Dealing with the loss of some family members. Had to cancel my trip to SCaLE.
I'm trying my best to get better and not overload myself. These felt like no-brainers, but I'm wondering about the non-no-brainers — the things I need someone to help me realize I shouldn't be doing.
I had a great time chatting about django-security-label on Aiven's YouTube channel.
Since 1996 I'm known every lyric for all the songs in Parappa the Rapper... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMev6sdShmA
Aiven just launched Free Tier Kafka and there is a $5000 CASH prize to someone that builds something amazing with it - https://aiven.io/blog/just-free-kafka-in-the-cloud
Hey I'm going live to try and build a secret-santa management site...
Thank you to Alexis Roberson for hanging out with me on a couple streams...
By the end we had made something really wonderful to monitor our databases.
Check out the repo - multi-region-dashboard-live-demo
Round 2 of Alexis Roberson and I trying to learn more about working with PostgreSQL and Launch Darkly is about to begin.
< https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TyEimzf3NCQ>
I just published a new post on the Aiven Blog.
This was inspired by the Elephant in the room streams I did with @webology@mastodon.social.
Some great links for this:
Here is also an infographic for those that would like to use this as a reference:
Join me later today with Alexis Roberson from Launch Darkly. We're exploring the idea of database routing, feature flags, and scaling strategies around PostgreSQL.
Today at 2pm ET!
Jeff and I are back with another livestream! This pt2 is all from the DB side! We're starting in about an hour @ 2pm ET.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBUm3126BwE
And we're live! Come hang out with Jeff and I as we hope to build a tool that will transcribe Django Conference Talks!
And of course the amazing work that was done in BPD for Africa cannot be measured!
Fantastic work in 2025!
Black Python Devs is getting ready for 2026 and that starts with the selection of our new leadership.
But before we say goodbye to this year's leaders. I want to thank them for their hard work.
I'm going to be streaming with one of my closests friends in Python today!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycjNznwGVn0
If you like django, python, ai, and just great conversation while building. Join us on YouTube at 12 Noon Eastern.
My daughter just made a book. It's about a dolphin named "Celp"... Her iPad is still on. I think the kids might be alright.
Any of my friends doing React, Vite, and SCSS/Sass?
Allison Higgins is doing a project that is meant to help make food banks and other resources for those during our shutdown (and after it) more discoverable and accessible.
https://github.com/AllisonMH/food-search-2025
I'm sure she'd love some issues and PRs to make this thing as helpful as possible to those needing help.
@pashagolub has made an interesting tool that uses the Elo system (yes from chess!) to help rate talks (for CFP Selection).
I made a fork of it because I would love to see this modified to fit a double-blind CFPs.
Happy for people to submit a PR on mine as I have some thoughts on how I would want to use this with tools like sessionize or pretalx eventually.
I also am not usually a conference organizer so I'm not the best person to offer much input.
In conversation with PyTexas Foundation, I was inspired to the accidental capitalism conversation to make this sticker. Should I make an accidental capitalism in making these stickers and selling them on Etsy?
No the answer is always no, but I should make like 20 of these stickers and put them out at conferences.
I was guest on the Stats on Stats Podcast earlier this year and while I don't have any of my quotes from it just yet, you can check out the full episode on YouTube and wherever podcasts are listened.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6u0KX_7U7Y
Shout out to Jordyn and Tiffiny for the warm welcome and the best description of what I do.
Building bridges in terms of what I'm doing in terms of open source, corporate tech, and grassroots organizations.
🤯
I'm trying to get back into my video bag.
Here's a look at UUIDv7 in Python and Postgres.
Check out this short:
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/BomNR52sxg8
More videos to come in the upcoming weeks.
Did you know that UUIDv7 is also supported by Python 3.14?
I along with my colleague Alexander Fridriksson are diving into some of the new features in #postgres18. We just released our look at UUIDv7.
