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Thursday, 1st July 2021

Django SQL Dashboard 1.0 (via) As part of my ongoing attempt to be braver about 1.0 releases (crucial if you want to do semantic versioning properly) I’ve released version 1.0 of Django SQL Dashboard, my Datasette-inspired app for Django that adds an interface for running read-only, bookmarkable SQL queries against a PostgreSQL database. The new version adds a column cog menu providing shortcuts for changing the sort order, counting distinct values and performing a group-by/count against column values.

# 5:44 pm / projects, django-sql-dashboard, sql, django

YAGNI exceptions (via) Luke Plant provides his collection of things that you probably ARE going to need in a project, where adding them later is painful enough that it’s worth the up-front investment. I really like these as a concept, and I’m coining the term PAGNI—for Probably Are Gonna Need It—to describe them.

# 6:30 pm / pagni, software-engineering, yagni, lukeplant

PAGNIs: Probably Are Gonna Need Its

Luke Page has a great post up with his list of YAGNI exceptions.

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Smooth sailing with Kubernetes (via) Scott McCloud (of Understanding Comics) authored this comic introduction to Kubernetes, and it’s a really good explanation of the core concepts. I’d love to have something like this for Datasette—I still feel like I’m a long way from being able to explain the project with anything like this amount of clarity.

# 11:30 pm / kubernetes, comics

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