Oliver Andrich

https://social.tchncs.de/@oliverandrich

Brewing code, sipping coffee, and raising cats.

„Whatever the mind can conceive and believe in, it can achieve.“

#python / #django / #elixirlang / #golang / #apple / #swift / #pma

Blog: https://someonewho.codes/
Code: https://github.com/oliverandrich
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2026-08-10 09:12:42 UTC

This is a great move by the #django community. This adds even more stability from my point of view. It also makes an internal discussion way easier. Thanks for that.
https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2026/aug/10/annual-release-cycle/

2026-07-06 19:00:48 UTC

Time to read a classic again. And getting back into #elixirlang was a good excuse to buy the 3rd edition.
https://f2.tchncs.de/media_attachments/files/116/874/572/090/555/163/original/82110814d26e5065.jpeg

2026-06-14 12:07:00 UTC

RE: https://social.tchncs.de/@oliverandrich/116718481512742272
I got some really good suggestions. I settled in the end on OverType and Markdown editing. It is small, fast and doesn't break the LanguageTool browser extension. The last thing killed CodeMirror on my list.
https://overtype.dev/
#note1vl9…uq5a

2026-06-09 05:24:49 UTC

I am looking for a good, small and extensible web editor I can use in a web project. I am accustomed to TinyMCE and CKEditor, but for a current project, I need some more light weight. Trix is on my list, but may be there are others, too, that I should consider. Do you have experience with one particular candidate and can recommend it based on first-hand experience?
A plus would be, if I didn't need to setup a complicated bundler pipeline for it.
#webdev #webdevelopment #django

2026-05-17 19:07:12 UTC

Burrow, my little web framework for Go received a major overhaul too. v0.20.0 is out. 🎉
- Integrated Den 0.13.1.
- Added TailwindCSS support.
- Kicked out some contrib apps and fixed some real design flaws.
https://github.com/oliverandrich/burrow/releases/tag/v0.20.0
#golang

2026-05-04 14:41:18 UTC

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I don't think so. Writing tutorials for libraries or frameworks fulfil two purposes for me:
1. I, as the developer, can evaluate my library by writing a tutorial. I did so for my web framework Burrow, that I wrote over the last few weeks.
2. Tutorials are marketing material too. If I evaluate a larger library, I check the tutorial to understand the API implications for our project and so on. If you fail there, I won't use it. Actually, Claude suggested some libraries for Burrow, but I dropped them after investigating the tutorials.
The same applies for coding tutorials for programming languages. Maybe I am a dinosaur, or I am not vibe enough, but even though I love to use agents, I still want to be able to understand and work on the code myself.

2026-04-03 11:26:09 UTC

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Thank you for the effort. And Django News is the only newsletter I read top to bottom. I hope for another 7 years or so.

2026-03-28 18:19:20 UTC

Not sure what he wants. But he requests full attention from me. #caturday #catsofmastodon
https://f2.tchncs.de/media_attachments/files/116/308/177/944/352/204/original/0e00d042e4feda90.jpeg

2026-02-07 07:33:03 UTC

Chilling in the bed with your cat is the best thing to start #caturday
https://f2.tchncs.de/media_attachments/files/116/028/179/385/215/722/original/a494bc87257d1a3f.jpeg

2026-01-02 08:12:48 UTC

Great talk by @npub1fdr…lvhs Very inspiring along with the announcement of the digital indipendence day.
https://media.ccc.de/v/39c3-a-post-american-enshittification-resistant-internet

2025-08-02 13:23:24 UTC

Best $50 I spent today.
https://www.djangoproject.com/fundraising/
#SupportDjango #Django

2025-07-14 19:51:38 UTC

Django turned 20 yesterday! Apart from Python, no other tech has stuck with me this long. Happy birthday, you brilliant little framework.
https://someonewho.codes/django-turned-20/
#python #django

2025-05-26 19:49:10 UTC

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and for a bigger django project it looks the same, but also includes guidelines how to build models, views, and so on.

2025-05-26 19:46:18 UTC

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From my django project I can't share anything yet, because I have to clean it up a bit. But I currently work on a pluggable django app, that uses this file.
Most of it, it discovered by itself like the usage of the just command or how the project is structured. But as I am a big fan of django-test-plus, I told Junie a bit about this preference and that I want 100% test coverage. I also had to mention, that mocking should be the last thing to do. Otherwise it would mock almost everything even to hide failing tests from you.
The fun part is, that you can talk with Junie about the guidelines and he/she/it adapts them accordingly.
https://gist.github.com/oliverandrich/62516ce3da5b334d63b7ddbb146a6281

2025-05-25 14:49:06 UTC

@npub1p8l…anzv @npub1mjx…httg Do you guys have advice how to handle the .junie directory in a project? Would you commit it to source control? I normally avoid to add my .idea folder, cause other people might have different settings and requirements. But the guideline.md seems to be a good candidate to share between users.

