Tom Forbes

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You should _never_ store static files like images, music or files in a database - BLOB's are a bad bad thing. You store them on the file system because that's...

I agree it sounds rocky, but in the context of the app it makes sense. We have an app with a django user model that is backed by LDAP, so...

There are two or three models being served from the same application, for those foreign keys we just use a CharField with `source='user_relation.username'`. For the relations stored on other systems...

Upgrading a huge, critical LOB application to use GUIDs (which is only more secure by virtue of being a larger keyspace) is a huge undertaking, whereas this is a genuine...

Hey, yeah in our case the app is still using the old Django profile system rather than a custom user model, but that's not entirely relevant to the issue I'm...

Hey @rpatterson are you able to make a MR with that change?

This merge request is unlikely to be merged as I have received no feedback from the maintainers regarding this, and there are conflicts. To reiterate, there is absolutely no technical...

I agree, that is exactly why serialisers exist and is literally their function. To bypass that for seemingly no good reason is really annoying, especially if you want/need to use...

Can you run the following two commands and paste the output here: * ping google.com * ping ::1 I don't have a freebsd machine to test them on. ~5 lines...