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.
on 2023-10-21 18:22:21+00:00
This extension means that I never have to manually open a bunch of files that match a pattern again!
Check out Open Multiple Files
https://youtube.com/shorts/EPDg24VAF0Q
on 2023-12-05 15:41:13+00:00
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.
on 2023-12-05 00:19:11+00:00
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
on 2023-11-21 17:23:25+00:00
create a pre-release for your project using the gh cli
gh release create <VERSION> --generated-notes -p
the release version of this command is without the p.
on 2023-11-17 02:05:35+00:00
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.
on 2023-11-17 01:50:27+00:00
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/
on 2023-11-11 22:05:55+00:00
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
on 2023-11-02 17:11:27+00:00
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
on 2023-11-01 13:57:22+00:00
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
on 2023-10-31 11:47:17+00:00
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
on 2023-10-29 18:59:14+00:00
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
on 2023-10-26 13:47:00+00:00
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.
on 2023-10-21 18:22:21+00:00
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.
on 2023-10-06 17:59:03+00:00
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
on 2023-10-02 15:33:59+00:00
ArjanCode's video on what's coming to 3.12 has me so pumped!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udHmeAmOlbI
on 2023-09-30 15:19:40+00:00
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!
on 2023-09-28 15:19:39+00:00
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
on 2023-09-14 16:09:37+00:00
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
on 2023-09-10 15:52:35+00:00
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
on 2023-07-17 18:16:00-08:00
I had such a great time hanging with Dawn on the Python Pulse | GitHub Extensions Show and Tell.
on 2023-07-14 23:43:04-08:00
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.
on 2023-07-02 20:03:18+00:00
This new setting in VS Code allows you to auto-add f-strings
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ds6LG_N0Irw
on 2023-06-28 15:18:50+00:00
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
on 2023-06-28 13:25:35+00:00
Happy I got to demo my SSG at @SanDiegoPython.
on 2023-06-17 18:26:17+00:00
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
on 2023-06-12 15:41:30+00:00
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
on 2023-06-08 16:04:55+00:00
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
on 2023-06-06 17:56:33+00:00
The PyCon 2023 Videos are now live on YouTube
on 2023-06-03 17:25:48+00:00
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
on 2023-06-02 21:38:41+00:00
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
on 2023-05-20 14:07:41+00:00
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
on 2023-05-19 16:50:13+00:00
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 😎
on 2023-05-19 05:56:58+00:00
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
https://jacobian.org/2023/may/15/giving-it-all-away/
on 2023-05-15 23:58:08+00:00
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
on 2023-05-15 18:31:00-04:00
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!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HzuXmzhFJ6Y
on 2023-05-11 10:19:36-07:00
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
on 2023-05-10 05:53:00-07:00
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
on 2023-05-08 13:21:00-07:00
Planning a bunch of content with Mustafa
on 2023-04-12 13:30:00-07:00
Thanks to @jonafato for finding an RSS bug in Render-Engine
on 2023-04-05 16:13:00-07:00
Working on my PyCon project with Aaron Wislang
on 2023-03-24 10:50:00-07:00
New Short on creating snippets for VS Codes (Beginner)
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/idFhk78BQ6w
on 2023-03-13 11:39:00-07:00
Hey I'm giving a talk about dev containers right after I stopped at the container store this afternoon.
on 2023-03-11 18:41:00-08:00
Testing this will work on wifi.
on 2023-03-11 17:07:00-08:00
Kinda ready for the "not having to be the person talking" stage of my career.
on 2023-02-26 01:09:00-08:00
Testing Partial Collection Uploads Based on Git Diffs
on 2023-02-24 20:29:00-08:00
New Gorillaz Album absolutely my favorite since Demon Days! It's so good!
on 2023-02-24 09:10:00-08:00
Testing mobile push to microblog to website.
on 2023-02-23 06:27:00-08:00
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.
on 2023-02-22 20:49:00-08:00
The best part fixing something is discovering a test you haven't written yet....
on 2023-02-22 20:47:00-08:00
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
on 2023-02-22 17:49:00-08:00
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
on 2023-02-21 21:06:00-08:00
Writing this as a quick video to show how I'm using Drafts to add posts to my microblog.
On Conduit
on 2023-02-21 09:10:00-08:00
Why do we keep belts that are too small. Now I have to hold my pants and a belt.
on 2023-02-19 09:41:00-08:00
New Video: Django Software Foundation Accepting Applications for New Django Fellow!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGu4Bklw3kg
on 2023-02-17 13:48:00-08:00
Did some documentation updates for Render Engine. Really enjoying mkdocstrings.
on 2023-02-16 21:25:00-08:00
Reminder: Not everything you do will traumatize your child... For everything else there is Therapy and you should probably apologize
on 2023-02-16 08:58:00-08:00
Justification for microwave breakfast. If it's the most important meal of the day, something is better that nothing
on 2023-02-16 08:53:47-08:00
RE: Billboard's 50 Best Rappers. It's not bad. It's not right but it's not bad.
