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Today I am working on fokais.com, trying to get to a point where I can launch by workig through stripe integrations. This is my first time using stripe, so there has been quite a bit to learn, and I am probably building in more than I need to before launching, but I am learning, and not in a rush to launch.

I am building the fokais backent in python primarilyt with fastapi and sqlmodel on sqlite. My billing integration is going to be all Stripe.

Stripe Subscription Cancellations Docs #

Here is a link to the stripe docs for your refrence, especially if you want to see how to cancel subscriptions in other languages. They include code samples for many popular languages.

Cancel subscriptions | Stripe Documentation

User Model #

This is the part of the user model that includes the cancel and reactivate methods. It pretty much follows the stripe guide.

class UserBase(SQLModel, table=False):  # type: ignore[call-arg]
    username: str = Field(unique=True)
    full_name: str
    email: str
    email_verified: bool = False
    disabled: bool = False
    signup_date: Optional[datetime] = Field(default_factory=datetime.utcnow)
    stripe_customer_id: Optional[str]

    def cancel_subscription(self):
        for subscription in self.active_subscriptions:
            stripe.Subscription.modify(
                subscription.id,
                cancel_at_period_end=True,
            )
        self.refresh()

    def reactivate_subscription(self):
        for subscription in self.active_subscriptions:
            stripe.Subscription.modify(
                subscription.id,
                cancel_at_period_end=False,
            )
        self.refresh()

Cancellations api #

Here is the cancellations api. I created an are you sure form that I can link to from the accounts page with a normal anchor tag. Note that I am doing a POST request to do the cancellation from a form. I want this to work for any user whether there is js or not. This is an operation that will change the users data, and I want to make sure that it avoids all browser and cdn caching. As a scrappy startup we are running light on infrastructure and are caching hard at the CDN to avoid excessive server hits.

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I am doing a POST request to do the cancellation from a form.

@pricing_router.get("/cancel")
@pricing_router.get("/cancel/")
def get_cancel(
    request: Request,
    current_user: Annotated[User, Depends(get_current_user_if_logged_in)],
):
    return config.templates.TemplateResponse(
        "cancel.html",
        {
            "request": request,
            "prices": products.prices,
            "products": products.products,
            "current_user": current_user,
        },
    )


@pricing_router.post("/cancel")
@pricing_router.post("/cancel/")
def post_cancel(
    request: Request,
    current_user: Annotated[User, Depends(get_current_user_if_logged_in)],
):
    current_user.cancel_subscription()
    return HTMLResponse('<p id="cancel" hx-swap-oob="outerHTML">Your Subscription has been Cancelled</p>')

Reactivations #

Reactivating accounts looks just about the same as cancelling, only flippng True to False.


@pricing_router.get("/reactivate")
@pricing_router.get("/reactivate/")
def get_reactivate(
    request: Request,
    current_user: Annotated[User, Depends(get_current_user_if_logged_in)],
):
    return config.templates.TemplateResponse(
        "reactivate.html",
        {
            "request": request,
            "prices": products.prices,
            "products": products.products,
            "current_user": current_user,
        },
    )


@pricing_router.post("/reactivate")
@pricing_router.post("/reactivate/")
def post_reactivate(
    request: Request,
    current_user: Annotated[User, Depends(get_current_user_if_logged_in)],
):
    current_user.reactivate_subscription()
    return HTMLResponse('<p id="reactivate" hx-swap-oob="outerHTML">Your Subscription has been reactivated</p>')

Full User Model #

This is the full user model, completely subject to change in the future, but it includes the cancel and reactivate methods.

class UserBase(SQLModel, table=False):  # type: ignore[call-arg]
    username: str = Field(unique=True)
    full_name: str
    email: str
    email_verified: bool = False
    disabled: bool = False
    signup_date: Optional[datetime] = Field(default_factory=datetime.utcnow)
    stripe_customer_id: Optional[str]

