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The week ofAug 14 – Aug 20, 2023

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simonw/shot-scraper: A command-line utility for taking automat… github.com ↗
GitHub - simonw/shot-scraper: A CLI utility for taking screenshots of websites, recording video demos and scraping sites using JavaScript A CLI utility for taking screenshots of websites, recording video demos and scraping sites using JavaScript - simonw/shot-scraper GitHub · github.com Daaaang, this is such an elegantly simple way to get web screenshots with a cli. I was literally up and running with two commands on my arch linux machine (which it warned was unsupported by playwright). Note is a full length screenshot of the entire page. Oh and its pretty dang fast, let alone the setup time, this crushes on startup time in my attempts to use a headless browser in the past.

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shot-scraper: automated screenshots for documentation, built o… simonwillison.net ↗
shot-scraper: automated screenshots for documentation, built on Playwright shot-scraper is a new tool that I’ve built to help automate the process of keeping screenshots up-to-date in my documentation. It also doubles as a scraping tool—hence the name—which I … Simon Willison’s Weblog · simonwillison.net An interesting way to build automatically annotaatd docs with arrows pointing to elements on a webpage.

The week ofAug 7 – Aug 13, 2023

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⭐ nod-ai SHARK-Studio
I’m really excited about SHARK-Studio, an amazing project by nod-ai. It’s worth exploring! SHARK Studio – Web UI for SHARK+IREE High Performance Machine Learning Distribution

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#learning #webdevelopment - YouTube www.youtube.com ↗
I’d never given this much thought, but there are so many guides that are complete guides for beginner workflows, but once you get beyond beginner there is likely no manual for what you are trying to do in programming. There is no guide that will tell you the best way to get your companies salesforce data, alongside of the ERP data and present it to the users who need to know in a way that compels them to make the right decisions. You are going to have to build this out for yourself by piecing together knowledge about each subject.

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HTML Over The Wire | Hotwire hotwired.dev ↗
HTML Over The Wire | Hotwire Hotwire is an alternative approach to building modern web applications without using much JavaScript by sending HTML instead of JSON over the wire. hotwired.dev An alternative approach to building modern web withhout heavy js and json, but instead html over the wire, keeping the logic in the backend of rails.

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How do I post form data using Curl? reqbin.com ↗
How do I post form data using Curl? To post form data to the server using Curl, you can use one of two command line options: -F (--form) or -d (--data). ReqBin · reqbin.com How to pass form data with curl, give it the d.

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How to Use HTML to Open a Link in a New Tab www.freecodecamp.org ↗
How to Use HTML to Open a Link in a New Tab Tabs are great, aren't they? They allow the multitasker in all of us to juggle a bunch of online tasks at the same time. Tabs are so common now that, when you click on a link, it's likely it'll ope... freeCodeCamp.org · freecodecamp.org Most of the time when creating links in html you want to maintain the default behavior, as this is what users are going to expect, but sometimes your site behaves such that it does not fit, and it does something unexpected anyways. in this case you might want to make the default behavior to open the link in a new tab rather than relying on users to control click. Use this with restraint as this can make your site feel janky and do things that do not feel natural to the web.

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python - How to use a Pydantic model with Form data in FastAPI… stackoverflow.com ↗
External Link stackoverflow.com I went down the route of leveraging the extention in htmx, but later realized that this completely breaks browsers/users who do not wish to use javascript. While most of the web would feel quite broken with javascript disabled, I don’t want to contribute to that without good reason. Taking a second look into this issue, rather than using, and using as_form to get form data into a model keeps the nice DX fo everything being a pydantic model, but the site still works without js. with js htmx kicks in, you get a spa like experience by loading partials onto the page, and without, you just get a full page reload. the implementation copied from https://stackoverflow.com/questions/60127234/how-to-use-a-pydantic-model-with-form-data-in-fastapi And the usage looks like

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The week ofJul 31 – Aug 6, 2023

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ValueError: Constraint must have a name in alembic 1.10.0 · … github.com ↗
`ValueError: Constraint must have a name` in alembic 1.10.0 · Issue #1195 · sqlalchemy/alembic Describe the bug ValueError: Constraint must have a name in alembic 1.10.0. Expected behavior Migration succeeds. To Reproduce Please try to provide a Minimal, Complete, and Verifiable example, wit... GitHub · github.com After a nasty time with alembic upgrades, thoughts is about to get a new users table. This may have came from incorrectly setting up alembic for sqlite from the start, but I was able to fix the issue with this GitHub issue. The change I needed to make to get my migration to run.

