Last year, in a React side-project, I had to replace some content in a string with HTML markup. That is not a trivial thing to do with React, as you can't just put HTML as string in your content, unless you want to use dangerouslySetInnerHtml — which I don't. So, I hacked a little code to smartly split my string into an array of sub-strings and DOM elements.

More recently, while working on Translate.Next — the rewrite of Pontoon's translate page to React — I stumbled upon the same problem. After looking around the Web for a tool that would solve it, and coming up short handed, I decided to write my own and make it a library.

Two weekends ago was the 10th Game Jam of the Game Dev Party association, where I was once again both participating and helping with the organization. And once again I proposed a game idea and I was lucky enough that people liked it and voted for it! So I gathered a team of 6 awesome people, 3 developers and 3 designers, plus myself as a part-time coder part-time manager, and we made a game.

During the last Game Dev Party Jam in Lyon, I pitched a game idea with the intention of building that game with Web technologies and my Entity System library. I had been waiting for an occasion to use that lib in a "real" game, and knew that would be the perfect moment: the 8th Jam happened over 3 days (when it usually is only 2) and was thus ideal for trying out risky things.

I can never remember this snippet and I found myself duckduckgoing for it a few times, so I wanted to write it down somewhere where I can easily find it (and maybe it will help people looking for it, since I can never reliably find it in search engines).

To start Django's shell:

./manage.py shell

And to make a user a superuser:

from django.contrib.auth.models import User
user = User.objects.get(email='me@example.org')
user.is_superuser = True
user.save()