James Van Dyne

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I make ⛰ Tanzawa and ☀️ Sunbottle.
⚡️ Interested in #energy, #decarbonization, #UrbanDesign, #bikes (as transport), and the #indieweb. 
Software Engineering Lead at Kraken (Octopus Energy) in #Yokohama 🗾.
Bloghttps://jamesvandyne.com
☀️ Solarhttps://solar.jamesvandyne.com/
⛰ Tanzawahttps://github.com/jamesvandyne/tanzawa
🏃‍♂️ Every run I’ve ever madehttps://jamesvandyne.com/runs/
The Week #298

Love the people that use the toilet on the rush hour Tokaido line as a poor man’s first class/green car.
The Week #297

Ain’t no train packed like the Tokaido line after restarting after an “injury”during rush hour. 2.5 hours after leaving the office I am halfway home.
Claude Code or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Agent

Vibe coding. So hot right now. My initial reaction was to hate it. With a passion. Fuck these LLMs. But as I started asking myself "why?" I couldn't really come up with a good answer other than "bad for the environment" and some ethical concerns that honestly don't make sense given the fact that I'll easily look the other way when it benefits me. So what's up here? What's the deal.io?

Brian's Life
Leo doing Terebi-taiso. Goodonya kid.
The Week #296

Morning Run
Running commentary on the buds. Hoodie off at the end, it’s warming up in Japan. (https://jamesvandyne.com/cb4091d9-f19e-4a6f-80cb-7bc3d6baf9b4)
Morning RunRunning commentary on the buds. Hoodie off at the end, it’s warming up in Japan. - James Van Dyne

🎙️ TALK: Partitioning very large tables with Django and PostgreSQL by @timb07

Database tables in PostgreSQL cause increasing performance and maintenance issues as they grow larger. In this talk, we'll look at ways of managing those problems with partitioning, the choices available, and how to partition existing tables at Kraken scale with Django.

https://2026.djangocon.eu/tickets/

#djangocon #django #djangoconeu2026

The Week #295