Imagine this: after sitting on some dinner for 2 hours, you notice that two random folks joined your #Spotify Jam on some TV you had no idea existed, playing music with your account (and scrobbling to your Last.FM by that).

And it's apparently not a security breach nor leaked password.

It's just an "interesting" bug in Spotify's Jam functionality.

Imagine you take a shower and some folk 500km away changes your music playing in the background because of this 🫠

See: https://community.spotify.com/t5/Other-Podcasts-Partners-etc/My-Spotify-has-started-randomly-sending-jams-to-people-near-me/td-p/6693543

#TIL: If you work with complex domain, you should start with proper model of that domain.

If the model is missing, no amount of scripts or workarounds will make the code readable.

(yep, I've been reading a book on #DDD recently)

Have you ever seen the typing.overload decorator in the wild and wondered what it's actually for?

I wrote a short blog post explaining the problem it solves and how to use it in practice. 🐍

https://borutzki.github.io/2026/02/07/how-to-use-overloaded-signatures-in-python.html

#Python #programming #DailyPythonista

Debugger is fun and stuff but sometimes it's just faster to dump Django ORM data to a JSON, skim through it, apply fixes and forget about the topic.

Here's how to do that programmatically, e.g. during TestCase execution.

#Django #Python #programming #DailyPythonista #TDD

https://borutzki.github.io/2026/01/25/how-to-dump-django-orm-data-to-json-while-debugging.html