UUIDv7 is almost a no brainer for new projects, simplifying indexing strategies and giving you a time-based organizing feature across multiple sources.
Stay tuned as there will be more to explore in PostgreSQL 18 and you can try it all out for free on the Aiven Platform.
https://aiven.io/blog/exploring-postgresql-18-new-uuidv7-support
So beautiful and powerful...
It's been exciting watching the Phillies and Dodgers game.
I'm just thinking how I was watching this matchup last month and it was just as energetic.
Don't ask me who I'm rooting for because it hurts my soul either way.
The video from the San Francisco user group is live.
Fantastic Moments from 36th Birthday
I'm so dang proud of my leaders!
Thanks to the work from Tim Schilling, Ngazetungue Muheue, and others. We matched our fundraising from last year at DjangoCon US.
I don't think you understand how amazing that is. This year neither myself nor Lazouich Ford (our US Executor) were involved which meant they handled booth stuff, swag, messaging and donations.
This will be more and more important in the next years as we expand leadership and prepare for when our earliest leaders start to step down.
Great work team!
I use Echofeed to cross post my content so that when I inevitably break something (like forgetting I had an environment var that changed manually set my SITE_URL.), Rob will see that I broke something and make sure they they didn't mess something up on their end.
I'm testing render-engine's new cli. We moved it to its own repo and it's now using click and has some nice options.
WOW! 30 people at your first meetup. That's a sign that the community is there but not being served!
I want to make sure that BPD is sponsoring their next conference (oh yeah they've also successfully ran a conference too!)
I'm passionate about PostgreSQL, but did not see it around me in Madagascar. I believed a community could change that. I started one...
Replace PostgreSQL with many other topics and Madagascar with many neighborhoods. It doesn't take much to get started. But it takes a lot of community and feedback to keep things going! Support those willing to do the work ❤.
From PGDayChicago 2025
Note-to-self
If you try to ingest vectors into opensearch withouth creating the index settings for them first... it will not work.
Instructions for OpenSearch-RAG-Demo --> https://github.com/Aiven-Labs/preparing-data-for-opensearch-and-rag/blob/main/workshop/1-setup-your-index.ipynb
It was an honor to be the afternoon Keynote at PyTexas today. Thank you to an amazing audience for playing my silly game and vibing (no-code) with me.
Reminder, if you are doing something, it is helpful!
Last week, I gave a 2 hour workshop called - Terraform Ain't Terrafying!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yg8wyJt5O1k
I would love to give a modified version of this workshop at conferences as I have come to actually like writing terraform.
For the second time, I'm tried to use HTMX for server-sent-events and for the second time, I resorted to just doing it with 10 lines of javascript.
With the power of PostgreSQL, Python, and claude, I:
Genuinely the most helpful AI has been and it still took about 2 hours of feeding the errors back in and explaining what it did wrong... Now I will have it explain each line of that gnarly function to me so I can write a new blog post...
Dear PSF:
I feel like "Thank you for your submission" and a pre-canned message from a form response is a better user experience than this.
I definitely don't feel like I want to nominate more individuals from this response.
Maybe a form that you need to log in with your PSF membership account to access or something is a way to validate users.
I really don't care this much to install this extension but the fact that I thought to myself, I wonder if there is chrome extension that.... Yup!
I added all of the podcasts that I'm subscribed to (All 400 of them) into both the new Reeder and Tapestry...
Neither app will refresh now without crashing... 🙃
Happy to test the betas of either app...
I was reminded by a friend of Kojo's keynote of PyGotham 2019 -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOG6bmt6SrM
Been watching it this morning an was instantly reminded that communities out here always need help.
The likely first big help you can do is first and foremost be a friendly welcoming face in the community that works to make everyone who enters feel welcome.
Then it can expand to doing simple tasks with no need of writing code.
So take a look at your local community and see if you can offer a little bit of help.
I've been writing a lot more and I'm pretty happy about that. Even when it kicks my butt.
