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Justin Mayer
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Open-source developer, founder, and investor. Abstractions podcast co-host (link below). Building https://fortressa.com and https://getpelican.com. Helping others with self-hosting, open source, privacy, Python, investing, Italy, Japan, and wine š·
@remi @jimniels What an eloquent description of the most satisfying aspect of software development. Bravo! We named our #Abstractions podcast after this very concept: https://shows.arrowloop.com/@abstractions
Watching clips of 1950s professional basketball players makes you realize how much players have improved over the years.
I believe the same can be said of Darwin Award contenders. https://fops.cloud/objects/a61c1c91-6c9b-430a-a638-5748e216f086
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@fallenhitokiri @webology @ehmatthes Fair on both counts. Keyboards and trackpads are great, and Iād even say the same for touch interfaces if their reliability were comparable. I do hope there continues to be innovation in input interfaces. Vision Pro is clearly not the answer, but maybe someday soon there will be a better way. One can dream.
@webology @fallenhitokiri @ehmatthes If Iām wrong about not wanting to smear finger-grease on my Macās beautiful screen, then I donāt ever want to be right š
In that podcast episode I forgot to say that I understand why some people want touch-screen Macs. I am just not one of those people. My iPhone/iPad are the target of frequent expletives due to terrible text selection and failed touch recognition. Canāt wait until weāre all using glasses or neural implants and touch UI is dead and gone. šø
@mitten Hey Laura! I just saw this post and your site, and I have to say that I am *obsessed* with your siteās design. SO good. I just added your site to my feed reader.
Iām really happy to hear that Pelican is working well for you, and I am delighted to have played a role in making the software that powers your web site. Thank you for the shout-out, which truly made my day š
mittenLots of renewed talk about static site generators 'round these parts (which is awesome), so let me do a little shoutout to Pelican https://getpelican.com @pelican
I chose this over 11ty (which I did try!) because it's written in Python, which is one of the few (the only?) languages I know(ish), and because I'm more comfortable with their upgrade schedule (more like yearly instead of what felt like weekly with 11ty - that just stresses me out - YMMV, of course).
Anyway, it's a great little SSG if the other ones out there don't float your boat. It powers my site at: https://mitten.lol
Anyone have experience with django-extra-views, positive or negative?
https://github.com/AndrewIngram/django-extra-views
For inline editing of #Django model instances related to a parent model (using a foreign key), one could use the InlineFormSetViewā¦
https://django-extra-views.readthedocs.io/en/latest/pages/formset-views.html#inlineformsetview
ā¦ but are there alternative approaches youād recommend instead?
@david_guillot @benjaoming @paulox Of the available alternatives, I think Zulip is the project most closely aligned with the Django community: fully open-source, with similar values.
In contrast, Mattermost is open-core and appears to be making questionable moves, including stripping out features from that core:
https://forum.mattermost.com/t/a-critical-response-to-mattermost-s-recent-changes/25407
Promising and then reneging isnāt great either:
https://blog.zulip.com/2023/05/04/when-free-forever-is-4-months/
@fallenhitokiri already described my concerns with Matrix, so I wonāt repeat them.
A Critical Response to Mattermostās Recent Changes
āIf advice were worth something, it would be free.ā The recent shift in Mattermostās strategy - especially with the introduction of the Entry Edition - feels like a betrayal of the open source values that built its community. By stripping away essential features like GitLab authentication, LDAP, SAML, and now imposing a 10,000-message limit per channel, Mattermost is no longer empowering teams - itās cornering them. Feature Removal: A Step Backward GitLab OAuth2 authentication was a natura...
@webology I believe iPhone mirroring came with Sequoia & iOS 18 back in 2024. It was the feature I was most excited about, but despite many attempts, it sadly never functioned reliably enough to use, so I stopped trying.
Off-air we joke about the frequent āold man yells at cloudā energy, and yet we feel the critiques are based on lived experience rather than knee-jerk rose-colored lenses.
Having a āHills to Die Onā episode does sound great. I might hit you up sometime to flesh out that idea. š