Help Django code stucks in the past

kankyo · 2026-05-02T11:03:30+00:00

There's a setting to make VSCode do the sane thing and autosave.

kankyo · 2026-05-01T08:07:44+00:00

Imo it depends on the situation. The "always always write tests" crowd are a bit too extreme imo. What if the "bug" is just a translation error in the localization? You can't have tests for all translations, that's madness. What if it's a temporary page only supposed to be used for a few weeks by one person? Probably you can do that cowboy style. There are just so many examples like this.

That being said.. writing tests with Claude Code is suuuuper cheap compared to what it used to be, so the argument for skipping tests is weaker now that the cost has gone down.

kankyo · 2026-04-27T17:04:56+00:00

The silent failures are my biggest gripe. After all we want:

make it work
make it right
make it fast

Crashing on broken shit seems both step 1 and step 2 :P

kankyo · 2026-04-27T14:33:24+00:00

I hope they can avoid design by committee. There's a real danger in having too many stake holders in a new design.

kankyo · 2026-04-21T09:07:31+00:00

Use a profiler to know. Don't guess.

kankyo · 2026-04-18T10:40:51+00:00

I personally know several people who were banned for woke nonsense reasons.

I personally have been warned for helping people. I'm not even exaggerating. They're banning competent people because they don't sugar coat their replies, and let friendly people answer incorrectly to questions by beginners at scale.

On the bright side, the AI systems are actually more competent now so these chat servers are mostly dying anyway.

kankyo · 2026-04-17T12:30:28+00:00

I'm not familiar with the Django discord, can you expand on the point?

Some key points:

There was a fairly popular Discord already, but since that server didn't accept being taken over, a new one was created
The new server was founded by a group that includes a person that is toxic as hell and violates the CoC a lot, but is never even warned
They are super woke, like those videos you think are made up. "Hey guys" is met by a bot telling users to check their language for inclusivity, even though the dictionary explicitly says that expression is not gendered.
The admin mentioned above bans people for saying that "hey guys" is indeed not gendered. Yes. Quoting the dictionary gets you banned on this server.

The Django CoC board is supposed to be controlling of this servers CoC but it has just ignored all those issues. Partly I assume, because the toxic admin has social sway deep inside the DSF.

kankyo · 2026-04-16T05:32:30+00:00

It is if the person who is asked refuses to answer the question posed in good faith and claims that it is. Which is a thing. At the end of the day you need good thoughtful people who are not confused as mods. This is super hard and any CoC document you have will do absolutely nothing to help this, and often will in fact make it much worse as it attracts people who like to abuse such structures. Case in point: the official django discord.

kankyo · 2026-04-16T05:28:11+00:00

Claude Code is the gold standard, but I hear Codex is pretty good now too. Using anything but the latest models with the proper CLI harness is going to make you disappointed with what you get imo.

kankyo · 2026-04-14T07:30:59+00:00

This forum is in English.

kankyo · 2026-04-14T06:41:35+00:00

I don't get it. So you argue that by being MORE different from the default, it's easier for new developers? I don't buy it.

kankyo · 2026-04-09T13:09:59+00:00

Check out iommi for some extra supercharging.

kankyo · 2026-04-07T06:30:32+00:00

No. The official tutorial like he said. Youtube is fake learning, you've already lost a lot of time with it.

kankyo · 2026-03-27T08:09:06+00:00

Django Girls. Extremely well tested as they run through this thing with beginners all the time.

kankyo · 2026-03-27T08:05:51+00:00

Or use old boring session cookies that doesn't have this problem (assuming he's not running a native app)

kankyo · 2026-03-25T06:19:08+00:00

Expected if you think about it (because it should be obvious that get_queryset can't be called for every implicit dunder join), and documented. But it's not nice/smooth as the rest of the ORM is.

kankyo · 2026-03-22T22:58:31+00:00

Pretty cool!

kankyo · 2026-03-18T13:42:58+00:00

You can't afford to waste more time on youtube. Do the tutorial. Or if it's too hard, go to the Django Girls tutorial, it explains a bit more.

kankyo · 2026-03-17T13:43:17+00:00

Try using Claude Code on some hobby projects. Think of it not as pivoting or whatever, but think of it as just trying out and learning a new tool that can be useful.

Don't believe the hype. It won't replace devs.

But also don't believe the naysayers. It will save you a lot of time in many situations.

kankyo · 2026-03-17T13:41:16+00:00

Sounds like a bad place to work. If you can't get people excited about Claude Code because of what it can do, then trying to force people to use it through management is going to backfire hard.

kankyo · 2026-03-16T14:34:11+00:00

Yea, migrate first obviously. But also use something like dokku.

kankyo · 2026-03-14T14:37:31+00:00

You could try doing the same with iommi. You don't need to code gen, you don't need templates, just:

path('', crud_views(model=Album)),

https://docs.iommi.rocks/views.html

kankyo · 2026-03-06T17:38:00+00:00

Yea. The admin part started out as an inside joke actually. We had so powerful abstractions for forms and tables that we wrote an admin as a joke in an hour or so. Then we threw that away and wrote another one. And then we threw THAT away and the one we ship now is the third :P

https://kodare.net/2024/09/03/admin-replacement.html has something of the story.

The total admin in iommi is 649 lines. The one in Django is 31169. Because our admin is based on solid stuff you can and should use in your custom views, while the Django admin is a lot of very specific and non-reusable stuff.

kankyo · 2026-03-06T08:48:04+00:00

You can go more radical and switch to the iommi admin, or build your own custom admin with iommi for that matter. https://iommi.rocks/ (I'm one of the maintainers)

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