Category: Ideas

  • I wish someone wrote django-static-upstream… maybe even… me!

    I used to think serving static files (aka static assets) is really easy: configure nginx to serve a directory and you’re done. But things quickly became more complicated as issues like asset compilation, CDNs/scalability, file-specific custom headers, deployment complexity and development/production parity rear their ugly heads. Judging by the huge number of different asset management…

  • Mailing list debates considered harmful

    Recently, one particular thread at python-dev has piqued my interest. The thread discusses the possible pronouncement of PEP 3148 (re. the addition of futures to stdlib), and has been going on for over a hundred messages with no end in site. I’d like to use some examples from that thread in this post, but it…