PIEfection Slides Up
I put the slides for my ManhattanJS talk, "PIEfection" up on GitHub the other day (sans images, but there are links in the source for all »
New Year, New Role
Yesterday was my last day at the job I’ve been in for most of 2015. Later this month I’ll be joining the digital team »
Open Source Update: Waffle
I just pushed version 0.11 of Waffle, the feature flipper for Django. It contains a number of code and documentation fixes which you can also »
Open Source Update: Jingo
Update: Jingo is no longer supported as was deprecated in favor of django-jinja at the end of May 2016. As part of shuffling around open source »
Open Source Update: Bleach
As of today, I transferred ownership of Bleach to the Mozilla organization, and the Mozilla WebDev team, in particular Will Kahn-Greene and Jannis Leidel, are taking »
The Fallacy of "Microservice Infrastructures"
“Awesome, now, did someone remember to build a product?” The problem with these advanced, complex microservice infrastructure ideas is that they presume an impossible starting point: »
Storing date, time, and timezone for future events
Tantek recently published a blog post encouraging developers to use UTC with timezone offsets for storing dates and times. There is, however, an unfortunate nuance his »
An Object Caching Pattern for Django
Increasingly I’ve been treating even RDBMSes like structured key-value stores. There are still foreign keys and relationships in there, but the access patterns are most »
For the love of Email
Email is the whipping technology of communications. Everyone wants to kill email. Email is also, for all its problems, fundamental to most modern business communication. While »
Digging into "that" Python error
I think this is my most popular tweet ever: >>> foo = ([],) >>> foo[0] += [1] TypeError: 'tuple' object »