Dan
@int0h.bsky.social
@zerolab on the other hand platforms.
Builder of things @torchbox.bsky.social.
Core team member @wagtailcms.bsky.social
Devourer of souls. May grumble.
#Python #Django #Wagtail
Builder of things @torchbox.bsky.social.
Core team member @wagtailcms.bsky.social
Devourer of souls. May grumble.
#Python #Django #Wagtail
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Humblebundle to support World Central Kitchen, and get a bunch of my books from @tordotcom.bsky.social including Murderbot and Witch King! #booksky
www.humblebundle.com/books/martha...
www.humblebundle.com/books/martha...
Humble Book Bundle: Martha Wells' Murderbot and More by TOR
Fall in love with Martha Wells’ The Murderbot Diaries series—the engine behind the hit AppleTV adaptation—and help support World Central Kitchen.
www.humblebundle.com
August 24, 2025 at 2:57 AM
Humblebundle to support World Central Kitchen, and get a bunch of my books from @tordotcom.bsky.social including Murderbot and Witch King! #booksky
www.humblebundle.com/books/martha...
www.humblebundle.com/books/martha...
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Chicago keeping art alive:
August 29, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Chicago keeping art alive:
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#Baltimore Mayor #BrandonScott invested in 42 summer youth camps, 29 literacy programs, extended the rec center hours to 11 p.m, planned block parties, opened the pools for safe fun, & opened several schools up for summer classes. Crime is down 62%. 🔥🔥 www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
Baltimore is seeing the city’s fewest homicides in 50 years. Here’s why.
Multiple people have taken credit for the historic drop that mirrors a national decrease in violent crimes. Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott says it’s due to a community-based approach to gun violence.
www.washingtonpost.com
July 5, 2025 at 8:29 PM
#Baltimore Mayor #BrandonScott invested in 42 summer youth camps, 29 literacy programs, extended the rec center hours to 11 p.m, planned block parties, opened the pools for safe fun, & opened several schools up for summer classes. Crime is down 62%. 🔥🔥 www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
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tech bro is short for technically broken
April 7, 2025 at 7:35 PM
tech bro is short for technically broken
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This statement about the transphobic Supreme Court ruling by the UK's Crab Museum (yes a museum about crabs) is better than 99% of the statements I've seen on the topic
www.crabmuseum.org/visit
🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀
www.crabmuseum.org/visit
🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀
April 22, 2025 at 9:16 PM
This statement about the transphobic Supreme Court ruling by the UK's Crab Museum (yes a museum about crabs) is better than 99% of the statements I've seen on the topic
www.crabmuseum.org/visit
🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀
www.crabmuseum.org/visit
🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀
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A huge thank you to everyone who's already filled this out (or otherwise dropped me a line)
Survey for anyone using/running an API (esp around government) to help inform some ONS work open until THIS FRIDAY 👇
Survey for anyone using/running an API (esp around government) to help inform some ONS work open until THIS FRIDAY 👇
Do you use an API?
Do you run an API?
Then I'd love to hear from you!
I'm supporting the ONS with some work looking at the current API landscape and best practice (esp government, and esp stats)
We have a short survey - v grateful for thoughts, and please share! www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/FISUES/
Do you run an API?
Then I'd love to hear from you!
I'm supporting the ONS with some work looking at the current API landscape and best practice (esp government, and esp stats)
We have a short survey - v grateful for thoughts, and please share! www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/FISUES/
API users survey March 2025
Please take the time to complete our survey. Your feedback is important.
www.smartsurvey.co.uk
March 17, 2025 at 10:34 AM
A huge thank you to everyone who's already filled this out (or otherwise dropped me a line)
Survey for anyone using/running an API (esp around government) to help inform some ONS work open until THIS FRIDAY 👇
Survey for anyone using/running an API (esp around government) to help inform some ONS work open until THIS FRIDAY 👇
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Where's the evidence that mental health is being "overdiagnosed"?
March 17, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Where's the evidence that mental health is being "overdiagnosed"?
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Building on our partnership with Children’s Health Ireland (CHI), we recently turned to their next challenge - bringing together four separate intranets that were creating major barriers to effective information sharing.
Read the story in Ben's write-up: torchbox.com/work/wagtail...
Read the story in Ben's write-up: torchbox.com/work/wagtail...
Unifying staff engagement and collaboration across four children's hospitals
Building on our successful partnership with Children's Health Ireland (CHI) - where we previously unified their five hospital websites into one platform - we tackled their next digital challenge: four...
torchbox.com
February 27, 2025 at 11:39 AM
Building on our partnership with Children’s Health Ireland (CHI), we recently turned to their next challenge - bringing together four separate intranets that were creating major barriers to effective information sharing.
Read the story in Ben's write-up: torchbox.com/work/wagtail...
Read the story in Ben's write-up: torchbox.com/work/wagtail...
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I’ve worked in intranets, digital workplaces, and comms long enough to see the same cycles repeat, the same mistakes made, and the same bright ideas crash and burn.
