochen
There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect. --Frank Wilhoit ...
Weeknotes 2023-07-24 July 24, 2023, Jochen People who prefer ketchup over mustard are annoying because as soon as you say you like mustard, they go on and on about how much they hate it. ...
Weeknotes 2023-07-31 July 31, 2023, Jochen Don’t worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you’ll have to ram them down people’s throats. --Howard Aiken
L...
Weeknotes 2023-08-07 Aug. 7, 2023, Jochen Mit so radikalen Aktionen wird das Klima absolut nichts erreichen. --Christoph Dolna-Gruber
The new Wagtail 5.1 release broke the video and aud...
Using staticfiles with STORAGES in Django 4.2 Aug. 10, 2023, Jochen The other day I was trying to improve a management command of django-cast to make it easier to backup media files like ...
Testing Django Management Commands with PyTest Aug. 14, 2023, Jochen The other day I wanted to test some Django management commands for django-cast and found this excellent post by Adam J...
Weeknotes 2023-08-14 Aug. 14, 2023, Jochen Just as most people are not going to stop eating fast food because home cooking is better, they’re not going to abandon social media because blo...
Weeknotes 2023-08-21 Aug. 21, 2023, Jochen We begin in admiration and end by organizing our disappointment. --Gaston Bachelard
Attended a local Django meetup in Cologne and had to learn ...
Weeknotes 2023-08-28 Aug. 28, 2023, Jochen "The first principle is that you must not fool yourself — and you are the easiest person to fool." (Feynman)
Started working on a new project, ...
Weeknotes 2023-09-04 Sept. 4, 2023, Jochen UIs are big, messy, mutable, stateful bags of sadness. --Josh Abernathy
Usual work week. Finally upgraded my Debian boxes from bullseye to boo...
How to Pass a Request Object from Wagtail API to a Page Sept. 9, 2023, Jochen Introduction
When using Wagtail's API to fetch website pages, the APIField class allows you to add custom fie...
Weeknotes 2023-09-11 Sept. 11, 2023, Jochen It was the best of times. It was the worst of terms and conditions. --Nein
At work, setting up Single Sign-On (SSO) via Azure AD for a Django...
Upgrading Postgres Sept. 17, 2023, Jochen I am mainly writing this article to remember how to do this next time 😅 (it is 14 or 15 to 16 here, but it should also work with newer versions t...
Weeknotes 2023-09-18 Sept. 18, 2023, Jochen At work I used htmx and Alpine.js again and I think this is a really powerful combination. I hope the view transition api, which is currently o...
Weeknotes 2023-09-25 Sept. 25, 2023, Jochen Anything worth doing is worth doing badly. — G. K. Chesterton
Worked on frontend stuff again last week. I think my favorite way to combine htm...
Weeknotes 2023-10-02 Oct. 2, 2023, Jochen twitch streamer with 7 viewers: hey guys!! i bought this expensive microphone so you can hear me play minecraft in dolby atmos surround sound
lon...
Weeknotes 2023-10-09 Oct. 9, 2023, Jochen If you remember having to get off the internet because your parents or a sibling wanted to use the phone, now is a good time to schedule a colono...
Weeknotes 2023-10-16 Oct. 16, 2023, Jochen The challenge I'm doing this month is called October and it's where I just try to get through every day of October --Erin McGuire Olson
There'...
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