Turns out Syncthing gets very unhappy if something syncs its `.stfolder` to other devices, and syncs changes out from under it. In _totally unrelated_ news, I've got a few shares to completely destroy and re-add to my devices... 😰

First it was AWS, now it's Azure! Big Cloud aren't having a good couple weeks... x.com/AzureSupport...

Tonights dinner from Deliveroo: £33 The exact same meal, ordered direct for collection: £23 #SupportLocalBusiness is one thing, but I'm saving 30% for a 5 minute drive too!

DST is a lie when you have kids - they don't know you're meant to have an extra hour in bed. They just get up when they feel like it and demand you be ready for it

In April, Minio nerfed their web interface on the free version. Last week, they stopped building the free version entirely, requiring you to build it yourself: github.com/minio/minio/... The very second Forgejo ships their Terraform backend, I'll be burning my Minio install with fire!

Hetzner have some new pricing tiers, presumably corresponding to CPU refreshes. So I get a CPU bump _and_ a price drop? Sign me up! www.hetzner.com/news/new-clo...

After over 4 months of development, django-tasks 0.9.0 is out! 🥳 - Django 6.0 support - RQ optimisations - Dropped `enqueue_on_commit` support - A number of renames and refactors to match upstream Django A small set of changes, but one of the largest diffs to date! github.com/RealOrangeOn...

Despite self-hosting it, I can't access my Bluesky account through the browser, because bsky.app is hosted on AWS, and their PDS doesn't expose a typical web interface. For a fully self-hosted (and decentralised) social media platform, Mastodon is the way to go. theorangeone.net/posts/self-h...

Happy Monday to everyone except `us-east-1` - everyone's favourite single point of failure.

The Smart Home must grow!

On Sunday, I, and several of my @torchbox.com colleagues ran the Oxford Half Marathon to raise money for Breast Cancer Now 🏃 theorangeone.net/posts/oxford...

My @pyconuk.org talk is now available on YouTube! 🥳 theorangeone.net/talks/forcef...

My @pyconuk.org talk is done! 🥳 Now I can enjoy the rest of the conference! (Slides and recording to follow)

You should never update firmware over hotel WiFi. But I did, and my travel router is alive again! 🥳

On a packed train on the outskirts of London, heading to @pyconuk.org 🥳 Hopefully see some folks there tomorrow! 👋

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...

First draft of my @pyconuk.org slides finished this afternoon. Now just practising and polishing.

In my continuing journey to Terraform everything, my latest victim has been my home's DNS, using AdguardHome: theorangeone.net/posts/terraf...

New house, and my server is back to running over powerline 😭 Might have to start taking a closer look at some of these walls...

It's been a long few weeks, with my spare time spent a very long way from a computer, and there's still more work to go. But, as of last weekend: I'm a homeowner 🥳

I'm @djangoproject.com DSF member of the (last) month! 😱 🥰 www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2025/...

Life goal completed: We bought a house! 🏡 Picked the keys up on Friday 🥳 Now the painting, decorating and cleaning starts... 🙈

My website, now brought to you over HTTP/3 🙌

Firewalls are great. Stateless firewalls are the work of the devil. 👿 2 hours of my life I'm not getting back...

In the interest of stability and performance, I recently moved my Mastodon and Bluesky instances from my home server to their own VPS in "the cloud". theorangeone.net/posts/social...

Suspect it won't be long before NuxtJS too will be practically vendor-locked to Vercel... 🙈 They claim the direction won't be changing, but we'll see.

Just released a patch for django-tasks which fixes a bug for users with timezones disabled. pypi.org/project/djan... Timezones are hard!

After a great event, the slides (no video) from yesterday's @tailscale.com London meetup are up: theorangeone.net/talks/public...

If you're going to @tailscale.com 's London Meetup on Thursday - me too! I'll be talking about my VPN gateway setup, and an over-engineered and terrible way to get services to your tailnet.

Today I'm unveiling possibly the largest django-tasks release to date: - Database indexes ⚡ - Start signal - Add schema for multiple task attempts (without functionality) - Task context - Unique worker ids - More! A few breaking changes, so read the release notes! github.com/RealOrangeOn...

My @pyconuk.org talk was just accepted! 🥳 Now I just need to write the damn thing... 🙈

Renovate didn't tell me that my renovate container was out of date - ironic. (I was pinned to the `-slim` variants, which aren't being released any more, so it never saw an update was available)

Today is my first Father's Day, as a Father! It's been what feels like ages, but it still feels surreal to say

1 BILLION repositories on GitHub! 😱 github.com/AasishPokhre...

After years of saying I'd do it, I finally moved my domains away from Cloudflare, to Gandi! theorangeone.net/posts/replac...

📣 The DSF is hiring a Django Fellow! A paid, full-time role to help maintain Django. All the good stuff plus you'll be joining a dedicated team of Fellows 💚 Interested or know someone great? 👉 Apply by July 1: www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2025/... #Django #Python #OpenSource

You had one job, @heroku.com.

Something they don't tell you about working with SQLite and Python: Version matching. Using SQLite features released in October is a mixed bag since Python doesn't pin its SQLite version. My local env, uv, docker and CI all have different versions, despite all being Python 3.13.3 😠

Found this on a company's product page. I don't think it's quite the brag they think it is...

Spent most of the day being very confused by behaviour, only to find yet another obscure @djangoproject.com bug around multiple databases 🙈 code.djangoproject.com/ticket/36389 Don't let anyone tell you otherwise - multiple databases is hard! 😭

Professional achievement unlocked: Have to deal with a bogus CVE 🙈

Today's naming challenge: AWS have 2 caching services I'm interested in: "MemoryDB" and "Elasticache". Which one do you think stores its data in memory (ie isn't persisting)? A: Elasticache. Because of course "Memory" being in the product name has nothing to do with where the data is stored 🤦😡

If your regex is complex enough that you need to write it verbosely (with comments), you should probably be using a parser instead.

Today I published maybe largest release of django-tasks. Featuring: - An RQ backend - the first 3rd-party backend 😱 - Massive throughput improvements for SQLite users ⚡ - Auto-reloading of the database worker 🥳 - Official Django 5.2 support github.com/RealOrangeOn...

Found django-tasks in the wild: @python.org's CLA bot: github.com/psf/clabot/b... @europython.eu's internal bot: github.com/EuroPython/i... Incredible to see the project being used in the real world github.com/RealOrangeOn... 😍

Time to hide from social media for a bit in the wake of the start of #DjangoconEurope, to avoid the major #FOMO I'm feeling right now for not being there 😭 Have fun, people. See you on the other side!

On the one hand, it's be fun going to @djangocon.us later this year. On the other hand, #uspol... 🙈

[Articles] How to report a security issue in an open source project From Jacob Kaplan-Moss, how to properly report a security issue in open source. A very important issue! #djangonews jacobian.org/2025/mar/27...

Today's lesson: If your UUIDs aren't in fact Universally-Unique, bad things happen! This also goes for partition UUIDs, where my boot loader was very unhappy after I copied data to a new SSD.

I'm done with Twitter! No more bird site for me. 🐘 or 🦋 now. theorangeone.net/posts/im-don...