The reality is I need to write more for work and the more I write for fun the easier/better my professional stuff will be.
I made mistakes in my running through the data points in my last post.
The updated information shows that 4 more events, including one in the US requested over the soon to be capped amount. This brings the total potentially saved from 4% to close to 10%.
I updated the data and apologize for this oversight.
I was reminded today that when creating case-insensitive strings, Use .casefold() instead lower().
I probably would have continued to use lower() had it not been for hypothesis, which I've been trying to use more and more for testing.
People complained and even sued. Instead of fixing the issues, paying better, and offering adequate mental health (or even better not exposing workers to traumatic content), they shut down the program in that area and went to another one that didn't complain.
The major companies pay these 3rd party companies to train their (in their words) trillion dollar industry AIs are basically doing it to absolve themselves from culpability. Those training companies outsource keeping checks notes 85% of the agreed payment terms that companies are offering.
I would ask that major companies require a minimum contract payment and term length and offering the same mental health care resources or equivalent to those training.
I'm over a year late on this one but there was a Steam sale and I wound up getting Brotato.
It's super addictive and one of those games that I can turn my brain off.
I'm so interested in how one foundation can be responsible for so many massive projects.
I'm not saying they aren't doing a good job, I'm amazed at the sheer number.
Seeing two more additions this week (one being Jupyter with creation of the new Jupyter foundation)
And with a minor tweak to render-engine, I should now have my posts being autosent to Mastodon/BlueSky as well as webmentions enabled
I've always been against analytics on my personal site but as I have been less and less on social media I need a way to still connect with people talking about my stuff (and I'm not adding comments to my website...)
Shoutout to @robb@social.lol for making Echofeed which I'm switching to (if I can make it work) and @sethmlarson@fosstodon.org for showing it to me in action on his website.
I recently added a linkding container and I'm happy about two things.
It's django behind the scenes (maybe I can tinker)
https://nojack.easydns.ca/@ttscoff/ created a custom tiling css layout. It looks great!
RE: https://fosstodon.org/@ehmatthes/113294437609860819
Eric I don't know if this was intentional but I am often discouraged when I have to write messy exploratory code.
I think it's based on live-coding sessions or coding interviews (I haven't had too many of those) I feel like I have to defend every decision I make or I'm a bad developer.
This has made me try to write the best most performant code possible.
Thank you for reminder that process doesn't have to be pristine and sometimes worrying about the wrong things can make it harder to get things right.
Responding to Julius' post on their challenges with visa policies
Imagine preparing for months to speak at a prestigious conference or to collaborate on a groundbreaking project abroad, only to have your visa application rejected.
I’ve been following Julius’ work not just in the BPD community.
America’s policies feel greedy. We talk about the expanding the American dream around the world. When people want to come over for a couple weeks to America to share skills and opportunities that make both parties better, we're like but you could give up all your progress in becoming a recognized leader in your own community and country to become an outlaw???
It makes no sense and even when we write letters and do everything we can to show how beneficial it would be to have them with us, it doesn't matter.
At the end of the day, those folks will share their knowledge with those in Europe and (LISTEN UP POLITICIANS) our political adversaries like China. I know this because I'm already being asked to write letters of recommendations for people in Africa to learn and share their leadership skills in those areas already.
When we feel like we're being left behind on the global stage, this will be the reason why.
Damien and I are back to see what he has done on his own in the last week with Django!
Tune in tomorrow at 12:30 ET.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVgSViFuvx8
Get your timezone conversion at - https://time.is/compare/1230AM_18_Sept_2024_in_Atlanta
It's hard to get started but also walking a beginner through something can be a challenge.
This week I started the "Learn By Doing" series which follows the "Jay Teaches Better" streams with my friend Damien who wants to build a website.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnFH0tgwYR8
We build a django site from nothing to a few routes in about 90 minutes and the hardest parts were truly:
Set-ExecutionPolicy Unrestricted -Scope ProcessI made this little video to remind myself that I can use ":r!
