andrew

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andrew, 1 month ago to random

The best part about the London mayoral election? That the massively racist party (Britain First) are so unpopular that they were beaten by a man with a bin on his head (Count Binface).

andrew, 1 month ago to random

I am here! Very curious what Colorado's most (in)famous restaurant is like now.

andrew, 1 month ago to random

I have created a video that is ostensibly a travelogue about seeing the eclipse, but which is also a bit of a delve into taking the path less travelled. I would be delighted if you watched it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pba7IXuDnc

ehmatthes, 2 months ago to random

Here's my take on the single-file Django project:

https://www.mostlypython.com/django-from-first-principles-part-2/

bitprophet, 2 months ago to random

ME: phew, ok that was entirely too much Pennsylvania to drive across, let’s not do that again anytime soon.

NEXT MONTH: leering in Pittsburgh PyCon

webology, 2 months ago to random

Friends, get off the Internet for ~10 minutes and go stare into the Sun, but "SAFELY."

andrew, 2 months ago to random

I have now counted at least five news crews plus one news helicopter. This is a small town whose normal population is 6,000 people!

andrew, 2 months ago to random

Got to Houlton hours early, so I popped over to Canada to see the World's Longest Covered Bridge. I have to say, it is impressively long.

andrew, 2 months ago to random

Well it turned out I arrived into Boston just as an overheight truck tried to enter a tunnel it really didn't fit in, so I got to enjoy the environs of the airport around an hour longer than I was expecting. I have successfully escaped, though, and am on my way to try a highly rated burger place!

andrew, 2 months ago to random

Have arrived in Boston, which is somehow my first time in New England. So far the weather is reminding me very much of "Old" England.

andrew, 2 months ago to random

For reasons I won't go deep into, I have discovered that there are only six monorails still in operation in the USA, which implies a grand tour of all of them is very doable.

andrew, 2 months ago to random

I did not realise that the Amazon Go/Fresh "just walk out" technology was in fact significantly powered by a thousand people in India manually labelling things. And now it turns out that they can't actually close the automation gap, they're ditching it as it's too expensive? https://gizmodo.com/amazon-reportedly-ditches-just-walk-out-grocery-stores-1851381116

andrew, 2 months ago to random

Redid my aviation weather map of Colorado in a 16x20 inch shadowbox frame, and expanded it to cover the whole state, which is conveniently the same shape.

I picked the top fifteen airports by size and then a few more to get decent geographic coverage. Just in time for spring thunderstorm season!

andrew, 2 months ago to random

Since it's in Django News this week I should probably mention I put up a library for writing single-file ("Flask style") Django applications: https://github.com/andrewgodwin/django-singlefile

It's not a lot of code, but it lets me quickly go use Django's templates, forms and generic views easily for things that don't need a backing database. You can see the app I'm developing with it here: https://github.com/andrewgodwin/emf-equipment/

wsvincent, 2 months ago to random

This is soooo cool from @andrew

A Flask-inspired way to just get up and going with Django. If Flask can hide complexity, why can't we? Love it. Very cool all the magic is in an init.py file.

https://github.com/andrewgodwin/django-singlefile

andrew, 2 months ago to random

If anyone who follows me is interested, I am hiring operations/SRE-type people for my team at work - happy to chat about the job, my team, the company and the culture if you drop me a note either here or at my work email (andrewg at lambdal.com): https://boards.greenhouse.io/lambda/jobs/5922125003

andrew, 2 months ago to random

Why does my house's sump pump always fail at the most inconvenient times?

Anyway, the spare I keep next to it is now installed, and a new spare is on order. This one lasted two years, three months.

andrew, 2 months ago to random

Trying to find good task dispatch/inventory/location software for EMF is tricky; we fall somewhere in between "trade contractor" and "emergency response" in terms of what we need, and pricing never works out well for "we have 100 users but only for a week every two years".

If you know of anything relatively cheap or free that might fit the bill, feel free to let me know; I really, really want to avoid writing something custom.

andrew, 3 months ago to random

Plotting my Solar Eclipse trip for April and while I know my general choice (I'm going to Maine, and doing Acadia NP at the same time), I'm split whether I should fly into Boston and drive up or if I should have a day in NYC and then fly up...