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Re: Ask HN: What's your Django side project?

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Started as a simple python script to scratch my own itch to track USCIS Visa Bulletins and my Green Card progress. Due to demand by friends and co-workers who had the same need, I used it as a learning opportunity and created a website powered by Django and Beautiful Soup: https://www.seekingvisa.com/

Nice! It would be pretty relevant for me, but I just got denied my H1B. Will use seekingvisa next year :)

Re: Ask HN: What's your Django side project?

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Built with Django is a really interesting project. It looks good for me on Chrome, but I don't see any projects on Safari. I'm on Mojave 10.14.6, Safari 13.1.

Thanks! Yes, I am aware of the problem you are referring to. I've known about it for some time, but I can't do anything about it. I just don't understand why the images don't show up. I've searched everywhere, but couldn't find the solution. I fanyone here knows how to solve it, I'd be forever grateful.

I started disabling some of the css, and I was able to get the projects to start to appear. I have no idea what the root issue is, but I think you could probably sort out which css is problematic on safari, and either render the page differently on safari or choose a different layout that is more cross-browser friendly?

Here's a screenshot to show what I started disabling: https://i.imgur.com/BinJqAD.png

Re: Ask HN: What's your Django side project?

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post #53

https://mapsofmind.com Django - channels - celery Another project to be launched soon that uses a similar stack. Just waiting on stripe activation.

FYI, you website is displayed to me in French (makes sense, I am!). However, the problem is that the French translation is quite poor and I can't seem to find a way to switch to English?

Sorry, didn't want to criticize what seems to be a cool service but I thought you should know!

Re: Ask HN: What's your Django side project?

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post #41

Built with Django is a really interesting project. It looks good for me on Chrome, but I don't see any projects on Safari. I'm on Mojave 10.14.6, Safari 13.1.

Thanks! Yes, I am aware of the problem you are referring to. I've known about it for some time, but I can't do anything about it. I just don't understand why the images don't show up. I've searched everywhere, but couldn't find the solution. I fanyone here knows how to solve it, I'd be forever grateful.

You have a two classes .overflow-hidden and .flex-1. The flex-1 class has the property flex: 1 1 0%. Since the flex-basis is 0, I assume the overflow hidden is just chopping it all off. Try a flex: 1 0 auto;

Re: Ask HN: What's your Django side project?

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For 6 years I’ve been building Cronitor.io with my best friend and business partner, August. We started on Django 1.6 and I’ll admit: we liked it so much we stuck with that version for 5 years (ha ha). Earlier this year we did the mythic trek to Python3 and are enjoying the all the new Django goodies. August is working full time on Cronitor but for me it’s still technically a “side project” — for now! Edit: sorry for…

> Earlier this year we did the mythic trek to Python3 and are enjoying the all the new Django goodies. Can you share anything about how that upgrade journey went? What are some of the newer features that have been helpful for you? Were those features you knew would be helpful, or were you happily surprised?

I didn't do much of the actual coding on that project but from my perspective the upgrade on our Django app went smooth.

We were excited to have Django Migrations (So long, South!) and honestly it's great to have access to current docs again.

We did have a snag with memory leaks in a threadpool in one of our non-django Python APIs. It was actually our worst outage in 5 years because it failed several hours after we deployed and we were no longer staring at our graphs.

(Maybe I can get August to write a blog post about how he accidentally sent a million emails to our personal inboxes while trying to clean that up)

Re: Ask HN: What's your Django side project?

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https://enviro.work is built on Django! It's an environmentally-focused jobs board for those looking to align their career with the climate crisis

I have recommended this to many people looking for such roles. Thank you for building this!

Thanks for your support! Feel free to join the community at https://collective.energy as well for more discussion about climate solutions

Re: Ask HN: What's your Django side project?

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Lately I have been trying to cover more ground in popular Python frameworks since despite many years of using it, most of my experience is scientific programming, "short job" scripts, and a few CLI and GUI tools; now that I am looking for a job, I found that recruiters wouldn't believe me that I am a Python "developer" unless I can point to some web-hosted projects; so I decided to attack Django and Flask simultaneou…

Sounds cool, one of my goals of learning Django was to merge my interests in Data Science and Web Development, sort of Data Science as a Software (DSaaS). Do you have a demo link? Would love to check it out!

I don't want to post it publicly because of the potential load, I guess i can't PM on HN, you can send me an email (my username@gmail.com) or a message at the same username on reddit

Re: Ask HN: What's your Django side project?

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Related How? (https://relatedhow.kodare.com/) is a site to see how species are related.

It's still quite rough around the edges, mostly due to me being demotivated for not having a good way to host it. Now solved with linode+dokku which I am super happy with.

This is a site i have wanted for decades and I Googled after it every year for a decade before I realized I could build it myself with the data from wikidata.

Code at https://github.com/boxed/relatedhow

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