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If you make a device where an internal wire is attached solely by its solder joints, you are a bad person and deserve a bad day! 🙈 In related news, I fixed the temperature sensor on my son's baby monitor 🙌

Typo of the day: "bureaucrazy"

In today's instalment of "#django is confusing": transaction.on_commit. Consider this code - when does the on_commit fire (and "on commit" print)? A, B, C?

A code snippet with the following code:

from django.db import transaction
from functools import partial

with transaction.atomic():
print("before")
with transaction.atomic():
print("Before inner")
transaction.on_commit(partial(print, "on commit"))
print("After inner")
# A
print("after")
# B
# C

It's midday on a Monday, and I've already triaged 13 #security reports for #django. 10 raised in the space of 20 minutes by a single reporter. Not a single one was legitimate. I don't think this "AI Security" thing is really making life better.

After over a year in the works, I finally deployed my new website last night Same content, new platform. And no more CMS. theorangeone.net/posts/not-so...

My not-so-static new static website

It's been 3.5 years since I last did this, so it's clearly about that time - time I rewrote my website. If you're reading this post, it's on a brand new custom built platform to serve my website. Unde...

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Earlier today my server ran out of disk space. It's amazing how much fails when there's nowhere to write to - Proxmox won't even let you delete VMs. Turns out I had some hefty ZFS snapshots. A few deletes later, and it was 80GB lighter. Retention tweaked to stop this happening again.

Woke up to a parking ticket after I forgot to pay for parking for one day of a 5-day event. That's what I get for being in a rush. Happy Saturday to me!

Now leaving Athens tired but fulfilled. A great time at @djangocon.eu, catching up with friends old and new, and ticking some sights off the bucket list 🙌 20% of talks mentioned Tasks, which still feels crazy - I can't believe the community response ❤️ Until next time...

The problem with being on the Security team at a conference is you're terrified to check your email in case there are some shoulder surfers around who catch a glimpse of an unreleased vulnerability 🙈 #djangoconeurope

I was on an episode of @djangochat.bsky.social - it was great! 🤩 Security, Tasks, Wagtail and more! theorangeone.net/talks/django... On YouTube, and wherever you get your podcasts.

Django Tasks - Django Chat #200

I was invited to an episode of Django Chat, to chat about Django Tasks, the Security Team and much more. <aside> I'm well aware that a podcast isn't really a "talk", but it's appropriate enough. </asi...

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Athens here I come 🛫 #djangoconeurope

Cleared out my car today ready for selling. This is what I found: - Multiple wooden sporks - A Lidl receipt from 2022 (just after I bought it) - 2 unopened bags of M4 bolts - A roll of wrapping paper - A roll of dog poo bags - 3 broken coathangers I need to deep clean my car more often... 🙈

First run through of my @djangocon.eu talk is looking pretty good, and hitting the timings almost perfectly. A few tweaks, and it'll be ready - 13 whole days early!

> If you have not received contact within the next 24 working hours What does that even mean!? 1 working day? ~3 working days? 3 days?

The exact definition of my job is, complicated. In the best possible way. For example, last week I ran A/V for an internal event, streamed live on Zoom. theorangeone.net/posts/tbx-sp...

Torchbox Spring Event 2026 A/V

A few times a year, everyone at Torchbox (my employer) gets together in person to hear updates about the company and its strategy from various members of the team (or "co-owners"). Those in the UK are...

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The @wagtail.org security team no longer accepts GPG-encrypted reports. GPG adds a lot of burden to manage, and it's just not worth it for us. wagtail.org/blog/wagtail...

Wagtail Security team no longer accepts GPG-encrypted emails | Wagtail CMS

You can still report Wagtail security issues via email — just not with GPG.

wagtail.org

After I saw someone complain they recently fixed their backup prunes, I went to check mine - and they were broken too 🙈 And had been for around a year. A quick fix and some manual prunes later, and my backups are 130GB lighter 🙌

I'm not really a of AI at the best of times, but the recent unnecessarily hostile drama against the author of Booklore honestly makes me kinda embarrassed to call myself a "self-hoster" 🙈 I'll be keeping an eye on the fork and hope it gains some traction. www.reddit.com/r/selfhosted...

From the selfhosted community on Reddit: PSA: Think hard before you deploy BookLore

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