The best TED Talk I've seen was about tying shoes. It's mind blowing that we are all taught the weaker form of the knot as kids and never learn that there is a stronger version.

How to tie your shoes

Terry Moore found out he'd been tying his shoes the wrong way his whole life. In the spirit of TED, he takes the stage to share a better way.

LLMs really are an amazing peace of technology. How were we ever able to live without them?

Early birthday present has arrived! 🎂

Has anybody had any luck speeding up Django tests with pytest-xdist? On a single core, the test suite takes about 67s to complete, but regardless of the number of cores I set with xdist, it doesn't finish faster than 60s. ./manage.py test --parallel can finish in less than 20s.

It's easy for an unexpected network request to sneak past your mocks. In a new blog post I show how a Pytest fixture helped me find these sneaky requests and how it will hopefully catch future ones too. 🤞

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Disable network requests when running Pytest

Even though my team has been diligent with mocking external requests, a few web requests still managed to slip through after a few months of cranki...

Has anybody seen a Fatal Python error: Aborted error when running pytest? It seems to come from https://socket.py but we haven't been able to reproduce outside of pytest. It's sporadic and very hard to reproduce consistently. Any ideas on how to debug this?

I've just ran `docker system prune -f` Total reclaimed space: 359.5GB 😅

I've written a quick post on how to disable the runserver warning that was added in Django 5.2.

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Disable runserver warning in Django 5.2

Django 5.2 added a new warning that shows up when you start your development server with python manage.py runserver: