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This is how you fix the stupid corner section of a double scroll bar being white on a dark theme site. The question included an example image where you can see white squares everywhere there are horizontal and vertical scroll bars.

This is an interesting problem. I want to make a solution for this on htmx-patterns. I would make user specific routes with an hx-get rather than serving the whole page, serve a partial with hx-oobs to fill in user specific data with a no cache on the cdn level.

So cool to see ROX build this over the course of a day.

Very interesting article by Sylvain, suggested by Simon Willison. Definitely some things that I want to come back and try later on. Here is the TLDR of the whole post This is interesting, and something I need to consider. I definitely have an application with slow count queries. I am not sure how to make it better as its not a full count(*) so a count table doesn’t work, nor does counting by index. I might need to have a table of cached results, and if a write matches the counter increase it, or update all counters on write. COUNT queries are slow SQLite doesn’t keep statistics about its indexes, unlike PostgreSQL, so COUNT queries are slow, even when using a WHERE clause on an indexed field: SQLite has to scan for all the matching records. One solution is to use a trigger on INSERT and DELETE that updates a running count in a separate table then query that separate table to find the latest count.

Inspiring story transitioning into tech from nursing. I also came to tech through a set of circumstances that made it difficult for me to excel at my current job. Looking back it is something that I was always interested in and I was just unsure how to get in, I am so glad that I figured it out, it has been such a great benefit to my family. I really enjoyed listening to trshpuppy’s journey in through building projects, and choosing tech not based on what she wanted to learn, but what fit the project the best.

Great episode covering a seemingly simple topic. What I really benefitted from was hearing all the different use cases, from logging, debugging, to a/b testing, caching, and auth. I hadn’t even thought of it being applied to a router. I thought of it being applied for an entire application. This seems very useful for things like an admin router, all routes would need to have the admin role to get in.

Huh, so this is just built right into the chrome cli.

Damn are one time paid and have it apps making a comeback? Seems like the perfect thing to have someone else automate and not pay a subscription for. Genius Idea Cassidy!! Now what do you call this, its not software as a service, is this just sofware?

I switched from a 60% vortex pok3r to a 40% corne June, 2021. I can relate to a lot of what Carlos talks about here. I think going from 60%-40% made my journey harder than it needed to be. There’s no going back now, but it took me a really long time to be able to hit all of the numbers and symbols, just figuring out how to do the layout was hard there’s not much space. I didn’t touch type. I never really used my pinkies, except maybe for ESC, Shift, CTRL, Backspace et al. I can relate to this, my typing habits were terrible. Shortly before going split ortho I worked on my speed with lots, and lots of practice on keybr and monkeytype. I took my speed from 35wpm to 80wpm with a few months of steady practice. This is one of the best things I did for myself. Once I got split it dropped down to single digits and slowly rose back up to 80, just barely breaking my PB on monkeytype. I still feel like I still can’t type at my previous max speed — mostly because I wasn’t used to use my pinky and used the “wrong finger” for a lot of keys, but, nevertheless: I got there! I can touch type now! Yay! 🥳 I feel this! I’m pretty sure that I could still type faster on a normal keeb given some practice, but damn a split ortho is so comfy. A normal row stagger feels like its twisting my fingers. Update: my top speed was 125wpm for 10 words, and I can comfortably type between 80-100wpm now. Good enough. Damn thats good. The bad news is that I’ll need to bring my keyboard with me everywhere I go now… Yes, normal keebs feel awkward and like your fingers are all twisted up.

Carlos has a pretty sick setup here, I can relate to mostly, cept the macos part. My main critique is that I don’t think he gave window managers much chance on linux, and they just don’t work on MacOS/Windows. Most of the time I have a single, maximized window. I can relate to this. I should really make a full post about my experience with tiling window managers. TLDR, I came for tiling and I stayed for the workspaces. Multiple Displays An exception here could be streaming: having multiple displays can help preventing doxing yourself if you only share the screen of one of them. I only did stream like 3 times and that’s what I did, but I’m sure experienced streamers have better workflows (with or without multiple displays). Accurate, my home machine uses one monitor, and for work I use one monitor+laptop. I pair, screenshare, and present quite a bit at work, and its good to have one screen for sharing, and one for seeing things like the app you are sharing from (chat, cams, etc)

An absolute fantastic episode about blogging, thinking about a web1.0 kind of world today, and what it means moving forward. Web 1.0 is robust, you own your own destiny, you own your data, you can do what you want. There is no platform to tell you what you can and cannot do. But the future web is stealing your data to build AI models, spam sites are duplicating your content and stealing your SEO. You may or may not care, but at the end whether you get traffic or now you own your web 1.0 sites.

