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
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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'...
Weeknotes 2023-10-23 Oct. 23, 2023, Jochen Open source AI models will soon become unbeatable. Period. --Yann LeCun
Home improvement is still going strong. Painting furniture is more tim...
Weeknotes 2023-10-30 Oct. 30, 2023, Jochen The adjective for metal is metallic.
Not so for iron, which is ironic. --Dgar
Peak Home Improvement! Got sick with a nasty virus, glad it did...
Weeknotes 2023-11-06 Nov. 6, 2023, Jochen The B in Benoit B. Mandelbrot stands for Benoit B. Mandelbrot. Steve Lord
Home Improvement almost done 😅. Short work week, but didn't get much ...
Weeknotes 2023-11-13 Nov. 13, 2023, Jochen I’m really into writing short fiction, mainly to-do lists. --Emma Willmann
Normal work week. Started looking into this whole responsive images...
Weeknotes 2023-11-20 Nov. 20, 2023, Jochen Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves. --Carl Jung
Normal work week. Didn't have much time f...
Weeknotes 2023-11-27 Nov. 27, 2023, Jochen When you lock the laboratory door, you always lock out more than you lock in. --John Wheeler
I had an interesting work week as I spent two days...
Weeknotes 2023-12-04 Dec. 4, 2023, Jochen It’s really a shame how Cyber Monday has become so commercialized. --Max Leibman
Christmas season is heating up. Work went well, no issues ther...
Weeknotes 2023-12-11 Dec. 11, 2023, Jochen
god: i have made a Single page webapp
angels: you fucked up a perfectly good website is what you did. look at it. it’s got dependency injecti...
Weeknotes 2023-12-18 Dec. 18, 2023, Jochen
The amateur believes he must first overcome his fear; then he can do his work. The professional knows that fear can never be overcome. He knows...
Weeknotes 2023-12-25 Dec. 25, 2023, Jochen why concern yourself with "developer experience" when you ought to be concerned with "the human experience"? what is autocompletion in the face ...
Weeknotes 2024-01-01 Jan. 1, 2024, Jochen Don't work harder or smarter.Work darker.Use your knowledge of black magic to call upon the old gods.Turn all CEOs into newts & ferns.Cover a...
📆 Year in Review 2023 Jan. 4, 2024, Jochen
Reflecting on the past year 🔍 - what I find particularly fascinating is that even though I've spent most of my available time on work-related (...
Weeknotes 2024-01-08 Jan. 8, 2024, Jochen This year will be harder than last year. It will, however, be easier than next year. --Enver Hoxha’s message to Albania in 1967
🏖️ Still on vaca...
Weeknotes 2024-01-15 Jan. 15, 2024, Jochen May type hints never overload you,
—Adam
First workweek of 2024. Recorded and published a podcast episode about Typescript and typing in gener...
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