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Written by Phil Gyford on 2025-01-20 at 18:27

What if – and I realise it's a little late in my career to think this – I'm just not very good at computers?

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Written by Phil Gyford on 2025-01-19 at 16:15

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Written by Phil Gyford on 2025-01-15 at 10:49

Woman passing me in the street: Nice boots.

Me: ☺️ Thanks! They’re not very comfy though.

Her: My dad says the same.

Me: 🫠

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Written by Phil Gyford on 2025-01-09 at 18:01

It took me three afternoons, and a whole lot of frustration, to get this working. Now I have one very long configuration file rather than three shorter ones. Time well spent I'm sure.

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Written by Phil Gyford on 2025-01-08 at 15:23

A constant in my life as a web developer has been trying to do everything the correct way but even then, due to the many permutations of tools and configurations, still repeatedly struggling to find examples of anyone doing things the same way.

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Written by Phil Gyford on 2025-01-07 at 12:14

If any #Python folk have a project that gets published to PyPI, and uses uv and tox, and has only a pyproject.toml (no setup.py or tox.ini), then I'd love to see it. Because it's taking me forever to work out how to do this, or if it's even possible.

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Written by Phil Gyford on 2025-01-02 at 15:04

Me: Oh, Nationwide have altered their page listing bank statements. Looks a bit nicer, well done.

[Tries to download a statement]

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Written by Phil Gyford on 2025-01-02 at 12:23

My mobile contract with Three is about to expire so:

1. Go to Three website and do "Build Your Own Plan". Will cost £10/month.

2. When it's added to the basket, it costs £15.

3. Before I’ve got the chat person to understand the issue I've signed up with Smarty instead for a better plan for £8.

Bye, Three!

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Written by Phil Gyford on 2024-12-31 at 18:27

I would link to my end-of-year blog post here but, as with my weeknotes, if you don't use a feed reader to read blogs, maybe you don't deserve to read regular blog posts?

Maybe it can be your new year resolution.

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Written by Phil Gyford on 2024-12-30 at 11:07

I’m thinking of trying Trello again for

personal use. Before I start, do any of you use something similar that, importantly, does not feel too “worky”? No whiff of enterprise.

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Written by Phil Gyford on 2024-12-29 at 15:30

As the number of online comment reviews of any product increases, the chance of one of them being "fantastic bit of kit" soon approaches 100%

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Written by Phil Gyford on 2024-12-23 at 17:00

Gave in and registered for my first supermarket store card. Lost a little of my soul but now have 740 points, so I'm sure it's fine and what even is a soul?

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Written by Phil Gyford on 2024-12-19 at 09:35

• "I had this crazy dream last night, where I was…"

• "I was so drunk yesterday lol, we were at…"

• "I used AI to…"

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Written by Phil Gyford on 2024-12-17 at 21:01

This is not the Slow Cinema I was hoping for.

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Written by Phil Gyford on 2024-12-17 at 20:59

Me: I'm going to really stream some movie tonight, and stream it good.

Internet:

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Written by Phil Gyford on 2024-12-17 at 11:18

Every week I check in on whether Dependabot supports the uv Python package manager yet. Nope. https://docs.astral.sh/uv/guides/integration/dependency-bots/#dependabot

I should be able to automate this checking, with some kind of dependable bot.

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Written by Phil Gyford on 2024-12-16 at 14:14

The re-playing of Red Dead Redemption 2 will continue until morale improves.

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Written by Phil Gyford on 2024-12-16 at 11:02

If I was going to teach a backend web framework (like Django, Rails, etc) my (unequally sized) lessons would be:

1. The request-response process

2. HTML

3. Basic CSS

4. Basic client side JavaScript (optional)

5. The backend language (Python, Ruby, etc)

6. The framework itself

The number of people learning Django (or whatever) and having zero understanding of HTML is amazing.

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Written by Phil Gyford on 2024-12-11 at 15:46

Three more years of expanding @samuelpepys’ decade-old tweets/toots/skeets/posts from 140 characters to 280 characters, which I'm still taking to be the new, current and future maximum length whatever happens. Please.

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Written by Phil Gyford on 2024-12-07 at 11:52

My Python script for generating an iCal feed from your Foursquare check-ins has seen slightly more activity than usual recently. I assume it will keep working given Foursquare are keeping all the data around…

https://github.com/philgyford/foursquare-feeds

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