• Re: Ode to my flip phone

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    Reading Ode to my flip phone reminded me of Frank in You've Got Mail, singing the praises of his typewriter as everyone is getting computers and getting online. Society, for better or worse, has picked a new technological successor and the old ways – your flip phone, your typewriter, will eventually disappear.

    But this line – this line hit me hard.
    And by privacy I don’t mean cookies or my Social Security number or whatever—I mean the fragile sphere of imagination in which I exist when I’m not diddling about online. I mean what’s left of my nondigital self. When I clack your two halves shut, you glorious techno-mollusk, that’s it. Sauron cannot see me.
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    Tried the @pycharm Code With Me feature today editing some Markdown with a co-worker. It's great for code, but doesn't handle Japanese input cleanly. Cursor jumped and deleted text randomly.
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    A bit worried I've spent so much time focusing on features in Tanzawa so I could get my blog off Wordpress that there's bugs in the non-happy paths. So I think my next focus is going increasing quality. 

    Finished the first s step: integrating my tox setup ( pytest, typecheck, and flake8 linting) into GitHub actions, so I can no longer merge if things are failing. Next step is to fix my typecheck errors and root out some bugs I've been running into recently (with tests!)

    Once it's passing and the major bugs have been finished, I think I'm going to make a public release for developers / technically inclined people.

  • Response to We’ve all been there: on boolean environment variables.

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    Environment values are strings. True becomes "True" and False becomes "False".

    And, well, what does "False" evaluate to? True. True.
    I think the best way to handle settings with Django is to use django-environ.  Not only does it handle .env files. It also has a lot of utility methods for converting values to native python types ( bool, list etc..) and using database urls. It's great.

    My airbot settings.py uses it. My airbot settings also lets you specify the path for your .env with the ENV_FILE environment variable, so you can create different files for different environments.
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    Managed to spend an hour on the bike today. Feel much better. Kinda want to add a small cargo e-bike to the fleet but it’s too soon.
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