Luke Plant

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Luke Plant

@spookylukey

Christian, husband, father. Interests in web dev (full stack), Django, Python, and learning new languages.

United Kingdom Katılım Ekim 2008

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Django@djangoproject·19 Ara

You can also access and render partial templates directly! This can be done using the syntax `template.html#partial_name`. This works particularly nicely with front end libraries like HTMX that often need to re-render a specific part of a page in isolation.

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Luke Plant@spookylukey·19 Ara

New blog post: Help my website is too small lukeplant.me.uk/blog/posts/hel…

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Albert Mohler@albertmohler·5 Eyl

"I try to be appropriately respectful of all elected officials, but Sen. Kaine uttered one of the most profoundly wrong, dangerous, and downright stupid comments a member of the Senate might articulate." From my article @wngdotorg today. Link below. ow.ly/NTxY50WS6r0

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Luke Plant@spookylukey·30 Ağu

I'm mentoring a junior who is using #VSCode (at my recommendation) and I need to know - how do you do recursive project search workflows? e.g. "Find all references" clobbers the previous results. In Emacs I do this: lukeplant.me.uk/blog/posts/rec… (please don't say Co-pilot/AI).

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Luke Plant@spookylukey·29 Tem

@rseroter I'd be interested in hearing the points you'd argue!

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Richard Seroter@rseroter·29 Tem

Why I’m not letting the juniors use GenAI for coding lukeplant.me.uk/blog/posts/why… < I'd argue a couple of points, but @spookylukey wrote a terrific piece. Be smart on how (and when) you bring these tools to folks.

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Luke Plant@spookylukey·27 Tem

New post - Why I'm not letting the juniors use LLMs for coding lukeplant.me.uk/blog/posts/why…

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Luke Plant@spookylukey·26 Tem

@pydanny @willmcgugan @AdamChainz More recently, you can use Unpack and TypedDict - #unpack-kwargs" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">typing.python.org/en/latest/spec…

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Luke Plant@spookylukey·26 Tem

@pydanny @willmcgugan As usual @AdamChainz has a nice post - adamj.eu/tech/2021/05/1…

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Daniel Roy Greenfeld, writer@pydanny·26 Tem

I feel like I'm missing something. Assuming def func(*args) can accept 1 or more of anything, shouldn't it be set to def func(*args: tuple[Any])? Alas, the only way I get it to pass type checks is with def funct(*args: Any). Which feels a bit off.

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Luke Plant@spookylukey·14 Tem

@didyoupush I'm not doing a huge amount of web dev right now, but I start with vanilla JS and htmx.

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🌬@didyoupush·13 Tem

Hi @spookylukey , is there any fronetend library you use with django to build fullstack webapps? I am curious! btw loved your django htmx patterns repo

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Luke Plant@spookylukey·10 Tem

@KatiMichel I have a Django project that's been continuously running almost that long - my first commit is Sept 2005. Seems like a good subject for a conference talk or something if people were interested...

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Katherine "Kati" Michel@KatiMichel·10 Tem

Was taking a look at the Django Software Foundation website. Check out the clock at the top folks. 19 years and 11 months. It's just about time to get the bubbly ready to celebrate Django's 20th anniversary. 🥂

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Luke Plant@spookylukey·27 Haz

New blog post: Statically checking Python dicts for completeness lukeplant.me.uk/blog/posts/sta…

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Glen Scrivener@glenscrivener·20 Haz

Twice this week our parliament has tried to alleviate burdens — at the beginning and end of life. But we’re not meant to eliminate burdens, we’re meant to carry them:

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Luke Plant@spookylukey·19 May

@JohnDCook There's an arabic proverb "a book is known by its title" - englezz.com/arabic-proverb…

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John D. Cook@JohnDCook·21 Eyl

"You can't judge a book by its cover." Except you kinda can. Not with certainty, but you can get a good idea what you're getting into from the cover.

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Luke Plant@spookylukey·1 May

"idiots" is giving them too much credit. It's like John Cleese said: "decisions are made by persons whose main concern is not losing their jobs... That's why they're so cowardly and gutless and contemptible."

Kathleen Stock@Docstockk

It was never complex. You and your legal advisors are just idiots.

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Peter J. Williams@DrPJWilliams·18 Nis

Nice to be quoted by Lord Frost in today’s Telegraph. But the quotation is significant. Tiberius has lots of coins and inscriptions, but in biographical genres there’s more material about Jesus. The argument is laid out in my little book Can We Trust the Gospels, published by @crossway

David Frost@DavidGHFrost

I've written in @Telegraph this Good Friday about the factual basis of Christianity - and the importance of not diluting into myth the real historical event at the heart of Easter. telegraph.co.uk/gift/1b52914a8…

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Luke Plant@spookylukey·8 Nis

PyPI seems to be down for some packages, seeing errors since an hour ago - p.datadoghq.com/sb/7dc8b3250-8…

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Luke Plant@spookylukey·6 Mar

@willmcgugan I think the new syntax is more readable. Plus if you want to assign to a value, it has a more specific type i.e. `some_types = float | int` is better than `some_types = (float, int)` because `some_types` is a `UnionType` rather than a tuple.

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Will McGugan@willmcgugan·6 Mar

I didn’t know this worked outside of type hints. Are there any benefits compared to using a tuple of types in isinstance?

Rodrigo 🐍🚀@mathsppblog

Since Python 3.10 you can use the pipe operator to combine types – this creates a type union. This can be used, for example, when you want to check if a value belongs to one of 2+ types with `isinstance`. Here's an example 👇

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Armin Ronacher ⇌@mitsuhiko·20 Şub

Yesterday I talked with @cleptric and a few others at Sentry about ugly code and Flickr's Flamework. It is one of my inspirations to this very day. I decided to write about it and why it is such a fascinating Rorschach Test for developers. lucumr.pocoo.org/2025/2/20/ugly…

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Evangelicals Now@EvangelicalsNow·31 Oca

@glenscrivener outlines 6 reasons why putting Jesus at the heart of our evangelism is 'liberating'. @SpeakLifeUK @EAUKnews e-n.org.uk/features/2025-…

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