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DuckDB vs. MotherDuck — should you switch to the cloud version… kestra.io ↗
DuckDB vs. MotherDuck: When to Move to the Cloud | Kestra DuckDB is fast and free. MotherDuck adds cloud storage, collaboration, and scale. Here kestra.io duckdb is a new in process database that has been making its rounds in analytics for its high performance in those applications. Mother duck is a centeralized server that brings manages storage, data sharing and an ide to duckdb.

The week ofJul 24 – Jul 30, 2023

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⭐ kndndrj nvim-dbee
Just starred nvim-dbee by kndndrj. It’s an exciting project with a lot to offer. Interactive database client for neovim

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Center things - Textual textual.textualize.io ↗
Textual - Center things Textual is a TUI framework for Python, inspired by modern web development. Textual Documentation · textual.textualize.io How to center things in textual. Textual has a very unique way of styling text user interfaces for the terminal using css. If you know css it feels natural. @willmcgugan, has put together a great article on how to center things in textual here the final result

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containers/aardvark-dns: Authoritative dns server for A/AAAA c… github.com ↗
GitHub - containers/aardvark-dns: Authoritative dns server for A/AAAA container records. Forwards other request to host's /etc/resolv.conf Authoritative dns server for A/AAAA container records. Forwards other request to host's /etc/resolv.conf - containers/aardvark-dns GitHub · github.com I ran into some dns issues while running podman on arch, aparantly I had missed an optional dependency of aardvark-dns for container to container dns resolution.

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Podman - ArchWiki wiki.archlinux.org ↗
Podman - ArchWiki wiki.archlinux.org I kept running into limits in the number of subuid and subgid’s I had on my system by default. As always thank the arch wiki guide for having the most comprehensive yet consice guide to setup podman. What I needed to do to fix the error.

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Using Rich Inspect to interrogate Python objects - Textual textual.textualize.io ↗
Textual - Using Rich Inspect to interrogate Python objects Textual is a TUI framework for Python, inspired by modern web development. Textual Documentation · textual.textualize.io I love rich inspect. It’s one of my most often used features of rich. It gives you a great human readable insight into python object instances. I have a pyflyby entry for it so that I can just run it ang get automatic imports. To not clash with the standard library inspect, which is quite useful on it’s own, I have aliased it to.

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How to Manage ‘Systemd’ Services and Units Using ‘Systemctl’ i… www.tecmint.com ↗
How to Manage 'Systemd' Services and Units Using 'Systemctl' in Linux Systemctl is a systemd utility which is responsible for Controlling the systemd system and service manager. Systemd is a collection of system management daemons, utilities and libraries which serve... How to Manage ‘Systemd’ Services and Units Using ‘Systemctl’ in Linux · tecmint.com A fantastic overview of the systemd cli.

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How to fix ZFS pool not importing at boot :: ./techtipsy — Her… ounapuu.ee ↗
How to fix ZFS pool not importing at boot You have probably tried Stack Exchange and reddit at this point, so what do you have to lose?./techtipsy · ounapuu.ee Hacky solution to get to work on boot right away. This has been an issue that has plagued my system for months and no matter what dependencies I add in it never works, but adding a sleep as ExecStartPre did the trick.

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Deleting Specific Lines in a File with sed or yq nickjanetakis.com ↗
Deleting Specific Lines in a File with sed or yq — Nick Janetakis We Nick Janetakis · nickjanetakis.com sed can be a tricky beast, I often stumble when trying to pipe into it. Next time I need to use sed, I should reference this article by Nick Janetakis. He makes it looks much easier than my experience has been, and it appears to behave like a vim substitution does, or a g command.

