Tim Schilling

Gardener, homebrewer, bread baker and hot sauce maker. Assister with Django Debug Toolbar.
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Website: https://www.better-simple.com
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2025-05-21 13:35:57 UTC

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I realized that tomorrow marks 1 year from my call for help with Django Commons and wrote a short update on the state of things.
https://www.better-simple.com/django/2025/05/21/django-commons-a-year-later/
#Django

2025-05-20 12:53:49 UTC

1 year later and there's a proper domain and site up for #Django Commons
https://django-commons.org/

2025-05-17 12:08:58 UTC

I've been pushing for more mentorship in the #Django community for a while. I think an approachable step we can take today is holding more small group meetups.
https://www.better-simple.com/django/2025/05/17/mentorship-in-django/

2025-03-26 02:09:06 UTC

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I'm pretty frustrated by that take. There is still activity on the repository: https://github.com/encode/django-rest-framework/commits/master/

2025-03-10 22:04:44 UTC

Have folks run into the problem of the parent class of a Model being changed, but the #Django migrations framework doesn't allow you to change the bases?

2025-03-08 21:55:57 UTC

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It appears down again.

2025-03-07 13:00:20 UTC

Woohoo! django-click transitioned over to #Django Commons last week 🥳
https://github.com/django-commons/django-click
> django-click is a library to easily write Django management commands using the click command line library.
Thanks to GaretJax and FlipperPA for pushing that along! 💚

2025-01-27 23:11:22 UTC

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Are you sure they didn't travel to a new dimension/universe and that's the subtle clue something is amiss?

2025-01-08 14:04:34 UTC

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Congratulations Will! I'm looking forward it!

2025-01-03 13:26:47 UTC

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do you mind elaborating what you mean by github driven?
My guess was that you meant the easy to access and open nature of github, but I'm not really sure.

2025-01-02 16:58:52 UTC

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Seconded. I think a paid person to do any of those things would pay dividends on all time-scales.

2024-12-30 16:55:21 UTC

2024 in review: https://www.better-simple.com/personal/2024/12/30/my-year-in-review/
Just placed the orders for some coffee roasting equipment. Should be a fun 2025!

2024-12-25 17:20:08 UTC

Merry Christmas to those who celebrate! I spent a few hours today collecting some resources for getting started contributing to Django. Let me know what else I'm missing.
https://www.better-simple.com/django/2024/12/25/getting-started-contributing-django/
#Django

2024-12-21 14:21:51 UTC

One of my favorite posts that I wrote was a walk through on #Django migrations to highlight the common gotchas.
https://www.better-simple.com/django/2023/06/03/django-migrations-and-your-database/
What's our policy on re-promoting content?

2024-12-17 18:48:14 UTC

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Regarding privacy, probably not as much as I should. Though any person who uses a Google service should implicitly know it's not purely private information.
If I valued privacy above all, I would do things differently. There are other things that I must value more than privacy based on my actions though. I haven't gone through an assessment to determine what I value and when. Though I suspect it's my time and community value first.

2024-12-17 18:39:27 UTC

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I disagree that Django running by itself solves these problems. There's a lot that needs to be built out to do what Google Drive supports.

2024-12-17 18:07:12 UTC

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Because it's free, has infrastructure that I can control easily, it's easy for folks to pick up and understand, and it's easy to pull reports on.
It's not something "Django" competes with. It's a SaaS platform that has yet to be created would need to compete with and the immediate gap is pretty big.

2024-12-15 03:27:06 UTC

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sounds like we need a forum post. This could be your feature add!

2024-12-12 16:10:15 UTC

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Those are prime ☕ hours! You're going to be getting a lot of caffeinated vibes! ⚡

2024-12-06 04:31:39 UTC

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them Lions have the Pack's number.

2024-12-01 02:36:25 UTC

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he's from the West coast Jeff. It's a magical place out there 😁

2024-11-22 23:30:28 UTC

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I see I don't qualify as a significant last minute drop in 😂

2024-11-22 15:41:09 UTC

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I've found myself wishing I could do an assertNumQueries on a specific set of models' queries.
Like where I could say MyModel should have 5 queries and OtherModel should have 1.
#Django

2024-11-21 20:44:26 UTC

It can snow as much as it wants as long as it doesn't accumulate on the sidewalk or driveway.

2024-11-18 00:22:07 UTC

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congrats folks! I'm looking forward to what you all do! Let me know how I can support you.

2024-11-17 22:22:54 UTC

@npub1dad…33m8 I hope I can dunk the speculoos in coffee
https://cdn.fosstodon.org/media_attachments/files/113/500/627/063/994/713/original/999fe9aa9600af51.jpg

2024-11-16 02:45:28 UTC

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Reset password and login flows work. The email did go to spam

2024-11-14 17:23:26 UTC

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Is this the last opportunity for folks to nominate themselves or is this pre-registration?