    @property
    def session(self):
        return next(get_session())

    @classmethod
    def get_by_id(cls, id):
        return next(get_session()).get(cls, id)

    def refresh(self):
        cache.set(f"active_subscriptions_{self.id}", None, 3600)
        cache.set(f"active_products_{self.id}", None, 3600)

    def get_checkout_sessions(self):
        return [
            stripe.checkout.Session.retrieve(s.stripe_checkout_session_id)
            for s in self.session.exec(select(CheckoutSession).where(CheckoutSession.user_id == self.id)).all()
            if s.stripe_checkout_session_id is not None
        ]

    def get_active_subscriptions(self):
        subscriptions = [
            s.subscription
            for s in [
                stripe.checkout.Session.retrieve(s.stripe_checkout_session_id)
                for s in self.session.exec(select(CheckoutSession).where(CheckoutSession.user_id == self.id)).all()
                if s.stripe_checkout_session_id is not None
            ]
            if s.status == "complete"
        ]
        active_subscriptions = [stripe.Subscription.retrieve(subscription) for subscription in subscriptions]
        return active_subscriptions

    def has_active_subscription(self):
        return len(self.active_subscriptions) > 0

    @property
    def active_subscriptions(self):
        active_subscriptions = cache.get(f"active_subscriptions_{self.id}")
        if active_subscriptions is not None:
            return active_subscriptions
        active_subscriptions = self.get_active_subscriptions()
        cache.set(f"active_subscriptions_{self.id}", active_subscriptions, 3600)

        return active_subscriptions

    @property
    def active_plans(self):
        subscriptions = self.active_subscriptions
        plans = [subscription.plan for subscription in subscriptions]
        return plans

    @property
    def subscription_to_plan(self):
        subscriptions = self.active_subscriptions
        plans = {subscription.id: subscription.plan.id for subscription in subscriptions}
        return plans

    @property
    def plan_to_subscription(self):
        plans = {v: k for k, v in self.subscription_to_plan.items()}

        return plans

    def get_active_products(self):
        plans = self.active_plans
        products = [stripe.Product.retrieve(plan.product) for plan in plans]
        return products

    @property
    def plan_to_product(self):
        plans = self.active_plans
        products = {plan.id: stripe.Product.retrieve(plan.product).id for plan in plans}
        return products

    @property
    def prodct_to_plan(self):
        plans = self.active_plans
        products = {stripe.Product.retrieve(plan.product).id: plan.id for plan in plans}
        return products

    @property
    def active_products(self):
        products = cache.get(f"active_products_{self.id}")
        if products is not None:
            return products
        products = self.get_active_products()
        cache.set(f"active_products_{self.id}", products, 3600)

        return products

    @property
    def best_active_subscription(self):
        subscriptions = self.active_subscriptions
        return subscriptions[0]

    @property
    def best_active_product(self):
        products = self.active_products
        products.sort(key=lambda p: p.metadata.get('level', 0))
        return products[0]

    @property
    def best_active_subscription(self):
        subscription_id = self.plan_to_subscription[self.prodct_to_plan[self.best_active_product.id]]
        return stripe.Subscription.retrieve(subscription_id)

    @property
    def config(self):
        product = self.best_active_product
        return product.metadata

    def subscription_status(self):
        subscriptions = self.active_subscriptions()

    def cancel_subscription(self):
        for subscription in self.active_subscriptions:
            stripe.Subscription.modify(
                subscription.id,
                cancel_at_period_end=True,
            )
        self.refresh()

    def reactivate_subscription(self):
        for subscription in self.active_subscriptions:
            stripe.Subscription.modify(
                subscription.id,
                cancel_at_period_end=False,
            )
        self.refresh()

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Cancel subscriptions Cancel subscriptions immediately or at the end of the subscription period with proration options, invoice handling, and automatic cancellation after failed payment attempts. stripe.com This is a handy guide to cancelling stripe subscriptions. You can even inverse it by flipping to and re activate t…

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Search Use the search APIs to look up and retrieve objects in your Stripe data. Using search is a faster alternative to paginating through all resources. stripe.com Stripe has it’s own query language for querying data. I’m just getting into using it and it seems pretty good so far. I needed to lookup the price for prod…

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Nov 27 – Dec 3, 20232 years ago

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I’ve been using tailwind for a few months now and I can still say I’m loving it. I’ve been using it to create some rapid prototypes that may or may not ever become something, a document that is likely to go to print (a resume), and some quick dashboards.

