When contributing to Django, you’ll want to run its test suite to check your changes. The official contributing docs cover setup in Running the unit tests, using a virtual environment and pip. Here’s an alternative guide using uv. Setup First, clone Django and change into the repository: $ git clone https://github.com/django/django $ cd django (You can fork it later if you want to make a pull request.) Then, create a virtual environment: $ uv venv Using CPython 3.14.6 Creating virtual…

Acorn Bookshop, St. Paul, MN (Like and follow The Indie Bob Spot on Facebook)Years ago when I began this project one of my earliest visits was to a wonderful indie in the Como Park neighborhood of St. Paul called Micawber’s. It was one of the featured bookstores in My Bookstore that launched my journey. Sadly, Micawber’s soon went out of business after my visit. But from those ashes, a seed was planted, an acorn, which sprang from that loss to offer a new life and new bookstore. That sapling is…

Like all maps in the Neath, it doesn't reliably take you to where you're trying to go. Unlike other maps in the Neath, it sometimes – just sometimes – takes you where you're supposed to be. — Unusually Loyal Map of London, Mr Chimes' Grand Clearing-Out Over on PC Gamer, Jeremy Peel wrote an article about Fallen London's Exceptional Stories, and the rotating cast of freelance writers who write them. It's a lovely piece; reading it made me a little emotional. One of my favorite (small) parts of…

It finally happened. I’m finished. After so many years of bureaucracy, endless appointments, and countless denials, my rating is maxed. Permanent and total. After a victory, when the initial excitement fades, there’s sometimes a hollow feeling, a sudden absence of purpose. Not this time, though. I feel free. I suddenly have options. The company no longer owns me. So, what changes now? Nothing, really. Not yet, anyway. I’ll continue on as I have for a little while. Save money, relax, let the…

Many years ago, I worked with the NYU Music Experience Design Lab to create a browser-based music theory tool called the aQWERTYon. It has two purposes: to turn the computer keyboard into a playable instrument, and to visualize chords and scales in an intuitive way. I am very proud of this tool, it was a lot of hard work, and I use it constantly when I’m teaching music theory. However, in the years since we stopped working on it, I have thought of some features I would want to add and…

In the Book Notes series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that relates in some way to their recently published book. Previous contributors include Jesmyn Ward, Lauren Groff, Bret Easton Ellis, Celeste Ng, T.C. Boyle, Dana Spiotta, Hanif Abdurraqib, Andrew Sean Greer, Roxane Gay, and many others. Jocelyn Cullity’s novel The Nurse at Baker Hospital is a compelling historical literary mystery. Kirkus wrote of the book: “An engrossing story that exposes past medical fraud at an…

Bild: Das »Blaue Loch«. Tiefgarageneinfahrt Massenbergstraße (2011). Die Verwaltung hat die Radwege im Bereich der Tiefgarageneinfahrt an der Massenbergstraße billiger umgeplant. Aus einer guten Lösung für das selbstgemachte Problem von 2006 wird eine Lösung auf dem Niveau der 1970er Jahre. Geplant war ein Umbau ab 2025. Die »überdimensionierte Tiefgaragen-Zufahrt« (WAZ 2008) sollte nach zwanzig Jahren endlich schmaler werden, um Platz zu schaffen für Fuß- und Radverkehr. Davon ist nichts mehr…

import NotePanel from ’@/NotePanel’ import Figure from ’@/Figure’ import TechnicalTerm from ’@/TechnicalTerm’ When I was a kid in the early 2000s, I spent a lot of time playing games that I borrowed from our local library. Many of them were German point-and-click adventure games, since those were the games that ran on my dad’s Windows 95 computer. Even back then, I was interested in tech and always tried to figure out how I could keep playing these games after giving them back to the library,…

Now I’m remembering more: many of those who buttoned all the way up also didn’t believe in neckties. They were “adornment” and just as sinful as women’s jewelry.

Clara saw this live webcam feed of Sydney making the rounds earlier this week, and it’s a lot of fun. My colleague suspects the camera is mounted behind his old school in Kiribilli, on the northern shore of the harbour. We have it on the TV during the day when we’re working from home. Our favourite is seeing the cruise ships pull up to the terminal, and the trains crossing the bridge. A sailboat or two is nice as well. By Ruben Schade in Sydney, 2026-10-09.

Compared to the ancients, we moderns less moralize our personal lives, but more moralize the bigger world around us. Wars and politics, for example, are more moralized to us. In particular, we tend to be eager to interpret big-scale trends in moral terms, and often do so if enough trend context factors can support such an interpretation. These moral interpretations often change how we respond to big tends, which often enhances these trends.For example, when gas prices rise, many are tempted to…

Noël Coward's Hay Fever returns to the West End, this time in a production by Emily Burns whose star turn of Christine Baranski convinced me to book; but while I can't accuse it of not being an entertaining evening, I think this should probably be the last time I give this particular play a go. Baranski plays Judith Bliss, a recently-retired stage actress who made her name in torrid melodramas, and keeps threatening to return to them as her new life in the country has been boring her lately. So…

Random memory: there were a large number of Holiness men who believed men should always wear long sleeves. Within this group there was a sizable contingent who believed in buttoning their shirts all the way to the top. (I remember these latter being mostly Oklahomans.)

