Ramblings

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November 18, 2024 • 1 min read

I have recently been adding support for translations to djangoproject.com. One area of translations that was interesting was plain text…

December 18, 2023 • 2 min read

Suddenly 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…

November 10, 2023 • 1 min read

I’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…

June 01, 2023 • 3 min read

I’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…

July 27, 2022 • 1 min read

It’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…

July 07, 2021 • 5 min read

I’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…

April 06, 2021 • 1 min read

When I was building this site with gatsby I stumbled across a tool called Renovate from Whitesource which is available as a github app, or…

December 08, 2020 • 8 min read

For 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…

November 03, 2020 • 1 min read

I 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…

November 01, 2020 • 1 min read

I’m a developer, usually writing python to create django applications running on Amazon Web Services (AWS). You’ll also find me active on…