Blog

Sure, you could look outside for the current weather, but isn't it a lot more fun to build a live-updating map instead?

What happens when you combine two-colour e-paper with bad Python? Weather! Well, weather displays.

What do you do when you want to massively over-engineer a solution to forgetting your phone charger?

Over a thousand miles over some of the loneliest areas of the USA. What's not to love?

Taking a look at some of the key travelling equipment I've grown to like in the last year of travel.

Upgrading the ASGI spec to simplify it, while keeping backwards compatibility.

Taking a look at what it would take to make Django async-native, what it enables, and if we should even do it at all.

Event loops, coroutines and awaits, oh my!

Finally, the promised land is here and Channels 2.0 is released. But how much has changed? And why?

Finally, my 3D city maps return, and this time they're mapping the streets and hills of San Francisco.

What's happening in the world of Channels? How many times have I rewritten the API now?

Adventures in the land of volcanoes, unique birds, fjords, and long white clouds.

Outlining my plan for iterating on Channels' design, and what the future might hold for both Django and Python in general.

An adventure of food, cities, industry, and astonishing natural landscapes.

I've been developing on Windows as my primary platform for about the last year and a half - here's how.

What better thing is there to do in your free time than to surround yourself with tripods, and try and record something?

On open source software maintenance, politics, and the degrading state of the world.

Long sunsets, 100 degree temperature differences, and frozen rivers in the Last Frontier.

A trip to a remote fire lookout tower somewhere in the mountains of Montana.

Why is Channels designed like it is, and what does it really mean for Django, Python, and WebSocket handling?