Oh how frequently sitting down to work on one of my projects ends up like this 🙃 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbSehcT19u0

It's absolutely fucked up how quickly Google Search went from my go-to search to a "yuck, why is this shit on, get me out of here". Like when I search on Android by accident and get AI summaries I have literally yelled at my phone. Absolutely batshit how quickly Google could destroy the […]

Add Urls to Python Projects https://paultraylor.net/blog/2025/add-url/ #packaging #python #uv

The first beta release of Mastodon 4.5.0 is ready for testing! Quote posts are finally here, as well as automated fetching of remote replies and a lot of other improvements. For server moderators, there is also a way to block registrations based on keywords appearing in usernames. Please test […]

Mermaid Modal Popup https://paultraylor.net/blog/2025/mermaid-modal-popup/ #javascript #bootstrap5 #mermaidjs #htmx

to everyone asking foss maintainers to finally publish a new version: as a teenager, have you ever been asked by someone to clean your room after you decided to do it yourself? 😇

Not really finding any guides on building #rust projects on #woodpeckerci Guess I'll need to spend some time figuring it out then write a post myself 😅 (my biggest question is about building a base image or some caching settings to make the builds a bit more efficient)

A weird thing I've seen over and over again in AI discourse: "AI is awful at [thing I'm not an expert in], but great for [thing I'm not an expert in]!"

By the time someone tells you they are feeling overworked, they have already been thinking it for months

User Agent from Django Apps https://paultraylor.net/blog/2025/user-agent-from-django-apps/ #django #python

I have an offer to make: do you want to run an instance on the fediverse for a group that's underrepresented here? I'll pay the bills. Period. I'll do admin if needed (software updates and the like). But you decide what kind of community you want it to be, so you put together the mod team. DM me.

Java: Sun Java C++: AT&T Java Go: Google Java Rust: Funny Java C#: Microsoft Java

This is partly thinking outloud, but using #htmx with #django to load some widgets, but trying to figure out how to deal with individual widgets throwing errors without replacing the whole page with the django error page 🤔

https://pluralistic.net/2025/09/27/econopocalypse/#subprime-intelligence "AI is the asbestos we are shoveling into the walls of our society and our descendants will be digging it out for generations" #ai #aipocalypse

Still deeply distressed by how many people seem to think it’s a good idea to save time by having a robot go to the gym on their behalf, as if that could ever lead to anything but atrophy long-term.

Testing django-storages for a project and seems like there's a problem with #linode object storage 🙃 At least I was able to find this link about it https://github.com/jschneier/django-storages/pull/946 Would have been much more frustrating if I had spent even longer debugging it when it was […]

The answer to "the AI systems that corporate overlords push everywhere are shit" is not "so we need open source AI". These systems are shit cause they structurally are. They are just being shoved everywhere to reduce labor power. "Open source AI" (if that even existed) is not changing that.

Want to have a better version of #docker stats/ps I found https://github.com/robertpsoane/ducker in the past and https://github.com/mrjackwills/oxker today. Even though oxker *almost* does what I want, I am still tempted to give it my own attempt as I'm curious to try out #ratatui

libxml2's sole maintainer Nick Wellnhofer steps down, meaning libxml2 is now no longer maintained. https://discourse.gnome.org/t/stepping-down-as-libxml2-maintainer/31398 It's hard to estimate just how many companies depend on this software and critical security updates to the library, so I'm […]

Caddy, Golang, and Changed Headers https://paultraylor.net/blog/2025/caddy-golang-and-changed-headers/ #golang #deployment #caddy

Ugh, spent too long debugging what is ultimately a problem with case-sensitivity 😢 The difference is `X-GitHub-Event-Type` vs `X-Github-Event-Type` in a processing script. Part of the trigger is migrating from #nginx to #caddy though I don't know if it's Caddy changing the case, or perhaps […]

Sometime I need to read through the #forgejo storage settings ( https://forgejo.org/docs/latest/admin/setup/storage/ ) and see about migrating some of the package settings and such to external object storage. https://blog.alexsguardian.net/posts/2024/06/03/upgradingforgejo/ looks like it might […]

Since most #django installs are on modern python ( https://endoflife.date/django ) and `importlib.metadata` has been in core for a while (3.8 and improved in 3.10 - https://docs.python.org/3/library/importlib.metadata.html#module-importlib.metadata ) I wonder if projects like the runserver […]

Did you know? Bartenders will cut you off if you’ve had too much booze, but booksellers will continue to sell you books even after you’ve run out of space for them!

