Nik Kantar

2021

2021 (16)

December (1)

Goals for 2021 in Review
Half a dozen years later, another wrap-up.

September (4)

Bandwidth
There’s a limit to how much we can handle.
“Growing apart and losing touch is human and healthy”
DHH wrote something poignant in 2018 and here it is.
Simple, Easy, Complex, Difficult
Some language nuance.
Make the Important Things Easy
An old nugget of wisdom.

August (3)

Hindwards
Moved back.
Starminder v2
Starminder is relaunching with notable changes.
Project Directions
Some of my projects are languishing and need rethinking.

July (1)

Quick and Dirty Python: HOWTO
Let’s build up small Python script.

March (2)

Quick and Dirty Python
Something I absolutely love about Python is just how well it scales from tiny scripts to complex systems. Here’s an example of the former.
HEY? Nay.
I got super excited for a new awesome looking email service, but it’s got a fatal flaw that has me looking elsewhere.

February (2)

Newsletter, Again
It didn’t take me all that long to come back around to this, did it?
Introducing Parsenvy
I made an environment variable parsing library for Python, and forgot to tell you all about it!

January (3)

Django Site Dispatch, Improved
Turns out I like this problem so much I had to solve it again.
Django Site Dispatch
Django’s “sites” framework is quite cool, but what if you need to make some exceptions?
Introducing Lucy
I adopted a cat last year, and she’s the best.