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I've been doing the swamp cooler thing for maintaining homebrew fermentation temperatures for too long and have finally built a more controllable fermentation chamber. I used the plans for Mother of a Fermentation Chiller after doing some research and seeing how happy others have been with variations of it. It's lightweight and easy to move around unlike freezer and refrigerator based options and is inexpensive to build as long as you are ok with a big, ugly, box. I have seen people put wood enclosures around them which look very nice and would help insulation even more, but will obviously …

It's time for my occasional rework of the back end of this system and attempt to write more by making it easier and nicer to write. This time I killed two birds with one stone by adding Wagtail to the mix.

I stumbled upon Wagtail through work. We build a lot of custom CMSes at Mobelux and so every couple of years we take a look at existing solutions. In the past we've always found something unacceptable about all of them. This time when we gave Wagtail another shot, it was exactly what we are always looking for. The features …

I have been playing with Go on and off for a couple of months now and am really enjoying it. I could probably do a post just on why and what I like, but in short, it adheres to and encourages simplicity, obviousness, and explicitness that Python does (moreso than Python in many cases) while adding some new tools, implementation options, and deployment options.

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Part of the explicitness and obviousness of Go is in function signatures. In Python you can have named parameters with defaults, so they are optional. You even have the *args and **kwargs parameters which take …

It's just a few hours until 2018 on the east coast. It's been an isanely stressful year so I'm writing this so that I don't forget how awesome this last week has been and how I'll make sure next year is awesome.

• Introduced Ana to Sonic the Hedgehog on the awesome AtGames Genesis my wife got me for Christmas.
• Robin and I watched Star Wars Ep IV with Ana for the first time.
• Built awesome cars with Ana using a kit she got for Christmas.
• Found Zam Zam Kabob with awesome family which took us in for the holidays for …

As I've been working to improve my devops skills and knowledge, particularly in regard to using Docker, I have begun to wonder what the best way is to handle Dockerfiles and the rest of the Docker image build environment. Sometimes I feel that with the code makes the most sense, treating it like a Makefile or other build data. Now that I am looking for references suggesting the this technique I am having trouble finding them, but I have seen it often Here are a couple posts on the web which suggest that. This includes Amazon's ECS Continuous Deployment pipline …

I got my first bug report for Django Fractions.  That's awesome!  It means someone uses it and finds it useful enough to report a bug!  The bug was that it was not playing nicely at all with forms in the django admin site (or elsewhere using a ModelForm, most likely).  I fixed it and learned a bit more about Django's internals.

The base fix was to implement the formfield() method on djfractions.models.fields.DecimalFractionField.  That in itself took a bit more work than expected and in the end I stopped subclassing the built in DecimalField because there are just too many things …

So I've been delayed on my promised Phoenix for Django Devs post, but I've got something else fun instead.

One of the challenges when developing Django apps is email testing.  Having to actually send emails and check in your real email client is kind of a hassle and always risks accidentally sending an email to an incorrect person.  You can use something like mailtrap.io, which at least ensures the email will never get to an incorrect person and provides some great functionality, but you still need a network connection and have somewhere else to log in to view the data. …

I started trying to post stuff more regularly awhile back.  I did well for a few posts and then it died off.  I am finally starting to write up the promised follow up post to my previous post about how to implement nested changesets in Phoenix and comparing and contrasting that to using Django InlineFormsets.  I have all of the actual work done, but I am now going through my code and cleaning it up.  The current code has a lot of "it works, move on" sloppiness to it, so I have to clean that up, make how I do …

A pretty common use case is to create or edit a main object while also manipulating a list of related objects. On the database side the list of objects usually have a foreign key back to your main object's table. Using Django the form, data validation, and saving is handled with a ModelForm while related object saving is handled via an inlineformset_factory. Previous version of Phoenix did not have a very elegant solution to solving the same problem. Posts on Stack Overflow and elsewhere detailed manually handling transactions to create the parent object, then validate the related objects, then …

Last night I came up with a solution for the specific problem of page or template specific javascript in Phoenix, which I posted here. When I woke up this morning I realized that the more generic problem was simulating the {% block %} template tag. So to expand upon the example from my previous post, a top level parent Django template (without lots of elements to keep it clear) might look like this.

When I work on a Django project I normally have a simple block at the bottom of my base template which is empty, something like so:

I've put about 250 miles on these shoes now and they are great.  Knee pain I've been battling with since starting running seriously is gone and I've increased my mileage.  I wish the forefoot/toe area was a little more flexible and I have some concerns about how the insole is wearing.  The sole/tread has a large open gap down the middle and the insole shows a visible crease right there as well.  I do need to try out a bit larger shoe next time, though.  I am currently using a 12 2E, but after some half marathon and longer distance …

I've kept the rare posts on this blog technical, but I'm expanding in hopes of having more to say.  Back in August or September 2015 I started running fairly seriously.  Since then I have been on the search for running shoes which don't suck.  I have wide, flat feet, with additional weird bones on the outsides near the middle which stick our further than on anyone else I have spoken with about it.  It makes it hard to find decent shoes which fit.  Additionally I've been fighting with knee pain... possibly due to over pronation (which tends to go with …

Alright, so I finished my final class for my Associate's Degree in Computer Science after many years of slowly taking classes while working full time and having a child.  It's awesome.  I decided to immediately fill up my free time by modernizing the code running bash-shell.net a bit.  It's still nothing fancy, but doesn't need to be.  I finally updated Django to 1.9, generally reorganized code, added ssl using letsencrypt, and tonight I added django-wysiwyg to hopefully make posting easier and encourage me to do so.

I hope to continue to improve bash-shell.net's system to add interesting features and …