Didn’t expect to be back so soon, but I got busy doing something* this weekend and what I was listening to finished and Spotify’s Recommended let me know The Beths have a new album out and it’s just as good as the last one …
Trying something new, here are a couple of things I’ve been playing on repeat.
Safely inside my Dad Rock, Springsteen-inspired category, I think I found this via Xgau’s Substack. The whole album is amazing and the previous one is great too …
Because I drive myself insane replicating this when I find I want autocomplete on Windows, here are the steps (as of January 2017 anyway):
pip install pyreadlinepip install ipython[shell]Except right now step 2 fails when installing scandir so I grabbed it …
Dear Josie,
On the very off-chance I don’t get a chance to barrage you about this a thousand times, here’s a lesson on weasel words. Take a look at
Always be suspicious when politicians or advertisers (if there’s still a difference) don …
For the second time in a few years I’ve found myself doing a number of Django upgrades. It’s a good thing: I’m happy the framework I chose to base most of my work on when I went solo has stayed relevant. But this time I …
I know it’s been a while and I really should write more often, but this is just a quick one for Google to index in case it happens to someone else: I recently wrote my first vue.js component and was really pleased with …
INT - BEER STORE - DAY
CREEPY GUY, a man in his late 50s in hiking shorts and an ankle brace is paying for a popsicle at a beer store at 10:30 in the morning with the change from what is either a …
I’ve been thinking about exception handling a lot recently. A., because I’m stultifying and B., because it’s been a source of contention in the codebase I’m responsible for. I wrote some formal documentation last week to try to normalize our approach, but I’m …
In one of those “Why did I even look at the terminal” moments, I noticed Solr stopped working properly in a local Django setup. Initially I ignored a slew of 404 errors when Haystack tried to reindex because … well because who the hell cared? I …
At the beer store just before 3pm. I always get a little nervous when a car pulls in and someone from the backseat gets out.
Thankfully it was number three. After the young guy got out …