Out of nowhere all of our Python projects that utilize selenium-wire suddenly stopped working when redeployed. It turns out that selenium-wire is no longer maintained as of January 2024 and the project depends on package blinker, specifically file blinker._saferef that is no longer available in latest blinker versions 1.8.0 and 1.8.1.

Recently, we've received a request from one of our clients to convert the built-in Description field from one of their taxonomies into a mandatory field. Sounds easy, right?

UPDATE: Some people have reached out to me that the guide does not work for them. I've decided to re-do the guide with a clean install of Debian 11 Bullseye (stable as of August 2021).

MySQL Workbench is currently unavailable on Debian 10 and 11. Ubuntu packages seem to be incompatible. The only two remaining options for installation are: getting a Snap package or building the Workbench from source. This blog post deals with the latter.