For the past 4 months, ClickHouse has been my life, full time. I’ve been vetting it for production use and learning all about it in the process. Since my memory has always been notoriously poor, I take a lot of notes (in fact, that was the original reason for this blog’s existence). So, while I’d…
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User Activation With Django and Djoser
Depending on the project, Django and Djoser can go really well together. Django provides such an enormous feature set as a foundation, and such a modular platform, that tools like Djoser can provide enormous value while still staying out of the way of the rest of your application. At the same time, the whole solution…
On Keeping A Journal and Journaling
I've kept a journal since I was 11. That was in the mid 80's. I hadn't heard the word “journaling” until about a year or so ago, and lately it appears that giving advice and howto information about journaling is a bit of a cottage industry. I had no idea so many people were in…
What Geeks Could Learn From Working In Restaurants
I spent a long time in my teens and early 20’s working in restaurants. To be honest, I loved just about every minute of it. It’s exciting, you’re never idle, and it’s usually not boring: you either get immediate gratification from happy customers leaving a nice tip, or you’re on the defensive, thinking on your…
What I’ve Been Up To
Historically, I post fairly regularly on this blog, but I haven’t been lately. It’s not for lack of anything to write about, but rather a lack of time to devote to blogging. I want to post at greater length about some of the stuff I’ve been doing, and I have several draft posts, but I…
PyCon Talk Proposals: All You Need to Know And More
Writing a talk proposal needn’t be a stressful undertaking. There are two huge factors that seem to stress people out the most about submitting a proposal, and we’re going to obliterate those right now, so here they are: It’s not always obvious how a particular section of a proposal is evaluated, so it’s not always…
Sending Alerts With Graphite Graphs From Nagios
Disclaimer The way I’m doing this relies on a feature I wrote for Graphite that was only recently merged to trunk, so at time of writing that feature isn’t in a stable release. Hopefully it’ll be in 0.9.10. Until then, you can at least test this setup using Graphite’s trunk version. Oh yeah, the new…
The Python User Group in Princeton (PUG-IP): 6 months in
In May, 2011, I started putting out feelers on Twitter and elsewhere to see if there might be some interest in having a Python user group that was not in Philadelphia or New York City. A single tweet resulted in 5 positive responses, which I took as a success, given the time-sensitivity of Twitter, my…
The Happy Idiot
Today is November 1st, and there’s an event that takes place every November called National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo). I don’t believe I have the ability to really write a novel, and have no reason to think anyone would read it if I did. But I would like to make an attempt to write a…
pyrabbit Makes Testing and Managing RabbitMQ Easy
I have a lot of hobby projects, and as a result getting any one of them to a state where I wouldn’t be completely embarrassed to share it takes forever. I started working on pyrabbit around May or June of this year, and I’m happy to say that, while it’ll never be totally ‘done’ (it…