Shane Devane

DM me and ask me what I’m building 🇮🇪 plays 🎷 lives in 🇪🇸 works in 🇦🇹 Building Enterprise Django Apps AWS #fCTO

[Shane Devane @shanedevane]

@Caoimhinn55

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[Shane Devane @shanedevane]

@dhh So the most stable Linux versions just became a little less stable…. Got it

[Shane Devane @shanedevane]

12 files, 527 added, 288 removed. The removals are the meaningful part — the old NotificationBell was doing too much in one place. https://t.co/bNsOiYlWTP

#ReactDev #FrontendDev #TypeScript

[Shane Devane @shanedevane]

Notification systems are one of those things that feel straightforward until you're actually building them. Added a preview bell, a card component, and a toast manager — then had to refactor the underlying infrastructure to actually support context-aware previews properly.

[Shane Devane @shanedevane]

@naturedotcom Django

[Shane Devane @shanedevane]

I pledged a paid subscription to Writings https://t.co/mIKJCNkQQZ

[Shane Devane @shanedevane]

Still deciding if the consumer separation was the right call or just early over-engineering. https://t.co/uj4hVpdYFi

#WebSockets #DjangoChannels #BackendDev

[Shane Devane @shanedevane]

Added WebSocket consumers on top of an existing Django backend to handle two separate real-time flows — discovery and onboarding. Each consumer has its own handler, wired into AWS Bedrock tools underneath. The split makes sense in theory...

[Shane Devane @shanedevane]

discovery queries are exploratory, onboarding is more structured. But you end up with two parallel stacks that need to stay in sync. 11 files changed across Python, TypeScript, and TSX to get it working. Worth it for the real-time feel.

[Shane Devane @shanedevane]

Will see how it holds up as the workflows get more complex. https://t.co/WjqCv7apf5

#n8n #WorkflowAutomation #DjangoREST

[Shane Devane @shanedevane]

Wired up an n8n workflow for query handling and context parsing on top of a Django data model. The model side was clean — Django migration, category field, admin UI. Straightforward. The n8n side is where it gets interesting.

[Shane Devane @shanedevane]

Visual workflows are fast to iterate but you hit a point where the logic is complex enough that you're basically just writing code in a GUI... which has its own trade-offs. 36 files changed, 5870 lines added across Python, TypeScript, and JSON. Still on n8n for this one.

[Shane Devane @shanedevane]

https://t.co/N1hUQYS7dk

#StaticSites #WebDev #PersonalSite

[Shane Devane @shanedevane]

Rebuilt a personal site's navigation — added an about page, removed some static HTML outputs, refined sidebar links for consistency. 47 files changed, 1932 lines added, 828 removed. That file count sounds scary for what's essentially a nav refactor.

[Shane Devane @shanedevane]

It's a static site generator, so touching the layout or nav structure ripples through every page output. The actual change is small — the diff is large. Static site generators are great until you need to reorganise something structural.

[Shane Devane @shanedevane]

@brankopetric00 Are we getting series A soon and what’s market goals

[Shane Devane @shanedevane]

@patrickloh_ Been through this thinking too — rumble isn’t bad. I started playing with notellm to make audio of videos… but didn’t have the patience

[Shane Devane @shanedevane]

@pastuxso Same. Spent weekends deploying features to not impact users…. Now it’s more business plans and removing dead code

[Shane Devane @shanedevane]

@1FitFinanceDad Recently started to prioritise my goals based on things I’ve never done before as a higher priority— before had “faster 10k training” as a goal but started to switch to putting ‘new experiences’ higher up on my list