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Some years back a small team of engineers got a chance to do something that I think many of us often wish we could - rewrite a system. They…

Feb 25, 2025

I have recently been adding support for translations to djangoproject.com. One area of translations that was interesting was plain text…

Nov 18, 2024

Suddenly it’s December, another year done. I’m not really sure what kind of header a post like this needs, so my “year in github” seems…

Dec 18, 2023

I’ve been working with django for over a decade now, becoming more involved with the ecosystem over that time as I’ve mentioned before. So…

Nov 10, 2023

I’m on my way home from DjangoCon Europe 2023 in Edinburgh and I’ve been thinking about the Locality of Behaviour concept. So often I see…

Jun 1, 2023

It’s been a busy year, which is why this is my first post here for a year!! At the beginning of 2022 I became the technical lead for the…

Jul 27, 2022

I’ve got a django project that runs multiple sites, so locally I have my hosts file setup to serve corresponding domains to 127.0.0.1 on…

Jul 7, 2021

When I was building this site with gatsby I stumbled across a tool called Renovate from Whitesource which is available as a github app, or…

Apr 6, 2021

For years managing pip packages has been a bit of a pain when it comes to keeping everything up to date. A prime example that springs to…

Dec 8, 2020

I think it’s very common for developers to neglect their own websites, or not even have one. For years I’ve had (and still do) a (shared…

Nov 3, 2020

I’m a developer, usually writing python to create django applications running on Amazon Web Services (AWS). You’ll also find me active on…

Nov 1, 2020

NOTE: This “post” is based on Markdown Cheatsheet and is meant to test styling of Markdown generated documents. This is intended as a quick…

Jan 1, 1970