I am now using some tools to make my terminal configs in sync.
Those tools are:
You can see my dotfiles at https://github.com/kjaymiller/.dotfiles.
Last month I went to London for the Relay 10th anniversary extravaganza.
You can catch the audio replay here.
You can hear my thoughts on being a member of Relay here.
If you want to hear thoughts like this (and the occaisional helpful content) you can check out Conduit
TIL: I have some plugin in lazyVIM that is listing my code. The downside is I don't know which plugin it is and if it is black then I have a new problem where the linter and running black . are coming up with different results...
What I have yet to learn is how to fix it...
It ain't just me!
I'm hoping to figure out how to get folks that are capable hired all over the world. Many of these folks are more talented than I am but their hometown is the biggest barrier to getting them hired.
Ruto refuses to sign the finance bill as is but their Parliament vote was 64% yes. They only need to flip 3-4 people to get a large-enough majority to pass it anyway.
Kenyans, (If it is okay for an American with many Kenyan friends to speak up), keep the pressure on your politicians.
Americans, find some Kenyan folks to learn from and be as loud as you are about your least favorite OLD WHITE DUDE IN CHARGE.
#rejectfinancebill2024
I've been trusting dependabot more and more and nore I'm using Anthony Shaw's (@tonybaloney@fosstodon.org) Dependabot-bot.
Of course I'm not suggesting that you blindly merge PRs but I'm also being honest that without maintainers, lots of folks are doing this anyway.
Also as a contingency I'm only autoapproving the updates from the main dependencies and not their dependencies.
Also not auto publishing releases and all releases are tested before a publish will go through.
I'm really excited to see the results of the interview that I did with #TheNewStack.
It turned out great! Even gave some good shoutouts to some communities we're heavily invested in!
https://thenewstack.io/black-python-devs-a-new-affinity-group-with-a-global-reach/
I hope folks in the US remember this #MemorialDay, Since 9/11 - more service members and veterans die by suicide than combat every year.
https://www.npr.org/2021/06/24/1009846329/military-suicides-deaths-mental-health-crisis
I'm a veteran and I struggle with depression and PTSD. I lost one of my brothers-in-arms and groomsmen to drug abuse and suicide. There isn't a week that goes by where I don't think of him; today I write this through tears of guilt.
Do the simple thing ask a service-member how they're doing and how is their mental health.
Best of luck to Black Python Devs founding member @felipedemorais_ on his #PyConUS workshop starting in a few minutes!
Nigerian Students learning Python! Join Black Python Devs today to receive one of our 75 free tickets for Pycon Nigeria later in July! More information at - https://blackpythondevs.com/2024-05-03-pycon_ng_2024/]
Been playing Rusty's retirement and I just wish I had steam on my work computer so I can stay engaged with work (and my crops).
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2666510/Rustys_Retirement/
I had a blast on stream today with Jason Lengstorf.
It seems that FastAPI is rather intuitive for Javascript users. I would definitely encourage others to dive right in!
Folks in Black Python Devs this month have been crushing it. Tomorrow (Friday 1 Feb 2024), we'll be sharing a selection of some of the accomplishments shared from our community's members in our first newsletter post.
Sign up for a (currently) monthly recap from our community and support our members.
I missed an important point on my short yesterday!
I mentioned that you can convert tasks in a single GitHub issue into their own issue.
Closing that issue also marks that task as complete!
https://youtube.com/shorts/Ri-zdSoQ0Pg?feature=share
I was able to get my first PyPI publishing workflow using the trusted publishers workflow really easy...
I'm a fan of good docs so I'll just share their link instead of creating another one.
https://docs.github.com/en/actions/deployment/security-hardening-your-deployments/configuring-openid-connect-in-pypi
One minor thing I that got me is that your repo name is case-sensative so if you're having issues check repo casing.
