Jake Howard 🍊

JetKVM minis are on their way 🙌

Core team member Jake Howard has #security tips for protecting your Wagtail sites from compromised eMudhra certificates. An important read! ⚠️ 🔐 Check out his blog: wagtail.org/blog/wagtail...

So in ~24 hours, we've had: - A partial Google Cloud outage - 8 leaked CA private keys - 2 critical PHP RCEs What a week, huh! 😬

I'd be pretty scared if I were a Rails dev right now. If you are, maybe come give #Django a try - the grass is lovely and green over here. And it's not going anywhere! jardo.dev/what-about-r...

It's a good day for me* - it's network upgrade day! 🙌 WiFi 7 and 6GHz, here I come! *By "me", I actually mean the company office I live hours away from and so will rarely experience myself. But hopefully it means fewer stability complaints!

After a near-complete rewrite, I'm releasing django-sri 1.0.0! 🥳 It's almost entirely breaking changes, but nothing too complex. In return, you get a simplified API, cleaner codebase, and some performance improvements await. Give it a go! pypi.org/project/djan...

I had an interesting idea, and now it's submitted for @djangocon.eu. 7 weeks before the deadline... This is far too much thinking ahead for my liking!

I put a Home Assistant dashboard on my fridge, using an old Windows tablet. theorangeone.net/posts/fridge...

Almost 6 months since the last release, django-tasks-db 0.13.0 is out! 🥳 10(!) new contributors helped make it happen ❤️ Dropped required django-tasks dependency, Improved support for MySQL and MariaDB, Improved lock handling and much much more! Give it a go! github.com/RealOrangeOn...

The cupboard with my router in finally has power without running an extension lead under the door! All it took was 15 minutes and £1.99! And the really janky wiring left over from the previous owner.

No prizes for guessing when I fixed a race condition which resulted in nginx hammering its error log...

I've had my pebble almost a week and a half. I _guess_ I should charge it...

I replaced linkchecker with @adamj.eu's django-crawl on my website. Shaved 2 minutes off my CI time, with a fancy UI, fewer bodges, and a sprinkling of #rust for good measure 🙌 github.com/adamchainz/d...

My Pebble is finally here 🙌 Unfortunately, it arrived at 10am, so I need to do a whole day's work before I can play with it 🥲 If this is how my Monday starts, then this is going to be a good week! 🥳

I've been building my latest side-project on Codeberg, but the git operations are distractingly slow - sometimes double that of GitHub. Still beats actually using GitHub! Building on my own Forgejo instance, and pushing to Codeberg when it's ready to publish might be a great DX improvement.

My feed is full of people giving me FOMO at #emfcamp or #europython. Then there's me - today I'm tidying the garage...

Happy Friday to me - my Pebble order is finally ready to ship! 🥳

Cloudflare silently added opt-in support for respecting the Vary header! Welcome to 1997 internet, Cloudflare! developers.cloudflare.com/changelog/po... Hoping this simplifies a lot of caching rules (and some funky worker deployments too)!

I needed a way to see exactly what our web servers were doing, with zero latency. Log ingestion wasn't good enough. And then it hit me: process names! theorangeone.net/posts/proces...

Modern Standby (s2idle) claims another victim. Bought a Thinkpad E14 G7, but was surprised with the battery life. Turns out it drains around 40% when asleep for 12 hours. Firmware only supports s2idle (no S3), which isn't suitable for me. Refund it is 😔 www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHKK...

There is no bigger compliment 🥰

Finally got around to setting up @techaro.lol Anubis on my Forgejo instance - Hilariously simple! The rate of issued challenges is slightly crazy, but I'm just glad my projects now stay out of the slop factory datasets 🙌 git.theorangeone.net/systems/infr...

I finally figured out how to properly firewall a machine running Docker, to limit exposed ports theorangeone.net/posts/docker...

If you make a device where an internal wire is attached solely by its solder joints, you are a bad person and deserve a bad day! 🙈 In related news, I fixed the temperature sensor on my son's baby monitor 🙌

Typo of the day: "bureaucrazy"

It's midday on a Monday, and I've already triaged 13 #security reports for #django. 10 raised in the space of 20 minutes by a single reporter. Not a single one was legitimate. I don't think this "AI Security" thing is really making life better.

After over a year in the works, I finally deployed my new website last night Same content, new platform. And no more CMS. theorangeone.net/posts/not-so...

Earlier today my server ran out of disk space. It's amazing how much fails when there's nowhere to write to - Proxmox won't even let you delete VMs. Turns out I had some hefty ZFS snapshots. A few deletes later, and it was 80GB lighter. Retention tweaked to stop this happening again.

Woke up to a parking ticket after I forgot to pay for parking for one day of a 5-day event. That's what I get for being in a rush. Happy Saturday to me!

Now leaving Athens tired but fulfilled. A great time at @djangocon.eu, catching up with friends old and new, and ticking some sights off the bucket list 🙌 20% of talks mentioned Tasks, which still feels crazy - I can't believe the community response ❤️ Until next time...

The problem with being on the Security team at a conference is you're terrified to check your email in case there are some shoulder surfers around who catch a glimpse of an unreleased vulnerability 🙈 #djangoconeurope

I was on an episode of @djangochat.bsky.social - it was great! 🤩 Security, Tasks, Wagtail and more! theorangeone.net/talks/django... On YouTube, and wherever you get your podcasts.

Athens here I come 🛫 #djangoconeurope

Cleared out my car today ready for selling. This is what I found: - Multiple wooden sporks - A Lidl receipt from 2022 (just after I bought it) - 2 unopened bags of M4 bolts - A roll of wrapping paper - A roll of dog poo bags - 3 broken coathangers I need to deep clean my car more often... 🙈

First run through of my @djangocon.eu talk is looking pretty good, and hitting the timings almost perfectly. A few tweaks, and it'll be ready - 13 whole days early!

> If you have not received contact within the next 24 working hours What does that even mean!? 1 working day? ~3 working days? 3 days?

The exact definition of my job is, complicated. In the best possible way. For example, last week I ran A/V for an internal event, streamed live on Zoom. theorangeone.net/posts/tbx-sp...

The @wagtail.org security team no longer accepts GPG-encrypted reports. GPG adds a lot of burden to manage, and it's just not worth it for us. wagtail.org/blog/wagtail...

After I saw someone complain they recently fixed their backup prunes, I went to check mine - and they were broken too 🙈 And had been for around a year. A quick fix and some manual prunes later, and my backups are 130GB lighter 🙌

I'm not really a of AI at the best of times, but the recent unnecessarily hostile drama against the author of Booklore honestly makes me kinda embarrassed to call myself a "self-hoster" 🙈 I'll be keeping an eye on the fork and hope it gains some traction. www.reddit.com/r/selfhosted...

I spent half an hour this afternoon wondering why the switch I'd just installed didn't work. Turns out I'd wired it wrong on the first attempt, tripped the RCD, and I hadn't noticed everything downstairs was off when I checked different configurations. That's enough DIY for me for today.

I ditched Gandi domains. More security, more features, and saving nearly £100/yr 🥳 Now powered by Hover and deSEC. theorangeone.net/posts/moving...