Python

• Changelog: Default Author Selection

  A longstanding inconvenience posting on my site has been selecting myself as the Author for each post. Now the logged-in user’s profile (me) is the default when creating a new post.

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• Changelog: Updated Notes

  I made some changes to my Notes:

  • Better HTML and plain text output support
  • Only enforce plain text character count and only when publishing
  • See the plain text character count live in the Admin UI

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• Last night I tried to install a newer version of python on my VPS, and make install kept hammering my RAM and hanging. This is on Dreamhost’s cheapest, 1GB ram VPS plan.

  I finally got it to work by stopping the gunicorn service running my site for the duration of the install.

  I wish I knew enough to know a better way to safeguard against this in the future.

• Python Development on macOS Notes: pyenv and pyenv-virtualenvwrapper

  Saving for later reference.

  h/t https://simonwillison.net/2024/Feb/11/pyenv-and-pyenv-virtualenvwrap/