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@JustinMitchel @willrabbott It feels like magic 💚

Wow, django-cotton is incredible. Define, use with `<c-button>` (or whatever the template name is) and see the results. I've been wanting a shadcn-like template for Django. I think django-cotton is the key to making that happen. Just needs to learn a few more bits about it.

Last-minute bold moves. A library instead of a full pre-packaged Django app. Integrating the change will require some extra work, but it should be worth it for the flexibility I will gain in return. Let's hope 🙏

Python. Probably there's a module in the Standard Library to do what you are trying to do. Sometimes I just forget about it 🙈

@ikoichi Information that should be public doesn't seem to be that public. There's always something that pops up at the last minute. *Maybe* written somewhere almost unreachable and not foundable by common people.

In 2023, I paid 100% in taxes + social contributions on my $150k/year income. This story is horrifying, and I want you to know how to avoid it ❌ In 2022, I received an interesting offer to work for a USA-based startup as a contractor software engineer working from home, for $150k/year. It looked like an irresistible offer. To work for a foreign company, without a legal entity in your country (Italy in this case), you need to create a company or be an autonomous worker (it's called “Partita IVA”). Other options involve even more bureaucracy and expenses, so, with the suggestion of a professional accountant, I opted for the autonomous worker setup. I started working in June 2022. Every month I sent an invoice to the company for my services. They always paid on time. All good. I did my research, and I found that the social contribution is 26% of the income. Taxes are 40% after the deduction of the social contributions (it's more complex than this, but I'm simplifying). I started in June, therefore in 2022, I earned ~€90k. Social contributions: ~€25k Taxes: ~€22k Total: ~€47k It's a huge sum, half of the total net income, but it's what I was expecting. In the meantime, the accountant kept saying to me "In June you'll pay a big sum", and I wasn't surprised: €47k is a huge sum! But after the calculations, the accountant communicated the final sum: €100k To pay in two parts, 70% in June and 30% in November. As you can imagine, I was shocked. €90k earned, €100k to pay. How's that possible? Simple: down payments. Every year, we pay social contributions and taxes twice (multiply by 2 the calculated sum). Isn't this system completely crazy? Paying taxes and social contributions on money that you haven't received yet, and you don't know if you'll earn enough? In my case, I had a stable income, but this setup is used by freelancers and professionals, who usually DON'T HAVE a stable income. I’m not writing this to complain about high taxation and social contributions in Italy, I want to highlight that the system is poorly designed, and doesn’t help autonomous workers / freelancers / indie hackers / creators to run a business (which is risky by definition). So these are the lessons I learned For complex topics like taxation and social contributions, I found partial information online. When I searched for taxation, I didn’t find the social contribution part, and vice versa, and I’ve never read of the down payments. So, try to read the official documentation if possible (it will take a long time, but it’s worth it). Don’t rely too much on accountants, they tell you what they want you to know. If I had known this, I would have searched for an alternative solution, like an Employer of Records, but the accountant would not have provided me with any services (I pay them €2k/year instead). This bad experience applies to Italy, your country might be (and I hope it is) much better in this regard. Moving to a more entrepreneur-friendly country might be an option too (quite a painful one). As always, I hope that sharing this experience helps you. Take this story with a grain of salt, it is valid in my context, but might not apply to yours. And inform yourself as much as you can. Don't rely on others for key aspects of your life, like money, taxation, investments, and so on. Cheers.

Intriguing 🤔 I want to see the talk before trying it. It's hard to tell if it's helpful or if it adds bloat and problems. It's in the early stage, just presented, it's too soon to say something. simonwillison.net/2024/Sep/25/dj…

@juristr Same here! ⛈️ But you are on another level 😅 Maybe tomorrow I'll see some snow in Primiero.

Summer just high-fived with winter over night 😳

Also, it's used in fedidevs by @anze3db. A—really—good sign! fedidevs.com

I love django-cotton by @willrabbott! It's allowing me to create components without endless configurations. It's a young project, but it's improving quickly. Give it a try, and leave a star ⭐ github.com/wrabit/django-…

@anze3db It's time to try it!

Amazing! The uv team shipped first class support for Python projects that are not designed as packages (think Django aplications!). They even switched some defaults around to better support this use case! 💚 github.com/astral-sh/uv/r…

@anze3db Keep us updated if you'll try to fix it!

First time that I see template rendering being a bit of a bottle neck in a Django app. This was on a Raspberry Pi 4 while all 4 cores were over 80%.

Best 20€ spent ever 😌

@patrick91 @nextjs If it's mounted outside the routing it can be the expected behavior, no? 🤔

Is it expected that `router.push` doesn't unmount a modal (which uses intercepting and parallel routes) in @nextjs?

@arvidkahl A combination between flow and content.

What makes you listen to (or NOT listen to) a podcast? Is there a defining intangible trait the show has? Or is it the theme? Similarity? Novelty? What’s the ”it” it has to have?

@dSebastien That's a good one

I write to forget, not to remember ✍️

@sabderemane_ 🥲

Django turned 19 years recently 🥳🥳🥳 Happy birthday Django 💚 And you, if you are a Django user or a contributor, are you older or younger than Django? #django

@anze3db The last commit is from 2 years ago unfortunately 😔

@lc_fd Somebody is already working on it: github.com/litements/lite… 😄

Is there any GUI tool out there that allows you to view and edit a remote SQLite file (e.g. through SSH)? From what I know this isn't possible, but still want to double check if I missed something.

@anze3db I really want to read it, I don't know enough about the topic

I set out to write a short blog post about common gotchas of SQLite in production, but I'm now already over 1200 words. Help!

@juristr The freedom to open a feed and read—for real—what I want is so good. Without them, I wouldn't be able to follow certain people.

Do you still consume RSS/atom feeds?

There is so much to learn. There is so much to keep in count. There is so much to maintain. Reducing stuff into small pieces usually helps me. It's not that easy to remember.