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Using @WoodpeckerCI to build #docker containers Some default `org.opencontainers.image` labels are created (this is good!) But how can I take advantage of those to read image labels from **inside** the container 🤔 Seems like I might have to update the CI build to write those into ENV vars that […]

When your flight has free wifi, I think you’re required by internet law to post about it. Now I don’t have to worry about getting in trouble with the internet police right?

Add Classifiers to Python Projects https://paultraylor.net/blog/2025/add-classifiers/ #packaging #python #uv

TIL about Caddy's on demand TLS feature, where you can basically point an entire *.example.com to Caddy and Caddy will automatically issue TLS certs for all matching names if a "ask" service returns 2xx. So you can basically do really easy custom subdomains for people using your application […]

Was jokingly nerd sniping a friend, and then failed my own WIL check and put together my own mini rack. Bit top heavy so either need some temporary weight in the bottom or to move things around a bit, but kinda fun mini project to put together. (and cleans up […] [Original post on social.tsun.co]

Another feature I would like for #homeassistant would be to provision dashboards similar to in #grafana via a directory https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/administration/provisioning/#dashboards Then I could more easily manage some of those in source config. An alternative would be a […]

Not seeing a good way to do it yet, but for #homeassistant I would often like a way to setup an Entity Card, but instead of manually putting every entity, give it a label to show all the entities with that label 🤔

There is a #phenomenon where a person successful in one area decides to focus their #energies on an unrelated area, to the detriment of their more successful work. Michael Jordan, a #Basketball wizard, decided to try to become a professional #baseball player. He (to use a technical term) […]

Packaging Django in 2025 https://paultraylor.net/blog/2025/packaging-django-in-2025/ #django

Sad news. Maru, the internet’s most beloved cat, is gone at 18 years old. We watched his videos for most of his life. He was a unique treasure and most certainly not an ordinary cat. #maru http://youtube.com/post/UgkxzuNkLoPL5e4nSTqR1zIdfP5pX2nV6NGT?si=mL-Pnw6fdKZWSjyn

As developers spread out from #GitHub and experiment more with #forgejo and #codeberg and others, perhaps we can also rethink `dependabot` and PRs and changelogs full of ‘bumped’ dependencies. May we think of new ideas and new solutions so that we’re not spammed with unactionable update […]

It seems as if Github is unwilling to remove or disable their "AI" tooling, even for users who have explicitly and repeatedly asked for this. Would it be possible to create a big, malicious usage spike, that would basically be doing the thing they seem to want us all to do (consume lots of the […]

https://xkcd.com/2347/ recursion

My old #django packaging post was 2021. I should probably update it with my current version using #uv and #justfile https://paultraylor.net/blog/2021/packaging-a-django-application/

I am sure there are lots of flaws with this idea but it would be SO GREAT to have a gov.uk equivalent for schools websites, with design patterns and content modules that have been tried and tested so that useful information for parents and students was shared in a findable and consistent way.

BBC Breakfast this morning had a long segment about the 30th anniversary of Windows 95. So what vintage computer did they put in the studio as a handy prop? #windows95

While I am *NOT* planning on doing my own electrical (requires a licensed electrician here and I don’t have experience with that part of wiring), while brainstorming something I was curious to see what the inside of a breaker looks like. Thanks to internet […] [Original post on social.tsun.co]

Brainstorming django-uv https://paultraylor.net/blog/2025/brainstorming-django-uv/ #django

if logger output you wish to see solve my configuration flag riddles three

The greatest thing capitalism has ever done was convince you that your fatigue, depression, and other responses to the capitalist system are actually your personal failures.

Have to admit feeling a bit of Schadenfreude over the android sideloading news. The amusement of Android users trying to hold moral superiority over iPhone users when Google is a huge corporation just like Apple, and corporations always want more and more control.

Published my #saltstack wrapper for #uv A basic stub but will likely tidy it up a bit more later https://codeberg.org/kfdm/salt-uv https://pypi.org/project/salt-uv This is done as part of my home lab cleanup/refresh.

"Sideloading" is the rentseeker word for "being able to run software of your choosing on a computing device you purchased". There is no reasonable case for an operating system developer having a say over what programs you run on your hardware. #android #google