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What I've been working on, talks, releases, and the occasional opinion.

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  1. How to get your issue looked at quickly

    Do the work. Add a test. Seriously.

  2. What if you don’t use Homebrew?

    I use a 2021 MacBook Pro. When I got it, I decided not to use a system package manager, specifically Homebrew, but I wasn’t in the market for MacPorts or anything else either.

  3. New talk, Know Your Limits: On Surviving Open Source

    Last week I was honoured to give a talk to the latest batch of Djangonauts.

  4. Neapolitan 24.2 release

    A quick flit publish and Neapolitan 24.2 is available on PyPI.

  5. Software Developers

    Software developers are a funny bunch.

  6. The longest year

    2023 in review.

  7. Announcing django-template-partials v23.3

    I’ve just released the new version v23.3 of django-template-partials. 🎁

  8. Introducing django-unique-user-email

    I just published the first version of a new package, django-unique-user-email.

  9. Back to School...

    It's been a pretty tough year. As I've written about before, my son has had a long running illness, that has affected him for about 18 months now.

  10. Some musings on classes

    I don’t know about you, but I write Terrible Code™, a lot.