klove 🐍🦀

nonbinary divorced human parent
depressed nonreligious leftist
old millennial cat dad
every day has two 4:20s y'all
sugar, spite, and everything 🧟 night 🌙

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i'm a(n): principal engineer at the place with the animal books
i mostly toot about: life, my cat, Python, and Rust.

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2025-10-30 06:01:20 UTC

I'm working on a Python->Rust educational project and I'd love some ~lab rats~ volunteers to help me advance it.
Do you know (some of) Python? Do you want to learn (some of) Rust? Do you have a free chunk of time, say around 6-8 hours?
I'm not sure exactly what we'll do (that's part of the project) but you'll be helping me while learning Rust, and you'll get access to a "secret" project.
If you're interested, reply to this toot, I guess?
#python #rustlang #rust

2024-09-05 19:01:44 UTC

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yeah, it doesn't seem like an easy problem to solve. I'll noodle on it a bit if I have time

2024-09-05 17:21:06 UTC

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hmm, that is a tricky situation and I've found myself there a few times.
I feel like it might need a third source of information, like a schema that remembers database shape/state. Then, when you switch branches, you could do a `dbdiff` or something to get the differences between schema and database? I'm sure there's a ton I'm simplifying and leaving out, of course.
Well, wait (lol, you get train of thought), you _should_ be able to reconstruct the shape of the database purely from the migrations. So shape that db in memory, then compare to the actual database shape. Produce a diff and then :magic: and you run the correct SQL commands to match the database to the migrations.

2024-09-05 15:33:15 UTC

Hey #django friends! I'm almost done with a small utility and I wanted to see what y'all think of it before I release it. https://github.com/kennethlove/django-migrator is the repository and currently the only way to install it.
It adds three management commands:
- `reset_database` which drops all tables and runs migrations
- `redo_migration` which reverts and applies the last migration (this takes an optional app name)
- `revert_migration` which reverts 1+ migrations, also optionally for an app
I think they're handy tools, especially early in development.
Thanks for reading and looking!