ehmatthes

ehmatthes, 6 months ago to django

I'm really excited to watch the Djangonaut Space program continue to develop. I think it's great for the Django community, and is relevant to the wider open source community as well.

#django #OpenSource

https://mostlypython.substack.com/p/toward-sustainable-development-practices

ehmatthes, 5 months ago to random

I wrote a "Django 5.0 is out" post.

Other people have covered new features well, so I focused on a few other things: understanding Django's version numbering system, how to upgrade a simple project, and a small section on deployment.

https://www.mostlypython.com/p/django-50-is-out

ehmatthes, 7 months ago to random

Here's my short take on Python 3.12. I'm always fascinated to watch the long-term evolution of a popular language.

https://mostlypython.substack.com/p/python-312-is-out

ehmatthes, 6 months ago to random

I just released django-simple-deploy 0.5.17. This release logs the entire process of inspecting the user's system, the project, and configuration for deployment.

Next work: stabilize Fly.io deployments. I'm excited for this work, because I think this is the key piece of work to get to a 1.0 release. :)

ehmatthes, 6 months ago to random

The small words of encouragement we share can have long-lasting impacts we aren't even aware of.

At DjangoCon this year, someone pulled me aside to say that a few words of encouragement I shared last year helped get them through a depressing year of layoffs and a frustrating job search.

My life has been shaped by people willing to offer small (and large) bits of just the right kind of encouragement, at just the right time.

ehmatthes, 5 months ago to random

The PyCon call for proposals is open for one more week (almost).

If you're thinking of submitting a proposal, but haven't been through the process before, I wrote up a summary of how it works:

https://www.mostlypython.com/p/pycon-us-talk-proposals-are-open

ehmatthes, 3 months ago to random

It's good to see people reconsidering #Substack for hosting newsletters.

If you're looking to start a newsletter, or migrate to a different platform, it can be hard to make sense of the different pricing schemes that each platform uses.

I made a tool to make it easier to compare how much it might cost to host your newsletter on each platform:

https://nl-compare.streamlit.app

ehmatthes, 3 months ago to random

Sign that a book is probably worth reading: Looking at the table of contents teaches me something new.

I was just skimming the contents of @brianokken's pytest book, and learned of the --setup-plan flag. It is so helpful to see that output!

I want to set aside a week to read this book.
https://pragprog.com/titles/bopytest2/python-testing-with-pytest-second-edition/

ehmatthes, 8 months ago to random

I recently spoke with @mkennedy on the Talk Python podcast about transitioning out of the beginner mindset as a programmer.

Here's a written reflection on the same topic:

https://mostlypython.substack.com/p/transitioning-out-of-the-beginner

ehmatthes, 10 months ago to random

I started a new series this week about OOP in Python. The intro post is up today:

https://mostlypython.substack.com/p/oop-in-python-why-is-object-oriented

ehmatthes, 9 days ago to random

Is there anyone at #PyConUS with a background in seismology?

I'm wondering if it's possible to recognize landslides from seismic data. If so, it would help identify exactly when some landslides in our community happened.

ehmatthes, 4 months ago to random

For anyone following Substack's content moderation issues, I finally posted my thoughts:

https://www.mostlypython.com/p/substacks-nazi-problem

ehmatthes, 10 months ago to random

There's a lightning talk I've had in the back of my mind for a long time, and I finally wrote it up as a short article instead of a talk.

TLDR: Living with bears for 20 years makes technical crises a little easier to handle.
https://mostlypython.substack.com/p/go-face-bears

ehmatthes, 5 days ago to random

For my #PyConUS talk last week, I ended up rendering images of my code snippets for the slides.

I wrote up my process for generating those snippets, with the ability to regenerate all of them with different formatting options at any time:

https://www.mostlypython.com/generating-code-snippets/?ref=mostly-python-newsletter

ehmatthes, 4 months ago to random

I've been watching a bunch of conference talks lately. Brandon Rhodes' "Walking the line" keynote from PyTexas was excellent:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APVNZfeOCI4

ehmatthes, 10 months ago to random

Reading code efficiently and comfortably is a critical skill for programmers, but it's a skill that's often assumed. People think that if you've learned how to write code, you must know how to read code.

I don't think that's a reasonable assumption. There are specific strategies you can adopt to read code more efficiently:
https://mostlypython.substack.com/p/reading-code

ehmatthes, 7 days ago to random

There's a finance-related conference at one of the #PyConUS hotels this week. I've been asking people with speaker badges in the elevator what they're talking about. One person:

"Artificial intelligence! There's been a lot of advances recently!"

You don't say...

ehmatthes, 6 days ago to random

For anyone still at #PyConUS looking for dinner plans, I think I'm going to head over to Bridges & Bourbon around 6 or 7. I ate there once, and would love to try something else.

I'm happy to eat alone after all this social time, and just as happy to spend another dinner sharing stories.

ehmatthes, 10 days ago to random

I'll be talking about using Python to do real-time monitoring of landslide risk at 5:00, in Hall C.

If you're interested in weather, climate issues, citizen science, or anything related, please stop by. :)

#PyConUS

ehmatthes, 9 months ago to random

When I finally get around to writing a full test suite for a new project, I always want to run it over and over again just to watch it pass.

Having meaningful coverage is so satisfying!

frank, 2 months ago to random

At dinner tonight was talking geek and we said something along the lines of “well dask is really just distributed pandas… but they’re using it like celery” and my business partner’s wife stopped us to point how silly that sounds if you aren’t a geek.

ehmatthes, 8 days ago to random

Starting my #PyConUS sprints with a walk along the river. I usually stay close to the hotel during the conference, and this is a nice transition into sprints. :)

Pittsburgh waterfront

ehmatthes, 1 day ago to random

I just released django-simple-deploy 0.6.2, the first release in quite a while.

You can use it to make multiple deployments to Fly.io. Heroku deployments are updated as well.

I'm making steady progress toward a plugin-based model, and should be able to make regular releases over the next few weeks.

Changelog: https://github.com/ehmatthes/django-simple-deploy/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md

#Python #Django

ehmatthes, 2 months ago to random

People like to complain about Python packaging, but a lot of it comes down to an unfamiliar system always seeming less clear than a familiar system.

I'm doing some pipeline work, and the base of the pipeline is in JavaScript. I should work in JavaScript, but I quickly get lost in npm, node, yarn, etc. I can dump to HTML for this work, and get a proof of concept working with Python.

Packaging is hard for any ecosystem that's been around a while, and has broad usage.