This extension means that I never have to manually open a bunch of files that match a pattern again!
Check out Open Multiple Files
My talk from Refactr.Tech is now live on YouTube.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ee1DhKMJ_Kg
Listening back I feel like I was a little aggressive, however I'm super happy with the overall vibe of the talk.
I definitely hope to give the talk again in the future.
Building projects you don't think anyone uses is way more fun when you have so many people helping! Render Engine had 5 new contributors this month.
Should out to:
I hope to continue improving Render Engine and start providing more examples of be being used in different ways
create a pre-release for your project using the gh cli
gh release create <VERSION> --generate-notes -p
the release version of this command is without the p.
Reminder that if you're deploying an app with a cli... if you want to be able to python -m call that app... You'll need to add a __main__.py to your project.
I wrote a little about my US Conference City Diversity Metric. You can find it on the Black Python Devs Blog - https://blackpythondevs.github.io/2023-11-11-what-is-the-us-conference-city-diversity-metric/
The last interview in this DjangoCon perspectives, I sat down in Panda Studios with @AutomationPanda and we talked a bit about the benefits of the conference local to you and the feelings of Keynoting for your hometown crowd!
https://youtu.be/HEC3K2wwJcw
In this interview, I chat with my amazing friend Felipe de Morais, CoFounder of AfroPython.
Felipe shares how both Brazilian and US Python communities can learn from one another what it means to see folks that look like you on the stage and around the conference.
https://youtu.be/SY4qxQQM0V4
In this interview, I talk with Ryan Cheley who flew across the country to give his first conference talk about contributing to the Django Project for the first time.
Ryan gave a great talk about success, failure, more failure, and more success.
https://youtu.be/WkeRI7LkBeY
The second video from the perspectives of #DjangoConUS, I interview Peter Baumgartner, founder of long-time sponsor Lincoln Loop.
We talk about some of the benefits from the sponsor perspective.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRuTYj3g_9E
I'm happy to begin sharing some of the perspectives of some folks that I interviewed at #DjangoConUS.
Let's start with the Django Software Foundation President Chaim Kirby who has a fantastic announcement about his plans for next year!! Check it out on the #PythonCommunityNews Youtube Channel!
https://youtu.be/NhVEGqPvoI4
I had a wonderful time at #DjangoConUS. I'm hoping they'll consider Raleigh again and I would love to learn more about this very underrated city.
My mania is in full swing and I've been creating a bunch of things. So instead of copy/pasting like I've been doing... I made this cookiecutter template for faster project scaffolding.
Been thinking about a lot about how I can take a more "Ghibli" approach to the things that I work on.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRnKY-5TqOM
ArjanCode's video on what's coming to 3.12 has me so pumped!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udHmeAmOlbI
I've been working with Mario Munoz to get render-engine ready for it's next stable with initial support for theming and slightly improved docs!
Thanks for your help Mario!
Join Kathy and I for a fun day to celebrate RelayFM raising $275,000 for St. Jude this year!
We'll be playing Baldur's Gate 3 on my YouTube channel at 1pm ET/10am PT.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6a6sG9YQtP8
Hoping to make my website more accessible by adding some automated testing. Luckily one of my favorite coworkers gave an amazing talk on this earlier this (I've been putting it off)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-4Qa6PSomM
I have this idea to add a setting that can add my git branch name to the title bar of my @code editor window.
It needs 20 upvotes to get on the roadmap.
If you sometimes forget what branch you're on and would like a subtle reminder, give it an upvote
https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/187956
I had such a great time hanging with Dawn on the Python Pulse | GitHub Extensions Show and Tell.
It doesn't happened a lot so I'm still excited when it does. I got a PR accepted into cookiecutter!
https://github.com/cookiecutter/cookiecutter/pull/1874
It's wierd that I advocate for open source and yet I don't contribute to others' projects as much as I should.
