Twenty twenty-five
Another year already?
laymonage
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Write cleaner promises using `Promise.withResolvers()`
If you need to pass around the `resolve` and `reject` functions of a `Promise` object, creating the promise using `Promise.withResolvers()` is a nicer API that reduces nesting.
How to check if a Django template has been overridden
If you're an author of a Django package, you might find it useful to check whether a template has been overridden. Here's a little snippet that helps you do that.
Twenty twenty-four
Sooo... how was it?
`visibilitychange` event not fired when switching tabs
The visibilitychange event does not fire when you switch between tabs if you have DevTools open with the "Emulate a focused page" option enabled.
Back and forth
Familiar faces in unfamiliar times brings comfort in its own ways. Puzzle pieces can be hard to understand sometimes.
Long overdue
Almost a year since the last entry.
Chamonix ski trip
Went to Chamonix on a ski trip with my colleagues!
Andrew Bird and BANNERS
Saw Andrew Bird in London and BANNERS in Bristol, just two days apart.
Thoughts
New section to replace my old logs approach.
Caching API tokens in Supabase for a serverless application
To help prevent giscus from hitting GitHub API's rate limit, we cache the access tokens in Supabase. Here's how I did it.
Introducing giscus
Introducing giscus: a comments widget built on GitHub Discussions.
Django's Git flow
Django uses Git to manage its codebase, but how?
Google Summer of Code reflection
Google Summer of Code 2019 was a life changing experience for me. Thanks to Django, I learned a lot of things through the summer.
Git rebase: a quick explanation
As a regular user of Git, I find one particular command to be extremely powerful. That command is…