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Andrew Godwin
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Tech leader, Django/Python developer, public speaker, occasional youtuber, collector of hobbies, and misplaced Brit. @andrewgodwin most other places. Day job: Lambda Labs. 🏳️‍🌈🐉
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Fortunately if I get stuck in Atlanta next week due to an airspace shutdown I can just get the train home!

(holds finger to ear) Hold on, I'm being told that it would be literally faster to cycle back to Denver...
November 6, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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this was for a colorado measure guaranteeing universal free lunch for kids. funny how a short two-column table can say so much in so little space.
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This is how it looked on the ballot.
Clear and easy to understand.
November 5, 2025 at 6:18 AM
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Two years ago I interviewed a 31-year-old NY state assemblymember about a 7-year-old girl killed by an SUV driver in his district. I hung up the phone, astonished that I'd talked to a legislator who so thoughtfully articulated what actually needs to change on our streets.

He'll make a great mayor
In February, 7-year-old Dolma Naadhun was crossing the intersection of Newtown Road and 45th Street in Astoria with her mother and sister when the driver of a 2021 Ford Explorer blew through a stop sign, striking and killing Dolma. One month later, New York City Department of Transportation commissioner Ydanis Rodriguez visited the crash site with other officials, met with community members demanding a traffic signal be installed, and promised to make changes to the street - including "daylighting" the intersection using curb extensions and plastic bollards. State assemblymember Zohran Mamdani also visited the scene that day and realized that something else needed to change. "When you take a step back and think about traffic violence in New York City," he said, "you start to understand that this is a systemic issue that is incentivized by the policies that we have in place with regard to the design of our streets and what kind of vehicles we allow to be on our roads." Whether a driver runs a stop sign or a red light, statistically, certain cars - namely, bigger SUVs and trucks - are more likely to kill a 7-year-old. This is why Mamdani is co- introducing legislation for a weight-based vehicle-registration fee intended to discourage people from purchasing heavier vehicles. "The car industry is pushing the sale of heavier and larger vehicles," he says. "The state has to make it clear that these types of vehicles come with a certain kind of cost." soar above adult shoulders. But there may be another way to disincentivize the purchases of such vehicles, says Edwards. "One other potential idea would be for someone, maybe a city's DOT, to start keeping a list of the different makes and models of vehicles that are killing pedestrians and cyclists, or kids specifically, and post that publicly," he says. "That could bring awareness to which cars are more dangerous and also potentially affect insurance rates, which would possibly convince people not to buy certain cars." There's a bit of accountability in New York's bill, which would require the State DOT to track all fatal crashes by vehicle weight. But the other encouraging aspect of the proposal is that the collected fees stay local, by county, and, after the annual dedications to highway, bridge, and transit trust funds are met, a full 75 percent of the funds raised will go toward safety improvements like bike lanes, bollards, road diets, pedestrianization of streets, and raised crosswalks. This means the neighborhoods most impacted by large vehicles are likely to see the biggest changes. And that might be the most important part of the legislation, says Mamdani. "This is an initiative to make our streets safer for our children," he says. "And we are making sure a significant portion of this funding goes toward creating the very streetscapes that we know will save their lives."
June 26, 2025 at 1:55 AM
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I need to get one or two more flights in this year so you bet I'm going to head to Mayor-Elect Mamdani's fine city and try at least some of the food recommendations he's dropped during the campaign.
November 5, 2025 at 4:29 AM
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Very happy to have voted for this one. It was literally "tax the rich to feed kids".
November 5, 2025 at 4:18 AM
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Not only does everyone just get opted in to vote by mail here, but they make sure you still get the sticker. And even better, my closest drop-off box is right next to both Halal Guys and Five Guys.
A Denver Votes information booklet with I Voted sticker included on the front.
November 4, 2025 at 12:27 AM
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I do have to say, though, that walking into Mr Burger in Grand Rapids is like stepping back in time 50 years. In a good way.
October 27, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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Have really enjoyed my short visit to (west) Michigan. Absolutely beautiful here (though it is also maybe the perfect time of year as well)
A trail through a forest of trees with green, gold, and red leaves.
October 27, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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For cursed reasons, I find myself needing to create a 10-pin Mini USB (yes, that's a thing) to composite video cable - "compatible with the GoPro Hero 3", as the spec sheet says. Great, let me just go back to 2012.
October 23, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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Camping with some of my fellow mountain rescuers and had to explain how I couriered a payphone across the Atlantic and then returned with this tent in its place. It's such a wonderfully weird tent.
A yellow geodome tent in a forest (it looks like a big geodesic ball, basically)
October 18, 2025 at 4:35 AM
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Finally booking some very silly travel for the rest of the year (alongside my normal London Christmas trip). Going to some places most people do not go to by choice...
October 17, 2025 at 6:21 AM
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Once again my financial advisors have very reasonably suggested that I raise my 401k contributions and I am honestly so glad I have help adulting.
October 15, 2025 at 6:19 AM
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US National Park #27 (of 62) today - Channel Islands. Had to start getting to the ones you can't just drive to at some point! (Also I love a good ferry ride, especially when it goes via a pod of hundreds of dolphins)
A view off a cliff of a rugged coastline, with other islands in the distance A view off the front of a boat of Santa Cruz island in the distance A pod of over a hundred dolphins, with a few doing jumps
September 28, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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OK, there needs to be a future fancy chair sponsorship tier for PyBeach...
A gold-painted mock throne with curtains either side of it.
September 27, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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The PyBeach venue certainly has a Vibe (positive).
A pair of doors with a stained glass skeleton magician on them.
September 27, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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Currently prepping the North Bay Python networking gear for a beach holiday. A PyBeach holiday, even.
September 25, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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Also available in SF: the largest donut I've ever seen in my life.
An absolutely massive chocolate donut in a box. It's probably 25cm/10 inches across.
September 19, 2025 at 3:48 AM
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The beauty of being in San Francisco: wanting Japanese curry for dinner, looking at the options, and finding that there's a great place just two minutes from the hotel.
September 18, 2025 at 11:59 PM
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It's official - `django.tasks` exists! Coming soon to @djangoproject.com 6.0. 585 days later, the first step (of many) in Django's background tasks journey is finally complete! 🥳

