Python

notion-to-json

I was a big Notion user. For a while, it was my go-to for everything: project management, note-taking, knowledge bases, and a lightweight CRM. …

mastodon-to-bluesky

I’ve been using Bluesky more and more recently. It’s a pleasant enough place to post, though I’m still not entirely convinced by the …

Preparing Django documentation for LLMs

I’ve been using files-to-prompt recently to help query large codebases with LLMs, but I realised this would work just as well for documentation …

New in Python 3.13: SQLite support in dbm

Python 3.13 was released today, and it would be easy to overlook this:

“dbm.sqlite3: An SQLite backend for dbm. (Contributed by Raymond …

Django Carbon Measurement Notes

At work recently, I’ve been working on some code to measure the bandwidth required to display webpages, and from there calculate the approximate …

Using ruff for everything in VSCode

Ruff’s VSCode extension is nice, and can handle the jobs previously done by black and isort. To turn on everything, and to run this on every …

Automatic, persistent autoreload in iPython

I like that iPython can be configured to automatically reload modules. It’s useful to be able to keep REPL context through development, without …

A minimal Django application

I wanted to put together a single-file Django application, which could still do ‘useful’ work; that is, define models, operate on them, …

Listing all Django URLs in a project

This will list all registered Django URLs in a project, with their arguments.

from django.conf import settings
from django.urls import URLPattern, …

Django coverage reports without unit tests

I was recently working on a Django project which had a lot of development effort spent over a wide range of features which never made it to launch. We …