Viewing profile — dmpayton

Haha, I promise you I am not! I can't prove it was me, but I did find some old tweets where I shared that blog post in 2011. At one of the Santa Clara PyCon's I ran a small Qtile B…

Oh my god, that was me! I can't believe I just read this on HN. Whenever I'm at a conference (usually PyCon or DjangoCon) and meet someone whose work has benefited me, I try to mak…

I went through the "Install Windows" option just to hear the Windows XP installation music again. That track is such a vibe, I have loved it since I was a 14 year-old installing a …

I first started using Django in 2006, v0.95, the "magic removal" release. I was 19 and doing PHP at a small startup. I'd heard the hype around Rails, and wanted to check it out. Se…

I'm so excited to find this out! I was a regular attendee of PyCon and DjangoCon for close to a decade, but haven't been to one since the pre-pandemic. times I now work at a nonpro…

Same! Excluding members of my family, over the years I've only met a few people online who share it.

In my case, I've had multiple ophthalmologists recommend against getting IOLs until I'm much, much older, as the risk of side affects (specifically retinal detachment) outweighs th…

I was born with congenital bilateral cataracts and had the lenses in both eyes removed as an infant (a condition called Aphakia). I have been set up with monovision since I was ver…

I don't have anything meaningful to add other than how bizarre to see this on HN. Laura Splotch, who was interviewed in the article, is a good friend, neighbor, and former coworker…

This triggered a memory from my early days of learning to code... When I was in middle school and high school – late '90s and early '00s – I got heavily into forums and message boa…

Heh, I'm literally in the middle of optimizing some N+1 query endpoints in a Django application for work, made a bit more tricky because of DRF's serializer. I think a setting for …

Heh, I discovered your comment while googling to fix the same. I'm in the same boat as you; it's seriously annoying and distracting. Did you ever find a solution?

I just placed an order for a Pico W that, with tax and shipping, came out to around $15. Most places are capping the quantity to 1 for the moment.

This is typical of Facebook. Years ago, Facebook maintained a Python SDK for their API. One day, with no warning, Facebook announced they would no longer support it because they di…

I run a community hackerspace in Fresno, CA called Root Access. https://rootaccess.org/ My main focus this year has been – and continues to be – working ways to ensure the space su…

> I tried quite a few things on both devices... I wonder what was tried? Disable bluetooth and wifi on the computer? Put the phone into airplane mode? `sudo reboot` from the termin…

Some of my favorite memories of open source involvement have been contributing to that "shitty" project. Thanks for helping to keep it going!

I run a hackerspace in Fresno, CA called Root Access. My side project is that we're making PPE and other things to help with various efforts -- face masks, face shields, scrub caps…

I never got to meet JPB, but I was lucky enough to attend his keynote at PyCon 2014 in Montreal. It's a great talk, should you have a spare 45 minutes. https://www.youtube.com/watc…

As a parent, I get the emotional reaction. You want to provide the absolute best for your child, and this feels like a total missed opportunity. But as someone who had cataract sur…

Bilateral aphakics unite! Congenital cataracts run in my family and, as luck would have it, I inherited the condition from my Dad. I had both my lenses removed when I was an infant…

Medical cannabis still exists in Colorado. You can still go to a doctor and get a recommendation, and many dispensaries will give a discount to qualified patients. (Edit: wording)

I started with Awesome in 2009 and switched to Qtile about a year later. Python is what I do all day every day, and it's really useful to be able to customize my environment in my …

Yep. I use Ubuntu and my .xsession starts unity-settings-daemon before firing up Qtile to give me a more pleasent desktop experience.

I'm not sure how Xmonad and AwesomeWM handle multiple monitors, but in Qtile you have a single set of groups (analagous to tags or workspaces) shared between your monitors, and eac…