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๐Ÿ“ท 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

New round of donations.

New round of donations, hopefully for the long term. ๐Ÿ˜Š I am now giving: $20/year to Snikket. This needs to happen, especially on the macOS/iOS side of the ecosystem. All of us would benefit from friendly, modern, yet open communication tools. $10/year to Darius Kazemi for working on Hometown. I am grateful for the work he does, and this is ... Continue reading โ†’

A note on the for_concrete_model attribute on a GenericForeignKey.

I do not see a lot of a indie blog posts on this subject, so I’m trying to send out a short and sweet note out to the web I suppose. Something that wasn’t written five or eight or ten years ago… Odds are you will not encounter a GenericForeignKey early in your Django career. There are reasons to try ... Continue reading โ†’

Hide followers/following on Mastodonโ€™s web UI.

Just used Stylus to hide followers/following on all profiles in the Web UI on Mastodon. What it does: You can also hide the “Follows you” tag: My mind rests a little easy now while browsing around. ๐Ÿ™‚

Python TIL: the type base class.

From Python 3 onwards, every class by default is an instance of the type class. Some more playing around if that’s your thing: I discovered this while reading through a Django snippet and re-writing some Python 2 code into Python 3. Who knew reading code helps you learn?