This new setting in VS Code allows you to auto-add f-strings
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ds6LG_N0Irw
Made my first custom arrow with a little wiggle wiggle. This was the tutorial I used.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUzBfGBz8TQ
Here's the final little animation
Our goal is to help the Python community make informed decisions in this year's @thepsf election. This video breaks down what the PSF does (and does) do.
https://youtube.com/shorts/JSFWSM5Fm9Y
Slowly trying to get back into making YT Shorts - I found out that VS @Code profiles now allow you to select a base language with some settings, snippets and extensions.
https://youtube.com/shorts/JSFWSM5Fm9Y
I'm looking forward to chatting with the person they hire for all things @pycommunitynews related -
https://pythonsoftwarefoundation.applytojob.com/apply/2omzo2TR1D/Community-Communications-Manager
And we're live! We're talking about @thepsf board elections and more in today's live stream.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uVquySTpiw
All this content around creating opengraph social card and then when I move all the images to azure to speed up the process, I end up not changing my endpoint in the template. 🤦🏾♂️
Let's try this link again - https://kjaymiller.com/blog/storing-my-opengraph-social-cards-in-azure.html
The first of #PyCon US tutorials from the Microsoft Booth is live and it was our most popular!
Check out @automationpanda talk about #Playwright with Python!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Wykd5OWSDQ
I really like that I can see my blog publishing via GH Actions without ever leaving VS Code now with the new GH Actions Extension 😎
Jacob is an amazing human that ceases to amaze me. I hope to one day be in a position where I can begin planning a life where I can be a benefit to more than myself and immediate family
Looking at Micro.blog for cross-posting. If this works as expected, this post should be on all the socials that micro.blog enables cross posting on, including itself and my website.
Disclosure: micro.blog is a current sponsor
Another great interview from @pycon for you to check out! Trey Hunner has an amazing gem for people attending conferences. It involves a deck of cards and your hotel lobby!
Did you know that 76% of PyCon attendees were there for the first time.
I was so happy that Aseda asked what I was doing and kindly agreed to do a super quick interview about her first trip to PyCon US and how it compares to other events she's attended.
https://youtu.be/89_JZUGoZJ8
I took the last couple days of my time at @PyCon to interview some folks. They are all available on the @PyCommunity News YouTube channel. Today I want to highlight my conversation with the author of "Automate the Boring Stuff with Python" @alsweigart.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBI7T3PpbHA
Thanks to @jonafato for finding an RSS bug in Render-Engine
New Short on creating snippets for VS Codes (Beginner)
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/idFhk78BQ6w
Hey I'm giving a talk about dev containers right after I stopped at the container store this afternoon.
Speaking this weekend and hanging out at SoCal Linux Expo (SCALEx20).
Kinda ready for the "not having to be the person talking" stage of my career.
New Gorillaz Album absolutely my favorite since Demon Days! It's so good!
New Video 📹: I found this VS Code Extension to run tasks from the side bar. There was a minor issue with it but instead of trying something different, I found the fix and made a video (I also filed an issue and submitted a PR).
https://youtu.be/SV4k1OcqMxA
Sometimes finding THE solution isn't the answer because we don't always know what THE solution should be. Instead we should justify why a solution that we found is good enough until a better solution arrives...
We talked about this (kinda and also it's opposite) in Conduit Ep 42.
The best part fixing something is discovering a test you haven't written yet....
New Video 📹: I wanted to make a quick video showing how I add posts to micro.blog (Including this little post)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SM1f7RIUHPE
Writing this as a quick video to show how I'm using Drafts to add posts to my microblog.
On Conduit
Thanks Stephen for the recommendation!
Why do we keep belts that are too small. Now I have to hold my pants and a belt.
New Video: Django Software Foundation Accepting Applications for New Django Fellow!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGu4Bklw3kg
Did some documentation updates for Render Engine. Really enjoying mkdocstrings.
