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Weeknotes 2022-06-27 June 27, 2022, Jochen Tried to use this new 9€ Ticket for a trip we would normally use a car for and it was possible, but not comfortable :). ...
Weeknotes 2022-07-04
Weeknotes 2022-07-04 July 4, 2022, Jochen Progress on having a landing page where people can create podcasts:
Made cast_registry use postgres instead of sqlite, mainly because ...
Weeknotes 2022-07-11
Weeknotes 2022-07-11 July 11, 2022, Jochen Progress on having a landing page where people can create podcasts/blogs:
Wrote some tests for cast_registry
Fixed some deprecatio...
Django Beginner Series: Setting up Python
Django Beginner Series: Setting up Python July 17, 2022, Jochen Getting Started
Lately, I was asked about how to get started with web development and Python in general. I pointed out some...
Weeknotes 2022-07-18
Weeknotes 2022-07-18 July 18, 2022, Jochen Fought with strange bugs last week, also some work and much outdoor stuff. For example when using Jupyter Notebooks in a Django environment...
Weeknotes 2022-07-25
Weeknotes 2022-07-25 July 25, 2022, Jochen Found a workaround for the fastdeploy / SQLAlchemy / asyncpg / Linux deadlock bug. I now instantiate a new SQLAlchemy engine on every reque...
Weeknotes 2022-08-01
Weeknotes 2022-08-01 Aug. 1, 2022, Jochen For the last two weeks, I was on vacation, so no work. Seems my job is to listen to podcasts because there were significantly fewer episodes...
Weeknotes 2022-08-08
Weeknotes 2022-08-08 Aug. 8, 2022, Jochen Back to work. Picked up my jogging habit after having to stop during covid / vacation and it worked out fine. Made plans to get more in...
Weeknotes 2022-08-15
Weeknotes 2022-08-15 Aug. 15, 2022, Jochen Recorded and produced a new Podcast Episode about Ansible. Had to learn that streaming 48Khz 24bit FLAC audio to AirPods is too much for th...
Weeknotes 2022-08-22
Weeknotes 2022-08-22 Aug. 22, 2022, Jochen On the road holding a Python training course. Didn't do much else.
Bugs
There's an annoying bug making tracebacks unreadable in JupyterLab for m...
Weeknotes 2022-08-29
Weeknotes 2022-08-29 Aug. 29, 2022, Jochen Back to normal work, which is fun, too. Started a mouse delivery side business. The catching part works great and now I'm looking for new custom...
Weeknotes 2022-09-05
Weeknotes 2022-09-05 Sept. 5, 2022, Jochen Got sick with some gastrointestinal infection: Not as bad as covid, but still no recommendation. Got the stable diffusion mo...
Weeknotes 2022-09-12
Weeknotes 2022-09-12 Sept. 12, 2022, Jochen
Just got back home after a long day at the being me factory, and as always, it was a long and arduous shift. -- @AbiShuuwi on Twitter Wor...
Weeknotes 2022-09-19
Weeknotes 2022-09-19 Sept. 19, 2022, Jochen Mostly work, since I was on a business trip to Munich for a few days. Got tickets for next years beyond tellerrand conference, hope t...
Weeknotes 2022-09-26
Weeknotes 2022-09-26 Sept. 26, 2022, Jochen Mainly work, didn't had time to listen to a lot of podcasts this week. Went to a school reunion on the weekend. Slow week.
Articles
How I’m a ...
Weeknotes 2022-10-03
Weeknotes 2022-10-03 Oct. 3, 2022, Jochen Got not much done besides work. Attended a in person meeting of the local Python user group.
Articles
7 things I've learned building a modern...
Weeknotes 2022-10-10
Weeknotes 2022-10-10 Oct. 10, 2022, Jochen Not much interesting stuff going on besides work.
Articles
The Lesson to Unlearn | Well, there's at least one mistake I didn't make
The ...
Weeknotes 2022-10-17
Weeknotes 2022-10-17 Oct. 17, 2022, Jochen No time for side projects, only work.
Articles
"magst du wetter?"
Moving From React to htmx | From the top of that orange site
T...
Weeknotes 2022-10-24
Weeknotes 2022-10-24 Oct. 24, 2022, Jochen Managed to attend the Python Herbst Sprint & Hackathon in Düsseldorf and work on a Django template with an integrated mi...
Weeknotes 2022-10-31
Weeknotes 2022-10-31 Oct. 31, 2022, Jochen Spent quite some time fiddling around with my phone and Computers because of the iOS 16.1 / macOS 13 releases. Notes stopped sync...
Weeknotes 2022-11-07
Weeknotes 2022-11-07 Nov. 7, 2022, Jochen Short work week. Gave me time to indulge in heavy yak shaving. At first, I tried to just make django-cast (the develop branch) work for...
Weeknotes 2022-11-14
Weeknotes 2022-11-14 Nov. 14, 2022, Jochen Lots of stuff to do. Some of the projects I worked on last week:
Homepage
Since last week it's possible to deploy my homepage to ...
TIL: Be careful with your wagtail javascript
TIL: Be careful with your wagtail javascript Nov. 20, 2022, Jochen
Currently I'm busy replacing my home grown content editing solution for my blog software django-cast with Wagtail. I co...
Weeknotes 2022-11-21
Weeknotes 2022-11-21 Nov. 21, 2022, Jochen "Better to sink in boundless deeps, than float on vulgar shoals; and give me, ye gods, an utter wreck, if wreck I do." —Mardi
Lots of stuff ha...
TIL: Setting up a Mastodon Instance
TIL: Setting up a Mastodon Instance Nov. 26, 2022, Jochen This was easier than expected. For the most part, I followed the official "Installing from source" documentation. But there were ...
Weeknotes 2022-11-28
Weeknotes 2022-11-28 Nov. 28, 2022, Jochen Did some cleanup after switching to the new wagtail-based django-cast for my homepage and python-podcast.de. Had to rename the users, backup, an...
Kptncook and Mealie
Kptncook and Mealie Dec. 4, 2022, Jochen Kptncook is a popular app attempting to answer the infamous "What do you want to cook today?" question. The recipes and the design of the app are ...
Weeknotes 2022-12-05
Weeknotes 2022-12-05 Dec. 5, 2022, Jochen my work is terrible, and if *you* like it, well that says more about you than it does about me @carnapping
Worked the whole week with sick kids ...
Weeknotes 2022-12-12
Weeknotes 2022-12-12 Dec. 12, 2022, Jochen Due to personal reasons, I've decided to replace my hair with snakes & turn people who stare at me into stone. @roxiqt@mastodon.social
Had a...
TIL: Change Owner of Postgres Database Objects Using Ansible
TIL: Change Owner of Postgres Database Objects Using Ansible Dec. 12, 2022, Jochen
For my very modest deployment needs, I use ansible. After restoring a postgres database backup using th...