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Jake Howard @jake@mastodon.theorangeone.net · Jul 27, 2026

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! 🥳

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Jake Howard @jake@mastodon.theorangeone.net · Jul 24, 2026

I've been building my latest side-project on @Codeberg@social.anoxinon.de, 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.

social.anoxinon.de

Codeberg (@Codeberg@social.anoxinon.de) - social.anoxinon.de - Mastodon

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Jake Howard @jake@mastodon.theorangeone.net · Jul 19, 2026

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

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Jake Howard @jake@mastodon.theorangeone.net · Jul 17, 2026

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

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Jake Howard @jake@mastodon.theorangeone.net · Jul 10, 2026

Cloudflare silently added opt-in support for respecting the Vary header! Welcome to 1997 internet, Cloudflare!

https://developers.cloudflare.com/changelog/post/2026-07-02-vary-for-cache-rules/

Hoping this simplifies a lot of caching rules (and some funky worker deployments too)!

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Jake Howard @jake@mastodon.theorangeone.net · Jul 03, 2026

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!

https://theorangeone.net/posts/process-name-observability/

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Jake Howard @jake@mastodon.theorangeone.net · Jul 02, 2026

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 sleep), which isn't suitable for my usage pattern.

Refund it is 😔 Maybe I'll hold off and get a Framework later in the year. At least they're known to support real S3 sleep!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHKKcd3sx2c

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Jake Howard @jake@mastodon.theorangeone.net · Jun 18, 2026

There is no bigger compliment 🥰

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Jake Howard @jake@mastodon.theorangeone.net · May 06, 2026

Replying to @bagder@mastodon.social

@bagder aw damn, I'm on call that day!

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Jake Howard @jake@mastodon.theorangeone.net · May 06, 2026

Replying to @itamarst@hachyderm.io

@itamarst TIL! That feels like a real foot-gun

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Jake Howard @jake@mastodon.theorangeone.net · May 05, 2026

Replying to @itamarst@hachyderm.io

@itamarst I thought the point of os.process_cpu_count() was that it's aware of external limits on the process?

https://docs.python.org/3/library/os.html#os.process_cpu_count

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Jake Howard @jake@mastodon.theorangeone.net · Apr 25, 2026

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!

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Jake Howard @jake@mastodon.theorangeone.net · Apr 19, 2026

Now leaving Athens tired but fulfilled. A great time at @djangoconeurope@fosstodon.org, catching up with friends old and new, talk given 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...

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Jake Howard @jake@mastodon.theorangeone.net · Apr 17, 2026

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

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Jake Howard @jake@mastodon.theorangeone.net · Apr 15, 2026

RE: @djangochat@fosstodon.org

I was on an episode of @djangochat@fosstodon.org - it was great! 🤩 Security, Tasks, Wagtail and more!

https://theorangeone.net/talks/django-chat-200/

On YouTube, and wherever you get your podcasts.

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Jake Howard @jake@mastodon.theorangeone.net · Apr 14, 2026

Replying to @adamchainz@fosstodon.org

@adamchainz you're not coming? 💔

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Jake Howard @jake@mastodon.theorangeone.net · Apr 14, 2026

Athens here I come 🛫 #djangoconeurope

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Jake Howard @jake@mastodon.theorangeone.net · Apr 05, 2026

Replying to @mahryekuh@hachyderm.io

@mahryekuh You know what'd make spring cleaning easier? Gridfinity 😉

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Jake Howard @jake@mastodon.theorangeone.net · Apr 05, 2026

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... 🙈

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Jake Howard @jake@mastodon.theorangeone.net · Apr 02, 2026

First run through of my @djangoconeurope@fosstodon.org talk is looking pretty good, and hitting the timings almost perfectly.

A few tweaks, and it'll be ready - 13 whole days early!

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Jake Howard @jake@mastodon.theorangeone.net · Mar 26, 2026

Replying to @FuzzyMistborn@techhub.social

@FuzzyMistborn hopefully not "24 business days"!

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Jake Howard @jake@mastodon.theorangeone.net · Mar 26, 2026

> 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?