What is the difference between health, liveness, readiness, and startup? This article does a great job at a full writeup description of how it works in kubernetes, here is my TLDR. health 200 OK - I’m still responding to requests health ERR - something happened and I cant respond to requests liveness 200 OK - I’m ready for more work liveness ERR - I’m still responding to requests, and i’m already working send requests to another pod, or scale up These probes are commonly deployed at /healthz and /livez endpoints. Why the z? z is a convention that comes from google for meta endpoints to reduce conflict with actual endpoints, and can be deployed to any application.

This is a handy placeholder generator for generating placeholder items like images, and videos.

Underrated python library to on board ruff, or just use it on a project where its not the norm. ruff claims that its 99.9% compatible with black and when you read through the known differences they are clearly edge case bugs in black. See this page for more about the comparison to black https://docs.astral.sh/ruff/faq/#how-does-ruffs-formatter-compare-to-black oh and I just noticed that it is maintianed by Charlie, and comes straight out of astral.

![[None]] First I need to fetch my thoughts from the api, and put it in a local sqlite database using sqlite-utils. Now that I have my posts in a local sqlite database I can use sqlite-utils to enable full text search and populate the full text search on the post table using the title message and tags columns as search. Now I am ready to search my thoughts, which is a tiny blog format that I created mostly for leaving my own personal comment on web pages, so most of them have a link to some other online content, and their title is based on the authors title.

This is the best tree I have ever built in minecraft. It took at least 4 stacks of logs and leaves despite what it looks like. It is placed where Welscraft’s island in the hermitcraft season 10 seed, but on our own server we call lonecraft. We started this server a few weeks after hermitcraft season 10 started, and play on it a few times per week. It has a pretty successful day one iron farm that took us way more than one day to complete, and the farm behind this is our first ever villager driven farm. Somehow potatoes got cross contaminated and now its pumping out potatoes and some bread, but no carrots or beat roots. World Seed: 5103687417315433447

Minecraft MOTD and server names have formatting codes so that you can get colors, bold, underlined, italics, in your message of the day or server name. See the article for all the cods.

I’ve been using this for a few weeks now and it’s fantastic. It’s reminds me of lazygit, it gives a nice quick interface into the things I need and it just works. Yes I can git status to see what changed, then diff the files, then commit hunks, but lazygit can do that in just a few keystrokes. lazydocker does this for docker. It gives me a nice view into whats running, what’s eating up disk space, and the networks I have. And if I see I have a bunch of exited containers, there is a bulk command righ there to clean them up. tldr docker ps on steroids

Go is feeling more and more like something I could throw in my tool belt as a python dev. I really like that it’s garbage collected and has great error management. I am just not sure how to work it in without it being the main thing. The thing that is so cool is the ability to ship tiny pre-compiled binaries that just work, and the raw speed. these binaries just get up and working without any warm up. writing any cli in python I’m going to be using something like typer, and it takes half a second just to warm up, so even hello world cannot be faster than half a second.

Great example from Anthony showing how easy it is to practice building database orm models and playing with them in a repl. This is good practice even if you are in a big code base to be able to test and learn in a simplified code base that does not have a mountain of other code around atuh, permissions, security, and other complex things that come into real production code bases that might make it hard to focus on what you are trying to do. Note Anthony uses backref here, thats legacy, use back_populates on both parent and child.

This really makes me want to try Dolphin Mixtral with ollama now. It looks very impressive from this video. The ability to keep adding features before becoming confused is though with a lot of these llms. Being chat based, this is not a co pilot replacement. I was really hoping for an in line co pilot like tool that I can run locally. I have not used co pilot yet, but I have had great luck with codeium.

