Jake Howard 🍊

Inactive account - find me elsewhere:
🐘@[email protected]
🦋@theorangeone.net
Part Developer, Part SysAdmin, Part InfoSec.

[Jake Howard 🍊 @RealOrangeOne]

I'm done with Twitter.

You can find me on the 🐘 or the 🦋 site!

https://t.co/bysOaedvNj

[Jake Howard 🍊 @RealOrangeOne]

I wish I could get away with as informative updates as @soundcoreaudio.

[Jake Howard 🍊 @RealOrangeOne]

Sad to say I won't be at @DjangoConEurope this year 😭 It's 2 months away and the FOMO is already setting in.

On the plus side, after much stress, I'll hopefully have recently completed on a house by then! 🥳

And I'm already working on some @djangocon ideas...

[Jake Howard 🍊 @RealOrangeOne]

Turns out the famous Xiaomi BLE temperature sensors don't like being outside for over a year.

In unrelated news, it appears I live in a kettle... 🥵

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The latest version of @WagtailCMS ships with `django-tasks` installed! 🥳 The first step in major adoption!

https://t.co/JYyn8H05bq

Go forth, and find all my bugs!

[Jake Howard 🍊 @RealOrangeOne]

@arplynn /r/place plays POTUS

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And off they go - 2 CfPs submitted for @DjangoConEurope!

[Jake Howard 🍊 @RealOrangeOne]

First day back at work, and I was met with:

- 1013 unread emails
- 81 Slack notifications across 2 organisations
- 631 system updates

Happy 2025 to me!

[Jake Howard 🍊 @RealOrangeOne]

Recently discovered that I need to completely rewrite a personal project in the next 26 days since one of the core dependencies goes EoL...

[Jake Howard 🍊 @RealOrangeOne]

2024 is over. As is tradition, here's what my server looks like going into 2025:

https://t.co/QiueJ7AXUA

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For possibly the last time this year, there's a new django-tasks release. Just a few bugfixes to end the year nicely.

Go give it a try: https://t.co/qGWPqesHk8

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Well, it's nearly the end of the year. I thought I'd try something new and look back on how it's been:

https://t.co/WdbS2qQrZs

#YearInReview

[Jake Howard 🍊 @RealOrangeOne]

My upcoming "2024 recap" post is currently weighing in at over 3000 words...

This is turning into of the longest posts I've written in a long time!

[Jake Howard 🍊 @RealOrangeOne]

My latest project: Putting ambient lighting behind my TV ✨

https://t.co/4oSDKGWYxe

[Jake Howard 🍊 @RealOrangeOne]

I voted ✅ in the @djangoproject Steering Council elections!

The candidates this year are incredibly strong. Quite a few common themes in people's statements though. This is going to be an interesting few years for Django...

https://t.co/3kffVRHMWl

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Excited to announce I'm running for the #Django 6.x Steering Council! 🥳

[Django @djangoproject]

Thank you to our 12 candidates for the Django 6.x Steering Council elections! https://t.co/ANWJo59gzy We’re elated to see so many stellar contributors rise to the challenge 🚀 Now time to vote! #python #django

[Jake Howard 🍊 @RealOrangeOne]

Apparently someone opened my website today using the Steam in-game overlay browser...

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It's new post day! ✨

https://t.co/1eoh1a8ORf

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@shaggyfrog Tracking it wasn't too difficult - the project I'm working is exactly those cases. The hard bit was trying to distill it down to a minimal reproduction.

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It's been that kind of a week...

Spending hours fighting with unit tests, only to reproduce it as an incredibly niche bug in Django 🙈

https://t.co/ca3huWF0Me