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wsvincent, to random
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It's notable that almost every other Django book out there doesn't touch deployment at all. Makes me wonder if I should stop trying to cover it and just move it to a more advanced thing that is separate. Especially now that there isn't a great free option, it's a non-starter for many people apparently based on feedback I've gotten.

kwiersma,
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@wsvincent I say if you have to pick between the two certainly choose testing. If you can show one example using the test client to test one http endpoint that would be awesome.

webology, to random
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🎸 On Pearl Jam's Dark Matter interviews

https://micro.webology.dev/2024/05/04/on-pearl-jams.html

kwiersma,
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@webology I am a big fan as well and enjoyed watching these two interviews a couple of days ago. What does a big fan need to do to book a tour of their warehouse space? 😆 There is something about Bill Simmons interview style that I just don’t care for as much as the other interviewers.

kwiersma,
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@webology to me it felt like Simmons was making all these declarative statements before asking a tangential question. I kept wanting him to stop and see if Ed and Jeff actually agreed with his statement. I also think if I had listened to it as a podcast instead of watched the video I probably would have a better impression of him because I wouldn’t have been able to see Ed’s reactions in which he seemed to start being annoyed in the first half before it got better in the second half.

I am looking forward to getting to see PJ on this upcoming tour.

webology, to random
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😭 My favorite, "make any web page a desktop application" app Nativefier is sadly no longer maintained.

I had a ton of good years out of it, and after dumping Chrome and Firefox, I find myself with a good replacement. (I don't want to use Safari for other reasons that drive me up a wall)

Does anyone know of a good alternative that's as easy as "take a URL and turn it into a macOS desktop app" that respects the --->close<--- button and other reasonable defaults?

https://github.com/nativefier/nativefier/issues/1577

kwiersma,
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@webology I have used webcatalog (https://webcatalog.io/en/) for this type of thing before and it has worked well.

webology, to random
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🤔 While I like fly.io, I think they are encouraging/pushing people to use Server-Side SQLite because their managed Postgres support is hot garbage. 🗑️

I say this as someone who is a member of three orgs that have had severe Postgres database issues with their managed service. Support was not even remotely helpful.

I was even forced to pay $29 to get support for one of my personal projects just to be told they could not help me.

❌ Do not trust their databases.

https://fly.io/blog/all-in-on-sqlite-litestream/

kwiersma,
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@webology I have been using Render.com for several prod web apps with their managed Postgres and it has been great. For the DB they only have a 3 month long free tier but other then that it has also been great for person projects. To me render.com is closer to Heroku then Fly.io.

webology, to random
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🙋 What's everyone's goto "is my website up" service of choice?

I normally use https://uptimerobot.com but I either need to go pro or find a new service.

kwiersma,
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@webology I have been using a free account on StatusCake.com for several years and it has worked well.

mariatta, to random
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After watching lots of videos on how to tighten the belt, to level the bed, and also on how to use the slicer software, I tried printing another item: the token for unlocking Canadian shopping carts! This one can be attached to keyrings, so no more looking for loonies! 🪙🇨🇦

Video of a 3d printer beginning to print, and then it switched into the finished product: two tokens for unlocking shopping carts in Canada (the size of a one Canadian dollar coin) elongated with a hole for attaching to keychains.

kwiersma,
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@webology @mariatta here in Minnesota I have heard Aldi does this but for a quarter ($0.25)

wsvincent, to random
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Fly throwing weird error messages about panic: nested instruments... for anyone else this morning?

https://community.fly.io/t/panic-nested-instrument-span/12724

kwiersma,
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@webology @jerivas @wsvincent I have been using render.com for a production Django app (with Postgres) for almost a year and it has been solid.

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