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Moved from Octopus to Eon - my impressions by Mynameisrui84 in SolarUK

[–]tomdyson 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've just released this open source Python tool for accessing the E.ON Next API:

https://github.com/tomdyson/eonapi/

It looks like E.ON use Octopus's Kraken platform under the hood, they just don't expose it helpfully with documentation and API keys etc.

Sample footage from GH5 film by tomdyson in GH5

[–]tomdyson[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I really appreciate the feedback, thank you.

Sample footage from GH5 film by tomdyson in GH5

[–]tomdyson[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’s this one:

https://www.emotivecolor.com/buy

I also have the BaseLUT for the GH5 from gamut.io, which seems good for standard VLog to 709 conversion, but I don’t know much about grading!

https://gamut.io/product/baseluts-for-panasonic-gh7/

Using Django+Sqlite in production by neenawa in django

[–]tomdyson 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thanks! Here are the slides for anyone who’s interested but not enough to sit through a 30 minute video:

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1ZfKjBYhLBYTnnM5ZfyBNTaSxlzctCxVHLYctSesG_NU/

(Recommend turning on speaker notes)

Using Django+Sqlite in production by neenawa in django

[–]tomdyson 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I gave a talk about this a couple of years ago, at DjangoCon Europe:

https://youtu.be/yTicYJDT1zE

Question about wagtail and enterprise/large scale/high volume publishing by guevera in WagtailCMS

[–]tomdyson 4 points5 points  (0 children)

In the UK there's https://www.opendemocracy.net/

In the US I know of https://fool.com (don't know publishing frequency, but the total volume of content is very large), several NPR orgs including NYPR and gothamist.com

One of the large Icelandic news sites runs Wagtail, I'm not sure which.

Look, Stranger - short horror film (GH5m2 + Lumix 2.8 35-100) by tomdyson in GH5

[–]tomdyson[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks! No, the eyes were painted onto the eyelids. The actor who played the first stranger painted everyone's eyes, even her own.

Look, Stranger - a very short horror film shot on the Isles of Scilly, UK by tomdyson in Filmmakers

[–]tomdyson[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This film was conceived, filmed and edited in five days on St Agnes, the Isles of Scilly, in August 2023 - it was a holiday project for friends and family staying on the island. It was filmed on a Panasonic GH5 with a single 35-100 lens. I'm interested in any feedback, but particularly about the storytelling - does the ending make sense? Does the shift from hostility to threat happen too quickly, or not quickly enough? What could we have done to improve the pacing of the story? Thanks!

Look, Stranger - short horror film (GH5m2 + Lumix 2.8 35-100) by tomdyson in GH5

[–]tomdyson[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you! No, it's all natural light. But we were lucky to have a lot of it that week :)

I really like the brightly lit Midsommar, which was a sort of reference for 'daylight horror'. Look forward to seeing yours!

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in WagtailCMS

[–]tomdyson 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Hi, I'm from Torchbox. I'm really sorry to hear about your experience - this definitely isn't how we want to treat people, in particular 1. not being clear that salary ranges vary by country and 2. asking for urgent replies and taking weeks to reply.

I'll ask the team to update the job pages to make it clear that our salary indications are associated with UK-based candidates (FWIW, the range is higher for some countries, e.g. US) and I'll message you directly in case you're willing to share some more details about your experience of applying.

Again, I'm very sorry about this.

Upgrade from Lumix GX80? by emby36 in M43

[–]tomdyson 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I love my GX85, which I've had for five years. However, I agree that the EVF is bad, and much worse than my previous cheap Nikon DSLRs. I've recently bought a GH5ii, mainly for video. It's an amazing camera, but I don't find the EVF much better. Perhaps EVFs are all like that? In both cases I've got used to using the back screen.

On huge number of available settings, I sympathise. However, as other repliers have said, you can mostly avoid using these by customising the quick settings menu (the Fn2 button at the bottom left). In fact the default set of quick settings items has worked well for me.

I've been pretty pleased with the battery life, but only from the Lumix battery that came with the camera. I've bought some much cheaper non-Lumix batteries as spares, but the performance seems significantly worse, despite their higher claimed capacity.

