Thanks for taking a look at my website. Here you will find me rambling about various programming/sysadmin stuff. Whether it's stuff I learned, talking about a conference, or discussing challenges that I experienced. You'll also can find information about what I do, projects that I'm involved with or conferences that I will be attending this year. I hope that you have a nice time here!
This section will contain posts that I've flagged for the front page. Once I have enough posts on my blog, I will create a page that will allow you to navigate all of my posts.
Thanks to everyone for watching my talk!
The slides can be found below.
Enjoy the rest of Djangocon!
https://drive.google.com/file/d/15qOhMVoRimaj7SOs0PgqBCDlwqBLauAi/view?usp=drive_link
~Michael Riley
For those who are not aware. I will be giving a talk at Djangocon US 2024 as an online talk regarding my journey working on DonationStore, getting everything running on Django 5. The Talk is called Upgrading EOL Django: A Journey from 1 to 5 and it will be on Tuesday, September 24th, at 12:50PM. This is my first talk at a conference ever, and I am excited.
Since Elaztek Studios acquired DonationStore in 2023, I have been working on upgrading three Django applications from to Django 5. Two of those Applications were written on Django 1.
Around 2 weeks ago I ordered a DVD set for the USA Channel series Suits after watching a lot of it on Peacock (after seeing a lot of YouTube shorts of it). However after auditing my bank transactions and setting up a budget I wanted to get rid of a lot of my streaming services. This started with canceling my Hulu bundle and moving to the 7.99$ Ad Tier and removing any other streaming service I wasn't using.
Since attending PyCon 2022, I saw many different people, and speakers have their own blog where they have talked about what projects they have worked on in the last year. As I got more familiar and met more people in the Python scene the question that always kept coming up was "Do you have a blog or somewhere that you talked about this more in depth that I can look at later?" or "Is there somewhere that I can keep an eye on that isn't Twitter?"