I just published the second-to-last post in the Django from first principles series. This post focuses on deployment, my favorite part of working with Django. :)

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Django from first principles, part 19

MP 118: Deploying a simple Django project. Note: This is the 19th post in a series about building a full Django project, starting with a singl...

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I can't tell if I enjoy refactoring so much because I have a tendency to write messy exploratory code, or if I write messy exploratory code because I enjoy refactoring. :blobthinkingeyes:

Kamala Harris was fantastic to watch last night. But we also *finally* got to see members of the media refuse to just allow anything and everything Trump said to go unchallenged. Journalists could have been doing this all along, and we'd probably be in a lot better place right now. I've appreciated the journalists who have stood up to Trump over the last 8(!)+ years, but they've been too few and too far between.

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It's well-known that people are throwing AI at just about everything these days. Some of that is good, but a lot of it just makes things worse. I think it's important to help people who make decisions understand that part of their job is to keep AI at arm's length. Hey, that's a great title for an article!

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It's your job to keep AI at arm's length

MP 111: Don't throw away hard-earned trust in a rush to embrace AI. The AI hype cycle is continuing to run its course, and will likely do so for s...

I ended up getting a 6' UpLift desk, and I absolutely love it. I started with two heights set, one for sitting and one for standing. Then I realized I wanted an intermediate height for when I'm annotating printed articles. It's so nice to find the right height, hit a save button, and be able to hop between these different settings throughout the day.