~ $ ls ~/logs

>Logs

A running stream of notes on systems I build, problems I trip over, and the occasional opinion about software engineering. 16 entries on file.

• LOG-016 2026-04-23

  >DjangoCon Europe 2026 in Athens

  A week of Django talks, ancient ruins, grilled meat, and a cat on a rock. Notes from DjangoCon Europe 2026 in Athens, Greece.

  • djangocon
  • django
  • athens
  • travel
  • conference
• LOG-015 2026-04-22

  >Advanced Indexing in Django and PostgreSQL

  Six PostgreSQL index types you can use through Django ORM: covering, function-based, partial, hash, and BRIN indexes.

  • djangocon
  • django
  • postgresql
  • indexing
  • performance
• LOG-014 2026-04-22

  >Digitising Historical Data with Django

  A five-stage OCR + LLM pipeline for digitising 60 years of caving incident reports, with custom model fields and pluggable processing steps.

  • djangocon
  • django
  • data-pipeline
  • ocr
  • custom-fields
• LOG-013 2026-04-22

  >Django Forms in the Age of HTMx

  Single-field inline editing with HTMx and Django forms -- one form per field, a marker mixin registry, and JSON-backed plugin fields.

  • djangocon
  • django
  • htmx
  • forms
• LOG-012 2026-04-22

  >Django Transaction Primitives

  django-subatomic splits atomic() into explicit primitives so your code says what it means -- transaction, savepoint, transaction_required, and durable.

  • djangocon
  • django
  • transactions
  • django-subatomic
• LOG-011 2026-04-22

  >Is It Time for a Django Admin Rewrite?

  Django-Admin-Deux: a ground-up admin rewrite using generic class-based views, a plugin system, and factory-generated views.

  • djangocon
  • django
  • admin
  • django-admin-deux
• LOG-010 2026-04-22

  >Partitioning Very Large Tables with Django

  How Kraken Tech partitions billion-row PostgreSQL tables with Django 5.2 composite primary keys.

  • djangocon
  • django
  • postgresql
  • partitioning
• LOG-009 2026-04-22

  >Reliable Django Signals

  Making Django signals reliable using the transactional outbox pattern and Django 6 tasks framework.

  • djangocon
  • django
  • signals
  • transactions
  • outbox-pattern
• LOG-008 2026-04-22

  >Role-Based Access Control in Django

  Replacing Django built-in authorization with a custom RBAC backend using role hierarchies and transitive closure caching.

  • djangocon
  • django
  • rbac
  • authorization
  • permissions
• LOG-007 2026-04-22

  >Scaling with Multiple Databases in Django

  A 17-line database router for primary/replica splitting in Django, plus the three gotchas you will hit in production.

  • djangocon
  • django
  • databases
  • scaling
  • replication
• LOG-006 2026-04-22

  >Static Islands in a Dynamic Sea

  Building typed Python classes on top of Django ORM with Mantle to solve fat models, N+1 queries, and type safety.

  • djangocon
  • django
  • orm
  • typing
  • mantle
• LOG-005 2026-04-22

  >Supply Chain Security for Python

  Real supply chain attacks on PyPI and a practical defense toolkit: pip-audit, hash pinning, Trusted Publishing, and continuous monitoring.

  • djangocon
  • python
  • security
  • supply-chain
  • pip
• LOG-004 2026-04-21

  >Lies & Allies: Party Games Without the Ad Breaks

  I built simple role-revealing web apps for Mafia and Spyfall because every existing option was either full of ads, abandoned, or both.

  • svelte
  • django
  • websockets
  • games
  • self-hosted
• LOG-003 2026-04-12

  >Why Accuracy Is a Terrible Metric for Trading Bots

  A 90% win rate sounds incredible until you do the math. How building a binary options bot taught me that being right and being profitable are completely different problems.

  • trading
  • python
  • quantitative-finance
  • prediction-markets
• LOG-002 2026-03-22

  >Receiving Voice in Discord After DAVE: A Field Report

  Discord enforced end-to-end encryption for voice in March 2026. Here is what broke, what was undocumented, and how I patched my way through it.

  • discord
  • voice
  • dave
  • python
  • debugging
• LOG-001 2025-12-02

  >How I Set Up Claude Code to Actually Work for Me

  A walkthrough of my Claude Code setup with 16 plugins, a custom status line, and custom skills that turned a terminal tool into a proper development environment.

  • claude-code
  • ai
  • developer-tools
  • productivity