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Django podcast about speeding up your Django tests, featuring Adam Johnson, who literally wrote the book on the subject.

Having useful tests, and having them run quickly and often, is a cornerstone to reliable web development—something I am appreciating in Django all the more now I am working on not-Django for my day job.
- Speed Up Your Django Tests - Adam Johnson — Django Chat — Overcast
Noted by Damian Cugley 5 years, 9 months ago.
Forgot I needed to shop in my exercise ride this morning so now I have had to dig out my emergency backup face mask to go out foraging at lunchtime
Noted by Damian Cugley 5 years, 9 months ago.
- Covid 19
Replacement housing for Realforce keyboard so you can type on an aluminium slab lovingly powder-coated in Retro Refrigerator. I don’t own the hardware it is designed for so I am just enjoying it for the maximal-minimalist aesthetic.
- the Norbaforce Mark II The ultimate fancy-pants, endgame, holy-grail housing for your Realforce keyboard Made in the USA Before checking out, please be sure also to order the breakout PCB kit (sold separately) that is compatible with your particular keyboard. It was a longstanding dream of mine: to make a luxury aftermarket housing for the w
Noted by Damian Cugley 5 years, 9 months ago.
- keyboard case
- mechanical keyboard
While we were all busy reimplementing jQuery and replacing it with more elaborate JavaScript frameworks, plain JavaScript has quietly gained features that mean you can do a lot on a small site without requiring complex frameworks at all.

(Via @timbray on Twitter)
- A little bit of plain Javascript can do a lot I’ve never worked as a professional frontend developer, so even though I’ve been writing HTML/CSS/JS for 15 years for little side projects, all of the projects have been pretty small, sometimes I don’t write any Javascript for years in between, and I often don’t quite feel like I know what I’m doing. Partly because of that, I’ve leaned on libraries a lot! Ten years ago I used to use jQuery, and since maybe 2017 I’ve been using a lot of vue.
Noted by Damian Cugley 5 years, 9 months ago.
- JavaScript
- programming
Oxford Common File Layout is a standard directory-tree layout for storing digital artefacts intended to allow the structure of the archive to be reconstructed without the original software.

(Via @NeilSJefferies on Twitter)
- OCFL Specifications This Oxford Common File Layout (OCFL) specification describes an application-independent approach to the storage of digital information in a structured, transparent, and predictable manner.
Noted by Damian Cugley 5 years, 9 months ago.
- archiving
- Oxford
- reference
- standard
Well this is annoying. I want my app to be able to read the content of a tweet but the HTML no longer includes the text, only a JavaScript blob. Reading the tweet using the API requires applying to be registered as a developer. I really shouldn’t need to just to read public data.
Noted by Damian Cugley 5 years, 9 months ago.
- broken web
- twitter
Diagrams illustrating bicycle geometry terms

(Via @fanf on Twitter via @j4 on Twitter)
- https://99spokes.com/bicycle-geometry-terms
Noted by Damian Cugley 5 years, 10 months ago.
- bicycle
- terminology
How quickly these apps draw us in. I installed Strava to record my morning ‘commute’ bike rides after months of happily not recording rides, and today I feel sad because I forgot to record my bike ride.
- Study in Yellow and Green Underside of the Old Road bridge
Noted by Damian Cugley 5 years, 10 months ago.
- cycling in Oxford
- lockdown
Instructions for renaming the ‘master‘ branch in your Git repository to ‘main‘. There is no particular reason for the main branch of your repo to be called ‘master‘, so you might as well rename it rather spend eternity explaining to people that this isn’t a reference to ‘master–slave’ relationships; ‘main’ is as good a replacement as any.
- Easily rename your Git default branch from master to main - Scott Hanselman
Noted by Damian Cugley 5 years, 10 months ago.
- Git
- programming

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