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colgandev

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About colgandev

I'm David Colgan, independent technology consultant, Django/Python web developer, and general computer nerd since 2011.

Email me about anything:

Email: david@colgan.dev

GitHub: https://github.com/colgandev

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    It has been wild to realize I've now seen one full technology cycle of thin client to thick client to thin client again. Maybe PHP this time around will be able to be more robust w…

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    Comment #44739190

    HTMX has given me so much joy. I love Django and was there near the beginning. For a while I thought I had to switch to something like FastAPI and Vue etc to make relevant web apps…

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    Comment #44428423

    I've been finding a ton of success lately with speech to text as the user prompt, and then using https://continue.dev in VSCode, or Aider, to supply context from files from my proj…

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    Thank you so much for writing this. I have recently discovered that I have both autism and ADHD, and increasingly it feels like this mind style has a steep counterintuitive learnin…

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    Ah, that's my mistake, thanks!

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    First of all, condolences to your friend and cool of you to look into this. Back in the day I switched to Dvorak and came across the "one handed Dvorak layout. This may be what you…

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