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Jake Howard 🍊 @theorangeone.net · 12d

My @pyconuk.org talk is now available on YouTube! 🥳

theorangeone.net/talks/forcef...

Halt and Catch Fire: Forcefully Stopping Python

As developers, we're tasked with writing code, with the intention of running it. In most cases, we want to run said code for as long as possible - either until completion or until something external r...

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Jake Howard 🍊 @theorangeone.net · 19d

My @pyconuk.org talk is done! 🥳 Now I can enjoy the rest of the conference!

(Slides and recording to follow)

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Jake Howard 🍊 @theorangeone.net · 21d

You should never update firmware over hotel WiFi. But I did, and my travel router is alive again! 🥳

Jake Howard 🍊 @theorangeone.net · 21d

On a packed train on the outskirts of London, heading to @pyconuk.org 🥳 Hopefully see some folks there tomorrow! 👋

Jake Howard 🍊 @theorangeone.net · 22d

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! 🥳

theorangeone.net/posts/django...

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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Jake Howard 🍊 @theorangeone.net · 27d

First draft of my @pyconuk.org slides finished this afternoon. Now just practising and polishing.

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Jake Howard 🍊 @theorangeone.net · Sep 9

In my continuing journey to Terraform everything, my latest victim has been my home's DNS, using AdguardHome:

theorangeone.net/posts/terraf...

Terraforming AdGuardHome

I like to configure as much of I can on the things I host (of which there's a fair amount) using Infrastructure as code, especially if it's a critical service. I recently switched the DNS server in my...

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Jake Howard 🍊 @theorangeone.net · Sep 8

New house, and my server is back to running over powerline 😭
Might have to start taking a closer look at some of these walls...

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Jake Howard 🍊 @theorangeone.net · Aug 24

It's been a long few weeks, with my spare time spent a very long way from a computer, and there's still more work to go.

But, as of last weekend: I'm a homeowner 🥳

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Jake Howard 🍊 @theorangeone.net · Aug 3

I'm @djangoproject.com DSF member of the (last) month! 😱 🥰

www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2025/...

DSF member of the month - Jake Howard

Posted by Sarah Abderemane on Aug. 3, 2025

www.djangoproject.com

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Jake Howard 🍊 @theorangeone.net · Jul 27

Life goal completed:

We bought a house! 🏡 Picked the keys up on Friday 🥳 Now the painting, decorating and cleaning starts... 🙈

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Jake Howard 🍊 @theorangeone.net · Jul 24

My website, now brought to you over HTTP/3 🙌

A screenshot of the Firefox dev tools showing my website (theorangeone.net) being loaded over HTTP 3

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Jake Howard 🍊 @theorangeone.net · Jul 17

Firewalls are great. Stateless firewalls are the work of the devil. 👿

2 hours of my life I'm not getting back...

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Jake Howard 🍊 @theorangeone.net · Jul 9

In the interest of stability and performance, I recently moved my Mastodon and Bluesky instances from my home server to their own VPS in "the cloud".

theorangeone.net/posts/social...

Deploying a Social Media server

I talk to a lot of people through some form of online platform - conventional social media, forums, chat etc. Given I work remotely, it's where a fair bit of conversation ends up. Since leaving Twitte...

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Jake Howard 🍊 @theorangeone.net · Jul 8

Suspect it won't be long before NuxtJS too will be practically vendor-locked to Vercel... 🙈

They claim the direction won't be changing, but we'll see.

NuxtLabs @nuxtlabs.com · Jul 8

We are excited to announce that NuxtLabs is joining @Vercel.com to pursue our mission on creating the best DX to deliver the best UX.

Read more at nuxtlabs.com

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Jake Howard 🍊 @theorangeone.net · Jul 4

Just released a patch for django-tasks which fixes a bug for users with timezones disabled.

pypi.org/project/djan...

Timezones are hard!

Client Challenge

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Jake Howard 🍊 @theorangeone.net · Jul 4

After a great event, the slides (no video) from yesterday's @tailscale.com London meetup are up:

theorangeone.net/talks/public...

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Jake Howard 🍊 @theorangeone.net · Jul 1

If you're going to @tailscale.com 's London Meetup on Thursday - me too! I'll be talking about my VPN gateway setup, and an over-engineered and terrible way to get services to your tailnet.

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Jake Howard 🍊 @theorangeone.net · Jun 24

Today I'm unveiling possibly the largest django-tasks release to date:

- Database indexes ⚡
- Start signal
- Add schema for multiple task attempts (without functionality)
- Task context
- Unique worker ids
- More!

A few breaking changes, so read the release notes! github.com/RealOrangeOn...

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Jake Howard 🍊 @theorangeone.net · Jun 18

My @pyconuk.org talk was just accepted! 🥳
Now I just need to write the damn thing... 🙈

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Jake Howard 🍊 @theorangeone.net · Jun 16

Renovate didn't tell me that my renovate container was out of date - ironic.

(I was pinned to the `-slim` variants, which aren't being released any more, so it never saw an update was available)

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Jake Howard 🍊 @theorangeone.net · Jun 15

Today is my first Father's Day, as a Father!

It's been what feels like ages, but it still feels surreal to say

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Jake Howard 🍊 @theorangeone.net · Jun 12

1 BILLION repositories on GitHub! 😱 github.com/AasishPokhre...

Congratulations on creating the one billionth repository on GitHub! · Issue #1 · AasishPokhrel/shit

We wanted to congratulate you on creating the one billionth repository on GitHub! ➜ curl -s https://api.github.com/repositories/1000000000 { "id": 1000000000, "node_id": "R_kgDOO5rKAA", "name": "sh...

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Jake Howard 🍊 @theorangeone.net · Jun 12

My brain almost fills his voice in hearing that 🤯

Jake Howard 🍊 @theorangeone.net · Jun 12

D'oh, fixed. Thanks!