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Imagine you're staring at your 11th AI-generated pull request of the morning.

Content Warning: This is a highly personal post about a cancer diagnosis.

What I did A few weeks ago, I got to watch Jeff Triplett migrate DjangoPackages from DigitalOcean to Hetzner1 using Coolify.

I was hoping to have this written and posted last week, but for Christmas this year Santa brought me a cold which knocked me on my butt for a few days.

The Django Software Foundation Board of Directors elections are scheduled for November 2025 and I’ve decided to throw my hat into the ring.

This guide shows you how to deploy n8n, a workflow automation tool, on your own VPS.

In mid-June, Hynek tooted on Mastodon the following toot: Watching the frustratingly fruitless fights over the USEFULNESS of LLM-based coding helpers, I've come down to 3 points that explain why ppl seem to live in different realities: Most programmers: 1)

With the announced demise of Pocket by Mozilla I needed to migrate all of my saved articles to 'something else' by the end of the month.

I was added to a work email that was requesting a not-so-small new project that was going to need to be completed.

While browsing Mastodon the other day I came across a toot that linked to this Cursed Knowledge page.

Special Thanks to Jeff Triplett who provided an example that really got me started on better understanding of how this all works.

The 2024-25 season for the Coachella Valley Firebirds ended on May 9th with a 2-0 loss to the Abbotsford Canucks.

While talking to a colleague of mine he had mentioned something called Uptime Kuma, which is an open source alternative to Uptime Robot.

The Origin of Systems When thinking about systems it's easy to think that they have always been there, or been that way.

In every organization, three critical elements determine success: People, Processes, and Priorities.

"If you think technology will solve your problems, you don't understand technology and you don't understand your problems" ~ attrib.

This is the fourth part of my How to Watch a Hockey Game Series.

In a previous post of this series I laid out some basic rules of hockey.

Game Structure Hockey has some stuff in common with live theater.

I've written a few times before about hockey.

The Roman Colosseum After the fall of the Western Roman Empire in 497 CE the Colosseum fell into disrepair.

Looking Back at the Half Marathon Streak How It Started In February 2012, a half marathon was being held in Palm Springs, and one of my walking friends asked if I wanted to do it... about 5 days before it was set to happen.

I did my first Year in Review last year and have decided to carry on the tradition to make sure I know what I did!

I started college in 1996.

On Sunday November 3 I posted this to Mastodon: I've somehow managed to get Python on my macbook to not install packages into the virtual environment I've activated and I'm honestly not sure how to fix this.

On Tuesday October 29 I worked with Oliver Andrich, Daniel Moran and Storm Heg to migrate Oliver's project django-tailwind-cli from Oliver's GitHub project to Django Commons.

DjangoCon US 2024 I was able to attend DCUS 2024 this year in Durham from September 22 - September 27, and just like in 2023, it was an amazing experience.

First, what are "the commons"?

At DjangoCon US 2023 I gave a talk, and wrote about my experience preparing for that talk Well, I spoke again at DjangoCon US this year (2024) and had a similar, but wildly different experience in preparing for my talk.

In keeping with my themes for 2024 this summer was to be 'The Summer of Writing'.

Having just finished up my second round of Djangonaut.Space (which I wrote about here) I wanted to write a bit about mentors ... how to find one, how to work with one, and how to be one.

A few weeks ago I completed my second session as a Djangonaut.Space Navigator.

As technical folks working with non-technical folks sometimes the asks that come through are unclear.

If you want to access a server in a 'passwordless' way, the best approach I know is to use SSH Keys.

I've written before about the Theme's that CGP Grey has discussed and I think they're great!

A while ago I heard about a project called justpath from Jeff Tripplet on Mastodon.

I think I first tried pyenv probably sometime in late 2022.

Winter of Learning Retrospective Have you heard the good word about themes?

What is the AHL The AHL, or American Hockey League, is a hockey minor league based in the US and Canada.

I've never done a year in review, but this seems like a good a time as any, right?

Last October I gave my first honest to goodness, on my own, up on the stage by myself talk at a tech conference.

How can I tell if I'm in an error culture?

In my last post I spoke about the idea of Error Culture.

What is Error Culture?

My Experience at DjangoCon US 2023 A few days ago I returned from DjangoCon US 2023 and wow, what an amazing time.

On Wednesday June 21, 2023 the local sports puck team (i.e.

Last October it was announced that Desert Oasis Healthcare (the company I work for) signed on to pilot Google's Care Studio.

I went to DjangoCon US a few weeks ago and hung around for the sprints.

Django 4.1 was released on August 3, 2022 and I was excited to upgrade to it.

One of the earliest memories of my grandmother is visiting her in 29 Palms 1 2 in her permanent mobile home.