RE: Billboard's 50 Best Rappers. It's not bad. It's not right but it's not bad.
Reminder: Not everything you do will traumatize your child... For everything else there is Therapy and you should probably apologize
Justification for microwave breakfast. If it's the most important meal of the day, something is better that nothing
The "Thai" Food was good but the heartburn wasn't 8/10
Your blog only supports posts one minute apart. Is a feature not a bug.
Speaking Tonight at San Diego Python about adding plugin support to Render Engine (coming in the next major update).
https://youtu.be/MvpiCyPpAhM
Needing to test my youtube embed plugins, so here is one of my favorite covers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UfQHEpf2q8k
To the person that got me into pluggy You know who you are...
Thank you... Also you've given me a new hammer.
Another wild week of Render Engine Development. I wound up getting Pluggy working in render engine and now even have a plugin for pytailwindcss up and running and started working on another.
Another custom parser (probably the last one for now as I need to start working on other things).
Hello, Microblog Parser.
This is how I make these posts (Yes including this one!)
I've also added the README to the Extensions Section of the Render-Engine Discussions. I will hopefully be adding more of the content there.
One of my favorite people I've gotten to meet in the last year. https://www.blog.pythonlibrary.org/2023/01/16/pydev-of-the-week-tim-schilling/
In today's mental health corner. I've been feeling some overwhelm as of late and wanted to share a video that helped me a bit. I'll be fine, Just need to defer/drop some things and get back into the groove (hopefully talks on bicep, azd, and devcontainers can help realign my focus).
The talk I was most excited about giving didn't get accepted to PyCon US this year. That said I'm excited to be able to submit it to other places like JuneteenthConf and Refactr.Tech!
I'm loving my SSG right now.
Less than 100 lines of code to build out a site that uses on RSS to build out a wonderful landing page (while also hosing my blog and a microblog).
https://github.com/kjaymiller/kjaymiller.com/blob/main/routes.py
Just a reminder of how awesome shortcut detective is. I ran into an issue where I somehow mapped ⌘+w to another shortcut. I remembered this app from Irradiated Software. Still works for Big Sur (At least the intel chip one)
Two entries into my zshrc to make editing my two most edited config files easier on me.
``` " Quickly open my zshrc alias zshrc="nvim ~/.zshrc"
" Quickly Open my vimrc ~NOTE: ~/.config/nvim/init.vim is the default location for neovim (nvim)
" The default path for your .vimrc is ~/.vimrc
alias vimrc="nvim ~/.config/nvim/init.vim" ```
Don't know if I'll use tmux in the future again, but I'm sure I'll thank myself for having this tucked away. At least now it's not in my inbox.
These notes about how to improve in Hearthstone probably apply in other areas of life:
@pilotmoon I would love to see pop clip support a "Noguchi" style ordering (Last Used moved to the front) - https://twitter.com/kjaymiller/status/1123282125497585664
Now I'm starting to wish there was a recently used @draftsapp Actions group that does the same thing.
I posted my first blog post on the Elastic Blog: How to create a video tutorial
David (A recent guest on the PIT Show) had an excellent conversation with Kourosh Dini about idea management.
It gave me some very NPR Productivity vibes.
Things I failed at tonight: - Working on Book - Getting Newsletter Post Written - Billable work that I need to finsh to get paid - Finish Scheduling Podcast
Things I did do: - Two Blog Posts - Lot's of Tailwind Changes to site - Couple of good tweets
Can I sleep now?
A new idea for a podcast I'm thinking of of is the AntiProductivity Show (Working Title) where I talk with folks that play with Productivity tools to discover the weaknesses in their systems. It's like a productivity show but honest.
I really wish that NvAlt(NvUltra) and Drafts allowed me to set keybindings so I could match them with my NeoVim Keybindings.
My brain always strikes the keys anyway now.
Moving the blog to tailwind so the site itself will be horrendous for a bit.
