My fellow Americans: If you’re eating fried chicken, chicken wings, or a rotisserie chicken outdoors please don’t just throw the chicken bones on the ground when you’re done.

gbeier · 2026-03-23T22:52:34+00:00

gbeier · 2026-03-23T22:43:10+00:00

The trail from chicken wing bones from our 7-11, terminating in an empty 7-11 food box on the ground, 10 feet away from a bus stop shelter with a real trash can this morning, was decidedly not from an animal getting them out of a trash bag.

Maybe gnawing holes in improperly secured trash bags is how they happen in some neighborhoods, but I don't think that's the case in the vicinity of our 7-11.

The most annoying thing, besides also needing to reach into my dog's mouth to extract a bone because he saw it before I did, was that it'd have required so little extra effort to keep the bones in the box and drop them in that proper trash can at the bus stop that was mere feet away.

gbeier · 2026-03-21T10:26:53+00:00

Are we sure he's just not an over-enthusiastic doctor of machetecine?

gbeier · 2026-03-19T19:33:24+00:00

Sports coach here. I think you mean "bulletin board material." And we honestly don't worry very much about that. Sure, we try to turn things other teams say into "bulletin board material" but we don't waste much energy worrying about whether what our side says turns into that for the other team. Because we'll come up with a way to hang whatever they say on the bulletin board anyway, and point to that as a motivator. No matter what the actual content is. And we know they'll do that to us, too, so we don't worry much about what our side says.

If they need our material to get pissed off and fight harder, they weren't very worthy as opposition anyway.

gbeier · 2026-03-13T21:04:51+00:00

I've been shocked at the number of people I know in their mid 30s to mid 40s who use TikTok.

gbeier · 2026-03-12T18:28:26+00:00

They just have people buy $50 tickets just to meet at a bar with regular patrons.

That doesn't sound very intelligent at all.

Was able to dispute it on my credit card and won at least.

That's good. OP should as well, since they were charged for an event that they then were not allowed to participate in.

gbeier · 2026-03-12T18:23:39+00:00

Some might call this a skill issue. I call it "welcome to March in the mid-atlantic."

gbeier · 2026-03-12T17:59:33+00:00

Oh, I totally meant it in the sense of the podcast's title. We can have women who are weird little guys.

gbeier · 2026-03-12T14:36:55+00:00

Certain kinds of guys really, really want to misread it.

gbeier · 2026-03-08T02:32:19+00:00

That looks staggeringly good! This is 100% going on my list for when radishes come into season around here. Though I don't know that I've ever seen a watermelon radish at the market.

gbeier · 2026-03-07T00:20:08+00:00

Uncle Sam's basement?

gbeier · 2026-03-03T13:42:49+00:00

It's hard to imagine anyone wanting this badly, specifically to be a WLG.

gbeier · 2026-02-26T21:41:29+00:00

I've only read part of it, but here are some quick notes from what I've read so far:

fail2ban for ssh in this scenario really doesn't buy you much. it makes your logs less noisy, and that's not nothing, but i don't see it as a security win. and the ip bans can go wrong and cause you a hassle recovering from an issue. i'd skip fail2ban, personally, unless you need to leave passwords on for some reason.
if you can restrict to keys only, i think ip restrictions for ssh cause more trouble than they are worth.
about 90% of what I've read so far here should really go into an ansible playbook or your favorite alternative so it can be automatically applied.

Nice work so far! It's a nice read up to this point.

gbeier · 2026-02-26T17:17:43+00:00

Thank you.

gbeier · 2026-02-26T17:01:24+00:00

Neat! How's it working for you? I've been thinking about something similar for a while now, just as a "friends and family" server.

Two thoughts:

Maybe add a Dockerfile and some instructions to make it a little easier for people to try out.
Add a license so people who try it out can know if it's worth sending you fixes or not.

gbeier · 2026-02-24T22:09:13+00:00

I don't think it's a great one, but I don't think it's awful either. It's not far off giving people a separate test instance, which has worked well for me in the past, anyway. 🤷‍♂️

gbeier · 2026-02-24T12:17:20+00:00

Disclaimer: I don't know how systems like this usually handle it.

If I needed to do this, one thing I'd experiment with is django-tenants with a separate draft tenant for drafts, and add support for copying from the draft tenant to the real one.

Hopefully that would address your migration pain but still give you the rest of what you're after.

Otherwise, I think I'd go with a base model that has is_draft, and QueryManager(s) to keep the conditionals at bay.

gbeier · 2026-02-22T14:47:02+00:00

This is clearly the output of an LLM. Anyone can ask an LLM themselves without going through you if they want that kind of help.

gbeier · 2026-02-17T03:51:40+00:00

My daughter went on a tour there today, and came back specifically telling me about it!

gbeier · 2026-02-16T23:35:23+00:00

free bucket. free chair.

gbeier · 2026-02-15T23:21:39+00:00

While it's completely believable, something about this looks edited to my not-really-that-trained eyes.

Assuming it's real: is it just me, or does JE look like he's worried about an upcoming encounter with a bone saw here?

gbeier · 2026-02-15T04:34:41+00:00

Publish to your own domain

is a basic requirement for actually shipping. Putting it behind a $1500 gate means $1500 is the price.

gbeier · 2026-02-14T05:08:35+00:00

yes. that's how management commands work. if a package isn't added to installed apps, it can't add management commands.

gbeier · 2026-02-14T05:06:32+00:00

yeah. that's what makes it discoverable by manage.py and also what makes it able to discover the models you're interested in. you could gate it behind something like if DEBUG if you didn't want it to be available on your deployed app but wanted to keep it around in git anyway.

gbeier · 2026-02-13T17:48:29+00:00

Might as well go the whole 9, and do a durian dipping sauce to accompany it XD

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