I've been using my own private git server for years and years, but have decided to be a little more public. I've settled on Codeberg.org, a donation-supported service.
Reading the news can erode your faith in humanity. Learning about the work being done on Africa's Great Green Wall reawakens mine. What an incredible project!
My 3D modeling skills are still pretty basic, but I did manage to scratch a personal itch and made an anti-vibration stand for external hard-drives. The size is customisable, and when 3D printed in TPU does a good job of keeping the drive upright — and quiet.
Sorting by name in Django is a common admin annoyance. By default upper-case names come before lower-case ones because of their raw ASCII encodings. This isn't fun to try and explain to clients. For years I've ordered my models using a forced lower-case slug, but sometimes you need the big guns: database functions. Let's use that powerful ordering, while keeping our code nice and neat.
