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I recently did some work that involved updating a repository containing a Go module, and then installing that module as a dependency in a different Go project. This involved a couple of mildly unusual workflows, including installing a specific branch...
I’ve been experimenting with jj lately, and I was looking into how to set it up to use GoLand's merge tool for resolving conflicts. There are docs on configuring merge tools in general with jj, but nothing specific to Intellij IDEs. Thankfully, I fou...
In my work at Bevy, I recently implemented a streaming endpoint in our Django app using StreamingHttpResponse. For anyone unfamiliar with this class, using it is straightforward. You just need to pass it some iterable, and it will stream the content....
I just finished Codecrafters.io Build Your Own HTTP Server course (my code, for the curious). This was my first time using Codecrafters, and I really enjoyed it. I learned a few things about the HTTP spec and about buffers and IO in Go. The HTTP Spec...
For a while now, we've had semi-frequent WorkerLostErrors on one of our Celery queues. These can happen for a few reasons, but one of the most common causes is a Celery task using too much memory and being killed by a parent process. If you're loggin...
If you ever need to access the raw SQL executed during any unit test, the CaptureQueriesContext context manager can help. It's very simple: from django.db import connection from django.test.utils import CaptureQueriesContext def test_foo(): with C...
When using Python in an interactive environment (i.e., the shell), the _ variable stores the result of your most recent operation. This is useful if, like me, you spend a fair amount of time in the Django shell when writing/debugging features. For ex...
Background I'm working on a side project for my wife, and the data structure for this project involves models with a recursive foreign key relationship: I have a Concept model that can have subconcepts. Currently, the business requirements only need ...
Today, I spent a while trying to debug a slow API endpoint. As part of the initial exploratory process, I just wanted to time how long the entire request/response cycle was taking. This is simple enough with time curl ... in the shell, but for conven...