2024-11-14 16:44:57 UTC

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Would you say she's down with the sickness? 🤘

2024-11-14 15:23:06 UTC

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That way we're exposing people elsewhere to what they may be missing and avoid the possibility of implying, you're bad because you're using a bad tool that doesn't meet our community standards.

2024-11-14 15:23:02 UTC

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I don't think there should be a decision like that. There'd be greater benefit by nudging people to where core conversations are happening. As Jeff said, conferences and foundations should exist in write-only in these other areas. Those messages could be "There's a super interesting discussion on Topic XYZ over on Platform A, here's the <link>"

2024-11-14 13:43:50 UTC

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With Djangonaut Space, I've noticed that applicants are way more likely to have X or LinkedIn accounts than others. If we're looking to make our contributor pool more diverse, what responsibility do existing contributors have to engage with prospective contributors where they are rather than expecting them to come to us?

2024-11-14 13:43:43 UTC

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> I go to where my friends and the community are
The latter part is the part I struggle with. There's a large segment of python and django devs on X. I feel like as that platform is abandoned, we're creating a disconnect / making the divide bigger.

2024-11-10 01:34:19 UTC

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DjangCon, @npub1nsp…ahke it's catching on!

2024-11-09 18:50:56 UTC

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bonus points because when you invert the dog, it looks like a buffalo 🦬

2024-11-03 23:50:55 UTC

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wait, are you only eating mashed potatoes for the next four days or is that a reference I'm not understanding?

2024-10-30 19:04:52 UTC

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Maybe @npub1dad…33m8 is interested?

2024-10-23 22:06:37 UTC

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I guess I'm saying things are different for sole maintainers looking for a backstop and true community packages.

2024-10-23 22:06:19 UTC

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For sure. I'm trying to not state things declaratively since I'm one of five.
But in this case of wanting assurances, that would lend itself to leaving them as PyPI owners to allow them to pack up and leave unilaterally (as they do now). Though if they transfer true ownership to the commons (meaning they step away), it feels like the admins should be the owners rather than the next maintainer.

2024-10-23 21:29:55 UTC

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Though in both of your cases, if it's after enough time, it's starts with a conversation. The solo maintainer case might be gnarly if they didn't originally write it.

2024-10-23 21:27:27 UTC

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So we are leaving people as owners in PyPI and on GitHub so they can bail unilaterally in the first few months. Originally I thought to remove PyPI owner rights after the onboarding period. There's a weird balance there.

2024-10-23 20:35:45 UTC

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I think the major unknown in that is the first step. Is there agreement on the package needing to move out. What if it's split? How do we decide that?
The actual transfer steps are pretty easy and listed or docs are linked to.

2024-10-16 13:17:33 UTC

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Ship it! 🚚

2024-10-16 09:54:19 UTC

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I really love these lists!
I think there's a fair amount of risk in hiring an ED. I'm not sure it's one of those actions in which, no matter what you do, things move forward. If an ED fails to secure more funding, we're dramatically increasing our expenses.
It'd be great to see someone on the ballot who has experience in bringing an ED to a non profit and onboard them. That would go a long way in reducing that risk.

2024-10-14 22:32:48 UTC

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never mind. I just remembered you may have given me this idea

2024-10-14 22:30:48 UTC

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I wrote a little about an approach to this https://www.better-simple.com/django/2024/08/17/django-tables-htmx-create-table-view/
I think it's what you're referring to

2024-10-12 12:31:06 UTC

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what about in the more library centric* areas of Django? Do we have integrations with technology that should be removed? Maybe Oracle?
*The admin can be argued to be a product/tool that Django provides for free. And like all products/tools, there's a greater tolerance of bubblegum and duct tape.

2024-10-12 12:09:13 UTC

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maybe we could be more comfortable ripping things out as they pass on?

2024-10-11 14:54:02 UTC

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Unrelated to the content, but I can't see if code text is highlighted or not on FF with a mac with light mode enabled.

2024-10-11 11:21:28 UTC

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perfect timing. I'm going to attempt a conversion of our app today

2024-10-09 02:47:37 UTC

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I appreciate your attempt to reason with this irrational opinion.

2024-10-09 02:24:03 UTC

My latest "get off my lawn" opinion:
Sports analysts who wear casual clothing for pre/postgame shows bother me. Looking at you Jason Kelce and Pat McAfee.
I saw some dude not even wearing a button down shirt the other day!
I'm turning crotchety in weird ways...

2024-10-07 19:43:13 UTC

django-typer has joined Django Commons!
https://github.com/django-commons/membership/pull/62
Thanks [@bckohan](https://fosstodon.org/@bckohan ) and [@oliverandrich](https://social.tchncs.de/@oliverandrich )!
On a related note, TIL that django-typer is a dependency of djangopackages.org which is pretty neat!