I started using Tailwind a few month back #

A few months back in september of 2023 I made a case for tailwindcss. And have been using it on quite a few projects since.

  • values are well thought out
  • it’s really easy to use
  • classes that make sense
  • tree shakable

fokais.com #

I started working on fokais.com only a few weeks ago, It’s going to be a SAS to make blogging easier. I’ve started hosting some tools for this blog that I really like that I think I can turn into a service. It’s been fantastic to quickly pump out new pages with tailwind.

screenshot of https://fokais.com

HTMX #

tailwind and htmx are a match made in heaven. They both really lean on Location of Behavior over Separation of concerns. They do really well at making small components that you can throw on and endpoint and stack into any page. With tailwind I just configure it to look at all my templates, and I can guarantee that the styles will be in app.css, and all I need to do is add classes to my component.

Heres a sample component for a user widget that will go on every page. It has everything it needs right in the template.

<div
  hx-swap-oob="outerHTML"
  id="user-header"
  class="absolute top-0 right-0 mt-8 mr-4"
>

<!--markata-attribution-->
  {% if current_user %}

<!--markata-attribution-->
  <details

<!--markata-attribution-->
    id="user-header-details"

<!--markata-attribution-->
    open
    class="group list-none px-4 py-2 self-center justify-self-center bg-neutral-600/10 shadow-lg shadow-zinc-950/20 ring-2 ring-zinc-950/5 rounded-xl flex justify-center align-center flex-col"
  >
    <summary style="list-style-type: none">{{ current_user.username }}</summary>

<!--markata-attribution-->
    <div class="hidden group-hover:block my-4">

<!--markata-attribution-->
      <a
        class="mt-6 px-4 py-2 rounded bg-purple-950/5 ring-2 ring-cyan-500/30 text-cyan-500 font-bold"

<!--markata-attribution-->
        href="{{ url_for('get_logout') }}"
      >

<!--markata-attribution-->
        Logout
      </a>

<!--markata-attribution-->
    </div>

<!--markata-attribution-->
  </details>

  {% else %}
  <a
    href="{{ url_for('post_login') }}"
    class="mt-5 text-xl text-white font-bold text-shadow-xl text-shadow-zinc-950"
  >

<!--markata-attribution-->
    login
  </a>

<!--markata-attribution-->
  {% endif %}

<!--markata-attribution-->
</div>

internal apps #

I’ve built several interal apps, and tailwind has been really great for this. Its super quick to pop classes on components and get things to look decent quickly, or put some real polish into making them look nice.

My Website waylonwalker.com #

I’ve dropped my old decrepid css for some tailwind on my main site. My css was much smaller, but did not work quite as well on all devices, and most importantly was becoming a house of cards. Every time I fixed one thing several other things would fail. Colors were a bit muddy, and not as nicely configured as tailwind.

Most importantly was becoming a house of cards. Every time I fixed one thing several other things would fail.

One rough side of styling a blog in tailwind is that you don’t necessarily have control over granular details of how your pages get rendered without getting really deep into the markdown renderer, or writing your posts in html. It ends up looking a bit ugly, and is against the tailwind best practices, but it seems like the best way for a site like this.