Thor is just straight up a great Human being! Getting a gaming company to tie power and progression with being nice is an incredible feat.

Great take on low code. I have definitely felt the pressure of being presented low code options, “look it does almost everything you need, and you can do it without code.” Granted there are tons of great low code environments that serve their markets well (things like zapier). As pointed out here when they fall short rather than being hard, it goes to nearly impossible. As Theo points out here many applications follow an 80/20 rule. 80% of the app is really easy to put together, and takes about 20% of the time, probably less. What no code does is it takes that 80% that is already easy, makes it even easier ( pitches it as faster whether or not that is true ), and makes the last 20% of the project impossibly hard to create and maintain, so you just should have picked a tool that had the capability of doing the whole thing from the start anyways.

I’ve heard prime say just give it the one eyed fighting kirby so many times, and execute it few times, and there is no way to find it online, so this will be the link that I will come to, when I need to remember what @theprimeagen means when he says Give it the one eyed fighting kirby. This is a vim substitute comand to replace text in the buffer. the one eyed fighting kirby is a regex capture group to capture everything between matches, and assign it a value to place back in after the match. substitute in a nutshell, :s/<what you want to replace>/<what you want to replace with> Here is a contrived example of text. Now for some reason I want to switch all of the words here and there. I can do that with three capture groups, \1 is here, \2 is everything between, \3 is there. Just give it the one eyed fighting kirby ~Prime I thought this explaination from phind was good and more verbose than mine. describe this vim substitute regex :%s/(here)(.)(there)/\3\2\1 ANSWER | PHIND V9 MODEL The given Vim substitute regex :%s/(here)(.)(there)/\3\2\1 performs the following operation: %s initiates the substitute command. The percent sign % indicates that the operation should be performed across the entire file, not just the current line 2. (here) is a capturing group that matches the word “here”. The parentheses ( and ) are used to define a group, and the content inside them is what the group will match 3. (.) is another capturing group that matches any sequence of characters. The . inside the group is a wildcard that matches any character (except a newline), and the * quantifier means “zero or more of the preceding element”. So, this group will match any sequence of characters 2. (there) is yet another capturing group that matches the word “there”. This group will match the word “there” that appears after the word “here” and any sequence of characters 3. /\3\2\1 is the replacement part of the command. Here, \3, \2, and \1 are backreferences to the matched groups. They correspond to the words “there”, any sequence of characters, and “here”, in that order. So, this command replaces the matched pattern with the word “there”, followed by any sequence of characters, and ending with the word “here” 4. So, in summary, this command searches for the pattern “here”, followed by any sequence of characters, and ending with “there”, and replaces it with the same pattern but reversed (“there”, followed by the original sequence of characters, and ending with “here”). I used this techniq on Refactoring one line links into wikilinks.

This is a pretty sweet interface into llms. I used it a bit with my son tonight while he was asking me for datapack ideas. You can continue the conversation with a -C You can pass it some data

This is a pretty sweet interface into llms. I used it a bit with my son tonight while he was asking me for datapack ideas. You can continue the conversation with a -C

Theo’s response puts a lot of my feelings about unit testing into words. It’s crazy how cargo culty it becomes that the echo chamber of twitter can bring in beliefs that we think we believe, but have not experienced enough or put enough thought in to form our own opinion. This video made me think so much that it turned into it’s own blog post Thoughts on Unit Testing

bunny.net looks like an interesting cloudflare alternative.

Setting an additional log handler to the uvicorn logger for access logs in fastapi was not straightforward, but This post was very helpful.

Most bloggers on my twitter blog right into a file that goes on git. I kinda expected to have more database folk. I have my blog in markdown on git and the editing experience is top notch. I can just find files edit them in MY EDITOR, push them and I got a post. I am running thoughts in a sqlite database with a fastapi backend, and holy crap the instant nature of posting feels so much better. Both sides have good points.

I often want to reach for non existing list comprehensions in jinja 2, Here are a few nice equivalents.

DataDog ddqa is building out a textual app and deploying it with pyapp. They have CI setup to fully build and cross compile their textual tui into github releases that you can just download from their releases page. This is something I am looking at for markata. This would be pretty sweet to be able to make it just work on places like windows. It would also be interesting to try to build a full desktop app with pyapp.

