This week has been both incredibly busy, but also frustrating vague on things I can share. It doesn’t help that I’ve had a cold kicking my ass for the last few days.¹ The fact that spring is here, kicking my seasonal allergies into overdrive isn’t great …

This week in the world of Daniel:

• Released two new versions of django-quotes. Those are focused around making the app more flexible for lots of users, and some developer help with typing annotations.
• Released a new cookiecutter template for my preferred setup for Django packages. This will make starting up …

Python 3.10 introduced several improvements for type hints, including a much more concise Union operator. This means that instead of using:

def square(number: Union[int, float]) -> Union[int, float]:
    return number ** 2

You can instead write this:

def square(number: int | float) -> int | float:
    return number ** 2

The …

This week in the world of Daniel:

• I updated my quote service project to use my reusable django-quotes app. This should make maintenance easier. Since this is a backwards-incompatible change, I also updated ewdiscordbot and ewtwitterbot to use the new API endpoints.

• Speaking of django-quotes, I put out a couple …

I was hacking on my quote service the other day, and notice that Read the Docs wasn’t building my module level documentation, which meant that anyone that wanted to look at said modules in more detail was getting a 404 error. One option was to simply make running make …

Here’s the scenario you find yourself in: you’ve built and deployed a cool little Django app, and successfully deployed it on Heroku. You’ve followed all the great advice out there and are using django-environ to help manage all the various configuration variables you have to retrieve from …

There comes a time in every young man’s life when he begins to neglect his digital lawn, and the weeds grow so thick you wouldn’t think there was any home there at all. Such has been the state of Ministry for the last …

This site is now powered by Octopress. The tentacles compell you!

The Search

As I mentioned in my previous post, I’ve been looking to try out a new CMS for this site. The reasons were myriad, and they were all discussed in the aforementioned post …

Bleach is a rather clever Python module for sanitizing HTML input and auto-linking URLs. It uses a whitelist for the allowed elements and attributes (thank God), and will avoid trying to “linkify” URLs that are already within an anchor element. The way it pulls this off is to build an …

After lots of hard work, some swearing, and lots of patience on the part of my wife, Version 3.0 of this site is now live. It’s been a long journey, but getting it done has been very satisfying.

A Little History

When I first switched to using my …