@tailwind base;
@tailwind components;
@tailwind utilities;
@import "./highlight.css";

.social {
  @apply font-bold;
  @apply flex flex-row;
  @apply gap-4;
  @apply justify-center;
  @apply py-8;
}

#posts ul ul {
  @apply backdrop-blur-sm;
  @apply flex flex-col sm:grid grid-flow-row-dense;
  @apply gap-4;
  grid-template-columns: repeat(auto-fit, minmax(300px, 1fr));
  @apply p-4;
}

grid #

I’ve struggled to use grid on my projects, and I’ve tried a few different times with no real success or adoption, but started using it on my resume, to have a main middle column, with two outer full bleed columns where I can make some elements full bleed to the edge. tailwind made this easy, once done, I had an admonition that was beautiful full bleed with a touch of color.

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Dang this is such a good message. I can’t exactly relate to being forced into the overworking situation that PirateSofware is talking about. I can relate to being conditioned to feeling a certain way and changing that is very difficult. I can also relate to not feeling like I am getting enough done in the day. Sometime…

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Go by Example gobyexample.com Fantastic resource for learning go. You work through small examples quickly, learning single concepts along the way.

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How to Build a Website or App - Syntax #696 This podcast episode covers a wide range of topics related to building a website or web application from start to finish. syntax.fm Use good data or good fake data make it have some variation like long and short text Don’t use a database if you need one, static content is eai…

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Nice take by @t3dotgg. Some of the old patterns that go deep into webdev, MVC, separation of concerns, REST, are things we are told to believe on day one, thrown so many things, no mental bandwidth, or experience to form our own opinions we must take them as fact. Rarely do we take these facts and revisit them with our…

Nov 20 – Nov 26, 20232 years ago

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Nov 13 – Nov 19, 20232 years ago

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I’m really excited about sqlmodel, an amazing project by fastapi. It’s worth exploring! SQL databases in Python, designed for simplicity, compatibility, and robustness.

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If you’re into interesting projects, don’t miss out on draw-a-ui, created by SawyerHood. Draw a mockup and generate html for it

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Heroicons Beautiful hand-crafted SVG icons, by the makers of Tailwind CSS. Heroicons · heroicons.com heroicons is a really nice set of many of the basic icons that you will need for building nice ui’s. They have a really nice copy as svg or jsx button, so that you can just yank it and paste it on your page without any…

Nov 6 – Nov 12, 20232 years ago

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Uptime Kuma A self-hosted monitoring tool uptime.kuma.pet Uptime kuma is a fantastic self hosted monitoring tool. One docker run command and you are up and running. Once you are in you have full control over checking status of urls, frequency, allowed timeouts, and a HUGE list of notification providers I deployed it in…

Oct 30 – Nov 5, 20233 years ago

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Check out Kanaries and their project Rath. Next generation of automated data exploratory analysis and visualization platform.

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The work on local-ai-stack by ykhli. A starter kit to build local-only AI apps that cost $0 to run – starting with document Q&A. Written in Javascript

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Oct 23 – Oct 29, 20233 years ago

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</> htmx ~ Locality of Behaviour (LoB) Carson Gross explores the Locality of Behaviour (LoB) principle, which emphasizes making the behavior of code units obvious on inspection to enhance maintainability. He discusses the tradeoffs betw... htmx.org Interesting principle here. What a great example, If I’m looking at the…

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Oct 16 – Oct 22, 20233 years ago

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Just starred just by casey. It’s an exciting project with a lot to offer. 🤖 Just a command runner

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GitHub - casey/just: 🤖 Just a command runner 🤖 Just a command runner. Contribute to casey/just development by creating an account on GitHub. GitHub · github.com I think just, might just be the thing I have been looking for. I’ve been looking for some ci/cd that I can host myself, but everything looks pretty big, so for…

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Quick-Start Guide | K3s This guide will help you quickly launch a cluster with default options. Make sure your nodes meet the requirements before proceeding. docs.k3s.io I recently spun up k3s in my homelab. I’m trying to offload some work off of my free tier fly.io app in order to keep it free tier without crashing. M…

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