Django UI components for perfectionists with deadlines
Server side rendering and UI components for a modern frontend.
README.txt
- Mostly lies and rants in plain text.
Latest posts
Checksums matter
When serving files over the internet, TCP and SSL are not enough.
The only bakery in town
A short story about a town, a bakery and monopolies.
Read this after your next meeting
Changing the purpose of meetings in an async first environment.
Inline form validation with Django and Htmx
Partial and progressive form validation without any Javascript.
Let the code settle
Gain confidence when deploying critical changes.
Djangonauts don't let djangonauts write Javascript
Why and how to fight JS fatigue with some Django and htmx.
Endpoints matter
Entities can be identified by IDs, but also paths.
Concurrent updates on Firestore documents
Can we achieve eventual consistency? Maybe something close to it?
Reclaiming space from a big table in Postgres
After deleting columns or updating lots of rows.
No-SQL databases are glorified caches
Thoughts on SQL vs No-SQL databases. When to use each.
De-normalize with Firestore sub-collections for fun and profit
Can subcollections help denormalization be a not so terrible idea?
Configuration is an API, not an SDK
A configuration architecture for the working dev.
Deploying at 6am, a postmortem
Another chapter in the IT nightmare stories.
Socialism works, but doesn't scale
Can libertarians and socialists agree on anything?
Default is not set
How can you tell if an optional parameter was set or not?
Childe Roland to the Dark Tower came
My attempt to fixing the Dark Tower series.
Privileged victimhood
The dangers of identity politics and state imposed privileges.
Configuration-friendly apps
Some guidelines for config management in general and Python apps in particular.
It's the competition, stupid
Increasing your chances of prosperity.
Calendaring events with Python
Some gotchas you'll find when scheduling the next world's doomsday.
The Backbone events waltz
Snippets that will show you that minimalist means versatile.
Django's signal to noise
Keeping a balance between decoupled and maintainable code.
The sorry state of jQuery plugins
Customization is not enough, some plugins simply do too much.
The branch is dead, short live the branch!
Implement big changesets little by little. Don't let Theseus' ship sink!
Mock yourself, not your tests
Every mock is a smell, avoid them as much as you can.
Air, the next big thing
What is wrong with some startups today?
How to publish a pelican site on Github
Step by step guide on how to publish a pelican website on Github.
An MVP is not a product, it's an MVP
Build, measure and learn. But don't avoid best practices afterwards.
Open tabs buffer overflow
Ideas for surviving an open tabs buffer overflow.
Init
This is my new static blog.