While the entire systemd project has historically been rather polarizing, I have found it to be easier to maintain for my own environments. When working on services on windows or MacOS , I have come to miss having journald when running services. MacOS launchd services let you StandardOutPath and StandardErrorPath, each application can set them to whatever path they want. While applications can directly use MacOS unified logging, I wanted to prototype an idea of launchd handling directing files. Since I can not (easily) modify launchd, I decided to write a redirect-output helper, to prototype how this might look.

Due to the flexibiilty of Django , I will often use it in places that are not a normal web app. A combination of the Django ORM and admin commands makes a Django project a useful place to collect useful scripts. In the past I would often add things to Cron, but due to the tasks framework I have started to add some jobs there. To make it even easier to call tasks, I hooked up Alfred to my Django project.

The XDG Base Directory Specification was first published in 2003 as version 0.6 . There were minor updates in 2010 with 0.7 and in 2021 with 0.8 . While applications that pre-date the specification do not annoy me so much, newer applications that ignore it are a specific pet peeve of mine.

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.