Eric Matthes

One of the actual joys of homeownership is finding yourself in the world of appliance-repair videos. Sometimes they're made by people on the clock, and sometimes they're made by people just sharing what they know. Today I replaced the rubber boot on our washing machine drum, all thanks to this fantastic and very no-nonsense, non-enshittified video:

In a couple talks now, I've claimed that using django-simple-deploy should be a good way for experienced developers to try out a new hosting platform. Before this morning, I had never actually used Render. I started reading the docs in order to help a new plugin author, but I quickly stopped and just tried their plugin. It worked, and it was *so much easier* to run `git diff` and see what changes the plugin made to my sample project. #Python #Django