Using nondeterministic collations and LIKE in Django
Published 15 August, 2024.
Some Things I Wrote
A collection of infrequent thoughts on random topics alongside solutions to very specific problems.
How to stop out-of-office replies to emails sent from Django
Published 8 April, 2024.
HTMX & Django—bringing the new school to the old school
Published 17 May, 2021.
Transliteration—helping users get data from Word or Excel into legacy systems
Published 14 March, 2021.
Renaming master to main on GitHub and Heroku
Published 3 August, 2020.
Renaming example.com, Django's Default Site
Published 26 May, 2020.
A quick note to help others using Juniper, a Rust GraphQL library
Published 19 February, 2020.
Structured Data in 2020
Published 10 January, 2020.
Rough Trade Calendar
Published 1 August, 2019.
A thing I built to stay up-to-date with events at Rough Trade.
Reducing craiga.id.au's Carbon Footprint
Published 31 July, 2019.
Becoming a Greener Web Developer
Published 21 July, 2019.
Thoughts about the climate impact of my work, and what I can do about that impact.
Outsourcing Opinions
Published 21 March, 2019.
or: how I learned to stop worrying and love smart people
Advice for attending your first open-source conference
Published 18 June, 2018.
Reflecting on DjangoCon Europe 2018
Published 29 May, 2018.
Personal highlights from my first open-source conference.
Those Years I Worked in an Ice Cream Shop
Published 22 June, 2011.
Back in the '90s, I was making waffle cones.
Weight Loss
Published 24 January, 2011.
Twitter's OAuth Implementation
Published 6 September, 2010.
Courts, Places, and Culs-de-sac
Published 11 May, 2010.
Newer Australian suburbs seemed like a good idea, but are terrible in practice.
Determining a Parabola with a Vertex and Y-Intercept
Published 12 March, 2009.
Luminance
Published 27 October, 2008.
How to determine if text displayed on top of a colour should be black or white.