I don’t normally do this kind of direct outreach, but the situation for people with serious immune system compromise at the moment in the UK is grim. We cannot produce responses to the covid vaccines and so remain shielding/in total isolation.

It should be an easy task to resize image uploads in Django, but it turns out to be a bit more complicated than one would hope. Here are my findings.

Evusheld is a combination of two long-acting antibodies (tixagevimab and cilgavimab). It’s a drug designed to protect clinically vulnerable people against Covid in cases where vaccines don’t work. A good example is people who have been on the chemotherapy drug Rituximab, which causes much worse Covid outcomes and also reduces vaccine efficacy. Another example is people with primary or secondary immunodeficiency.

I had a setup of deluge running on a remote box as a daemon. I had verified the credentials were all OK, the port forwarding was setup, the daemon was running and listening. But I couldn’t connect remotely. CHECK THE VERSION OF DELUGED THAT YOU ARE RUNNING! If you are running deluged 1.3.x and trying to connect with deluge 2.x, it will report that the remote server is not running.

OK, this is different from my usual fare, but I’ve been thinking about upgrading my home LAN to 10GbE. My WAN connection is now more than 1Gbit and so I’m maxxing out the link. Finding kit that works on Linux (and even, shudder, FreeBSD), though, is somewhat tricky.

These are my notes on Smits, Robert-Jan, and Rachael Pells, Plan S for Shock (London: Ubiquity Press, 2022) https://doi.org/10.5334/bcq, originally taken on Twitter. They just constitute thoughts I had while reading the book, as opposed to any form of structural review. I must say that the ToC has raised my hackles a little already. “Know when it is done; plan an exit”. We’re far from done.

This post forms part of my ‘aspects of the novel’ collection. Please do note that these entries, which may appear basic, are simply my own notes on the subject. They implicitly or explicitly describe a canon not of my own making or choosing and replicate this from various sources. The original encyclopaedia articles are far more comprehensive, nuanced and worth consulting.

This post forms part of my ‘aspects of the novel’ collection. Please do note that these entries, which may appear basic, are simply my own notes on the subject. They implicitly or explicitly describe a canon not of my own making or choosing and replicate this from various sources. The original encyclopaedia articles are far more comprehensive, nuanced and worth consulting.

This post forms part of my ‘aspects of the novel’ collection. Please do note that these entries, which may appear basic, are simply my own notes on the subject. They implicitly or explicitly describe a canon not of my own making or choosing and replicate this from various sources. The original encyclopaedia articles are far more comprehensive, nuanced and worth consulting.

This is a post to document the setup that I use when I want quickly to create a great functional command-line python application with ORM database support. Django ORM The Django ORM is an incredibly powerful database tool that lets you design models in python and then persist them to the database. Django, though, is primarily a web framework. I don’t want that in a command-line app, but it is possible to use the ORM without other components.