Entry_points are used in a lot of my projects as they’re a fairly simple way of adding plugin points. Recently I was wondering if there was a tool or site that maps them to PyPI though I am not aware of any of them. I spent a little time prototyping with an idea to see how much of it might be feasable.

Often when a company does something silly (being quite generous with this term), there are almost instantanious comments about some kind of self-hosted alternative. While I enjoy self-hosting (and building tools for me to self-host), the server is the easy part (again, being generous with the term). A huge source of friction for many of the self-hosted options, are the integrations that make it feel complete and often the part that needs the most continual investment.

Webhooks are useful for bridging multiple applications together, and I often wish more apps supported them. One use case that could be a fun place to support webhooks are multiplayer game servers.

While a lot of my usage is quite simple, tmux is a quite useful tool in my toolbox. I use it on both remote linux machines and locally on my MacOS install.

A challenge of computer work is that the same device used for work, is also a portal to endless distractions. One of my first projects for this year, was to see if I could update some of my “nag” scripts to help me return to focus quicker.

I have been using htmx and django for several personal project dashboards. Instead of doing a full page load, I wanted a way to refresh individual ‘widgets’ and I think I came up with a simple way to handle it.

Migrating from Celery to Django’s Task Framework is relaltively straight forward. There are only a few configuration changes needed, and a few simple substitutions. For more complicated tasks, consulting the tasks framework documentation is recommended.

Taking stock of my current development environment. This could be useful in the future as a comparison point if parts of my development environment change.

Most Django models are managed, and Django will take care of the entire lifecycle. There are times when working with an external database that it can be useful to use unmanaged models. Combined with Django’s inspectdb command, we can use it to interface with external systems.

I have now been in Japan for 11 years. I still sometimes laugh at how I thought it was a good idea to move between Christmas and New Years, but it ultimately worked out in the end. Partially due to this, my 来日 (arrival in Japan) anniversary is also a good year-review time. Though I have not accomplished nearly as much as I had naively hoped for, I still think overall it was a good year. Hopefully I will be able to show more progress in 2026.