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If any #lfk #kc friends are around on Monday, @kjaymiller will be in town and hosting a meetup over in KC via Lenexa.

I plan to be there too.

https://www.meetup.com/kansas-city-postgres-user-group/events/311795746/

All right, #Denver #chestnut enthusiasts, our shipment is on the way to the Aurora Whole Foods distribution center!

Before you get all upset about it, let me say we had standing contracts with Whole Foods long before Bezos bought them. Even though we supply thousands of pounds to local and regional stores and restaurants, WFD is still our biggest regional customer.

#KC #KansasCity area folks, we've already been in stock at 888 and a few other retailers (I think World Fresh?) for a few weeks.

#LFK folks, you can find us at The Merc and Checkers.

It's chestnut season! Godspeed little nuts. May you fill many happy bellies.

In a large cardboard corral on a wooden pallet in a big asphalt parking lot there are hundreds os pounds of fresh chestnuts tied up in cheerful red mesh bags with white labels wrapped around the middle. We worked hard over the last week to get these out the door and fresh to grocery stores in the Denver area!

I was walking in my East Lawrence KS neighborhood to lunch at the Lawrence Beer Company. I nodded at a guy coming toward me on the sidewalk and he said, “Wait is that a Reason Rally t-shirt?” Turns out we were both at the Reason Rally in 2012. It was fun to swap some memories of speakers and Tim MInchin. First time that’s happened to me in #lfk.

The Paper Plains 'Zine Fest is taking place in Lawrence (Kansas) this Labor Day weekend, Aug. 29 through 31 #zines #LFK #LawrenceKS lawrencekstimes.com/2025/08/25/p...

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So big day here in #lfk.

It's also about to rain, so I'm delayed with an electric smoker.

Thankfully, I can raise the temperature of my sous vide and cut an hour off our cook time (made up math), but both a sous vide and a smoker are forgiving.

My town has some cool tech history. First web browser! #LFK

Seen on Mass St in Lawrence, KS: a punk John Brown tshirt complete with mohawk. Very #lfk

In hindsight, it was 10000% the right decision even though I got asked 100s of times when we were going to do the next one.

I suspect there might eventually be a reason to return to #LFK for such an event, but I'm too busy, and our other REVSYS'ers have been too busy.

It's been a challenging year on a lot of levels, and I think going forward, we might have the time and space to think about what comes next.

It's also a good time to reflect on why we didn't host Django's 20th birthday here in #LFK like we did 10 years ago.

We almost did 4 years ago, but the pandemic disrupted everything.

Why 16 and not 15 you may ask? I bought https://djangoprom.com in anticipation of a PROM themed event.

Why not do a 20th here? We knew we were moving offices and after 10 years of being heavily involved in running DEFNA and DjangoCon US, I wasn't ready to take on an event.

I love my town. I’m sitting on my porch in East #lfk and the sounds of an accordian come wafting away…