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Jake Howard @jake@mastodon.theorangeone.net · Mar 25, 2026

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.

https://theorangeone.net/posts/tbx-spring-event-2026/

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Jake Howard @jake@mastodon.theorangeone.net · Mar 23, 2026

Replying to @webology@mastodon.social

@webology Drive and alike are usually the hardest to replace, let alone any CLI orchestration around it 🙈

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Jake Howard @jake@mastodon.theorangeone.net · Mar 18, 2026

The @wagtail@fosstodon.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.

https://wagtail.org/blog/wagtail-security-gpgectomy/

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Jake Howard @jake@mastodon.theorangeone.net · Mar 17, 2026

After @FuzzyMistborn@techhub.social said 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 🙌

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Jake Howard @jake@mastodon.theorangeone.net · Mar 16, 2026

I'm not the biggest fan of AI at the best of times, but the recent unnecessarily hostile drama against the author of Booklore (a tool I fell for hard a few weeks ago) honestly makes me kinda embarrassed to call myself a "self-hoster" 🙈

I hope the fork gains some traction, and the author gets some well-needed internet-free time

https://www.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/comments/1rs275q/psa_think_hard_before_you_deploy_booklore/

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Jake Howard @jake@mastodon.theorangeone.net · Mar 11, 2026

RE: @arstechnica@mastodon.social

AI-contributed code needs more review than human-generated, not less. How was this not always the case ⁉️

mastodon.social

Ars Technica: "After outages, Amazon to make senior engineers si…" - Mastodon

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Jake Howard @jake@mastodon.theorangeone.net · Mar 08, 2026

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.

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Jake Howard @jake@mastodon.theorangeone.net · Mar 07, 2026

Replying to @bagder@mastodon.social

@bagder@mastodon.social What changed ~2018? That's a pretty steep decline in C-related vulnerabilities.

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Jake Howard @jake@mastodon.theorangeone.net · Mar 07, 2026

I ditched Gandi domains. More security, more features, and saving nearly £100/yr 🥳

Now powered by @hover@mastodon.social and deSEC.

https://theorangeone.net/posts/moving-on-from-gandi/

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Jake Howard @jake@mastodon.theorangeone.net · Mar 06, 2026

It's been a long time since I've sat down to write, and stay in the flow.

2 hours and over 3000 words later, I feel more accomplished than I have in a while 🥳

It should probably have a review pass though. Coming soon!

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Jake Howard @jake@mastodon.theorangeone.net · Mar 03, 2026

To use Zed you need to be 18+, force a binding arbitration and waive your right to class action lawsuits.

That's, a strange move.

https://zed.dev/blog/terms-update

zed.dev

We Overhauled Our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy - Zed Blog

From the Zed Blog: Effective March 2, 2026, we're updating our Terms of Service, Privacy Policy, and related documentation. Our privacy commitments have not changed.

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Jake Howard @jake@mastodon.theorangeone.net · Mar 02, 2026

Finally got around to pre-ordering a #Pebble Time 2.
I don't think I've been this excited for a new tech launch in a while! 🥰

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Jake Howard @jake@mastodon.theorangeone.net · Feb 27, 2026

Replying to @bmispelon@mastodon.social

@bmispelon @mahryekuh I don't think I've spoken at a conference where they don't ask for slides ahead of time (even if just a draft). Accessibility and CoC is what I assume the reasons are.

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Jake Howard @jake@mastodon.theorangeone.net · Feb 27, 2026

Why does every project now need to be "for agents"?

Opening a port? Better make it for agents! https://github.com/vercel-labs/portless

If your agent can use the tools you already have which are designed for good "human" UX, it's probably not an agent worth using.

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Jake Howard @jake@mastodon.theorangeone.net · Feb 26, 2026

My talk for @djangoconeurope@fosstodon.org was accepted 🥳 🥰

Time to start writing it...

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Jake Howard @jake@mastodon.theorangeone.net · Feb 26, 2026

Replying to @sarahboyce@mastodon.social

@sarahboyce First I'm hearing of it, I'll drop in between meetings!

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Jake Howard @jake@mastodon.theorangeone.net · Feb 06, 2026

This is getting out of hand, now there are 3 of them!

With 0.12.0 of django-tasks, the DB and RQ backends are now in their own packages and repositories - making the separation between the interface and flagship backends clearer.

https://github.com/RealOrangeOne/django-tasks/releases/tag/0.12.0

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Jake Howard @jake@mastodon.theorangeone.net · Jan 23, 2026

Replying to @thom@fosstodon.org

@thom@fosstodon.org How backwards compatible is the v2? Is it a page-1 rewrite or can we do small modifications to content and themes and get the new shiny benefits?

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Jake Howard @jake@mastodon.theorangeone.net · Oct 30, 2025

It's official - @django@fosstodon.org is now a #CNA! 🥳 Kudos to the legendary @nessita@fosstodon.org for driving this!

https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2025/oct/30/django-is-now-a-cve-numbering-authority-cna/

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Jake Howard @jake@mastodon.theorangeone.net · Sep 19, 2024

On this, a grey Thursday morning, a new version of django-tasks is released! 🎉✨

Highlights include:
- Separate return value and exception attributes for task results
- Task and TaskResult are now immutable
- Task enqueued and finished signals

And more!

https://pypi.org/project/django-tasks/0.5.0/

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