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adamghill
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I write (Python|JavaScript|HTML|CSS) and sometimes it's useful.

🛠️ https://github.com/adamghill
💥 https://adamghill.com
🧠 1/2 of https://djangostickers.com and https://djangobrew.com

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@universalorl.bsky.social @universalstudiosfl.bsky.social Check out this actual stained glass panel based on the piece in the Tribute store above the registers at HHN 34 in Orlando. 😍

There are over 800 pieces of glass and 15 different colors and it took 2.5 weeks of working around 2-8 hours/day!
Full panel Top part of the panel Bottom part of the panel Panel in progress
November 10, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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My wife creates a lot of #stainedglass projects that are a little outside the norm. 👻

Here is one she made before #Halloween to pay homage to Stanley Kubrick's classic #film, The Shining.

🤩 glass-o-lantern.com/the-shining/
🎃 www.instagram.com/glass_o_lant...

#cinema #letterboxd #horror #art
Stained glass panel of the Grady Sisters from The Shining, standing on the iconic orange and red patterned carpet. The background is clear glass with red streaks, as if from blood.
November 9, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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New package alert: dj-spinners 🚨

Pure SVG loading spinners for #Django.

```
{% load dj_spinners %}

{% spinner '90-ring' %}
```

🛠️ github.com/adamghill/dj...
📦 pypi.org/project/dj-s...
October 23, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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I packed up 20 sticker packs (designed by @sjbitcode.bsky.social!) the other day and mailed them halfway across the world. 💚

Hoping people like them and that we can help do our small part in celebrating the #Django 20th birthday in as many places as possible! 🎂
4 piles of Django pony stickers. Piles of sticker packs. A big spread of Django pong stickers.
September 19, 2025 at 2:33 AM
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@sjbitcode.bsky.social and I are working on beesocial.dev, a site where techies can show off all the things they work on, follow others, and get inspiration. 🐝

We are giving away a special t-shirt (ex. www.redbubble.com/people/sjbit...) to one lucky winner who signs up and submits feedback to us. ✨
Slide with QR code of BeeSocial and an arrow pointing at the Give Feedback in the navigation. Homepage of beesocial.dev. Example profile for beesocial.dev.
September 17, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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Released 0.1.1 of `troml`, a tool that suggests classifiers, i.e. pypi.org/classifiers/, for #Python packages.

It looks at `project.python-requires` and dependencies in `pyproject.toml`, and for a `py.typed` file.

⚙️ github.com/adamghill/tr...
📦 pypi.org/project/troml/
❯ uvx troml Installed 11 packages in 12ms Loading data from '.' - Add typed classifier based on py.typed file - Remove legacy license classifier (https://peps.python.org/pep-0639/#deprecate-license-classifiers) - Python requirement: >=3.9.7 - Add 8 classifiers for Python - Add 5 classifiers for Django Current classifiers TOML classifiers = [ "Development Status :: 4 - Beta", "License :: OSI Approved :: MIT License", ] Suggested classifiers TOML classifiers = [ "Development Status :: 4 - Beta", "Framework :: Django", "Framework :: Django :: 5.1", "Framework :: Django :: 5.2", "Framework :: Django :: 6", "Framework :: Django :: 6.0", "Programming Language :: Python", "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.10", "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.11", "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.12", "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.13", "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.14", "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.15", "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.9", "Typing :: Typed", ]
September 13, 2025 at 2:49 AM
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Rilo Kiley was flipping amazing!
September 11, 2025 at 3:52 AM
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Released v0.4.0 of dj-toml-settings ⚙️

- Added `$value` to specify a literal value.
- Added `$type` to allow casting values to a particular type. Currently supported types: bool, int, str, float, decimal, datetime, date, time, timedelta, url.

🛠️ github.com/adamghill/dj...
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Example TOML file for Django settings. Includes a highlighted section: ``` # Values can be casted to a bool, int, str, float, decimal, datetime, date, time, timedelta, url SITE_ID = { "$value" = "1", "$type" = "int" } ``` Which is the new functionality.
September 9, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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Now we are cooking with gas
Screenshot of saved posts announcement.
September 9, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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I will be at #DjangoConUS September 8-9 in Chicago. In case this sparks some ideas, here are some things I’ve been thinking about recently:

- #Django deployments
- #SQLite in production
- bootstrapping
- Django marketing
- djp.readthedocs.io

Come find me to chat about these things (or anything)!
The Django Pony as a DJ scratching records. Designed by https://beesocial.dev/@sjbitcode.
September 7, 2025 at 12:25 AM
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Yay! This piece was inspired by our recent trip to Japan — highly recommended if you are into kaiju and are able to make it over there!
Me running away from a giant Godzilla in the Godzilla store located in Odaiba, Tokyo.
September 5, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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My wife has been creating a ton of custom stained glass pieces recently and this #Godzilla is amazing.

I love the fire everywhere, atomic breath, and the textured glass for its body.

#art #stainedglass #movies #artist #filmsky #Letterboxd #japan #cinema #horror
Stained glass of Godzilla with buildings and fire in the background. Godzilla has atomic breath and textured glass for its body.
September 5, 2025 at 12:54 AM
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Come on, producers
So many movies named “house”
September 1, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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Published 0.3.0 and 0.3.1 of `dj-toml-settings` ⚙️

- Handle `datetime`, `int`, `float`, `list`, `dict`, `datetime`, and `Callable` as variables.
- Handle appending to a variable for `Path`.
- Add `$none` special operator.

🛠️ github.com/adamghill/dj...
📦 pypi.org/project/dj-t...

