Justin Mayer 🐘 @[email protected]

I am honored and very excited to be presenting a talk on multi-factor authentication, #Django, and Kagi at @DjangoConEurope here in Porto in just a few minutes! ✨ pretalx.evolutio.pt/djangocon-euro…

I’m overjoyed to have co-hosted a @EuroPython dinner with such interesting, wonderful, and kind people. You all inspire me! 💕 @marlene_zw @AngelaParkerFIT @thedigicat @segilola_m @SebaWitowski @patrick91 @SardiClaudia #EuroPython2022

I really enjoyed watching the “Maps with Django” talk by @paoloxnet at @EuroPython. Very well done. Bravo! 🗺️ #Django #EuroPython2022

I’m very excited to present a talk at @EuroPython about using AutoPub to automate publishing #Python packages! 🐍📦 ep2022.europython.eu/session/python… I will be presenting in the main Auditorium today at 11:35 (UTC+1). Also streamed live! ep2022.europython.eu/live/auditorium #EuroPython2022

@AdamChainz Indeed, I think I wrote those before I read your most recent article and then forgot to change them. Excellent suggestions. Much appreciated, Adam! 👏

@jmayer No need to use settings.AUTH_USER_MODEL in your project like: adamj.eu/tech/2022/03/2… Model default orderings can backfire when making queries that don't rely on the ordering You can add database constraints to ensure that deleted_at are either both filled in or both null

Do you use a set of base model fields for your #Django projects? If so, what fields do you include & apply to most of your models? Here is a set of four fields that tracks created/updated date and who created/deleted the record. Anything missing or awry with this set of fields?

@webology Could you elaborate what you mean here? I *think* you are saying folks who post Django models on Twitter are usually also folks who the Django Admin, but I can’t tell for sure. 😊 Aside from that, anything you would change here?

@jmayer Every time I see someone post Django models on Twitter, I feel like it's a Rorschach test for who uses the Django Admin and who does not. 🤣 Otherwise, the lack of `blank=True` shines.

@be_haki Interesting. Could you elaborate why you regret it? What were the downsides?

@jmayer I started a project ~8 years ago with an abstract base model and I regret it till this day. It's not worth it for just timestamps...

Do you use a #Django custom user model? If so, what do you do differently from the built-in User, and why? I like django-improved-user. Why? (1) email as username (2) full-name field instead of first/last names (3) short-name for preferred first name github.com/jambonsw/djang…

Do you use (1) the built-in authentication provided by #Django, (2) django-allauth, or (3) something else? What made you choose it over the alternatives? What don’t you like about it?

On this day 10 years ago, I made my first commit to @GetPelican. I can hardly believe it’s been a decade. Quite a milestone! 🎊 It has been an honor to have played a part in nurturing the growth of this community. Thanks to everyone who has contributed. Y’all are the best. 💗

Pelican 4.7.1 is out! ✨ Thanks to the Rich project by @willmcgugan, Pelican’s dev-server component now has richer logging output. Plus, Pelican is now being tested on the recently-released Python 3.10, and we made a few other minor improvements. github.com/getpelican/pel…

I’m happy to announce the release of Pelican 4.7, with improved default theme rendering on mobile devices, hidden article support, richer logging, and other tweaks & enhancements. Many thanks to the contributors who made this possible! ✨ blog.getpelican.com/pelican-4.7-re…

If you are interested in contributing to #Python open-source projects, Pelican plugins are a great place to start. They are small and relatively easy to understand, and contributions to them are usually reviewed quickly. 💫 github.com/pelican-plugins

@tweeshan @feoh If you set the appropriate environment variable, it should be honored: CONFIGURE_OPTS=“-​- enable-optimizations” asdf install Python 3.9.1

@feoh @jmayer Builds created using --enable-optimizations, which increases the build time significantly. It's enabled in the python docker images.

Do you use Homebrew Python? You may not realize this, but Homebrew Python is not meant for you. My latest article explains why, as well as what I think you should use instead when developing with #Python. 🐍 justinmayer.com/posts/homebrew…

@JulianWasTaken I can understand that and would normally eschew another packaging tool on my system. But I’ve had such a pleasant experience with asdf that I don’t consider the extra tooling a burden. It’s been wonderful for me.

@marskar Having never used the other tools you mentioned, I am not well-positioned to comment on their relative advantages/disadvantages, unfortunately.

@jmayer Is there an advantage to using asdf instead of miniconda/miniforge?

@webology That wouldn’t surprise me. I don’t use Zsh/Bash (I use Fish), but I ran into similar issues when testing asdf with Bash & virtualenvwrapper, as I mentioned here: #issuecomment-674092994" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">github.com/asdf-vm/asdf/i… I think virtualenvwrapper causes issues with lots of things, to be quite honest.

@jmayer It was 3 or 4 years ago so I don't remember. I could get everything but Python to work, but it may have been related to virtualenv-wrapper or something. I'll give it another try since that's probably worked out.

@webology @jezdez What trouble did you have with asdf? It uses the same underlying back-end (`python-build`) that is bundled with pyenv, so I’m surprised the end result would be all that different. github.com/pyenv/pyenv/tr…

@jezdez @jmayer This is no slam against asdf, but I could never quite get everything working with it, so I adopted pyenv. That said, I'll have to give it another try because it was nice having ruby and node pinned in projects.

@tweeshan asdf uses the “python-build” back-end provided by pyenv [1] to build Python from source. What are “optimised” Python binaries? [1] github.com/pyenv/pyenv/tr…

@jmayer Can asdf install optimised python binaries or does it need to build them from source?