Also available in SF: the largest donut I've ever seen in my life.

The beauty of being in San Francisco: wanting Japanese curry for dinner, looking at the options, and finding that there's a great place just two minutes from the hotel.

It's official - `django.tasks` exists! Coming soon to @djangoproject.com 6.0. 585 days later, the first step (of many) in Django's background tasks journey is finally complete! 🥳 theorangeone.net/posts/django...

Had a really lovely time in Chicago at DjangoCon US - delighted to be returning here next year. It has really been elevated in my view the past week into one of the true Big Cities of the USA.

Also, who calls a town Gary?

Popped out of DjangoCon for a few hours to visit my 26th US National Park - Indiana Dunes. It's quite something to stand on what feels like a seashore and see the skyline of Chicago floating on the horizon.

It has somehow been twelve years since I was last in Chicago, but it is a lovely time of year to be here, and I am already enjoying the weather, an actually functioning public transport system, and this giant one-bedroom apartment that was somehow the cheap option.

Inherited an unfinished drone that was missing some of its motor mounts. Redesigned them in Fusion, built a water bath, machined carbon fibre for the first time ever, all to discover... the polycarbonate 3D printed alternatives I designed are just as strong and within 1g of their weight.

Are there any other good pluggable-reconciliation-loop frameworks that aren't Kubernetes? (Where you can use entirely custom CRDs/controllers but it's pushing it a bit). I find it odd there's not other obvious ones out there considering how nice it is as a code architecture...

I know I left it way too late to book a hotel room for DjangoCon US, but what is up with every single hotel in downtown Chicago being $400/night that week?!

While it does suck for my flight to be delayed 3+ hours out of DEN due to the usual afternoon thunderstorms, watching ATC carefully stack all the planes over the mountains and then release them around the storm cells is fun.

The new Naked Gun has so many great background jokes it definitely needs at least a second viewing. And some really nice nods to the originals.

Back in SF for a very brief visit and I feel like the AI billboards along the 101 are reaching near-critical levels.

A hotel nearby has had this on its sign for the last three years or more and... I don't know why. It puzzles me every time I drive past.

One cat had to visit the animal hospital today to meet the oncologist (prognosis seems positive at least!). Wild experience though - got a next-day appointment, talked with oncologists and a cancer surgeon, got pathology on the tumour, and only paid $200. He's got better medical care than me!

Lovely day to take a day off and go hiking today though. Weather is very pleasant, not a lot of people on the trails, and the chipmunks were very active!

Look, it's not every day that your former workplace's CEO makes the news for bad reasons, but that makes it two times in two companies now.

Happy 20th to Django, one of the best projects and communities there is around, and something I have enjoyed using and contributing to for the past seventeen of those years. Here's to many more. www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2025/...

Since BitBucket appears to have finally just deleted everything that used to be publicly hosted, I've converted the Mercurial backups of some of the more interesting repos into Git and stuck them on GitHub. Such as South! github.com/andrewgodwin...

The caliber of the applicants for the Django Fellow position really is incredible. Over a hundred people, and it's tough to get it down to even a shortlist.

We have had at least three pairs of birds nesting around the garden this year and it's delightful. Of course, none of them are in the bird box I built.

Great job NYC!

Very much enjoying my 24th US National Park here in Yellowstone. Lovely weather for it, and just a really nice part of the world.

Was on this mission last night. Glad both people we rescued are doing alright. apnews.com/article/colo...

I have a backburner project working on finding the "most average" city in the US, but the key part of it is that cities ARE the backbone of the country. The absolute average American, by population, lives in Jacksonville, FL. 85% of the population lives in a city of 100,000 people or more!

Two weeks into returning to Linux On The Desktop and everything works great. KDE is a delight to use these days, and the customisability is just what I want. Only stumble was that Fusion 360 doesn't really work under WINE, but I have a gaming PC I can use for that.

Well the first giant thunderstorm of the season is here, and it would seem my new 10GbE switch is significantly more scared of lightning than the cats.

Still very impressed by this cheap delta printer (Flsun T1). One of these printed on the delta in 5 minutes, the other on a Bambu A1 in 25 minutes. I cannot see any real difference!

With Recall rolling out it's maybe finally time for me to go back to Linux On The Desktop. Windows was good there for a while after the start of WSL, but the enshittification is relentless.

Flying into Pittsburgh for #pyconus right now. Sad to miss the first morning, but I'd rather make some of the event rather than miss it!

I haven't been back to my old haunt of Magdalen for several years now but I am suddenly considering another visit to see if I can meet Ozzy...

My new video on YouTube is getting the best kind of feedback! (The death cable segment starts at around 27:00, but watch the whole thing if you also want vacuum chambers and giant parabolic solar mirrors) www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-5M...

I have been helping on the admin side for 3 years, but now, after four months of intensive lessons, field trainings, and a 24-hour long final field test, thrilled that my 14 classmates and I are the newest mountain rescuers in Colorado! (and remember: in the USA, mountain rescue is always free!)

And here is the video of @joelle's talk – hands-down the best talk on neurodivergence in the workplace I've seen, and a highlight of #nbpy for this year. https://youtu.be/5VZTdZhE94o Thanks again, Joelle! It was a delight to have you!

I wish I could have all my fellow people managers listen to Joelle's talk about Neurodivergent Careers here at #nbpy. A really excellent overview of perspective, accommodations, and just how to approach situations like meetings.

Current status: Doing network admin for a conference 1,000 miles away while taxiing in a plane that is inbound to said conference. (Sorry for the blip, #nbpy, we went through 50GB of data in half the time as last year)

I believe I may have an actually valid Switch 2 preorder. Though what I definitely still have is Opinions about large onsale spike handling systems from my seven years doing event ticketing...

This week's plans include practicing helicopter evacs, rope throwing, video editing, rappelling, woodworking, some electrical rewiring, and then finally flying out for one day of @northbaypython.org and meeting some of the best barn cats (and also some great people, I guess).

The Catholic Church is at times a deeply troubled institution, but Pope Francis represented the kind of kind, humble and welcoming Catholics that I grew up around. May his legacy extend for many more decades to come.

Got to the credits of Blue Prince on Day 35 and I feel I have barely scratched the surface of what's in this game.

Got my MMR titre done with my usual lab screens today and it's still reactive, so that's reassuring.

Finally back at home to relax after two weeks of bouncing around between various bits of the UK and the US. Though it looks like I totally am going to fly in just for the Sunday of @northbaypython.org...

Delta 3D printers are my favourite kind because they look the most futuristic - but I just got a modern one in (Flsun T1) and wow, is this thing fast. Still need to dial in the print quality - it's no Bambu - but I'll take this intake muffler printing in 2h30m rather than 10h30m as a tradeoff.

I have done a lot of flying but that's the first time I've had the privilege of being on a captain's final flight. Enjoy your retirement, Captain Larry!

The view from Blackfriars station is particularly great today!

It really is just perfect weather in London right now. Just cementing my view that it's one of the best cities on Earth.

I had forgotten just how big the ExCeL Centre is, now I'm back here. And I lived next to it for years!

This is a really lovely picture of one of the local mountains overlooking Denver that highlights just why I love living around here. (via Reddit: www.reddit.com/r/Denver/com...)

Proud of Denver turning out like this. Not to mention the 11,000 people that turned out in the relatively small, republican city of Greely, CO earlier in the day.

Colorado currently has a bill winding its way through the state houses that would make it only the second US state to remove "at-will" employment in favour of "no termination without just cause" - excited about this one. Will have to call some reps.