adamghill

I write (Python|Django|JavaScript|HTML|CSS) and sometimes it's useful.

- 1/2 of https://djangostickers.com and https://djangobrew.com 🧠
- For perfectionists with deadlines: https://alldjango.com 📖
- Reactive component framework for Django: https://www.django-unicorn.com 🦄
- So much code: https://github.com/adamghill 🛠️
- All the links: https://adamghill.com 💥

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adamghill.com 🏠: https://adamghill.com
Unicorn 🦄: https://django-unicorn.com
Sponsor 💙: http://github.com/sponsors/adamghill
Code ⚙️: https://github.com/adamghill

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2024-10-13 22:44:03

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“20 to 30-hour sample app” hard pass 😂

2024-10-13 21:47:36

I'm not actively looking for a job, but if I ever was my _hope_ is that instead of doing take home assignments, I could just point at my 100+ GitHub repos and be like, check it out. I kind of know what I'm doing sometimes.

2024-10-11 03:57:13

I can't believe there are 2 Meow Wolfs in Texas and neither are in Austin (one is outside Dallas, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FkPsX06hrnI, and a new one opening soon in Houston, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2TJ9M7PCbI).
I might have to go other places in Texas at some point.
#MeowWolf #art #weird

2024-10-10 01:05:36

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Nice! I’m rocking a very similar setup although I don't quite understand the need for direnv? I tend to run all commands via `uv run …` which ensures the virtualenv is up to date and uses the appropriate virtualenv when running the command.
After using poetry and uv I almost never “activate” the virtualenv anymore. Maybe there is a good reason to, though!
btw, this is where I've landed (for now 😂) for my config files: https://github.com/adamghill/dotfiles.

2024-09-22 03:49:05

Looking at https://github.com/andrewgodwin/django-singlefile from @npub160z…49wu again and the read-only models is a neat idea I didn’t remember from last time.
However, what made me laugh was putting the `singlefile` module under a `django` folder. Like, I would _not_ have thought to do that.
Feels very cheeky. 😆 I like it.

2024-09-22 02:40:22

I see Mastodon servers for: Ruby, JWM, PHP, Clojure, and Drupal. None for Django (maybe too niche?), but also none for Python (which is a little surprising).
https://masto.host/ seems relatively reasonably priced.
Moderating is the tricky part of hosting a Mastodon server, though, right?

2024-09-19 12:54:21

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Ironic that Django came about because a company paid the developers to build it.
We just need to go back to our roots! 😆

2024-09-19 12:31:30

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I think about the Rails vs Laravel vs Django vs NextJS communities a lot. They definitely feel different to me, especially the “willingness to pay” for a high quality library.

2024-09-18 19:30:45

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yeah, not sure a BDFL is actually required. Consensus-driven development is good, actually! Definitely multiple ways to arrive at the same destination.

2024-09-18 17:59:45

Take 45 minutes and watch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31pBMi0UdYE launching Flux UI for Laravel.
Who is doing similar work for Django? Who is pushing the DX forward?
Rails has always had a marketing machine behind it because of the creators. Laravel has been building over the past few years.
I, personally, would love if Django inched slightly closer toward that ethos. Django is world-class! I wish more devs knew how awesome it is — that requires better marketing IMO.
More details: https://dev.to/adamghill/django-roadmap-2024-2ocn

2024-09-14 20:25:59

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“1 million bucks” I think I chose the wrong profession

2024-08-28 13:06:27

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As he mentions on his podcast, 1 MILLION dollars sounds like a lot (and it is!), but it's taken 5 years to get there. If he didn't quit his job at the beginning and was a senior developer making $200k (which is doable depending on where you work) at a "regular job" he'd end up at the same financial outcome.

2024-08-28 13:02:55

https://calebporzio.com/i-just-cracked-1-million-on-github-sponsors-heres-my-playbook
#IndieDev #IndieHackers #OSS #OpenSource
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2024-08-25 13:49:23

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Oh, I didn't see this part. I just noped out of the logging in to GitHub for Copilot for now. I'll tinker with the AI integrations at some point later.

2024-08-25 13:34:02

Downloaded https://zed.dev to check it out.
The peak AI-ness marketing spiel on the homepage is like _whatever_, but it _is_ giving Sublime Text a run for its money for the “I need to open up a file real quick and make a few edits" use case. I also enabled vim mode for extra cool points (although that might get disabled real quick).
- `pyright` for #Python static analysis, same as VSCode Pylance
- Configure venv: https://zed.dev/docs/languages/python?highlight=python#virtual-environments
- Ruff integration: https://docs.astral.sh/ruff/editors/setup/#__tabbed_3_1

2024-08-21 11:49:45

I need to check how https://astral.sh/blog/uv-unified-python-packaging works with https://pypi.org/project/django-unicorn-playground/ now. When I tried it a month or so ago I ran into some snags, but maybe the issues have been smoothed over at this point.
#Python #PEP723 #uv

2024-08-04 15:00:17

What's the most popular non-Python static site generator?
By which I explicitly mean “what do you think is used the most/has the most installs?”, not what you personally think is the best.
Poll options are based on the number of GitHub stars, but feel free to reply if I'm missing one (Hexo? NextJS?) or if there is a better approach than GitHub stars.
#StaticSite #HTML #CSS #SSG

2024-08-03 02:44:16

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Pinboard dying a slow death is basically why I built my own. I have literally 0 paying users, but I built it for my own purposes so it’s still useful to me.

2024-07-02 14:58:05

I am wondering where the line is between “system" and "project” Python package dependencies.
For example: I tend to include `ruff` and `mypy` in every project list of dependencies, but maybe those should be installed system-wide via `pipx` (and handled by `just setup`)? Something like:
System:
- ruff
- mypy
Project:
- django-stubs
- pytest
- pytest-django
- pytest-cov
- pytest-benchmark
🤔 Maybe over-thinking this. 😅
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