Paul Hallett

This time of the year any time there is a sliver of sunlight I stand in it and just bask 🤤

Girls be like "I know a spot" and then bring you here It's Brian in a playground from ff7

Bring You Luck
'Parappa The Rapper'
PlayStation

Not sure why but my aesthetic has definitely settled on “cute ghibli anime” and also “hard core Elden ring horror” and also “neon af grim cyberpunk”. I can eat up art and content for any of those all day.

it’s genuinely reassuring to me that this is the most miserable and paranoid person in the entire world

Ah man fuck this flu.

But the test is the code you shared about how to reproduce the bug! 😁

When you write a GitHub issue and it’s 95% code explaining the bug and the fix…just write a pull request?

Going to spend some time bringing pokeapi into 2026: adding uv, ruff, ty. Organising all the tests better, increasing code coverage. Upgrading Django etc. I want pokeapi to last at least another 20 years.

Do NOT get this cold

Don’t get this flu

Andddd it’s already time for my hyper focus to switch. Back into Pokemon I go. This time - Soul Silver! I somehow have a 45 minute save with a Gastly on it, and lots of pokewalker activity. So I’m going to use Gastly/Gengar as my main partner Pokemon.

Quick invent LMCHATGPTTFY.com

More contributions coming in fast for Clientele.

Version 1.11.0 introduces:

- GraphQL support
- Loads of testing tools for easy http mocking
- Built-in http retries

Clientele genuinely feels like a fully featured framework for client integration now. 😍

clientele.dev

“How do you know the type and what level every single pokemon evolves at”? - my partner, as we’re playing Pokemon Sword with the family.

Got a copy of soul silver I’ve yet to progress. I’ll do that first.

The problem of wanting to play Pokemon Platinum again but my only copy has a 100% complete, full Pokédex save.

I have slept on these books. Man, they’re so good!

Imagine seeing all that and being like “yeah I’ll still go to the USA for my holiday / conference this year lol”

More I think about it - any conversion of free time into purpose creates meaning, sometimes you just don’t control how much gets converted.

Parenthood is the conversion of free time into purpose. I say this both positively and with exhaustion.

Norwich is spoilt for beautiful parks.

Lesson learned from rushing my weekly head shave: I still have (had) eyebrows. Whoops.

I think we’ve got better and more culturally-varied street food than I could have imagined, cool jackets galore, and drugs that make us think we’re really fast and strong before they kill us.

This is also the second major contribution from other people. It’s a big sign of success for me that people come to my project and donate their time to improve it.

Just release a new version of Clientele with built-in logging so you can see what the http requests / responses are.

Starting to feel like a fully realised framework for API integration now, not just a small decorator pattern.

Release notes: github.com/phalt/client...

Aha yes I’ve checked the config and it’ll do what I need it too, I’ll give it a whirl and give you feedback.

Clientele - FastAPI Style Python API Clients Build FastAPI style API clients in Python with decorator-based syntax. Easy client integration with automatic request handling and type safety.

This is awesome. I’m going to add it to clientele.dev

Is there anyway I can sandbox the commands available or pre-set some code so when the page loads it runs?

Feels like this would be a good mkdocs plugin too!

New blog post about updates to my personal project, a Python API integration framework: paulwrites.software/articles/202...

Raspberry Pis, Remotes & IR Receivers! Introduction to IR Sensors Infrared (IR) light is invisible electromagnetic radiation. Everything absorbs and emits IR, and it's utilised in a plethora of applications. You may have heard of IR used i...

I reckon you'd get very far with a coding agent and this type of tutorial: thepihut.com/blogs/raspbe...