2025-05-02 16:28:17 UTC

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I do a ton of stuff with shortcuts: switching desktops, adding task based on the current application to Todoist, trigger standard AI prompts I use and so on. I would have the same problem as Kev.

2025-04-26 11:47:28 UTC

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I keep a journal in my notes app. Would you like to see it as a blogpost or like a gist? It contains criticism, suggestions and so on. Overall the experience is awesome. Junie and I harmonize way better then Cursor and I. Mostly, I would love to see that it takes more obvious things into account. When I tell it/him/her about them, he/she/it does immediately what I expect.

2025-04-24 17:56:50 UTC

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I am a big fan of the AI Assistant and Junie at the moment. I like the deep integration.

2025-04-22 13:30:17 UTC

@npub1fh7…ee83 is it possible to host Docker Containers on a project like Forgejo does, or is this a feature only available to some projects?

2025-03-25 13:10:40 UTC

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pytest fixture are confusing me way too often, too. Especially when I have to layer them or add some mocked services… This always ends up in a total mess. But pytest + TestCase works great for me.

2025-02-26 07:41:33 UTC

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it works for me as the main application for calendaring in my O365 organization. The only missing feature is, that you can't create a link to a Teams meeting. That is my primary reason to have finally switched to Fantastical.

2025-01-09 10:29:54 UTC

Set up my @npub1fh7…ee83 supporting membership. And canceled my GitHub Pro membership. Spending money on Codeberg e.V. feels way better.

2024-12-25 10:35:51 UTC

@npub1fh7…ee83 if I start as a supporting member, can I switch later on an active membership? Or do I have to decide this upfront?

2024-12-24 17:54:02 UTC

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I use codeberg for all my private repos. Works like a charm and I love when it would see more adoption in the python community.

2024-12-21 17:03:27 UTC

Played a bit with copier today. Nice tool and I love how it can apply updates to existing projects. I guess I will converted my 5 #python standard templates for projects, toys and experiments to use it.
https://copier.readthedocs.io/en/stable/

2024-12-11 15:46:13 UTC

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Don't do it. I was a lousy joke. The last thing I would ever want to attend is a machine generated talk. On this topic, I am old fashioned. I want to see a human and be able to believe it is a human. (But I see a time, when I can’t detect it anymore.)

2024-12-11 15:41:33 UTC

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can we get a on-demand-django-tv-feature? I head to Django TV and ask for a fresh talk about a topic.

2024-11-27 09:05:03 UTC

@npub1p8l…anzv May I ask another question about PyCharm?
Why doesn't it pickup the venv from the project directory, when it is available? Currently, I always see, that it picks a virtual environment from another project and I have to manually configure that I want to use the one from the project directory. For me this is bad DX. But I may miss the point. Can you point me to an explanation? I haven't found anything in the help and on the forums about it.

2024-11-20 23:10:14 UTC

Finally, I found a use case for a script that use the inline script metadata of PEP 723. It might be the best solution to build and deploy my Todoist agent script.
https://micro.webology.dev/2024/08/22/python-uv-run.html
#python

2024-11-20 16:04:53 UTC

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I feel you. For me it helped me to setup an appointment with a customer and than I had to be able to show something. I sometimes sad, that my brain works best under pressure - Django saved my ass thousands of times. :)

2024-11-20 15:56:46 UTC

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the first version of my solution was totally over-engineered. Then I sat down for a weekend session and rewrote it from scratch.

2024-11-20 13:58:11 UTC

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Sounds like a good story for a longer blog post. But I have to sync this with marketing.

2024-11-20 13:57:42 UTC

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I add image descriptions to images. Summarize send documents. Create articles from press information, police stories, etc. pp. Extract event data for an event database on the web page and so on. And finally I answer the basic journalistic questions about the email content - who, when, what, why, how?

2024-11-20 13:56:04 UTC

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With LLM power, I implemented automatic routing, spam detection and removal uninteresting content. The basic pattern is, decompose the email, anonymize it, send it to the LLM with a prompt and expect yes or no answer. Take action based on the response.
After the routing the automatica content processing starts.

2024-11-20 13:54:06 UTC

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I have that big django application I maintain since 2008. One part of it is, that I import e-mail for further processing by newspaper editors and creating articles from the send in content. Until the LLM rise, I extracted meta-data, removed unusable parts, convert images, resized them and so on. But then the editor had to take over and decide what to do with it.

2024-11-20 13:51:45 UTC

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I have not written up, what we do in our product. But this sounds like a good idea.
Let me describe what I do there in 2-3 posts. 😀

2024-11-20 13:23:09 UTC

I love how good the feedback is on my automatic e-mail processing with AI. This augments the AI in the editor within our django application perfectly. Happy developer life.
Now back to some management tasks…

2024-11-09 15:56:13 UTC

A few days ago I asked for use cases of web panels in #vivaldi and a lot of suggestions were shared. I tried them all. But I have to admit - web panels and the sidebar in general is of no use to me. But the same applies to bookmark handling. Seems as I am a bit unorthodox in my browser usage.

