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.

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.