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Djangocon! Exciting!
I first went to visit friends, then flew with other friends to Dublin and enjoyed three intensive days of talks, discussions and networking about Django. We also visited a few bars and drank a few beers and I really had a great time and met so many nice people. If you can make it to a Djangocon, I really recommend you do that.

We also recorded three episodes (1, 2, 3), each with a different guest speaker, about the three days and the many cool things we'd heard.

I also held a lightning talk (link pending video upload).

But now, after two weeks of absence, work has piled up and I need to get back to it...

And, of course, the plane was delayed, but that didn't matter much, since my train was delayed even more. So I get to spend another Sunday evening on train stations far away from home. What a stupid way to end these great two weeks.

Articles

• Propositional Parlor Puzzle • Buttondown
• Template literals (Template strings) - JavaScript -- MDN
• Python's new t-strings -- Dave Peck
• Getting Forked by Microsoft • Philip Laine
• Best Simple System for Now -- Dan North & Associates Limited
• [2504.05001] SILVIA: Ultra-precision formation flying demonstration for space-based interferometry
• [2503.04389] Pydrofoil: accelerating Sail-based instruction set simulators
• Magewell Eco: M.2 HDMI Capture Card – Interfacing Linux
• Pipelining might be my favorite programming language feature -- MOND←TECH MAGAZINE
• Is 1 Prime, and Does It Matter? --
• 100 words - Software Crafts
• Pipe syntax in SQL; it's time
• Thank you for holding my duck -- naml.us: saying that one method (holding vs talking to) is worse or better is disingenuous: they're tools in a set, sometimes you need to talk to the duck, sometimes you need to talk to someone holding a duck
• Self host Ente in 1 minute (1 command only!)
• This 150-Line Go Script Is Actually a Full-On Load Balancer -- HackerNoon
• An end to all this prostate trouble?

Libraries, programming, etc

• GitHub - zulip/zulip: Zulip server and web application. Open-source team chat that helps teams stay productive and focused.
• GitHub - matthiask/django-auto-admin-fieldsets: A Django utility for automatically handling unspecified fields in admin fieldsets
• GitHub - nari-labs/dia: A TTS model capable of generating ultra-realistic dialogue in one pass.
• GitHub - jazzband/django-waffle: A feature flipper for Django
• GitHub - Flagsmith/flagsmith: Flagsmith is an open source feature flagging and remote config service. Self-host or use our hosted version at https://app.flagsmith.com.
• tariff · PyPI: The GREATEST, most TREMENDOUS Python package that makes importing great again!
• GitHub - scriptogre/roast-roulette: A multiplayer couch party game where an LLM randomly roasts players' photos.: great fun when you live host this at a tech conference

Books

• The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson: I'm 300 pages into this 1100-page tome and I'm not sure whether I like it. It is high fantasy alright, but the pace is a bit slow for my taste and I can not see where it is going at all. Whelp, guess I'll have to read on...

Games

• Core Keeper: As I was sitting waiting for the plane, Dominik pulled out his Steam Deck and we looked for a multiplayer game that we could play. In the airport. We live in the future. No feeling on the game yet, as I was sitting in the airport while I played.

Backlog

• Lushfoil Sim Photography
• Stray
• Oddada
• Microtopia
• Core Keeper

Other media

• Mickey17: we went to the cinema in Dublin and watched this sci-fi-like movie by Bong Jon Ho, directory of Parasite. It was totally different from what I had expected, both visually as well as stylistically. The world they live in is much grittier than expected and the outside, though dangerous, is so much fresher. There is also a cute/spicy love story in there between Mickey and Nasha. The performances of Robert Pattinson and Mark Ruffalo are fantastic. I enjoyed it very much, 9/10.
• Terrifying final minutes of doomed Boeing 737 Max -- 60 Minutes Australia - YouTube
• Kaleidoscopico (A Demo for the Raspberry Pi Pico 2) - YouTube
• Exposing a DEEPFAKE AI Job Candidate - TRUE STORY - YouTube