Ideas how to support Tailwind CSS 4.x in django-tailwind-cli: Tailwind CSS released its first beta version at the end of November of last year. Since then, I have been thinking about how to implement the changes in the Django library django-tailwind-cli. Tailwind CSS 4.0 includes some interesting and substantial changes: Instead of a tailwind.config.js file, …

My micro.blog got a now page. I love the idea created by Derek Sivers. It adds a convenient way to show what you are up to at the moment. Way more personal than social media posts.

This is a rather typical image from my home office. While I work, my beloved cat is sleeping in the crook of my arm. 🐾🎧 #CatLife #WorkFromHomeVibes

I took my Switch out of the cupboard again and decided to play The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild once more. I really like the style of this game. And I need something less violent and less bloody than the stuff on my Xbox.

Week Notes 2025-01-18 — Back to work: This was the first workweek of 2025. A packed week that felt like I was on a high-speed circuit. Jumping back and forth between five active projects, where I have different roles. Hacked a lot of Python and Django for one project. Did a lot of consulting on another project. Long days, but somehow …

I joined pixelfed. Not sure, what to do with it yet. I am by no means a great photographer. More like a motivated dilettante. But it is cool to try a new service. And it seems as the feed can be consumed, and the pictures can be posted here too.

Backup for my home server with restic and resticprofile: Recently, I did myself a favor and bought a little Beelink SER5 Pro Mini PC a home server to run some services I use on my home network and also to run some development containers. With this shiny new home server, I also wanted to set up some offsite backups for it. I asked on Mastodon for …

Pretty happy how everything works in this micro.blog. The only thing I have to make up my mind about is, whether I want to use automatic cross posting or not. But the backup to github doesn’t seem to work at all. Not sure what I did wrong about it.

Week Notes 2025-01-10: This has been the last week of my three-week-long winter holidays. A vacation I needed more than I needed any vacation in the last few years. The second half of 2024 was so packed and stressful. I had many plans for this vacation, but eventually, I just relaxed, watched TV, read three books, played …

My Alfred Workflow for Todoist: I use Todoist as my task list application for a while now. Before that, I have used Things by Cultured Code. I had to leave Things behind because it is still lacking the ability to share to-do list with other users. But one feature I have missed from Things all the time — the Things helper. This is …

Bye, Bye, WordPress. Hello, micro.blog!: Since Matt started his crazy little campaign at the end of the last year, I had the desire to get rid of WordPress and move elsewhere. First, I thought a bit about using Hugo or so. But this was too much work for my little, low-volume blog. And I also wanted a service that lets me post from my …

My Default Apps at the End of 2024: Jeff and Kev wrote about the default apps they use. It is a nice way to reflect on which tools I actually use and how tools might change over the years. 🌐 Browser: Safari, Firefox + Chrome for testing ⛔️Ad Blocking: Wipr 2 🔍 Search: Kagi 📨 Mail Service: iCloud (private) + O365 (work) 📮 Mail Client: …

PyCharm, Tailwind & htmx: After I shared my initial thoughts on PyCharm, I moved more and more of my projects — personal and work related — to PyCharm. So far, it works out pretty nice, and I am getting more and more accustomed to the IDE. Most of my projects use Django, Tailwind and htmx. While the Django support is great, …

The Timeless Power of Minor Threat's 'Salad Days' Cover: Pictures have a meaning. Some more, some less, and some are like a pillar of your life. For me, such a picture is the cover of the 1985s Salad Days EP by Minor Threat. It was the final EP by this iconic band. I was 15, when I discovered it at a local record store in 1986. Before that, I had never …

Initial Thoughts on PyCharm: I am frustrated by VSCode lately. I might share the reasons in another post someday. For the moment, I turned to PyCharm and try to adopt it as my primary IDE for Python projects. So far, many things are really wonderful, like the refactoring tools, the AI toolbox, the constant level of memory usage …

100 words, a new habit for me?: Occasionally, you have to accept when you fail. Week notes are such a failure to me. My day job almost makes it impossible for me to collect anything helpful I want to reflect on during the weekend. But I love to write regularly. So, let's try something new and also stick to the advice of Jeff — …

Two weeks with uv: Two weeks ago, I published my article UV - I am (somewhat) sold. Since then, a lot has changed for me. I switched all my personal projects to uv from poetry. I have set up a plan how and when to convert our company projects to uv. I am a fan. (And I still hope that I don't get stomped by the …

UV — I am (somewhat) sold: A bit more than a week ago, I posted this on Mastodon after I read several posts in a long thread on using UV for Python projects. Simon has created a blog post summing up and linking to the most significant posts in this long thread — uv under discussion on Mastodon. Now, a week later, I have to …