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And I gotta say, @eleventy is a breath of fresh air for a static site generator built on Javascript. Simple enough to get out of my way, but plenty of knobs to tweak lurking beneath the surface.It's...
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Gemini 2.5 is legit and did something I haven’t seen an LLM do before: push back on my ideas and not just capitulate to please the user — not just once, but consistently across a bunch of messages. I...
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I wouldn’t have even bothered trying it out, but this post from @simon intrigued me. And I gotta say, I’m impressed!https://simonwillison.net/2025/Mar/25/gemini/#update-it-s-very-good-at-code
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I convinced it my way *was* actually the right direction to go, but it took some work! And honestly made me strengthen my core thought.
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@bobmonsour Aha 👀, I was wondering why I had a couple visitors from 11tybundle.dev!Thanks for the include on your site! It definitely helped my migration to have it around 😊
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After spending the last 6 months building a library for writing components in Django, I’m starting to come to the conclusion that templatetags are a poor fit for component style app building. 😅For...
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Oh no, I finally have a talk submission idea for DjangoCon US that’s sticky (and not just one I’ve had on a draft list for a while) but it’s pretty confrontational and mildly critical. I hate...
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No big deal, just found out today something I wrote is used by the PSF and runs on (what looks like) every pull request to python/cpython.. not a big deal at all 😳
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Got tired of reinstalling llm plugins after every uv tool upgrade — it uses standard pip install under the hood which uv tool wipes every time. Wrote my first llm plugin to solve it for good....
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I initially opened a PR to the upstream repo at first, adding a new command and thinking about how to adjust the builtins to account for this. I knew it probably wouldn’t (and shouldn’t tbh) get...
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Oh geez, after the stress of prepping for a 45 minute talk last year and vowing to never do that again, I’m pretty sure one of my proposals for this year will need that much time to cover everything I...
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Landed my first code contribution to DRF! 🎉 🙌(I made a small docs tweak a few years ago, so it’s actually my second.)Thanks @browniebroke@auvipy for the...
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Spent all day vibe coding the refactoring of a 1500+ line monolithic React component into a bunch of smaller, more manageable components and hooks. It's going surprisingly well?
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On the one hand, this is kinda perfect task for something like Claude Code, provided you have the guardrails in place via a checklist it can follow. And this refactoring needed to be done for a LONG...
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Reading DEP 182, as one does when they wake up in the middle of the night and can’t fall back asleep, and wondering.. Django has support for using multiple template engines, but in practice does anyone...
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Are there actually other template engines out there? I can’t say I’ve ever come across one.
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I’ve come to really like how Eleventy does its templates, allowing you to mix and match at will between any number of configured backends. Surely the same thing is theoretically possible in Django,...
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Never really *got* Conway's law (organizations produce designs that mirror the org's own structure) until I stopped and thought about what I've built over the past few years. The company I work for is...
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And wouldn't you know it, we have a bunch of smaller applications, all separate and doing their own thing, connected via a couple of core services. Obviously not totally unique to just us, except maybe...
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