Luke Plant

Christian, husband, father. Interests in web dev (full stack), Django, Python, and learning new languages.

[Django @djangoproject]

You can also access and render partial templates directly! This can be done using the syntax `template.html#partial_name`.

This works particularly nicely with front end libraries like HTMX that often need to re-render a specific part of a page in isolation.

[Luke Plant @spookylukey]

New blog post:

Help my website is too small
https://t.co/wFbQ4F9NFa

[Albert Mohler @albertmohler]

"I try to be appropriately respectful of all elected officials, but Sen. Kaine uttered one of the most profoundly wrong, dangerous, and downright stupid comments a member of the Senate might articulate."

From my article @wngdotorg today. Link below.
https://t.co/vyijViLHSE

[Luke Plant @spookylukey]

I'm mentoring a junior who is using #VSCode (at my recommendation) and I need to know - how do you do recursive project search workflows? e.g. "Find all references" clobbers the previous results. In Emacs I do this: https://t.co/6hY3vVKKuP

(please don't say Co-pilot/AI).

[Luke Plant @spookylukey]

@rseroter I'd be interested in hearing the points you'd argue!

[Luke Plant @spookylukey]

New post - Why I'm not letting the juniors use LLMs for coding https://t.co/9yP0FXOXbV

[Luke Plant @spookylukey]

@pydanny @willmcgugan @AdamChainz More recently, you can use Unpack and TypedDict - https://t.co/8389g5iPQs

[Luke Plant @spookylukey]

@pydanny @willmcgugan As usual @AdamChainz has a nice post - https://t.co/aIAvU4EUqJ

[Luke Plant @spookylukey]

@didyoupush I'm not doing a huge amount of web dev right now, but I start with vanilla JS and htmx.

[Luke Plant @spookylukey]

@KatiMichel I have a Django project that's been continuously running almost that long - my first commit is Sept 2005. Seems like a good subject for a conference talk or something if people were interested...

[Luke Plant @spookylukey]

New blog post: Statically checking Python dicts for completeness https://t.co/hqBAdVdxkz

[Glen Scrivener @glenscrivener]

Twice this week our parliament has tried to alleviate burdens — at the beginning and end of life.

But we’re not meant to eliminate burdens, we’re meant to carry them:

[Luke Plant @spookylukey]

@JohnDCook There's an arabic proverb "a book is known by its title" - https://t.co/nJK3m0wlNR

[Luke Plant @spookylukey]

"idiots" is giving them too much credit. It's like John Cleese said: "decisions are made by persons whose main concern is not losing their jobs... That's why they're so cowardly and gutless and contemptible."

[Kathleen Stock @Docstockk]

It was never complex. You and your legal advisors are just idiots.

[Peter J. Williams @DrPJWilliams]

Nice to be quoted by Lord Frost in today’s Telegraph.

But the quotation is significant. Tiberius has lots of coins and inscriptions, but in biographical genres there’s more material about Jesus.

The argument is laid out in my little book Can We Trust the Gospels, published by @crossway

[Luke Plant @spookylukey]

PyPI seems to be down for some packages, seeing errors since an hour ago - https://t.co/mYHgkyP117

[Luke Plant @spookylukey]

@willmcgugan I think the new syntax is more readable.

Plus if you want to assign to a value, it has a more specific type i.e. `some_types = float | int` is better than `some_types = (float, int)` because `some_types` is a `UnionType` rather than a tuple.

[Armin Ronacher ⇌ @mitsuhiko]

Yesterday I talked with @cleptric and a few others at Sentry about ugly code and Flickr's Flamework. It is one of my inspirations to this very day. I decided to write about it and why it is such a fascinating Rorschach Test for developers. https://t.co/E53BMXfTe9

[Evangelicals Now @EvangelicalsNow]

@glenscrivener outlines 6 reasons why putting Jesus at the heart of our evangelism is 'liberating'.

@SpeakLifeUK
@EAUKnews

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