here's a little bash script that you can put in your precommit to make sure your commit on your django project is not introducing untranslated strings (assuming all the strings you care about are already gettext wrapped)

agent llms change programming from a greedy activity of deep concentration and flow to a casual activity that is not just full of interruptions, but is interruptible: entirely different regimes of attention.

i was annoyed there are no really safe and robust formatters for django html templates. so, i thought about it this weekend, and, even in the restricted case it would require a formatter that could solve the halting problem. the very restricted case might be still be worth doing though.

djlint got really far, and many thanks to chris pickering for it! i hope that @djangoproject.com or astral.sh might consider picking it up.

always intrigued when i interact with a professional under 60 who is bad at email. like, what has your life looked like?

selfishly, i would prefer it if we didn't fuck up the sleep schedules of small children twice a year for basically no reason.

if i think about halloween candy long enough, i will, against my will, eventually think about agnes callard. that's branding!

i wrote a lot of good code this week.

only one’s spouse should be allowed to call. no voice calls before marriage.

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@davidhuerta-seiu.bsky.social is on here!

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i'm at a stage in my life where i find myself considering organizing a multi-year fundraiser for a playground that could be built in five years.

2025 is the year mr. frumble catches his hat.

one thing i didn't know about spirit halloween is that it's mainly for grown people.

i did it. i made the apple strudel.

here's the deal with ebikes: 15% of the thrill of motorcycles, but at only 2% of the social opprobrium

i've seen enough. huntrix costumes will be the plurality of the 2025 halloween costumes in ann arbor michigan.

postgres's trigram operators are so powerful.

ancient greek when the bard started in on another tale of the odyssey: not this same fucking IP again

i'm reading peter friedlander's /the emergence of a uaw local, 1936-1939/ and it's as good as @gabrielwinant.bsky.social says. i'm once again struck about the way that union organizers are a kind of applied sociologists (though of 1950s small-group dynamics school).

i helped a group of people come to a decision they were ready to make today, even though they didn't think they were.

every job posting is like: looking for someone passionate about AI ethics & responsibility to come research building more AI so my donors can make more money. funded by our friendly genocidaires. dream job alert!

combobox's are so common and important, they should have native support in html5. that's my opinion.

htmx + django is very nice.

A *lot* of people out for No Kings in Ferndale, Michigan. Packed for blocks and blocks up and down Woodward both ways from Nine Mile

stretched for well over a mile

i set up cloudflare for labordata.bunkum.us to blunt aggressive scraping (very silly since the full datasets are available for download). anyway, amusingly, i am having to disable many sensible cloudflare rules meant to avoid sql injection because the whole point of datasette is sql injection.

is the argument in broadview that the state should brutalize its people so that feds don't brutalize those same people?

saw two jugglers get into a political disagreement in the group chat and resolve it amicably: a new hope.

if you want to look up the union avoidance consultants around you, labordata has data for you. 1. labordata.bunkum.us/lm10 2. labordata.bunkum.us/lm20

New roundup of reported activity by Florida's union avoidance consultants and the employers that hire them, often at rates of $275+/hour, to convince workers against forming a union caringclassrevolt.substack.com/p/busted-wha...

they are teaching covey's seven habits in the elementary school, which i feel neutral to mildly bad about. but at the level of jokes, it is pretty funny to hear a five-year-old talk about "sharpening the saw"

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AWS has created billions of dollars of value by being hard to use.

if you use pip, you can just use uv, but if you use uv, you cannot just use pip. that seems a bit rude to me.

if you need to do a lot of operations over sets without many possible number of elements, then bit-twiddling can be a lot faster than python's standard sets. (over 80% faster on my machine for this example)

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more like pawpaganda.

did i set a set a PR or did strava gak up: the perennial question.

this is a huge win for the cause of labor.

my spiritual development is hindered by how easily i fall asleep.

just one more level of indirection, bro.

mods? mods!

the @nlrbgov.bsky.social website is down. if you need case information, you can get it labordata.bunkum.us/nlrb-42efed7 the data is current as of september 14, 2025

i hope that someday we will have an asynchronous django that’s good enough we can stop using celery.

Any government that uses the methods of empire on the domestic population is fascistic. But if your ideology supports projecting nationalism and imperialism abroad, then you own a piece of what happens when they inevitably return home.

Governor Whitmer of Michigan has announced Transgender Empowerment Month in Michigan for the month of October 2025. We won’t mislead you, this statement does not directly enact law or policy for additional safeguards in the state. But at a time when America’s transgender community is facing… 1/3

who has written about the what the cultural adaptations to photography in the 19th and 20th century can tell us about how to think about LLMs? seems like that too posed fundamental questions about what it means to be a creator.