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Jake Howard 🍊 @RealOrangeOne
Joined May 2015
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I'm done with Twitter. You can find me on the 🐘 or the πŸ¦‹ site! theorangeone.net/posts/im-do…

I'm done with Twitter

Yep, that's it, it's finally happened: I'm done with Twitter. Since it's purchase by Elon Musk back in around October 2022, Twitter (I refuse to call it X) has slowly (or in some cases not-so-slowly)...

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I wish I could get away with as informative updates as @soundcoreaudio.
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Sad to say I won't be at @DjangoConEurope this year 😭 It's 2 months away and the FOMO is already setting in. On the plus side, after much stress, I'll hopefully have recently completed on a house by then! πŸ₯³ And I'm already working on some @djangocon ideas...
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Turns out the famous Xiaomi BLE temperature sensors don't like being outside for over a year. In unrelated news, it appears I live in a kettle... πŸ₯΅
A temperature sensor reading 129.9 degrees celcius and 99% humidity.

ALT A temperature sensor reading 129.9 degrees celcius and 99% humidity.
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The latest version of @WagtailCMS ships with `django-tasks` installed! πŸ₯³ The first step in major adoption! wagtail.org/blog/wagtail-64/ Go forth, and find all my bugs!

Enjoy a smoother content experience with Wagtail 6.4 | Wagtail CMS

Our newest features help you create and organize quality content even faster

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And off they go - 2 CfPs submitted for @DjangoConEurope!
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First day back at work, and I was met with: - 1013 unread emails - 81 Slack notifications across 2 organisations - 631 system updates Happy 2025 to me!
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Recently discovered that I need to completely rewrite a personal project in the next 26 days since one of the core dependencies goes EoL...
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2024 is over. As is tradition, here's what my server looks like going into 2025: theorangeone.net/posts/state…

State of the Server 2025

My server(s) play a fairly important part in my life. Not only is it where a number of critical services I use are hosted, but it's also where my most important files are stored. For a long time,...

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For possibly the last time this year, there's a new django-tasks release. Just a few bugfixes to end the year nicely. Go give it a try: pypi.org/project/django-task…

django-tasks

An implementation and backport of background workers and tasks in Django

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Well, it's nearly the end of the year. I thought I'd try something new and look back on how it's been: theorangeone.net/posts/jake-… #YearInReview

Jake versus 2024

2024 is nearly over, and for me it's been a crazy, life-changing year. At the start of the year, I told myself I wanted to make some big changes. Write more, get fitter, join more communities, catch...

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My upcoming "2024 recap" post is currently weighing in at over 3000 words... This is turning into of the longest posts I've written in a long time!
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My latest project: Putting ambient lighting behind my TV ✨ theorangeone.net/posts/wled-…

Making my TV glow with WLED

RGB LEDs can be added to pretty much anything. Some places, like your car or your vacuum, it's probably not more than a gimmick. But in others, like your computer or "battlestation", it can bring an...

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I voted βœ… in the @djangoproject Steering Council elections! The candidates this year are incredibly strong. Quite a few common themes in people's statements though. This is going to be an interesting few years for Django... djangoproject.com/weblog/202…
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Excited to announce I'm running for the #Django 6.x Steering Council! πŸ₯³
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Thank you to our 12 candidates for the Django 6.x Steering Council elections! djangoproject.com/weblog/202… We’re elated to see so many stellar contributors rise to the challenge πŸš€ Now time to vote! #python #django
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Apparently someone opened my website today using the Steam in-game overlay browser...
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It's new post day! ✨ theorangeone.net/posts/self-…

Self-hosting Bluesky

Bluesky is quickly becoming the "hot new" social network, growing by almost 1.6 users every second. "Recent events" have lead to a fairly large Twitter exodus, and people looking elsewhere seem to...

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It's been that kind of a week... Spending hours fighting with unit tests, only to reproduce it as an incredibly niche bug in Django πŸ™ˆ code.djangoproject.com/ticke…

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No prizes for guessing when my backups run... (And by extension, the period of time my website was down because the server was too busy dealing with other things. Another job for the list)
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Following some great comments from the upstreaming PR, there's a new django-tasks release! Featuring: - Python 3.13 support - Don't enforce UUIDs for task IDs - Rename "completed" to "succeeded" tasks - Simplify exception serializing for more coverage pypi.org/project/django-task…

django-tasks

An implementation and backport of background workers and tasks in Django

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