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So on the one hand, I can't get my mind to focus on something unless I can put my whole self into it* and on the other it really bothers me that I can't just review the damn PR.

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* This is obviously not entirely true -- 38 years going undiagnosed I built up some systems and coping mechanisms to *sorta* work around doing something I don't want to focus on. But I usually reserve...

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In this case I really do want to review this PR! I want this feature! And this person was nice enough to contribute! But I don't want to half-ass the review. I want the feature to be as good as it can...

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Long winded way to say, this is obviously one of my favorite memes 😅

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Determined that this is the LAST year I will be missing in-person PyCon US. Next year my kids will finally be old enough to not feel so guilty about leaving my wife alone with them. After hearing about...

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Not to be Mr Johnny Centrist with a case of “bothsidesism” — but the fanaticism of the anti- and pro-AI camps is just exhausting. Calling Simon Willison an extremist and yourself a moderate and...

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Idiotmatic code #typooftheday

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The latest Notes On Work podcast, what a doozy! A lot to unpack (and as usual from a solo podcast that’s basically just a brain dump outlet, a bit navel gazy), but so much covered about the Laravel...

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His aside about deep diving on Laravel Blade template rendering engine sounded eerily familiar 😬🤣. Especially the part of being impressed with the relatively simple elegance of it. But the insight that...

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Cc @adamghill@wrabit— I don’t think Juro from django components is on Mastodon, but I’d tag him too , plus I know I’m leaving out a bunch of others

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Not bad for someone who dropped out of Webelos

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Last of us season finaleFuck RIGHT off with that, I mean, seriously? That’s the ending of your season???

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Last of us season finaleWell, I hope the ship rights itself because I for one won’t be around to see.

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Last of us season finaleIf mark mylod directs another episode that may drag me back.

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It will never not be a smack-in-the-face surprise when listening to a new @djangochat episode and hearing my name dropped. 🤩@ehmatthes You may have been talking about this repo?...

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💯I have mixed feelings about AI/LLM assisted programming — on the one hand it does genuinely give me a productivity boost and allow me to do things I would have never tackled before, on the other I...

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And at least for the time being, LLMs are here, they are not going away, for some people are rapidly changing how building software happens — I don’t want to bury my head in the sand just because I...

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After spending too much time fighting ctypes and isinstance checks, I’m ready to throw in the towel on monkeypatching GeoDjango’s gdal module to lazily load the external library. Trying to have my cake...

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Forum post createdhttps://forum.djangoproject.com/t/proposal-lazy-loading-for-django-contrib-gis-gdal/41198Branch createdhttps://github.com/django/django/compare/main...joshuadavidthomas:django:lazy-gdal

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I have found the One True API for rendering Django templates client side using Pyodide: just largely steal the shape and ideas of Alpine.js’s interface of many different attrs on an html element.

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