on 2023-02-16 04:06:00-08:00
Back on Things 3. Because,idk, MindNode supported it?
on 2023-02-16 04:04:53-08:00
Check if melatonin + prylosec is just secretly meth
on 2023-02-16 03:49:00-08:00
on 2023-02-16 03:45:00-08:00
on 2023-02-16 03:44:00-08:00
The "Thai" Food was good but the heartburn wasn't 8/10
on 2023-02-16 03:43:00-08:00
Your blog only supports posts one minute apart. Is a feature not a bug.
on 2023-02-16 03:39:02-08:00
on 2023-02-16 03:36:00-08:00
Don't publish at 3:36 what can wait until 8:00
on 2023-02-16 03:36:00-08:00
Speaking Tonight at San Diego Python about adding plugin support to Render Engine (coming in the next major update).
https://youtu.be/MvpiCyPpAhM
on 2023-01-26 16:12:00-08:00
Needing to test my youtube embed plugins, so here is one of my favorite covers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UfQHEpf2q8k
on 2023-01-24 21:20:00-08:00
To the person that got me into pluggy You know who you are...
Thank you... Also you've given me a new hammer.
on 2023-01-23 19:20:00-08:00
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.
on 2023-01-23 04:15:00-08:00
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.
on 2023-01-16 14:25:00-08:00
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/
on 2023-01-16 13:27:00-08:00
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).
on 2023-01-16 11:14:00-08:00
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!
on 2023-01-16 10:35:00-08:00
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
on 2023-01-12 19:28:00-08:00
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)
on 2021-04-12 00:00:00-07:00
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" ```
on 2021-03-25 09:11:00-07:00
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.
https://gist.github.com/MohamedAlaa/2961058
on 2021-03-24 15:21:00-07:00
These notes about how to improve in Hearthstone probably apply in other areas of life:
on 2021-03-24 15:14:00-07:00
@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.
on 2021-03-24 14:46:00-07:00
Testing new cached files allowed
on 2020-12-30 13:14:00-08:00
I posted my first blog post on the Elastic Blog: How to create a video tutorial
on 2020-11-23 15:50:00-08:00
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.
on 2020-11-09 08:35:00-08:00
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?
on 2020-11-08 23:16:00-08:00
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.
on 2020-11-08 23:10:00-08:00
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.
on 2020-11-08 21:57:00-08:00
Moving the blog to tailwind so the site itself will be horrendous for a bit.
on 2020-10-25 08:24:00-07:00
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
on 2020-10-22 22:25:00-07:00
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.
on 2020-08-28 16:15:00-07:00
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
on 2020-08-07 06:06:00-07:00
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.
on 2020-07-14 15:06:00-07:00
Having fun writing docs for render engine.. Also it has a new home 🏠.
https://render-engine.readthedocs.org
on 2020-07-06 16:31:00-07:00
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.
https://github.com/sponsors/kjaymiller
on 2020-07-02 09:46:00-07:00
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
on 2020-06-21 19:39:00-07:00
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...
on 2020-06-11 22:07:00-07:00
And just like that if you already have the files that you are requesting, the quickstart will skip that step.
on 2020-06-08 21:33:00-07:00
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.
on 2020-06-08 20:58:00-07:00
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
on 2020-06-06 23:19:00-07:00
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
on 2020-06-05 11:28:00-07:00
Render Engine v. 2020.5.5 is available with native search functionality. Documentation and blog posts added to task list.
on 2020-05-28 11:26:00-07:00
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.
on 2020-05-28 09:55:00-07:00
Put out a newsletter, they said. It'll be quick, they said.
on 2020-05-25 23:58:00-07:00
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.
on 2020-05-25 23:50:00-07:00
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
on 2020-05-22 15:00:00-07:00
I defintely have an issue if this is how I'm naming blog posts...
on 2020-03-05 14:02:00-08:00
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.
on 2020-03-02 16:25:00-08:00
Just the beggining but I now have a Coffee Page, that I hope to update regularly. ☕
on 2020-03-02 12:05:00-08:00
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.
on 2020-02-26 14:15:00-08:00
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.
on 2020-02-26 11:07:00-08:00
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.
Hawkeye - Head Control for Mac
on 2020-02-21 09:33:00-08:00
Been having woes with YouTube with my clients. I do wish there was an IndieWeb version.
on 2020-02-21 09:08:00-08:00
I need a brain!! 🧠
on 2020-02-20 15:29:00-08:00
Not sure which is more important.
on 2020-02-20 11:07:00-08:00
Another test. I will prolly delete these afterwards.
on 2020-02-19 14:21:00-08:00
Testing Mobile Upload. Using Drafts and Shortcuts.
on 2020-02-19 14:13:00-08:00
Fixed a few issues wiht rss on my static site generator. I expect to be posting posting a lot more now. ^_^
on 2020-02-19 10:10:00-08:00
Testing 1, 2, 3
on 2020-02-18 13:41:00-08:00
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.
on 2018-06-04 00:00:00-07:00
