Carlton Gibson 🇪🇺

Veteran software engineer and open source juggler 🤹

I work mainly on and with the #Django web framework. I'm having fun these days mixing that with #htmx and #AlpineJS.

Other than that, it’s parenting, cooking, and philosophy. He/him

Website: https://noumenal.es/
GitHub: https://github.com/carltongibson

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2024-10-09 08:21:48

> How likely is it that you would recommend BBEdit to a friend or colleague?
😙

2024-09-11 14:15:27

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you mean an optical drive or onboard storage? (I know nothing really, except that the kids will want one 😜)

2024-09-11 12:33:23

Couldn't get the last Playstation because of Bitcoin. Won't be able to get this one because of ChatGPT. Can we not somehow time releases to be in-between GPU guzzling hype-cycles people? Hmm?

2024-08-07 15:16:36

Looking forward to the async native sessions in #Django 5.1
This means that for most of your async side views you’ve got a fully async pathway for the authenticated request-response flow. Nice addition 👌
https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/5.1/releases/5.1/#django-contrib-sessions

2024-08-07 14:32:37

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using grid you can assign the grid column of each grid item (similar to above) and then use a media query to toggle that, maybe 😜
I’m going to leave you to it now, since social media implementation advise is amongst the most annoying, and I apologise already 🤗

2024-08-07 13:23:07

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Maybe map it to columns yourself? 🤔
from itertools import chain
columns = [[], [], []]
for i in range(30):
index = i % 3
columns[index].append(i)
for i in range(3):
print(i, columns[i])
print(list(chain(*columns)))

2024-08-07 13:23:07

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2024-08-07 09:54:38

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if your masonry layout could run row-first, rather than column-first, that would be better 😜

2024-08-05 14:36:23

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You have state funded media (but even then… — like Britain, it kind of works, over the medium term, Russia, not so much.)

2024-08-03 17:26:58

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direnv envdir? I’m too old to be able to know if there’s a difference 🙃

2024-08-03 12:41:13

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You youngsters and your newfangled toys. 😜
Virtualenvwrapper just added project-local hooks, which does the envdir thing for me. I’m enjoying that a lot.

2024-08-03 09:10:51

Pottering away 🧑‍💻
$ workon django
(django) $ git branch template-partials main
(django) $ git switch template-partials
(django) $ bbedit .
#django 🦄

2024-08-02 04:41:42

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Good question! Naming, yes… 🤔
Let’s think of CRUDView as a versatile Actor, like Judy Dench, one that can play many Roles. (The standard CRUD roles, and SOON any custom roles you might want to define.)
Now Actors can perform Actions, sure. But I think of those as the individual handlers: `list` and `detail`, but also `show_form` and `process_form` & so on.
#neapolitan 1/2

2024-08-02 04:41:42

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Depending on which CRUD Role CRUDView is playing, it may need to perform only one or, maybe, many Actions. Potentially one for each HTTP verb basically. So Action wouldn’t be the right name for what’s going on in this case.
Make sense? 🎭 #neapolitan 2/2

2024-08-01 18:33:52

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Yay! Welcome aboard ⛵️
Do jump on the repo if there are any issues you hit, or usage points you want to discuss #neapolitan

2024-07-25 13:46:06

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OH, we should chat at DjangoCon. I ❤️ Formsets. I do evil things with them 😈

2024-07-25 13:28:50

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I’ll have one handler for the GET and one for the POST in the main.

2024-07-25 13:27:58

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Whenever “Can I update this without refreshing the whole page?” comes up.
Today’s little moment was triggering the HTMX request from Alpine, with a dynamic URL, to update somewhere else, with it just using the other hx attributes, exactly as you’d want it to, again. 🥳
It’s SO well considered. It continues to delight me.

2024-07-25 12:33:59

Just chipping away 👷🚧🔨
Little I 🥰 #HTMX moment 🦄

2024-07-21 10:04:33

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it’s a failing on my part to be unable to reason about code in IM like contexts. 😝
If you can annotate the Host with details from the latest package details, with a Subquery say, you should be able to select the relevant ones in a single pass. (Otherwise you can always loop, but that’s not as cool)

2024-07-18 05:10:38

In case it’s relevant to you, the Discourse forum software has both Mute and (the even better) Ignore options for users. You click on their profile, and there’s a little bell icon 🔔. You can pick your option. May be handy.

2024-07-17 13:10:50

One of my favourite #Django projects from the last year or two is @npub1782…6st4's awesome django-readers.
There's a little learning curve to it, but once you get over that, it makes it very easy to do the right thing. The more I use it, the more impressed I become.
It might be just what you're looking for. Go give it a try! 🦄
https://www.django-readers.org

2024-07-13 06:01:49

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Exactly. Use auth.User and then store app related profile data in a separate model. (allauth works well with it.)

2024-07-13 05:53:16

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I have views here 😅
The official line is “Use a Custom User Model” but (for a number of reasons) I think we’ve internalised a massively suboptimal situation as being a feature. It’s on my list for August to return to this topic, so I’ll have more to say, but what I laid out so far is here:
https://noumenal.es/posts/django-unique-user-email/928/ #Django

2024-07-10 18:49:57

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💯 My personal projects aren’t Django. 😜

2024-07-05 08:11:19

Once again Git takes a new contributor and puts them through the wringer when just trying to do the right thing.
Is this really the best we can come up with?
#git #OpenSource

2024-07-02 15:27:17

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virtualenvwrapper has been my hammer for like 15years now and is still going strong

2024-07-02 12:51:59

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Great subtoot. Not sure what of, but loving it 🎁

2024-06-16 10:37:57

Off the bench this morning to be a last-minute stand in as a Navigator on the fresh [@djangonaut](https://indieweb.social/@djangonaut ) season. Didn't have that in mind. My poor #Djangonauts get the full improvising juggler routine now 🤹

2024-06-08 15:50:21

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it was meant to have a “can” in it! 🤦‍♀️ Editing.

2024-06-08 15:42:45

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deal! 🤝
I’ll get my Alpine.js forms post out ASAP!
PSA: You set the form renderer per form class folks! 🚨

2024-06-08 15:35:12

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we’re going to have to have a long session discussing that one. 😜
(Not now! 🫠)

2024-06-03 10:26:42

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I have them on one device at home, but I can’t even have them installed on my phone. Otherwise I’m just constantly cycling between ’em. I delete ‘em a day or so after getting back, when the noise dies down again.

2024-06-03 07:22:40

Pre #DjangoConEurope check-list. Re-Install messaging app 85 on the phone ✅

2024-05-31 17:29:11

Thinking of doing an offer on the newsletter: you send me proof you sponsor open source, I’ll give you a free subscription 🤔
https://buttondown.email/carlton
#TheStackReport #OpenSource

2024-05-30 17:09:28

This Google article touches on one of the sub-themes from my #DjangoConEurope talk next week. Nice to read just as I start getting nervous 😅
https://testing.googleblog.com/2024/05/dont-dry-your-code-prematurely.html

2024-05-30 10:35:15

OK, tomorrow’s newsletter ready to go. ✅ #NearlySummer 🏖️
My take on estimating: “Shipping Software on time and on budget”
I’ve been bubbling away on this since the discussions after Jacob’s piece in March or so.
You can sign up here if that’s your thing:
https://buttondown.email/carlton
#TheStackReport

2024-05-22 14:00:38

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not convinced about that at all. 🤔 folks want to know why they should listen to you.