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django.tasks exists
As of today (well, technically yesterday), django.tasks is officially released upon the world! Mostly. <note> Note that django.tasks and django-tasks are in fact different, albeit by a single characte...
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September 17, 2025 at 7:46 AM
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Had a really lovely time in Chicago at DjangoCon US - delighted to be returning here next year. It has really been elevated in my view the past week into one of the true Big Cities of the USA.
September 11, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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Also, who calls a town Gary?
September 9, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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Popped out of DjangoCon for a few hours to visit my 26th US National Park - Indiana Dunes. It's quite something to stand on what feels like a seashore and see the skyline of Chicago floating on the horizon.
A beach on the lakeshore, looking out to the horizon with the outlines of skyscrapers just about visible. An abandoned semicircular set of benches in the dune forest, presumably a former talk spot.
September 9, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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It has somehow been twelve years since I was last in Chicago, but it is a lovely time of year to be here, and I am already enjoying the weather, an actually functioning public transport system, and this giant one-bedroom apartment that was somehow the cheap option.
September 7, 2025 at 11:23 PM
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Inherited an unfinished drone that was missing some of its motor mounts.

Redesigned them in Fusion, built a water bath, machined carbon fibre for the first time ever, all to discover... the polycarbonate 3D printed alternatives I designed are just as strong and within 1g of their weight.
A CNC router (a Shapeoko) milling carbon fibre submerged in a round, metal water bath. A finished carbon fibre motor mount piece. It looks pretty good! A 3D printed motor mount in white polycarbonate, with the motor and ESC mounted on it.
September 1, 2025 at 11:58 PM
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Are there any other good pluggable-reconciliation-loop frameworks that aren't Kubernetes? (Where you can use entirely custom CRDs/controllers but it's pushing it a bit).

I find it odd there's not other obvious ones out there considering how nice it is as a code architecture...
August 21, 2025 at 4:34 PM