Joined June 2020
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Added a new widget to django-pint-field today which shows a table of conversions to each unit in unit_choices right in the form in addition to the selected magnitude and unit. Take a look ๐Ÿ˜ƒ github.com/jacklinke/django-โ€ฆ
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Ever tried to use htmx along with DataTables? There are two issues that trip new users up: 1. Getting dynamically-created content with "hx-" atributes to work. 2. Getting the table to update its contents when a form is submitted. Hopefullyโ€ฆ social.jacklinke.com/@jack/1โ€ฆ
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Hubby is on a Harry Potter marathon, and it got me thinking about the witches of American Horror Story, so I made this Mashup meme ๐Ÿ˜†
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I've been away a few weeks due to a huge amount of work I needed to get done, and of course the holidays ๐Ÿ˜„ Hope you all enjoyed some time with friends and family โค๏ธ One of the things I recently worked on is django-pint-field, aโ€ฆ social.jacklinke.com/@jack/1โ€ฆ
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Jack Linke ๐ŸŒˆ retweeted
โœ๏ธ New post with some patterns-to-avoid with Django settings This is an extract from my book Boost Your Django DX, which has a 50% discount for its Black Friday sale. adamj.eu/tech/2022/11/24/djaโ€ฆ
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Sometimes open source is frustrating ๐Ÿ˜” But this article by ๐Ÿ˜willmcgugan@mastodon.social is a fantastic reminder of some of the reasons open source is also awesome as a learning resource and as a way to interact with the world. Go steal his code! Andโ€ฆ social.jacklinke.com/@jack/1โ€ฆ
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The Pulse nightclub shooting was what finally pushed me to come out. The realization that so many #lgbt folks taken during that shooting and in a myriad of other terrible events around the world would never be able to live out their livesโ€ฆ social.jacklinke.com/@jack/1โ€ฆ
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I never did an actual #introduction Toot ๐Ÿ˜ฌ so here goes. I'm Jack! Pronouns are he/him Much of my spare time is spent building/administering Watervize (watervize.com), which uses #django #postgres and other tools. I am a PSF Contributingโ€ฆ social.jacklinke.com/@jack/1โ€ฆ

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I'm constantly learning about topics like GIS, graph theory, discrete mathematics, business processes, etc ๐Ÿค“. Sometimes I speak in public on topics related to tech. I have #ADHD, so my life is a mess, but somehow I manage. I'm a USMCโ€ฆ social.jacklinke.com/@jack/1โ€ฆ
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Added a new TIL on extending django-grappelli's admin index to add a list of our tenants and links to their sites. It has already been super helpful in increasing our awareness/productivity in administering the site. The same technique can be usedโ€ฆ social.jacklinke.com/@jack/1โ€ฆ
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This seems really weird... Just got followed by: ๐Ÿ˜cute_cat@social.jacklinke.com ๐Ÿ˜onevery.ignorelist.com@social.jacklinke.com I'm the only one that account is following. What is this? Some sort of bot?
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Here's the profile. Weird, right?
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Well, that came across weird. The account is: @ cute_cat@ onevery.ignorelist .com
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Have any of y'all ever deleted a Production server while removing/organizing old nodes and services? Yeah... me neither. Was just asking for a friend. ๐Ÿ˜…
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Also, because I'm a professionalยฉ๏ธ these days, some advice to all you tech newbs: The 4 B's of survival in tech as told by Jack (who totally did NOT delete production ๐Ÿ˜ค )... - Backups - haveanotherBackup - makesuretheBackupsaresolid - maybekeepanotherBackupunderyourpillow ๐Ÿ‘
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Tried the Mastodon Android app. Meh. ๐Ÿ˜ Tried Tusky. Not bad! ๐Ÿ‘ Tried the latest Mastodon version PWA. Yup. That's the one! ๐ŸคŒ
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Can't even view my own profile on bird site ๐Ÿคก
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Anyone know? ๐Ÿค” Is it possible to use mkdocstrings to pull in the docstrings of an external repo? For instance, if you use github pages and want to use an organization type site instead of a project site, it requires creating an additional repoโ€ฆ social.jacklinke.com/@jack/1โ€ฆ
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Jack Linke ๐ŸŒˆ retweeted
๐Ÿ“ˆ Sponsor Django to keep it moving forwards! You can set sponsorship up in one minute on GitHub sponsors.
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