Gregory's ServerThis is what my edit interface looks like - I'm using the Django admin to add new "live update" rows attached to the entry.
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 @simon Any tips for handling images? I have a half dozen small blogs like that, and the pain point/bottleneck is always my ability to upload an image in a way that doesn't make me not do it. I noticed yours were static media, so I assumed you committed/pushed.  @webology images were by far the worst part of this - my process sucked: I took a photo on my phone, waited for iCloud to sync the photo to my Mac, dragged that photo out to convert it to JPEG, then dropped that onto https://tools.simonwillison.net/image-resize-quality to grab a smaller file size version, then dragged THAT to Transmit to upload to my S3 bucket, then manually entered the img tag in the HTML of a live blog update @webology I got half way through building a dedicated mobile web app for taking a photo on my phone and resizing that and uploading it to my S3 bucket, but I couldn't get S3 CORS headers to work right so I gave up @simon I realized while microwaving my lunch that it would take about as much time to have Claude build me a file upload tool for my project changelogs (blogs) than it did to ask you how you solved the problem. One model + one upload form and one list view with a clipboard snippet that gives me a markdown link was what I think I needed. This technology is such a light bulb moment. Once we automate the git and pr parts we will soon be chatting with our repos to add features. @webology I think I need to get over my resistance to having Django handle file uploads and forward them on to S3 - I've always preferred having my browser push content to S3 directly, but maybe in 2024 the servers I'm running apps on can handle proxying a few MBs without me need to worry about running out of server resources @webology I still love this 14 year old Django snippet https://djangosnippets.org/snippets/1868/ @simon we really need to promote that website more. 8 months is too long to go since the last snippet. @simon @webology why don't just use Django Storages? It's "transparent" and you can change your storage provider in the future without any vendor lockin effect 👍 |
Here's how I implemented the live blog feature I used yesterday. I built the first version using Claude while waiting for the keynote to start, then upgraded it with the help of GPT-4o to add sort options and incremental fetching of new updates
https://til.simonwillison.net/django/live-blog