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Header Parameters - FastAPI fastapi.tiangolo.com ↗
Header Parameters - FastAPI FastAPI framework, high performance, easy to learn, fast to code, ready for production fastapi.tiangolo.com Getting request headers in fastapi has a pretty nice stetup, it allows you to get headers values as function arguments, I was able to use headers to detect if a request was made from htmx or not. If the request was made from htmx, then we want a html format, otherwise I’m probably hitting the api programatically from something like or

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Dear Red Hat… featuring Jeff Geerling (Changelog & Friends #… changelog.com ↗
Dear Red Hat… featuring Jeff Geerling (Changelog & Friends #7) Red Hat's decision to lock down RHEL sources behind a subscription paywall was met with much ire and opened opportunity for Oracle to get a smack in and SUSE to announce a fork with $10 million beh… Changelog · changelog.com Loved this explanation about all the recent lock down with RHEL from Jeff Geerling.

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sqlite-utils now supports plugins simonwillison.net ↗
sqlite-utils now supports plugins sqlite-utils 3.34 is out with a major new feature: support for plugins. sqlite-utils is my combination Python library and command-line tool for manipulating SQLite databases. It recently celebrated... Simon Willison’s Weblog · simonwillison.net As the title states sqlite-utils now supports plugins. I dug in just a bit and Simon implemented this completely with entrypoints, no framework or library at all.

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Form Data - FastAPI fastapi.tiangolo.com ↗
Form Data - FastAPI FastAPI framework, high performance, easy to learn, fast to code, ready for production fastapi.tiangolo.com Getting form data inside of fastapi was not intuitive to me at first. Everything I had used in fastapi leaned on pydantic models. Form data comes in differently and needs collected differently.

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</> htmx ~ Documentation htmx.org ↗
</> htmx ~ Documentation htmx gives you access to AJAX, CSS Transitions, WebSockets and Server Sent Events directly in HTML, using attributes, so you can build modern user interfaces with the simplicity and power of hypert... htmx.org A complete reference of all of the htmx swapping methods.

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python 3.x - FastAPI redirection for trailing slash returns no… stackoverflow.com ↗
External Link stackoverflow.com I am trying to use htmx on a new fastapi site for my thoughts, and have been hitting this error. What is happening I have an htmx component that gets the current users name, but if they are not logged in the backend redirects to a login form. But for some reason when the front end gets this redirect, it tries to do it through http, and flags it as insecure. The solution To solve this issue, the post directs to set the to ‘*’

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First-class session support in FastAPI · Issue #754 · tiangolo… github.com ↗
External Link github.com Here is a snippet provided by @tiangolo to store the users jwt inside of a session cookie in fatapi. This was written in feb 12, 2020 and admits that this is not a well documented part of fastapi. It’s already in place. More or less like the rest of the security tools. And it’s compatible with the rest of the parts, integrated with OpenAPI (as possible), but probably most importantly, with dependencies. It’s just not properly documented yet. 😞 But still, it works 🚀 e.g.

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![[None]] When setting up a new machine, vm, docker image you might be installing command line tools from places like pip. They will often put executables in your directory, but by default your shell is not looking in that directory for commands. To solve this you need to add that directory to your $PATH. To make this change permanant add this line to your shell’s init script, which is likely something like or.

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Doyensec on Twitter: “Announcing wsrepl, the WebSocket testing… twitter.com ↗
https://t.co/km5m7k6Pb0 #doyensec #appsec #websockets #burpsuite" loading=“lazy”> Doyensec (@Doyensec) on X Announcing wsrepl, the WebSocket testing tool from Doyensec! This intuitive tool is super easy to use and makes automation around WebSockets simple! Check out our blog for the details and download… X (formerly Twitter) · twitter.com wsrepl is an epic websocket repl built in python on the textual framework.

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Filter Data - WHERE - SQLModel sqlmodel.tiangolo.com ↗
Filter Data - WHERE - SQLModel SQLModel, SQL databases in Python, designed for simplicity, compatibility, and robustness. sqlmodel.tiangolo.com When fetching pydantic models from the database with sqlmodel, and you cannot select your item by id, you probably need to use a where clause. This is the sqlmodel way of doing it. Here is a snippet of how I am using sqlmodel select and where to find a post by link in my thoughts database.

