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> If your documentation is a directory full of files on GitHub, I close the tab. With GitHub Pages, Read the Docs, and other places to host generated documentation for free, not ma…

Pretty sure it's a typo (speaking as a Brit). In the mother of all pedantic pull requests, I've created https://github.com/python/pythondotorg/pull/77

It's now documented and everything: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/migrations/#upg...

Doesn't this mean people can track whether you've read an email by including some kind of unique identifier in the image path? If not, how could this possibly work?

Likewise - I did this as part of a hackathon earlier this year - thoroughly enjoyed seeing how all the pieces fitted together.

See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4970707

I'm pretty sure they're just markers telling you what the code is an example of, so they get out of your way when you hover over the code.

We use it to mean practising how we handle bad things, such as unexpected server failures, which seems to me a reasonable appropriation of the term.

Thanks for the write-up - interesting read. Out of interest, how do you catch and block all POST requests when the site's in read-only mode without duplicating code? Not sure if yo…

See also "Entmoot" from Lord of the Rings.

I don't think it is, based on the GitHub repository powering http://slug.in ( https://github.com/yetizzz/zzz ).

Kenneth Love's working on this at http://gettingstartedwithdjango.com/ .

Isn't that what http://fredericjacobs.com/identifying-the-traitor is?

What's wrong with PIL on Ubuntu? If you're running into needing to repoint JPEG_ROOT/ZLIB_ROOT - I've started avoiding that by symlinking where PIL expects things to be to where th…

FWIW, I think "Will Chirp become 'next Twitter'?" was the short version of the title, based on the most read links on the BBC site.

Nice work! Might want to update the README - it's no longer a jQuery plugin.

Maybe previous experience is significant - I learned to program building websites (HTML -> early CMSes -> PHP), then did a computer science degree (mostly Java, though I did a bit …