Josh Thomas

https://social.joshthomas.dev/@josh

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Programmer, mostly #Python :python: and #Django :django: (sometimes JS :javascript: / TS :typescript: 😈)
#DSF :django: Member
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University of #Alabama :alabama: alum, #RollTide!

web 🌎: https://joshthomas.dev
code :git:: https://github.com/joshuadavidthomas

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2024-08-02 11:37:37

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yeah you’ve shown that to me, looks nice. Wouldn’t have helped in this case as instead of just bumping requests it had dropped over half the dependencies, the PR line change should have been -3 +3 but it was -1500 +3 🤪

2024-08-02 11:34:17

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it’s enough to make me want to try renovate or even just an GHA that runs on a cron, calls `uv pip compile —upgrade`, and opens a PR if there’s a diff

2024-08-01 22:30:44

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They all seemed to be related to security updates, that's why they were all separate. I switched over to grouped PRs a while ago.
I ended up just closing them all and doing a targeted update of all the packages by hand myself. 🤷

2024-08-01 22:20:23

In the middle of dealing with maybe a dozen PRs from Dependabot where it just straight up deleted half the dependencies from my requirements.txt file. This is my nightmare. The robots have won.

2024-07-30 11:46:14

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Or, I wish I was better at telling is this the best way to solve this problem or do I want to go this way because it’s the most recent thing I’ve learned and fresh in my memory?

2024-07-30 11:43:34

I really wish my brain would stop latching on to recent things I’ve learned as solutions for current problems.
Last year, I dug into registers and decorators (Django’s templatetags, admin, etc) and suddenly everything needed a central list that could be dynamically added to via a decorator.
This year I’ve been deep diving into Django forms and now every problem I see can be solved by introducing field-like things and widgets.
😅🤦

2024-07-28 01:15:52

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we should have never gone React in the first place. All of our applications are internal* and we are relatively speaking a smallish company. We could probably get away with no HTMX and only server side Django, but it’s nice to sprinkle a little in there to improve the experience at least a little bit.
Chalk up going with React to my inexperience and trusting in the experience of the contractors we were using at the time.

2024-07-28 01:11:54

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it’s a real pleasure. Carlton’s vast experience shining through with how easy it is to get up and running and extend when the need arises.

2024-07-28 01:00:35

Spent yesterday and a bit today replacing a good chunk of React in our most difficult to work with application with Django + @npub1xj9…yv56’s neapolitan + HTMX. I’m positively giddy dreaming about hitting the big merge button on this PR.
I normally wouldn’t be this happy about working on the weekend but:
a) It’s gonna be soooo nice not to have this one sword of Damocles hanging over my head
b) it’s gotta get done 🤷

2024-07-23 12:00:28

Working on a demo/style guide for our internal Django UI library. I started on a form that renders a matrix of every possible field provided by Django with every possible widget and field state. It just occurred to me that it might be useful to open source it and include in my upcoming DjangoCon US talk 🤔

2024-07-16 11:08:45

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For a very small subset of users too. I’m curious though, what would the alternative be, one that reduces downtime as much as possible? Two migrations, one to create the new table and copy the data from the old table and one to drop the old table?

2024-07-13 14:45:05

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Yeah, pretty sure that’s the one I followed when I transitioned from builtin to custom.
Honestly, I still haven’t convinced myself it’s worth the lift if the custom user is already in use. But seeing as most of my projects do nothing with it and it’s only there “just in case”, it would be nice to slim things down a bit.
https://github.com/westerveltco/django-twc-project/blob/main/examples/default/default/users/models.py

2024-07-13 13:06:54

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are there any good resources out there about transitioning from custom to built in auth.User? I’ve done the opposite and know there are posts about that, but have been mulling over going the other way on all my projects that have a CustomUser.
Thinking out loud, I’d guess the steps are roughly the same but I’m curious if anyone’s written about it before I take the dive myself

2024-05-23 02:15:40

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those are Josh specific regrets for Jeff. I know there are more but I could not find them in slack

2024-05-23 02:08:05

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Rye, the million ways docker gives you to shoot yourself in the foot via compose options, flyctl Dockerfile generation, mjml, maizzle.. I know there are more

2024-05-22 21:41:37

Is there a #PyBama? Should there be? cc: @npub1vm4…0ev2

2024-05-16 12:11:41

I wouldn’t normally post something personal like this, but I feel compelled to.
It seems my mother-in-law’s cancer may have taken a turn for the worse. She had to be hospitalized last night and it doesn’t look great. It’s reminding me a lot of when my mom passed from her cancer a couple of years ago, where there’s a line that is crossed — before crossing it seems like the progress is up and down, better and worse. But once that line’s crossed it’s all down from here.