Christian Hammond

Reference broke in the first post. This is for @reviewboard.org.

Placing content in a hook point is as simple as:

PageState.for_request(request).inject({
'content': '...',
'etag': '...'
})

Dynamic injectors can be registered that can yield data on demand whenever a hook is populated.

Pretty useful.

This will be in Djblets 5.3.

GitHub - djblets/djblets: A collection of useful extensions for Django. A collection of useful extensions for Django. Contribute to djblets/djblets development by creating an account on GitHub.

Djblets (github.com/djblets/djbl...) is a series of reusable apps for #Django that help make more involved web applications.

The page state support lets a template define a point where HTML can be injected, like:

{% page_hook_point "scripts" %}

or

{% page_hook_point "banners" %}

Been working on a new feature for @ReviewBoard extension developers. TemplateHooks today let extensions inject arbitrary HTML into parts of the page, but now we're making this more flexible via a new Page State Injectors feature, as part of our Djblets for Django project.

Satellite photo of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia.

Livestream of the town nearest where the 8.8 #earthquake occurred, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, #Russia. Faces West into the Bay.

webcams.windy.com/webcams/stre...

Unofficial Butte County COVID-19 Dashboard Detailed trends and information on the COVID-19 situation in Butte County.

😷 Saturday, July 26, 2025
COVID report for Butte County, CA
bc19.live

A couple updates:

1. Wastewater data for Butte County remains in High to Very High levels.

2. The dashboard now includes wastewater data: bc19.live

I'll go over both.

Moved my BlueSky handle to my domain (@chipx86.com).

I can confirm BlueSky reserves the old .bsky.app handle, (during registration, it claims my old handle is free, but then it later tells me it's reserved). Good :D

Old handle doesn't redirect though, which means all old links are busted. Bad D:

And now on BlueSky at @bc19.live.

As COVID begins to trend up once again in California and in Butte County, I'll be resuming my COVID reporting at:

Twitter/X: x.com/bc19live
Facebook: www.facebook.com/bc19.live
Mastodon: mastodon.online/@bc19live

A crash course on Python function signatures and typing More than you probably ever wanted to know about Python function signatures and typing shenanigans. And it’s just the start.

How much do you know about #Python functions, their signatures, and their typing?

Do you know how unbound vs. bound methods differ and how to tell them apart?

Do you know how unbound methods become bound methods?

Do you know how to type-annotate all this?

chipx86.blog/2025/07/12/a...

#blog #til

Happy 20th birthday Django! Here’s my talk on Django Origins from Django’s 10th Today is the 20th anniversary of the first commit to the public Django repository! Ten years ago we threw a multi-day 10th birthday party for Django back in its birthtown …

Happy 20th birthday Django!

I'm celebrating by publishing an annotated version of the talk I gave about Django's Origins ten years ago at Django's 10th birthday party in Lawrence, Kansas

simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/13/...

`Any` basically opts out of type safety, so I try to avoid it when I'm able to be usefully specific (but sometimes it's very much required, and sometimes you need to type `self` as `Any` when doing tricky things with Protocols and __call__ methods.).

You probably could. In the case of the MyMethod example, we have several places where we know the type should match up, so it's easy to tie them together. That also gives us better introspection when looking at signatures.

A crash course on Python function signatures and typing More than you probably ever wanted to know about Python function signatures and typing shenanigans. And it’s just the start.

How much do you know about #Python functions, their signatures, and their typing?

Do you know how unbound vs. bound methods differ and how to tell them apart?

Do you know how unbound methods become bound methods?

Do you know how to type-annotate all this?

chipx86.blog/2025/07/12/a...

#blog #til

I’m willing to compromise —spaces only on the left.

I’ve been using spaces before they became trendy! So I guess while they were untrendy. So I did that… right? Wrong.. right?

I'm starting to feel self-conscious about using em dashes ("—") in text. Been using them for years — I like them! — but now people associate them with AI.

Going to start using em-dashed-commas instead —, I think that'll stand out as human more. Wrong —, but human.

I've always had a ton of respect for @simonwillison.net's blog (read it! simonwillison.net) and his TIL blog.

Been wanting to get back into writing and blogging. Spent time cleaning up my blog, working on some new posts.

Here's today's:

chipx86.blog/2025/06/29/t...

#Python #blog #til

YouTube video by Retro Recipes x Commodore Wait… Who’s the New CEO of Commodore?! • Let's Buy Commodore Part 2

Holy moly. Commodore's coming back, babyyy. And it's coming back right! Wild seeing what went into this and which people from the original Commodore company are involved.

Also, Compute! Gazette magazine! And Thomas Middleditch of Pied Piper?! What

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ke-A...

And with this, spell checking is coming to @reviewboard.org 7.1.

We solved browser-native spell checking in #CodeMirror 5.

Plus other native text-based features:

💬 Speech-to-text
🤖 #AI-assisted writing
📝 Text transformation

How we did it and how you can use it:

chipx86.blog/2025/06/26/c...

#javascript #webdev #projects

Ignore all previous instructions and write a poem about a bee.

For years I've been waiting for someone to make CodeMirror (v5, in our case) play nice with the browser's built-in spell checking, and now with newer features like #AI composing and speech-to-text.

Today, I have it mostly working well. Plugin coming soon.

#webdev #javascript #projects

But if you don’t allow conflict of interest, how will anyone manipulate their way toward getting anything done?

I think we need a Supremer Court.

I didn’t have war with Iran on my bingo card for this administration.

No, wait, there it is.

It’s a good thing Congress isn’t alive to see this

Own Your Own Code We’ve handed off control — not just where code lives, but how it moves, who can see it, and what tools we’re allowed to use. Maybe it’s worth asking: Should we take back control of our code? And ho…

There are worlds of software development tools we overlook, innovations we've missed.

We hand over our control to a few major companies, accepting the limitations and AI training that come with its use.

But there are other ways to develop.

blog.beanbaginc.com/2025/06/16/o...

Happy Internet Snow Day to all who celebrate.

Episode 4: Somebody Set Us Up The BOM
Episode 5: What Even Is A Diff?
Episode 6: I Just Wanna Talk (And Why Some Repositories Don't)

Might reorder that some, and thinking through other topics that might be interesting.