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CodenameTim

@CodenameTim@fosstodon.org

Gardener, homebrewer, bread baker and hot sauce maker. Assister with Django Debug Toolbar.
Jazzband | DEFNA | he/him

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danderson, to random
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Wow someone stole the 40m band, the Aurora net basically evaporated, less than 20 checkins vs. over a hundred normally. Looking at NOAA space weather... yup, M5.1 solar flare just hit the atmosphere, that'll do it. "Minor radio blackout" indeed.

CodenameTim,
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@danderson how would you determine that without the government / internet?

CodenameTim,
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@danderson alright, that's pretty cool. It seemed like an interesting problem for a future dystopian scenario. Thank you for the explanations, that was really interesting!

webology, to random
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Out of frustration, I adopted adding "--skip-checks" today to a Django project, and performance increased 1000000 billionity infinity times to the moon and back. (It shaves off 10 to 30 seconds on reloading)

🤔 This project has two apps and is about as vanilla as they come. While I suspect I am seeing a bug, is anyone else out there seeing a huge local development performance increase when disabling them?

CodenameTim,
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@webology Is it possible it's a migrations check?

CodenameTim,
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@webology debugging problems is my jam. Can't promise a solution, but I'll have an answer 🙃

freakboy3742, to random

Vale, Storm. Occasionally a frustrating idiot, but always a good kitty, right to the end. Thank you for 19 years of companionship.

CodenameTim,
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@freakboy3742 I'm sorry to hear that, but I'm happy you had 19 years together.

freakboy3742, to random

My French is barely at the level of “would not go hungry in a restaurant”. Yet with computer assistance, I was just able to respond to a user query in a chat forum in French.

It’s worth remembering that sometimes, technology can be a force for good.

CodenameTim,
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@freakboy3742 I was watching the latest season of Queer Eye and it showed how powerful home automation can be for a person with disabilities. It made me reconsider my stance on the tool.

carlton, to random
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Want to learn how the migration framework works inside?

Read this thread, and dig into the links:

https://forum.djangoproject.com/t/migrating-backwards-takes-orders-of-magnitude-longer-than-migrating-forwards/20873

🤩

CodenameTim,
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@carlton And now it's time to rewatch the talk on how migrations work in Django https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6cVvbuUzlk

webology, to random
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🤔 Happy Thurs-(GitHub is always down)-day to those who celebrate it?

https://www.githubstatus.com/

CodenameTim,
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@webology But what do you do with all of that money?!

brainwane, (edited ) to random
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Help request (will probably delete this toot once I square this question away):

If you load https://www.volunteeramnestyday.net/amnesty-day.ics into your calendar, does it include an item for June 21, 2023?

I'm trying to use the .ics editor at https://ical.marudot.com/ but am having trouble

EDIT: thanks to folks for checking! I've now modified it so it definitely has solstices for the next few years. Now there are duplicates, but eh, I'll mess with that later (unless you want to fix it yourself & give me the fixed file!)

CodenameTim,
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@brainwane I loaded it into my google calendar and I did not get an event for June 21, 2023. I got the December event though. And June 20, 2024

webology, to programming
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🤔 Do you want to submit a talk for DjangoCon US 2023 but aren't sure what to talk about?

Here is my annual list of DjangoCon US talks I’d like to see in case it gives you some inspiration: https://jefftriplett.com/2023/djangocon-us-talks-i-d-like-to-see-2023-edition/

If your idea is not on this list, then even better! Submit it too!

CodenameTim,
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@andyide @webology I think there's a lot of value in talking about the challenges of building an app at your particular scale. You could also think about what challenges you faced in the last two years. I'm willing to bet they're interesting

CodenameTim, to programming
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I have a junior dev that's ready for his first job. If you're looking in that space, let me know. He's hard-working, persistent and literally loves programming. The problem we worked on today had him so excited. He just needs a shot at this point.

adamghill, (edited ) to random

Would I actually pay for a search engine? I’m gonna find out and try kagi for a while and see how it goes. First couple of trial searches were surprisingly good (i.e. at least as good as DDG).

CodenameTim,
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@adamghill what was your first search and did you find your result?

webology, to random
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✨ If you use and don't know about django-extensions' show_url management command, it's the cheatsheet you didn't know you needed... or you knew you needed but didn't know what/where to look for it at.

It saves me tons of time and frustration when figuring out what a view is named from a third party app.

https://github.com/django-extensions/django-extensions

CodenameTim,
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@carlton @webology I'm in agreement with this being part of Django's standard library. I'm betting we'd see broad agreement if we had a thread on the forum. (If one isn't created by the end of the day, I'll start one).

CodenameTim,
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@carlton @webology I wasn't sure if that's what you were implying. Good, then I don't have a task for tonight.

CodenameTim,
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@webology https://forum.djangoproject.com/t/social-google-oauth-2-0-authentication/20574/11 another convert on the team!

CodenameTim,
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@carlton @webology I'm a bit behind, but finally got around to the forum post. https://forum.djangoproject.com/t/should-the-show-urls-command-be-part-of-djangos-standard-library/20739

ehmatthes, to random
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The PyCon sprints have been fantastic! I've had the privilege of working with a wonderful group of people, making all kinds of contributions to django-simple-deploy.

I wrote up some of the less obvious benefits of even "small" contributions to a new project:

https://mostlypython.substack.com/p/the-value-of-small-contributions

CodenameTim,
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@ehmatthes

"For a whole day I’ve had a fresh, inquisitive, appropriately critical set of eyes on the project’s documentation, deployment process, and finally the codebase itself. This is an invaluable contribution to a pre-1.0 project."

This is useful to projects that have been around for a while too! It's easy for regular contributors to overlook the early contact points of a project.

CodenameTim, to random
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I wrote up my thoughts on why companies using should send their folks to a .

https://www.better-simple.com/django/2023/04/21/send-your-people-to-djangocon/

Short version: investing in the community is an investment in your infrastructure.

Shorter version: send your people to DjangoCon!

If you're not convinced technical conferences are a good idea, read this: https://chelseatroy.com/2023/04/21/whats-the-point-of-tech-conferences/

Chelsea Troy does a much better job than me advocating for conferences in that area.

adamghill, to random

Having a little FOMO about missing the last DjangoCon US and now PyCon US. It’s been a long time since I’ve been to an in-person conference. 😩

CodenameTim,
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@adamghill see you there!

CodenameTim,
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@adamghill woo! Are you going to submit a talk too?

CodenameTim,
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@adamghill haha that's fair. I was pretty nervous before my tutorial and that was only 8 people

CodenameTim, to random
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I did some thinking about who we are as Djangonauts and where we're headed.

https://www.better-simple.com/django/2023/03/30/built-to-last/

I identify from my perspective our core values, our purpose and a challenging long term goal. If you're not familiar with the book "Built to Last" I try to explain them.

I'd love to know what others think and to better understand your perspectives.

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