#Django #TOML
[tool.django] # Paths are relative to the TOML file (unless they are absolute) BASE_DIR = { "$path" = "." } STATIC_ROOT = { "$path" = "staticfiles" } # This sets the key based on the environment variable SECRET_KEY = { "$env" = "SECRET_KEY" } # This sets the key based on the environment variable, but has a fallback ADMIN_URL_PATH = { "$env" = "ADMIN_URL_PATH", "$default"="admin" } # Booleans, arrays, tables (dictionaries), integers, strings, floats, dates are all supported in TOML DEBUG = true ALLOWED_HOSTS = [ "127.0.0.1", ] # This is an implicit dictionary and equivalent to `COLTRANE = { TITLE = "Example blog" }` [tool.django.COLTRANE] TITLE = "Example blog" # Any name can be used under `apps` for organizational purposes [tool.django.apps.tailwind-cli] TAILWIND_CLI_USE_DAISY_UI = true TAILWIND_CLI_SRC_CSS = ".django_tailwind_cli/source.css" # These settings are included when the `ENVIRONMENT` environment variable is "development" [tool.django.envs.development] ALLOWED_HOSTS = { "$insert" = "example.localhost" } # These settings are included when the `ENVIRONMENT` environment variable is "production" [tool.django.envs.production] DEBUG = false ALLOWED_HOSTS = { "$insert" = "example.com" }
September 1, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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Just published 0.2.0 of dj-toml-settings! ⚙️

It provides the ability to load #Django settings from a #TOML file.

Changelog:
- Updated readme with (hopefully) clearer examples
- Better support for path variables

🛠️ github.com/adamghill/dj...
📦 pypi.org/project/dj-t...
[tool.django] BASE_DIR = { path = "." } SECRET_KEY = { env = "SECRET_KEY" } ADMIN_URL_PATH = { env = "ADMIN_URL_PATH", default="admin" } DEBUG = true ALLOWED_HOSTS = [ "127.0.0.1", ] # Implicit dictionaries are supported # This is equivalent to `COLTRANE = { TITLE = "Example blog" }` [tool.django.COLTRANE] TITLE = "Example blog" # Any app name can be used for organizational purposes [tool.django.apps.tailwind-cli] TAILWIND_CLI_USE_DAISY_UI = true TAILWIND_CLI_SRC_CSS = ".django_tailwind_cli/source.css" # These settings are included when `ENVIRONMENT` environment variable is "development" [tool.django.envs.development] DEBUG = false ALLOWED_HOSTS = [ "example.localhost", ] # These settings are included when `ENVIRONMENT` environment variable is "production" [tool.django.envs.production] DEBUG = false ALLOWED_HOSTS = { insert = "example.com" }
August 28, 2025 at 2:24 AM
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🚀 New #Django library: dj-raincheck ☔️

Quickly schedule functions to run after a view request is completed without setting up any complicated background task infrastructure.

⚙️ github.com/adamghill/dj...
📦 pypi.org/project/dj-r...
# views.py from django.core.mail import send_mail from dj_raincheck import raincheck @raincheck def send_email(to: str, subject: str, body: str) -> None: send_mail(subject, body, 'me@example.com', [to]) def index(request): # This will schedule the `send_email` function to run # after the current request has completed send_email.schedule('customer@example.com', 'Confirm Signup', body) return render(request, "index.html")
August 23, 2025 at 3:09 AM
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Light shining through window onto a stage with suitcases.
August 10, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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The HTML formatter kept breaking up a long `{% include … %}` tag and turns out DTL doesn't like new lines. 🥲

Thank goodness `<dj-include>` works as expected.
Two examples of including a partial. First is DTL with {% include %} which is too long so the new line breaks. The second is dj-include with handles the newline.
August 5, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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Gringotts Bank with a dragon on top
August 3, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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Python has something similar, but honestly… way less compelling and a little sanitized imo.
Python's community is vast; diverse & aims to grow; Python is Open. Great software is supported by great people, and Python is no exception. Our user base is enthusiastic and dedicated to spreading use of the language far and wide. Our community can help support the beginner, the expert, and adds to the ever-increasing open-source knowledgebase.
July 29, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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Declarations like this make me want to try out Gleam. Plus, it just looks like fun.
As a community, we want to be friendly too. People from around the world, of all backgrounds, genders, and experience levels are welcome and respected equally. See our community code of conduct for more. Black lives matter. Trans rights are human rights. No nazi bullsh*t.
July 29, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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Each profile on beesocial.dev now has a QR code next to the username for easier sharing at in-person events.

Tap it to open a modal with a bigger QR code just in case. 🚀
July 29, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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Finally cleaned up these default images for links without a favicon.

Reminder to self: need to add favicons for most of my side projects. 😂
Messy favicons. Delightful favicons.
July 24, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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We think social platforms can be a force for community-building and collaboration, so we wrote a manifesto for BeeSocial.

beesocial.dev/manifesto

Help us build something better by signing up and giving us feedback! We'd love to hear what you think and what could be improved. ✨
As techies, we understand how systems work -- and how they can be misused. Social media platforms are some of the most complex, data-rich systems ever built, but they’re optimized for one thing above all: engagement. Not value, not clarity, not real connection. Just attention. That means the loudest, most emotionally triggering content wins. Rage-clicking, algorithmic dogpiling, and performative posting aren’t side effects. They are design outcomes. It's not about signal, it's about stimulus.
June 22, 2025 at 11:21 AM
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Colophon for beesocial.dev for anyone interested: beesocial.dev/colophon.

No vibe coding, just good vibes.

#Django #Tailwind #TailwindCSS #HTMX #SQLite #Python
Colophon for beesocial.dev: Django, Coltrane, dj-angles, Daisy UI, Tailwind, HTMX, Devicon, Coolify, SQLite, Litestream.
June 21, 2025 at 9:13 PM