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django-upgrade is my tool for automatically upgrading your project code for new Django versions. It rewrites your Python files to fix deprecations and adopt some new features, taking a chunk of the monotony out of upgrading between...
I visited Broadway Cinema twice this weekend to see restorations of The Sacrifice and Nostalghia, two films by my favourite director, Andrei Tarkovsky. Somehow, despite going to art school, sitting through plenty of film discussion,...
On my last playthrough I visited Ironforge and hunted don a killer bear. With Dun Morough completed, its nowtime to move to the next zone.
I’m thrilled to see that Reclaim Hosting still runs the DS106 Radio Summer Camp as a light, low threshold way to gather online about as far from a wall of zoom faces as you can get. It was 12 hours of programming you could just spin the...
Here’s a link to the referenced “Steppin’ Out” episode of 100% Whatever, and the “I’ll Be Your Mirror” episode. In both cases the single-song focus is in the third hour. Leave a commentAudio Archive Read more
A note on my 7/14/26 posting “Raunch dressing”, on a Facebook pitch for Creed Fragrance that came by me on 7/12: Aventus by Creed. Bright fruits and smoky woods, crafted into an unmistakable signature Which led to some notes on smoky...
Murphy’s Law strikes: Just before I’m about to leave for the weekly Tuesday happy hour for beer with the neighbors, the synth I ordered arrives. And a day early, too (this is beginning to sound like one of those “My steak is too juicy...
Dictionary.com shortlisted agentic for its 2025 word of the year. Not surprising, given that everybody is selling agents these days. Salesforce says you can hire them the way you hire employees. Microsoft imagines companies that are...
2035. The political struggle for control of the Moscow Metro, where ten thousand survivors from the 2013 nuclear war that ended the old world live with their descendants, has stabilised with an uneasy peace. For Artyom, the hero of the...
David Hollingshead’s Humanists Have Done Nothing Wrong is basically a standard-issue defense of the humanities against the crazed attack of the modern-day right wing, but it starts from an interesting angle that I thought was worth...
I'm trying to get back in my blogging habits, and a good way to do that is to continue doing Top Ten Tuesday posts. I had almost forgotten about them until I saw someone else's post on my RSS feed. This week, the The Atsy Reader Girl's...
Some ideas about developing a relaibel seria communication protocol for messages of at most 16 bytes.
I'm travelling light at the moment. Have a laptop, phone, couple of books, running and swimming gear and a few days of clothes. I'm staying at family and friends homes. Very generous of them. Comfortable living too. Not just a couch....
Got home safe, car feels good. Am sad that they said by next oil change it'll need new breaks, and thats about 1k. Obviously thats like, 3-4 months away, but still, feels bad. Gonna try and look at it as a goal though, try and get back...