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Advent of Code 2025 🎄

Dec. 12, 2025 » Anže’s Blog » [Archived Version]

December is the time for Advent of Code, as it has been since 2015, when the first Advent of Code event was published.

Django bulk_update memory issue

Oct. 12, 2025 » Anže’s Blog » [Archived Version]

Recently, I had to write a Django migration to update hundreds of thousands of database objects. With some paper-napkin math I calculated that I can fit all the necessary data in memory, making the migration much simpler than it would have been otherwise.

Migrating Gunicorn to Granian

Sept. 27, 2025 » Anže’s Blog » [Archived Version]

I migrated one of my Django apps from Gunicorn to Granian yesterday. Here is how the migration went and some of my thoughts on Granian and Gunicorn.

Disable network requests when running Pytest

July 6, 2025 » Anže’s Blog » [Archived Version]

Even though my team has been diligent with mocking external requests, a few web requests still managed to slip through after a few months of cranking out new features. We only noticed them when our tests started to fail. 🫣

Disable runserver warning in Django 5.2

June 24, 2025 » Anže’s Blog » [Archived Version]

Django 5.2 added a new warning that shows up when you start your development server with python manage.py runserver:

Autogenerating og:images with Jekyll

June 10, 2025 » Anže’s Blog » [Archived Version]

This blog has been a static site powered by Jekyll for over 13 years, and I’ve been happy with the setup. After all this time, I still enjoy using my code editor to write new posts and git commit and git push to publish them.

Power Outages and Gunicorn PID files

Nov. 9, 2024 » Anže’s Blog » [Archived Version]

After a power outage, some of my Gunicorn jobs failed to start correctly. In this blog post, I explain why it happened and how I solved it.

UV with Django

Aug. 29, 2024 » Anže’s Blog » [Archived Version]

Using UV to manage dependencies of your Django application.

Go-like Error Handling Makes no Sense in JavaScript or Python

Aug. 16, 2024 » Anže’s Blog » [Archived Version]

Adding special syntax to Javascript or Python to allow Go-like error handling feels like a good idea at first glance, but I think it doesn't improve the issues with error handling in these two languages.

Packages do not match the hashes pip error

Aug. 2, 2024 » Anže’s Blog » [Archived Version]

pip sometimes returns a checksum error when the urllib3 library is unable to parse a received TLS packet due to a network error. This pip issue will be resolved in 2025 when Python 3.9 is EOL, but you can get around it today by using wget or curl.