Reading List

The most recent articles from a list of feeds I subscribe to.

Prepend a note in your RSS feed’s content, if said post belongs to a certain category.

This is a follow up to the post that added a convenience comment link. This time, we’re adding a small note if a post belongs to a category of our choice. I’m no PHP or WordPress wizard, so this is essentially a note to myself. The code too may be very garden variety, but that’s okay.

!r (a conversion flag) in f-strings.

Celery’s Django docs use a conversion flag within an f-string: Apparently, that calls the instance’s __repr__ method instead of the usual __str__ method. What’s __repr__? RealPython.com writes: The __str__() and __repr__() methods deal with how objects are presented as strings, so you’ll need to make sure you include at least one of those methods in your class definition. If you ... Continue reading →

Smartphones I’ve used over the years.

Before 2013/14, I didn’t have a smartphone. College was becoming very hard without WhatsApp groups. I had a tell-me-the-important-bits buddy who would relay anything important from these groups over to me by SMS or call or just in-person. 2014. Thanks to some side hustles, by early 2014, I was ready to at least partially pay for a smartphone. I narrowed ... Continue reading →

Steer73: the best interview experience I have had.

Disclaimer: this is not a sponsored post. But it is a short one. All I am doing is posting about a good experience in an ocean of poorly executed interviews. An appreciation post, if you will. When I was hunting for new work back in mid-to-late 2020, Steer73 came up. Set up by a friend on the Fediverse, really. They ... Continue reading →

📷 7 May 2022.

Suddenly she realised that what she was regretting was not the lost past but the lost future, not what had not been but what would never be. F. Scott Fitzgerald