Ramblings
A version number problem
February 25, 2025 • 3 min readSome 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…
Translating plain text
November 18, 2024 • 1 min readI have recently been adding support for translations to djangoproject.com. One area of translations that was interesting was plain text…
2023
December 18, 2023 • 2 min readSuddenly 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…
Django Software Foundation
November 10, 2023 • 1 min readI’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…
Django Simple Settings
June 01, 2023 • 3 min readI’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…
Django CMS Association
July 27, 2022 • 1 min readIt’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…
Mystery OCSP requests
July 07, 2021 • 5 min readI’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…
Whitesource Renovate
April 06, 2021 • 1 min readWhen I was building this site with gatsby I stumbled across a tool called Renovate from Whitesource which is available as a github app, or…
pip-tools
December 08, 2020 • 8 min readFor 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…
New Start
November 03, 2020 • 1 min readI 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…