Choosing to get emails for everything from Mastodon.
I just turned on email notifications for all events on both my Mastodon accounts.
June and July 2021 in review.
A quickly-written personal review of what happened in June and July 2021.
My experience trying to ensure accessibility on an earlier blog post.
Curious to ensure accessibility on an earlier blog post, I went on a testing journey for the first time as a screen-reader user.
WSL2: copy to clipboard.
How to copy piped output to clipboard on Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 (WSL2).
My new Miniflux and Pocket reading workflow.
My new keyboard-driven workflow for Miniflux. I enjoy it as it doesn’t overwhelm me easily.
Magic.
A project at work is going from ugly-as-heck to magic. Feeling quite happy as I work through this. ☺️
Use any model at run-time with a DetailView in Django.
How do you use any model instance with a DetailView? By overriding a couple of methods and leaving the model property unspecified.
Handle multiple query parameters gracefully in Django.
A snippet for handling single or multiple query parameters gracefully and across pagination in Django 3.
A simple way to start a chat with a non-phonebook WhatsApp contact.
Sometimes I don’t want to add someone to my phonebook to start a WhatsApp chat with them. Here’s what I use.
Python: expression for x in y.
Briefly exploring the `expression for x in y` syntax in Python.
May 2021 in review.
A look back at my May. ✨️
Progress with Django, more donations, more open-source work, and freeing up some headspace.
Three months later: a follow-up on ditching my static site and IndieWeb.
I left the JAMStack and IndieWeb in February 2021. What am I feeling three months later?
Add a read-only field to Django admin’s change form template.
Exploring a small edge-case with how Django processes the readonly_fields property on a ModelAdmin class.
ActivityPub on my WordPress!
I’ve held off on using the ActivityPub plugin for a while now, even though I’ve donated a small amount to …
We’ve all been there: on boolean environment variables.
I was fooled by a simple mistake, like all programmers are at some point. Here’s the story.