Full list of imagemagick color names.

I’m going to give this trick a shot on my sites, and see how I like it. Down in the comments @adamwathan goes on to say. Basically every layout overflow bug ever boils down to some flex or grid child needing min-width: 0 😄 Oh and @ryanflorence also says in the comments. I … do this.

You can protect your fastapi docs behind auth so that not only can certain roles not run certain routes, but they cannot even see the docs at all. This way no one that shouldn’t be poking around can even discover routes they shouldn’t be using. Here is the soluteion provided by @kennylajara

This is a handy guide to cancelling stripe subscriptions. You can even inverse it by flipping True to False and re activate the subscription.

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 products. I was able to find prices for my product using the python api as shown below.

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. Sometimes a bit of separation is good.

I’m working on something that might go to print, so I want the page breaks to happen somewhat in my control as the content author. As I do my writing I break my content up in to many short sections using h2, sometimes an h3. These are generally short sections that go together, should stay together, and typically are not too lengthy to cause a large white space in print. I found a way in css to only allow page breaks to happen on h2 and h3, and it turned out perfect, suck it WSIWIG editors

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 eaiser to manage end to end test, (does the site load page x) You DONT NEED all this complexity, you can deploy a site with HTML and CSS.

Textual is so sick, Will just made a live markdown editor in the terminal!

Fastapi passes flask in GitHub stars!

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 new understandings years later.

Today I learned the meaning of abhorrent abhorrent ăb-hôr′ənt, -hŏr′- adjective Disgusting, loathsome, or repellent. Feeling repugnance or loathing.

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 extra packages or installation.

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 my homelab today.

hashi vault lets you manage secrets right from your cli.

Kubetail is a pretty sick bash script that allows you to tail logs for multiple pods in one stream. Very handy when you have more than one replica running. Now with kubetail I can tail all the logs for every shot-wayl-one pod in the shot namespace.

I am converting my docker compose env secrets over to k8s secrets. This guide was clear and to the point how I can replicate this exact workflow. First set the secret, the easiest way is to use kubectl wtih –from-literal because it automatically base64 encodes for you. If you don’t use the --from-literal you will have to base64 encode it. Once you have your secret deployed, you have to update the container spec in your deployment manifest to get the valueFrom secretKeyRef.

Wow, shocked at these results. All this time I’ve been told and believed that k8s is incredibly hard, and you need a $1M problem before you think about it because it will take a $1M team to maintain it. So far my experience has been good, and I definitely do not have a $1M problem in my homelab.

Wes has some of the coolest OG images i’ve ever seen. Here he talks about how to enable cache configuration so that its constantly updating the cache without the user waiting for the image to be created.

I’ve often struggled to find and kill a process using a certain port on archlinux. Mainly becuase most guides use netstat rather than ss. Here is how I just killed the process using port 5000 using fuser. You can also get information about the process by running lsof

This is a sick kubernetes architecture diagran generation tool. Here is an example

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 now I am going to use just as my task runner. I installed with installer. I set up my devtainer builds with just. Here is my justfile, yes you just need the cli and a file named justfile.

kompose is a sick cli to convert docker-compose.yml to kubernetes manifest.

Running your own docker registry in one line

Example of how to add a pvc to a deployment.

I was curious to see what was going on inside of my minio object storage. Great technique here by Frank to create an inspector pod, then you can do as you wish with the data. I created the manifest as pvc-inspector.yml Then used it like this.

Tailwind comes with space that I have never heard of that is made to give margin and padding together in one class. Adam dropped it here in the Tailwind Connect conference.

Litestar is an interesting api framework similar to fastpi, that I am interested to check out to see if it fits into some project scope. It sounds like it comes with a lot more batteries included for things like auth, but does not have hard opinions like django. At this point I’m not jumping off of fastapi, but its something I want to try.

Deleting a fly postgres db cluster was not straightforward to me as the app name is not inferred from the toml like it is for the main app.

Boot.dev is crushing it with these interviews. This one has Wes Bos, includes teaching, webdev, where is webdev headed.

This seems like a promising tool to use with ollama.