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URL Decoding query strings or form parameters in Python | URLD… www.urldecoder.io ↗
URL Decoding query strings or form parameters in Python | URLDecoder URL Decode online. URLDecoder is a simple and easy to use online tool for decoding URL components. Get started by typing or pasting a URL encoded string in the input text area, the tool will automa... urldecoder.io In order to turn url encoded links back into links that I would find in the database of my thoughts project I need to urldecode them when they hit the api. When anything hits the api it must urlencode the links in order for them to be sent correctly as data and not get parsed as part of the url. Here is a snippet of how I am using urlib.parse.unquote to un-encode encoded urls so that I can fetch posts from the database.

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encodeURIComponent() - JavaScript | MDN developer.mozilla.org ↗
encodeURIComponent() - JavaScript | MDN The encodeURIComponent() function encodes a URI by replacing each instance of certain characters by one, two, three, or four escape sequences representing the UTF-8 encoding of the character (will... MDN Web Docs · developer.mozilla.org In order to send data that includes special characters such as in a url you need to url encode it. You have probably seen these many times in urls with things like %20 for spaces. I’m working on a chrome extension to make quick blog posts, like thoughts or a persistent bookmark tool with comments. The backend is written in fastapi and when I check to see if I have a post for a page I need to url encode it. curl example generated from the fastapi swagger docs. Here is how I used javascript’s to turn my chrome extension into a notification when I already have a post for the current page.

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LazyVim Installation www.lazyvim.org ↗
🛠️ Installation | LazyVim You can find a starter template for LazyVim here lazyvim.org Lately in 2023 I have been leaning on lazyvim for my new setups where I am not necessarily ready to drop my full config. It’s been pretty solid, and comes with a very nice setup out of the box, the docs are pretty fantastic as well.

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Changelog on Twitter: “🗣️ @kelseyhightower on his demos: That … twitter.com ↗
@changelog) on X — 🗣️ @kelseyhightower on his demos: That happy path gets people out of their chairs. They’re going back to the computer, like: “Yo, I’m gonna try it right now.” Come on… I’d rather have that. And I’ll take the bit of criticism that comes with it." loading=“lazy”> Changelog ( @changelog) on X 🗣️ @kelseyhightower on his demos: That happy path gets people out of their chairs. They’re going back to the computer, like: “Yo, I’m gonna try it right now.” Come on… I’d rat… X (formerly Twitter) · twitter.com Such an inspiring clip from Kelsey Heightower. Make good shit that inspires people rather than fake ppts of how things could be.

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Chris Coyier on Twitter: “I was unaware of `text-wrap: pretty;… twitter.com ↗
@chriscoyier) on X — I was unaware of `text-wrap: pretty;` I knew about the (new/cool) — but sometimes that's a bit… too much. I feel like it's nice on headers but not smaller type. Here's what I mean." loading=“lazy”> Chris Coyier ( @chriscoyier) on X I was unaware of I knew about the (new/cool) — but sometimes that's a bit… too much. I feel like it's nice on headers but not smaller type. Here's w… X (formerly Twitter) · twitter.com Next time I’m working with large headers on small screens I need to try this. I always truggle to get them to look good for most text and overflow ridiculously long words correctly or at all.

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sqlite-utils command-line tool - sqlite-utils sqlite-utils.datasette.io ↗
sqlite-utils command-line tool - sqlite-utils sqlite-utils.datasette.io I want to like jq, but I think Simon is selling me on sqlite, maybe its just me but this looks readable, hackable, editable, memorizable. Everytime I try jq, and its 5 minutes fussing with it just to get the most basic thing to work. I know enough sql out of the gate to make this work off the top of my head

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jq Cheat Sheet lzone.de ↗
LZone LZone - Cheat Sheets for Sysadmin / DevOps / System Architecture lzone.de A nice cheat sheet for jq. jq looks so nice, but it so quickly gets overwhelming on how to select what you want. I was able to make a jq contains query.