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Why not make your own dashboard in 2026
I was reflex checking the same six tabs all day so I built one page that has all of it on it, and the part that surprised me is how little work that is now.
Isaac Bythewood
2026-09-10
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Optimizing SQLite for Django in production
Django's default SQLite settings are fine for development but will hit "database is locked" errors under any concurrency. This is the config I run in production.
Isaac Bythewood
2026-04-18
Self-host your fonts
The shared cache argument for Google Fonts died in 2020 and the privacy argument was never great. Self-hosting with @fontsource is a one line change.
Isaac Bythewood
2026-05-03
Finding broken external links on websites using Scrapy
Broken links are a problem for any content driven website as it ages, find them quickly and easily with Scrapy.
Isaac Bythewood
2022-07-23