There are a bunch of great Duck Duck Go Bang Commands! Many that I've gotten used to!
This is an excuse to microblog more but I wanted to share these as a reasource! Let's start with the python list
I just published a couple of blog posts on the Render Engine Blog. They show a couple of things that I've been doing with my own builds and projects.
Update to the Bunch Alfred Package. Moved the calling of bunches to the CLI. Also changed the command from b to bunch (Of course you can always change it back).
Also now using Python to call the ruby package. Because of JSON formatting.
https://github.com/kjaymiller/Bunch_Alfred/releases/tag/2020.08.07
I've been working on the next feature for Render Engine – Pagination.
I do think this will be the last feature for a while. I really need to update docs and tests. I ran into many issues with this one.
Having fun writing docs for render engine.. Also it has a new home 🏠.
You can now support my developer work in PIT through GitHub Sponsors.
Sponsoring my work helps me build more tools I use to help developer creators.
Because I'm not one to expose myself to the arguments, I release my thoughts about Hey and why I'm just not that impressed. On the PIT Bonus Feed.
To listen join the Productivity in Tech Slack channel 24 Hour invite link
That's also what we call them. I have a long history of dating white girls. Now I'm happily married to one and we have a beautiful little light-skinned girl. I know the people that follow me don't have a problem, but I always feel obligated to let folks know I'm treat black folks that got a problem with that the same wy I do white folks...
And just like that if you already have the files that you are requesting, the quickstart will skip that step.
minor update to render engine. You can now quickly build your setup using
render-engine-quickstart.
WARNING this will overwrite any run.py that you have set up.
This should be fixed in some subsequent updates. That and a few other things.
Been writing more and more because of this. People have mentioned that they have enjoyed getting to know me through my posts.
Well, learn why I do ALL the things I do.
https://kjaymiller.com/in_defense_of_the_black_multi-potentialite
While I do transcriptions for podcasters as a part of my business, I wanted to share how I generate my base transcription files using AmazonAWS.
https://github.com/productivity-in-tech/pit-transcription-cli
Render Engine v. 2020.5.5 is available with native search functionality. Documentation and blog posts added to task list.
My Netlify build is trying to load my building structure only because my repo has a requirements.txt. No runtime.txt and no build options. I render content locally and have the output be the only thing that Netlify serves.
This started happening yesterday.
Put out a newsletter, they said. It'll be quick, they said.
Funny how you do a newsletter to avoid doing a bonus podcast episode just to do both and about 5 short blog posts all in one sitting..... lol.
I think I finally fixed the [render engine] feed.
Keyword being "think".
Also I've been working on a lot of things so I'll just drop this here. https://kjaymiller.com/projects
I defintely have an issue if this is how I'm naming blog posts...
Decided to make a little fun project with Python.
It would use pendulum to give a list of times until the next occurance
of a date.
Not done yet, but there is some complexity to make it pretty intuitive.
Keep 👀's out for it.
Just the beggining but I now have a Coffee Page, that I hope to update regularly. ☕
Adding todos in my docstrings is a great way to manage things you want to do in your code without you muddying up your project manager.
Of course once you commit to working on them you should really add them to your trusted system.
Personal site is now using Conversation.JS from micro.blog!
I've been a long opponent of comments buts I think the MB community is wonderful (and strongly moderated) so I'm taking that chance.
Very Cool, but like 2 minutes into it. My head was really tired. Still a great #Ally tool for people that need it. May even use to scroll.
Been having woes with YouTube with my clients. I do wish there was an IndieWeb version.
Not sure which is more important.
Fixed a few issues wiht rss on my static site generator. I expect to be posting posting a lot more now. ^_^
Creating Rules around your life isn't a way to automate your life or make it mundane. In fact it's a way to ensure that you provide yourself the power and time to make the decisions you both want to do and need to do.
It's a way to prevent others (and yourself) from interfering with your plans.
