Weeknotes 2024-05-06 May 6, 2024, Jochen Journalism is making the same mistake with AI that they made with bloggers. They jumped to the incorrect conclusion that we were trying to do what...
Weeknotes 2024-05-13 May 13, 2024, Jochen Everyone seems to be obsessed with passive income but I’m set on passive-aggressive income, so you should probably pay me back if you care even t...
Weeknotes 2024-05-20 May 20, 2024, Jochen
@beecycling Don't chase your dreams. Humans are persistence predators. Follow your dreams at a moderate pace until they become too exhausted to ...
Weeknotes 2024-05-27 May 27, 2024, Jochen 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 ...
Weeknotes 2024-06-03 June 3, 2024, Jochen A bad metaphor is like a wet carrot --donni saphire
Short work week. Didn't get anything done besides work because I was sick more than half of ...
Weeknotes 2024-06-10 June 10, 2024, Jochen If you want to do good, make sure the people who tell you you're doing good are actually good. --Chris McDonough
It was a busy work week, leavi...
Weeknotes 2024-06-17 June 17, 2024, Jochen oh: neurotypicals should really learn to mask better. I know you want to talk about the weather but please just pretend you have a favorite liza...
I frequently copy titles from websites to use as anchor texts for links. However, these titles are often in all caps, and I don’t want to seem like I’m shouting. Previously, I would paste the all-caps title into a Python REPL, convert it to lowercase, and then manually capitalize the necessary words to make it look like a proper title. But today, I discovered a much simpler built-in solution:
>>>print("THIS IS A LOUD TITLE".title())'This Is A Loud Title'
Weeknotes 2024-06-24 June 24, 2024, Jochen I really hate these new "Dyson Airblade" urinals --Souvlaki Space Station
Still battling this stomach bug. Managed to get some work done but d...
Unwrapping functools.wraps: How to Remove Decorators from a Python Function June 26, 2024, Jochen Sometimes, you need to call a Python function without its decorators. I encountered this ...
Weeknotes 2024-07-01 July 1, 2024, Jochen
ACARS Message From: C-FWJS/WS0456
Message: HI. I JUST ACCIDENTLY CLEARED AN ACARS MESSAGE BEFORE WE COULD READ IT. DO YOU KNOW WHAT IT WAS ABOUT...
Weeknotes 2024-07-08 July 8, 2024, Jochen ZIZEK: that AI will be the death of learning & so on; to this, I say NO! My student brings me their essay, which has been written by AI, &...
Weeknotes 2024-07-15 July 15, 2024, Jochen
somehow instead of saying “as a treat”, I’ve started using the phrase “for morale”, as if my body is a ship and its crew, and I (the captain) h...
Implementing Single Sign-On (SSO) with SAML for a Django Application July 19, 2024, Jochen Introduction
Adding SSO via SAML to a Django application can be a complex process. When I first ...
Weeknotes 2024-07-22 July 22, 2024, Jochen I think we all learned a valuable lesson from this: Never ship. --Tyler Hillsman
With vacation just around the corner, work has been pretty li...
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