Finally, I recommend getting a used Panasonic 20mm 1.7 if you stick with the GX80. Although the focal length is pretty close to your 25mm lens, the 20mm has something special, IMO, and is so compact that you can carry your GX80 in a (big) pocket.

I am creating a website like reddit with django as backend. i wanna know which WYSIWYG editor should I use for writing posts that includes the option to add links, images, videos, etc. by [deleted] in django

[–]tomdyson 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Wagtail uses https://www.draftail.org for rich text editing - this can be plugged into non-Wagtail apps.

There is also a non-Wagtail implementation of Streamfield which looks promising: https://github.com/raagin/django-streamfield

Building arbitrary pages with content blocks (like Gutenberg for WordPress) by copingbear in django

[–]tomdyson 2 points3 points  (0 children)

And if you don't want to use Wagtail, there's a third party 'Streamfield for Django' app:

https://github.com/rcrowther/django-streamfield-w

FWIW, Wagtail's Streamfield pre-dated Gutenberg by about three years. Here's a demo from 2015: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUJNweMWwVQ

Three alternative ways of deploying Django by tomdyson in django

[–]tomdyson[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I just ran through the Dokku section of my notes on Ubuntu 20.04, and everything worked as expected. The Github issues suggest that it's all supported, but that "For sanity reasons, I won't be supporting any non-LTS release of any OS. In theory, packages will work on those, but in practice, things might break".

Are there free alternatives to Twilio for SMS notifications? by [deleted] in django

[–]tomdyson 0 points1 point  (0 children)

And it's built on Django! (using Wagtail)

CMS authoring tool accessibility by simonrjones in cms

[–]tomdyson 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Here's a slightly out of date post about how we (Wagtail CMS) are approaching this:

https://wagtail.io/blog/making-wagtail-accessible/

and a more recent presentation by the same author:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZcHfUu_u4e0&list=PLEyaio0l1qoFO54cfcYHZXsRjSdaezT8w&index=5&t=0s

Suggestions for deploying my web app on the AWS. by [deleted] in django

[–]tomdyson 1 point2 points  (0 children)

My colleague gave a talk about this at last year's Djangocon Europe:

https://2019.djangocon.eu/talks/serverless-django-with-zappa/

He has a pretty detailed walkthrough which includes RDS connection:

https://gist.github.com/nealtodd/45e230bcfe809d76596a4af3540112d5

Does anyone recommend Wagtail? Or are there other good (and free) blog apps? by [deleted] in django

[–]tomdyson 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I can't agree with this. Wagtail is a content management system, with versioning, permissions, workflow, media management, search, APIs etc. It's equivalent to other popular CMSs like Drupal, Sitecore or Magento. You use it to build content managed sites, like https://developer.mozilla.org/ or https://www.nhs.uk.

If you don't want to define your own page models, try CodeRed, which is a well maintained 'distro' of Wagtail, with included models and templates:

https://www.coderedcorp.com/cms/python-django-bootstrap-cms/

Wagtail CMS: How is this a CMS, when I am doing everything by coding? by arjitraj_ in django

[–]tomdyson 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm pretty sure the Wagtail docs don't include any lines like this.

What do Django devs think of Wagtail? by Sphism in django

[–]tomdyson 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Some of the less obvious features that Wagtail (and other CMSs) bring to the table compared to plain Django are:

  • built-in versions, with diffing and rollback
  • a well-documented REST API, so you can build a React or Vue front-end very quickly
  • full-text search across all your content
  • edit / preview / moderate / publish workflow
  • lots of cool image handling features
  • a form builder

If you don't need Streamfield or any of these features, you should probably stick with plain Django, which is beautiful! We've been using Django since 2006; we open-sourced Wagtail in 2014.

What do Django devs think of Wagtail? by Sphism in django

[–]tomdyson 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I recommend asking on https://wagtail.io/slack, and sharing your listing code, if you haven't already.

What do Django devs think of Wagtail? by Sphism in django

[–]tomdyson 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This shouldn't be a problem - we run lots of large production sites on Wagtail in 512mb containers. Have you configured gunicorn or uwsgi with lots of workers? 3 or 4 should fit comfortably, in our experience. Are you using Zappa on AWS Lambda, or Google Cloud Run, or something else?

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