No, not "on the lamb" - that'd be something else entirely. The word lam has its origins in Old English and originally meant "to beat" or "thrash" and may have originally been used in the same way that we now say "beat it!" when we want someone to run away. Whatever its origins and however it got there, to be on the lam today means 'to be on the run from law enforcement', and that's exactly what Bill Denby is. It will shock you, I am sure, to learn that Bill did not show up for either of his…

https://www.bram.us/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/calc-input.mp4Recording of the <calc-input> demo. Continuing my streak of small form-related Custom Elements (like <rich-input>), I built <calc-input>. It’s a custom input element that accepts mathematical formulas — such as 2 + 3 or (2 + 3) * 4 — and automatically toggles between showing the formula on focus and the calculated result on blur. ~ # The need for a smarter numeric input field I’m currently building a web app that has a lot…

I’m doing Pushtober again with some friends, where we do 100 pushups each day in October. I had some catching up to do, so just focused on that today. Unknown location (probably inside)

Disclaimer Previously… The Alternate Conclusions The Good The Bad The Weird Stay Tuned… Disclaimer In these posts, we discuss a non-“Free as in Freedom” popular culture franchise property, including occasional references to part of that franchise behind a paywall. My discussion and conclusions carry a Free Culture license, but nothing about the discussion or conclusions should imply any attack on the ownership of the properties. All the big names serve as trademarks of the owners, and so forth,…

Over the years, I learned about many gotchas and strange differences between keyboard handling on Mac and Windows – pertinent especially to web apps, which use the same codebase to cater to both. I thought it might be helpful to someone if I compile them all in one place. This post is meant to be a reference, and there aren’t any cute or riveting stories hiding inside – if this seems boring to you, feel free to skip to the next one! Different names for keys What Windows calls Backspace, Mac…

Twelve days into the fall sail on Chesapeake Bay and I am just now able to sort the apple phone/google sign-in issues and make a post. First of all, thanks to friend Matto for the photo above, taken I think just after dawn on Tilghman Creek. SPARTINA and Matto’s TRIM had a pleasant raft-up there, including Matto’s friend Rossco.The trip has had a little bit of everything. Rain and sun, great wind, good friends in St. Michaels. I’ve stayed mostly on pretty little creeks, most often by myself but…

We have empirically determined that three P0 issues are about the most I want to handle concurrently, and after that I trend toward snippy.

Did you see the price tags on the new Kindles? Amazon’s latest eReaders were announced last week. They look largely the same as the previous ones, which is not bad — if it aint broke, don’t fix it. But one big disappointing difference is the higher price tags across the whole range. The increases are not surprising given the tech landscape this year, but they’re relatively deal-breaking if not kind of crazy. I’m still a fan of the Kindle. But it’s a lot harder for me to justify replacing my…

I attended my first seminar talk today at Cambridge, for the Computer Lab Systems Research Group by Dr Paolo Costa of Microsoft Research. Paolo introduced quite a fascinating idea and here’s my recollection of it (mistakes all mine). One of the biggest bottlenecks for inference workloads on GPUs is High Bandwidth Memory to load weights for processing by tensor cores. HBM has been rapidly increasing in price due to scarcity (hyperscalers are consuming HBM at an insatiable rate), even impacting…

As I was trying to shove my protesting cat into his cat carrier, I thought of a great Turing Test for physical intelligence. The man himself. He actually loves sitting in his cat carrier… unless you show any sign of wanting to put him in by force. Then, not so muchRecent progress in artificial intelligence has been nothing short of astounding. At least, in silico. Real-world impact lags the perceived intelligence of modern LLMs by quite a bit, and the explanation is fairly obvious: optimizers…

two iridescent ducks swim towards me expecting breadcrumbs I don't have they're unbothered by my lack of offerings like I'm unbothered for a short moment by the lack of answers I wear the power suit and a red lip and feel for once in my life totally in control snack on free candy at the office gaze at the lake I call mine feel the strap of my bag digging into flesh walk home smiling anyway

Oh, generative AI … is there anything you can’t ruin? Shut up, Claude or whatever your name is. That was a rhetorical question. As you may recall, last May an AI-generated video was allowed to speak at the sentencing of Gabriel Horcasitas, who was convicted of manslaughter for killing Chris Pelkey during a road-rage incident. According to Pelkey’s sister, in the course of collecting victim-impact statements she kept thinking, “What would Chris say?” Eventually, someone also thought, “What if we…

I am at the beginning of my watch collecting journey which gives it the vitality of any new hobby when everything is exciting and new. Thinking about watches made me analyze my personal watch history dating all the way back to when I was just a kid.I first started wearing a wrist watch when I was 8, I remember it quite vividly, growing up in 1990s Poland everyone was raised catholic and everyone in the 2nd grade was expected to go through the first communion rites, for kids the exciting part…

Built to endure the tests of time, the pyramids of Giza were built of limestone, granite, basalt, gypsum (mortar), and baked mud bricks quarried at Giza and sites further up the river Nile at Aswan. Together they form some of the oldest (and last remaining) wonders of the ancient world. The great pyramids of Giza, with their smooth exteriors carved from fine grain white limestone quarried

Paramount Pictures and CD Projekt Red have confirmed they are partnering on a movie set in Mike Pondsmith's Cyberpunk universe, most famously used in CD Projekt's video game Cyberpunk 2077.Mike Pondsmith developed the setting for a tabletop roleplaying game, Cyberpunk (now referred to as Cyberpunk 2013 to avoid confusion), released in 1988. It was followed in 1990 by Cyberpunk 2020, its best-known edition, and Cyberpunk v3.0 (2005). Cyberpunk Red, the current edition of the game, launched in…