2024-10-06 17:46:28 UTC

I've been having thoughts on to facilitate concerns, thoughts and questions from a maintainer to users. Right now, I'm thinking we could solve this partially with a package that injects common news somewhere into your development workflow.
I'd love to hear folks thoughts on this. I suspect many people have had thought about this in the past, so any insights are appreciated.
https://github.com/orgs/django-commons/discussions/61 #Django

2024-10-03 11:23:37 UTC

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As per [@carlton](https://fosstodon.org/@carlton )'s suggestion, I made a blog post out of my process.
https://www.better-simple.com/django/2024/10/03/putting-linux-mint-on-a-2012-macbook-pro/
It's not so much a step-by-step guide, but more of a mindspace setting document. I think it'll resonate better if you enjoy "The Good Place".

2024-10-02 01:17:40 UTC

Finally made decision to convert my 2012 MacBook Pro to Linux. It was impossibly slow and I couldn't install obsidian due to the old MacOS version.
I decided to give Mint a roll. We'll see how long this lasts.

2024-09-28 11:55:17 UTC

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oh, for sure to all of the above. This year solidified the importance of DjangoCons across the globe. For me at least. I've got thoughts on it I'm looking forward to sharing.

2024-09-28 11:47:22 UTC

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and share your feedback! What should we double down on? What should we rethink? Organizers have a much different conference experience which makes it hard for us to answer the above confidently across the board.

2024-09-28 03:33:12 UTC

Womp womp. Stuck in Chicago for the night

2024-09-28 00:21:20 UTC

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mobile seems to render weird with Firefox.
This is me partially scrolled to the right. It renders correctly immediately, but there's a horizontal scroll that allows for some unexpectedness.
And sorry, VERY COOL! Thank you! This is a tremoundous help.
https://cdn.fosstodon.org/media_attachments/files/113/212/310/627/300/638/original/448f66adc530c27b.jpg

2024-09-27 22:12:16 UTC

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could you share where I should create issues please?

2024-09-19 21:07:27 UTC

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I discovered a separate monkey patch is required for inlines. Looks like I have a #DjangoCon US blog post to write afterall

2024-09-19 20:02:05 UTC

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Yeah, you're right. That's a much simpler implementation with a single custom abstract model and issubclass call.

2024-09-19 19:52:28 UTC

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Here's what I came up with. It seems like it works from my initial testing.
https://gist.github.com/tim-schilling/62198998a99a19c7f4b73f14d29c6997

2024-09-19 16:28:35 UTC

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I don't want to do this. I wanted you to do this. You're not supposed to reflect the nerd snipe back at me.

2024-09-19 15:56:17 UTC

Has anyone found a way to define a model and have any relationship field towards it always be added in the admin's raw_id_fields? I have several models that require me throwing raw_id_fields everywhere.
#Django

2024-09-13 18:39:58 UTC

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I just had the best chatGPT experience with the o1-preview. I asked two questions and got the information I needed.
"How do I run a postgresql query that fetches rows that have a time column with the hours of 22, 23, 0, 1, 2, 3". It gave me the idea of extracting the hour and doing an `IN` query.
The follow-up question on that thread was, "Can you write some python code that generates the list of hours between two times, inclusive bounds?" and it generated a function with tests.

2024-09-12 19:16:00 UTC

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You can be honest with us. You were trying to help @npub1nsp…ahke work through his backup ~stash~ ~cache~ horde 😁

2024-09-09 20:57:50 UTC

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Someone in the community made this package https://pypi.org/project/django-valkey/ too which is neat to see.

2024-09-09 16:13:51 UTC

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I think a reasonable first step to getting there is for the community to have a hosting sandbox for people to put projects until they reach a certain scale. I know some folks have talked about going halfsies on services ( @npub1nsp…ahke ). Granted, that would be a really weird way of going about building a business.

2024-09-06 10:39:59 UTC

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do you think it's worth mentioning that this is for scenarios where redis is the the broker?
Side note, I'm curious what you're thoughts are on how to start pushing the valkey project forward? Should we start using that instead of redis in posts? Should we mention it at all? I may be a bit too invested since valkey sponsored DCUS and redis didn't.

2024-09-02 01:39:43 UTC

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I don't have a steep or high roof, but I hated going up on it to clean out leaves. Glad you found a better option

2024-08-29 12:57:39 UTC

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Some day I will put together a cheatsheet blog post on super advanced ORM techniques as an example. It's probably my favorite thing to do with Django.

2024-08-27 10:43:14 UTC

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I've run into poor template rendering performance when using many `includes`. It was at least 1000, but my memory isn't perfect.

2024-08-25 20:00:36 UTC

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have you noticed a difference in the responses depending on the inclusion of "please"?

2024-08-23 12:45:43 UTC

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I was really impressed with how quickly the first time to America post come together and the quality of information in it.

2024-08-16 13:48:03 UTC

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To be fair, that's any world-class athlete. To get to that level, you have to be selfish to a degree that NARPs (non-athletic regular people) would find unappealing.