Right. New plan.
Most of the Python crowd are now here. Twitter is a bit of a wasteland. So if you’re here for the Django content, this is the place.
But.. I’m going to resurrect my Twitter account to talk about green energy and solar and EVs and carbon emissions. That crowd doesn’t seem to be here yet, so much.
Let’s see how that goes.
Today I picked up a thousand litres of organic peat-free compost and now I’m reading up on ideal seed sowing dates. After dabbling with lettuce, courgettes and a few tomato plants last year, this year I’m going to give it a proper go.
And here's the official call for applications to be the next Django Fellow.
Don't be shy! It could be you! 🚀
https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2023/feb/07/django-fellow-applicants-2023/
The idea of a company / official presence on the #fediverse is a tricky one, I know. But it is also a really powerful feature on twitter for interacting with customers, and even being publicly called out for something by customers. Working with companies is the main reason I still use twitter.
So we are feeling our way on this, and trying to do it right. It is not for any sort of "advertising". It is for helping customers.
Comments and feedback always welcome.
^RevK, director. @revk
@ulope glad someone got the reference! I was an avid user before I figured out that all I needed was Notepad
@carlton interesting... I can see the similarities! I always liked the look of Elm but I've never tried it. No need for a fan club here, particularly compared to the contributions you make to Django and the universe in general.
@webology huh, I’d found a few libraries like that but didn’t realise @adamchainz made one!
One nice thing about manipulating tuples directly (rather than wrapping tags in functions and using kwargs for attrs) is that you don’t have to worry about that kinda janky class_ thing 😆 just do {“class”: “whatever”}
A few weeks ago I open sourced a tiny library I’ve been noodling on for a while: github.com/j4mie/hotmetal
It’s for generating HTML from basic Python data structures. It’s a bit weird and most people will probably hate it (which is fine). But I’ve now built a moderately complicated web app with it and I’m never going back to string-based templates!
Oh, and it runs quite happily under MicroPython on a ~£4 microcontroller, which is fun.
://lukeplant.me.uk/blog/posts/pyt
Such a good post. Embrace dynamic behaviour.
Aside: the new spec-to-serializer stuff I just added to django-readers is all about dynamic creation of serializer classes ://github.com/dabapps/django-read
Fairly impressed with missing.style/ (from the makers of htmx and _hyperscript). If, like me, you enjoy somewhat dull-looking websites and hate CSS, it might just be for you.