Calling boss a dickhead was not a sackable offence, tribunal rules Woman who was immediately sacked when she insulted her manager during a row wins unfair dismissal case

Calling your boss a dickhead

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Nice! I have a couple of helpers in mine to print objects and Django model instances.

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TIL How to use reserved domains in tests to prevent DNS queries

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🤨 My last renewal for a .com with them was £10.91 / ~US$14. I already use Cloudflare so I'll likely switch my domains to them now too. Thanks, glad I checked this.

Take a look at www.gandi.net too, they've served me well.

TIL How to optimise the order of HTML head elements using Capo

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TIL How to write a custom alias for the Python debugger

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Very well, thanks. Hope you and yours are the same 🙏

Made me think of "rubber duck debugging". Maybe this is "duck testing" 😄

Great tip. Have blocked over 15,000 requests in the past 24 hours with a very similar rule I just setup.

Kinda crazy to think I've been working at Kraken (part of the Octopus Energy Group) for nine year now 🐙🎂 What a wonderful company to be a part of.

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TIL How to catch missing referenced files in Django static files manifest

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Nice article. For the "Non-obvious variables and values" example, what about considering different types that are more self describing? For example,

```python
SESSION_COOKIE_AGE = datetime.timedelta(weeks=2).total_seconds()
```

Nice work. That's even more impressive when British me doesn't read that as 'three point one seven five' meters 😄

This is a handy tool for generating importmaps, although it targets a CDN rather than local.
generator.jspm.io

There's a CLI tool too which might offer support for local packages?
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