2024-11-04 15:52:43 UTC

I am curious. What do people use web panels for in @npub19rt…adh9. I have added chatgpt, bsky and mastodon there. But this is more like toying around. I would love to learn what other people do with it and how they enjoy them. #vivaldi

2024-11-04 13:29:32 UTC

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and then it will do my laundry.

2024-11-01 20:03:23 UTC

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Ah, okay. Then I will wait for it ;)
I currently think, that my main problem is, that this happens outside of my coding environment or so. On the other hand I tried out the latest changes in Copilot, that makes a lot of sense. May I should give this a try with a fresh project. In an existing project it was helpful.

2024-11-01 19:47:14 UTC

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is this talk somewhere available? I tried to use Claude projects in a project, and once again I fail to use an AI tool for success. I guess I need some inspiration.

2024-10-29 15:30:56 UTC

Bukowski is a nice name for a tool that converts pyproject.toml files from poetry to uv. I love the irony in the name.
https://github.com/ninoseki/bukowski

2024-10-14 20:23:10 UTC

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This is a very good advice. I guess he has a ton of questions to add. ;)

2024-10-14 20:12:49 UTC

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I am a bit afraid to do so… :D

2024-10-14 19:25:38 UTC

Can’t sleep. Can’t relax. Luckily, my brain doesn’t think about work at all, which is better than the last days. But why on earth does my brain discuss class-based views vs. function-based views for hours now? I am not sure how to explain this to the doctor tomorrow. 😂 at least I can tell her, I feel better this evening than the whole weekend.

2024-10-04 15:26:52 UTC

Since Hetzner is offering S3 buckets now. I could play a bit with SQLite and Litestream for some of my smaller applications. Would love to see how this replicates.

2024-10-02 21:10:29 UTC

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But it seems as gpt4o-mini is just perfect to transform short task description from a quick add dialog into proper data sets.

2024-10-02 21:07:32 UTC

Just got bitten by this little "feature" of Open AI. Well, then I have to add the current date to my system instructions.
https://f2.tchncs.de/media_attachments/files/113/239/867/173/134/433/original/68697332fd8494db.png

2024-10-01 19:19:51 UTC

Two weeks with uv
Two weeks after switching from Poetry to UV, I’m fully sold. UV has streamlined my workflow, resolved issues like XKCD #1987, and made managing Python projects easier. While some quirks exist, they don’t affect me. With Astral now supporting PyPI publishing, UV has become my go-to tool for Python development. …
https://andrich.me/2024/10/two-weeks-with-uv/
#django #python #PythonTooling #uv

2024-09-22 12:20:03 UTC

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I gave it a try, the impact was a bit to big or I have to take care of too much things. It seems as it is easier to fork the library I want to use and create version with changeable forms and proper i18n.

2024-09-22 10:31:38 UTC

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oh. This sounds like something to evaluate in the afternoon while being on a train. Thanks.

2024-09-22 09:20:47 UTC

The inability to overwrite label_suffix globally in #django drives me nuts (again). Just to get rid of the colon, I have to subclass all forms and most of the views of a 3rd party library now. (May be I should create a fork with proper i18n and and without the colon.)

2024-09-19 20:32:51 UTC

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Oh, thanks for the info. Than I have to check projects separately. I would love to finally see some AI tooling, that makes me happy.

2024-09-19 20:25:08 UTC

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Just starting with it. Claude Dev uses projects and stuff and the results are so impressive. Finally, I get into a zone, where I can accept these tools.

2024-09-19 20:18:53 UTC

After being frustrated by Tabnine, Copilot and friends, I gave Claude Dev a try. An open source extension that uses Claude.ai.
It doesn't interfere with my coding and creates a mess with „autocompletes“ that are not worth a penny. The chat is way more helpful. By using the features of Claude, it can interact with your code base. But as a good citizen, it always ask for permission to send to data off site.
This is how it should be!
https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=saoudrizwan.claude-dev
#ai #coding #assistant #python

2024-09-15 16:14:42 UTC

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may be I should just go with requirements.txt.

2024-09-15 16:12:15 UTC

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I would love to setup the environment inside the container based on the uv.lock file. Or can uv pip also use it?

2024-09-15 16:09:04 UTC

uv sync --frozen, my #django project and this Docker container are fighting a strange fight.

2024-09-15 15:22:58 UTC

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Oh, I have to check out this episodes. Seems as I missed it.

2024-09-15 15:04:17 UTC

@npub15wd…rte4 have to tried to create a Dockerfile for uv and django projects? I am currently stuck with "uv sync —frozen“. I am sure, I am missing something, but don't get it.

2024-09-04 13:55:28 UTC

#python confession. Homebrew is still the best way to have Python 3.8 to 3.12 in parallel on my mac and keep it up to date.