Weeknotes 2023-03-06 March 6, 2023, Jochen CATHOLIC CHURCH: No meat on Fridays
PEOPLE: Ok so no eggs for breakfast
CC: No, eggs are ok
P: But eggs are chicken
CC: Not until they hatch
P: ...
Weeknotes 2023-03-13 March 13, 2023, Jochen Whenever someone at work tries to make you do something hard, simply because "you did it last time", remember that Elrond had been to Mount Doo...
Weeknotes 2023-03-20 March 20, 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 camer...
Weeknotes 2023-03-27 March 27, 2023, Jochen we saved daylight but at what cost --K
Much less work last week, but I still had a lot of paperwork to do. Worked on htmx integration for dj...
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Weeknotes 2023-04-03 April 3, 2023, Jochen if my editor reads this: everything’s totally fine --Ethan Marcotte
Not much work, but a fair share of paperwork, and finally traveled to Erl...
Weeknotes 2023-04-10 April 10, 2023, Jochen "for legal reasons this is a joke" --julia, serial project starter
Lots of colored eggs. Short work week where I was collecting some materia...
TIL: Validating Wagtail Page Fields Only Upon Publishing April 11, 2023, Jochen Recently, I encountered an issue when publishing a podcast episode about LLMs using django-cast. The episod...
Weeknotes 2023-04-17 April 17, 2023, Jochen I use keming as an adjective to describe bad kerning --Xe
Worked a little bit on the upcoming pytest-course. My wife made a website for Thom...
While preparing a screencast with Manuel, we searched for real-time collaboration tools for Jupyter notebooks. JetBrains' "Code With Me" proved unsuitable, displaying only raw JSON. Here are two practical alternatives:
Weeknotes 2023-04-24 April 24, 2023, Jochen Me, walking up to the front desk of the hotel: I have a weird question
Clerk: there are no weird questions
Me: I have an NFC chip implanted in ...
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...