So here are the hard truths. Are you ready? Let’s go. 🧵
So here are the hard truths. Are you ready? Let’s go. 🧵
February 20, 2025 at 4:21 PM
I’ve worked in intranets, digital workplaces, and comms long enough to see the same cycles repeat, the same mistakes made, and the same bright ideas crash and burn.
So here are the hard truths. Are you ready? Let’s go. 🧵
So here are the hard truths. Are you ready? Let’s go. 🧵
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Do I know any (freelance) data scientists who could help with a small-ish bit of quant analysis, to help a really high profile bit of public policy? And/or can this post reach anyone who could help?
#GovDataScience
#GovDataScience
February 7, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Do I know any (freelance) data scientists who could help with a small-ish bit of quant analysis, to help a really high profile bit of public policy? And/or can this post reach anyone who could help?
#GovDataScience
#GovDataScience
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In her new book “Predatory Data,” D&S affiliate Anita Say Chan traces a throughline from the rise of 20th-century eugenics to Silicon Valley, showing how data has been used to devalue human beings along eugenicist lines — both past and present. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Eugenics isn't dead—it's thriving in tech
A new book takes on the throughline from the rise of 20th-century eugenics to Silicon Valley.
www.motherjones.com
February 3, 2025 at 7:42 PM
In her new book “Predatory Data,” D&S affiliate Anita Say Chan traces a throughline from the rise of 20th-century eugenics to Silicon Valley, showing how data has been used to devalue human beings along eugenicist lines — both past and present. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Take a look at my six stages step-by-step Django boilerplate development story:
From installing with Poetry medium.com/@zalun/djang...
Through Deploy on DigitalOcean medium.com/django-unlea...
To install Wagtail with files in S3 medium.com/@zalun/base-...
#django #tailwind #python #cms
From installing with Poetry medium.com/@zalun/djang...
Through Deploy on DigitalOcean medium.com/django-unlea...
To install Wagtail with files in S3 medium.com/@zalun/base-...
#django #tailwind #python #cms
Base 4 — Deploy Django on DigitalOcean
In the last article from the series — Lint and Test with GitHub Actions, we created a boilerplate for a Django project with Poetry that is…
medium.com
January 28, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Take a look at my six stages step-by-step Django boilerplate development story:
From installing with Poetry medium.com/@zalun/djang...
Through Deploy on DigitalOcean medium.com/django-unlea...
To install Wagtail with files in S3 medium.com/@zalun/base-...
#django #tailwind #python #cms
From installing with Poetry medium.com/@zalun/djang...
Through Deploy on DigitalOcean medium.com/django-unlea...
To install Wagtail with files in S3 medium.com/@zalun/base-...
#django #tailwind #python #cms
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Here's me and @andy-gordon.bsky.social reflecting on a wonderful #ukgc25 torchbox.com/blog/takeawa... lots of creative & problem solving fuel and community vibes from a brilliant day
Our key takeaways from UKGovCamp 2025
Ellie, Andy and Miles recently headed to UKGovCamp to share ideas and tackle challenges around making public services work better for everyone. In this blog, they reflect on key themes and takeaways.
torchbox.com
January 22, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Here's me and @andy-gordon.bsky.social reflecting on a wonderful #ukgc25 torchbox.com/blog/takeawa... lots of creative & problem solving fuel and community vibes from a brilliant day
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the only crypto I care about is cryptography
January 2, 2025 at 5:35 PM
the only crypto I care about is cryptography
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We're exploring the possibility of hosting a Wagtail Space in Iceland in 2025. Please fill out this super-quick survey if you think that would be a great idea: https://buff.ly/4fjyVl0
#Wagtail #Django
#Wagtail #Django
Gauging Community Interest: Wagtail Space 2025
The Wagtail Space organization teams are considering having a joint (US & Europe) Wagtail Space 2025 in Iceland. Before we commit to this idea, we need to have a better idea of interest. Please let…
buff.ly
December 17, 2024 at 3:15 PM
We're exploring the possibility of hosting a Wagtail Space in Iceland in 2025. Please fill out this super-quick survey if you think that would be a great idea: https://buff.ly/4fjyVl0
#Wagtail #Django
#Wagtail #Django
Went to the cinema. Came back with a fancy cushion we randomly won. Stay weird, Bristol!
December 1, 2024 at 11:41 PM
Went to the cinema. Came back with a fancy cushion we randomly won. Stay weird, Bristol!
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Django people! We need input from our community 💚 Take and re-share the 2024 #Django Developers Survey: jb.gg/i0gq35 – collab with @jetbrains.com, makers of the PyCharm #Python editor
Django Developers Survey 2024
jb.gg
November 21, 2024 at 5:21 PM
Django people! We need input from our community 💚 Take and re-share the 2024 #Django Developers Survey: jb.gg/i0gq35 – collab with @jetbrains.com, makers of the PyCharm #Python editor
Trying this thing out as well. So far the experience is fairly smooth. I’m into Python, Django, Wagtail, cycling, sci-fi, craft beer and food.
November 18, 2024 at 11:25 PM
Trying this thing out as well. So far the experience is fairly smooth. I’m into Python, Django, Wagtail, cycling, sci-fi, craft beer and food.