Posts on Jonathan Peacher

We are so back!

Mike Shea (Sly Flourish) on the Lazy RPG Talk Show: Turns out subtracting is hard [when tracking monster damage]…so instead of subtracting damage from its monsters hit points, I would just track the damage up…when the damage it took crosses over its hit p…

Matt Birchler: Why I Love Link Blogging The web allows us to create content that is connected with the rest of the web.

Day 1 Keynote: Mariatta Reducing the “Oops Factor”: Pipelines for Securing your Python Development Lifecycle on a budget The Pythonic Ideal in The Age of Generative AI Generators: The Unsung Hero of Async Programming Demystifying AI Agents with Python Code

Wow, only 11 movies this year at the Alamo Drafthouse!

I wasn’t able to attend in person this year or take too many notes due to work, but I was able to enjoy a few great talks in between things!

Well that was probably the most interesting WWDC in a while.

After watching the first lightning talk at DjangoCon US last year, I was inspired to see and photograph the next eclipse1, and wouldn’t you know it, my house was just outside the path of totality, so I had to see it.

Day 1 Keynote: The Design of Everyday APIs Python Code vs Pythonic Code ContainerCraft: Mastering Efficient Integration Testing Anarchy to Order - Organizing Assorted Data with Python and LLMs Lessons Learned Maintaining Open-Source Python Projects Working

Being the Apple nerd that I am, when I found out there was going to be demos of the Vision Pro, I had to sign up!

At my sister’s insistence, I finally got my first virtual library card as an adult, and I can honestly say I will probably never buy a book, ebook, or audiobook again!

Decluttering at the Speed of Life by Dana K.

Aaro Luomanen, Generating OpenGraph images with Hugo Have you ever shared a link somewhere and wondered where those little preview images of websites come from?

55 movies this year…nearly double last year!

About 6 month ago I discovered that every channel and playlist on YouTube has an RSS feed, and since then I’ve been slowly “re-subscribing” to all my favorite channels.

Currently listening to Life in Code by Ellen Ullman, and I’m reminded how brittle our digital world is and wonder how it hasn’t fallen apart yet 🙃 “We build our computers the way we build our cities—over time, without a plan, on top of ruins.”

Day 1 Orientation and Welcome Contributing to Django or how I learned to stop worrying and just try to fix an ORM Bug HTML-ivating your Django web app’s experience with HTMX, AlpineJS, and streaming HTML Lightning Talks - Day 1 Using database triggers to…

One feature that has been missing from my favorite todo app, Things 3, has been the ability to automatically move tasks to the Evening section when they appear on the Today page.

I don’t know about you, but I often find myself wanting to copy some text that isn’t copyable!

If there’s one thing I learned, it’s that the history of Italy is layered … just like lasagna 🍝 1/4000s, f/1.4, ISO 100, 30mm, Sony ZV-E10 1/1000s, f/1.6, ISO 100, 30mm, Sony ZV-E10 1/4000s, f/1.4, ISO 100, 30mm, Sony ZV-E10 1/800s, f/1.6, ISO 100, 30mm,…

I was doing some cleanup in a Dockerfile today when I noticed one of the packages was not on the correct version.

Day 1 Keynote: Walking the Line A Tale of Two Typings Trust Fall: Hidden Gems in MLFlow that Improve Model Credibility Exploring Socio-technical Security Concerns in Critical Open-source Python Repositories A BuildEngineer in a buildless lang Recursion for

If you are reading this, you probably just discovered that your second monitor isn’t working when you connect it to your M1/M2 Mac.

Puss in Boots: The Last Wish Black Panther: Wakanda Forever The Whale Avatar: The Way of Water Bones and All Violent Night The Menu Triangle of Sadness Black Adam Ticket to Paradise Amsterdam Pearl Howl’s Moving Castle Barbarian The Invitation Three Sound…

Day 1 The Django Admin Is Your Oyster: Let’s Extend Its Functionality Documenting Django Code in 2022 You Don’t Need Containers to Run Django in Production Herding your database queries: diagnosing, improving and guarding performance of DB interactions in…

Once you have your Hugo project setup, all you need to do is push the following GitHub Action to deploy!

The Lazy Dungeon Master’s Checklist The steps it takes to prepare a typical game session can be boiled down into a simple checklist: Review the characters Create a strong start Outline potential scenes Define secrets and clues Develop fantastic locations…

When you boot up a new machine, it will usually come preinstalled with a version of Python.

If you’d like to read the whole thing yourself and support the author, you can buy the book (not affiliated): https://sites.prh.com/immune What is the Immune System?

I am someone who generally writes code using web-based technologies.

Install Command Line Tools xcode-select --install Oh My Zsh sh -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.github.com/ohmyzsh/ohmyzsh/master/tools/install.sh)" Homebrew /bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)" py…

SWR is a fast, lightweight, and reusable data fetching package for React that uses the stale-while-revalidate caching strategy.