Check out djmaze [1] and their project docker-caching-proxy [2].
Caching proxy docker image
References:
[1]: https://github.com/djmaze
[2]: https://github.com/djmaze/docker-caching-proxy
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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.
Note
This post is a thought [1]. It’s a short note that I make
about someone else’s content online #thoughts
References:
[1]: /thoughts/
Looking for inspiration? oterm [1] by ggozad [2].
a text-based terminal client for Ollama
References:
[1]: https://github.com/ggozad/oterm
[2]: https://github.com/ggozad
Litestar: Effortlessly Build Performant APIs
We all know about Flask and Django. And of course FastAPI made a huge splash when it came on the scene a few years ago. But new web frameworks are being created all the time. And they have these ea...
talkpython.fm [1]
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 [2], but its something I want to try.
Note
This post is a thought [3]. It’s a short note that I make
about someone else’s content online #thoughts
References:
[1]: https://talkpython.fm/episodes/show/433/litestar-effortlessly-build-performant-apis
[2]: /fastapi/
[3]: /thoughts/
Delete a Postgres Cluster
Documentation and guides from the team at Fly.io.
Fly · fly.io [1]
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.
fly apps destroy <pg-app-name>
fly pg db list -a <pg-app-name>
Note
This post is a thought [2]. It’s a short note that I make
about someone else’s content online #thoughts
References:
[1]: https://fly.io/docs/postgres/managing/deleting/
[2]: /thoughts/
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Yet again twitter cards were causing me pain. This time it was me not realizing that they require full urls, and not relative or abolute urls.
This was not working
<meta name="twitter:image" content="/shot/?path={{ request.url|quote_plus }}" content-type='image/png'/>
This does work with a full url
<meta name="twitter:image" content="https://thoughts.waylonwalker.com/shot/?path={{ request.url|quote_plus }}" content-type='image/png'/>
Note
This post is a thought [1]. It’s a short note that I make
about someone else’s content online #thoughts
References:
[1]: /thoughts/
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Boot.dev is crushing it with these interviews. This one has Wes Bos, includes teaching, webdev, where is webdev headed.
Note
This post is a thought [1]. It’s a short note that I make
about someone else’s content online #thoughts
References:
[1]: /thoughts/
gen.nvim [1] by David-Kunz [2] is a game-changer in its space. Excited to see how it evolves.
Neovim plugin to generate text using LLMs with customizable prompts
References:
[1]: https://github.com/David-Kunz/gen.nvim
[2]: https://github.com/David-Kunz
[1]
This seems like a promising tool to use with ollama.
Note
This post is a thought [2]. It’s a short note that I make
about someone else’s content online #thoughts
References:
[1]: /static/https://github.com/David-Kunz/gen.nvim
[2]: /thoughts/
Ollama
Ollama is the easiest way to automate your work using open models, while keeping your data safe.
ollama.ai [1]
ollama is the easiest to get going local llm tool that I have tried, and seems to be crazy fast. It feels faster than chat gpt, which has not been the experience I have had previously with running llm’s on my hardware.
curl https://i.jpillora.com/jmorganca/ollama | bash
ollama serve
ollama run mistral
ollama run codellama:7b-code
ollama list
Note
This post is a thought [2]. It’s a short note that I make
about someone else’s content online #thoughts
References:
[1]: https://ollama.ai/
[2]: /thoughts/
Check out Boeing [1] and their project config-file-validator [2].
Cross Platform tool to validate configuration files
References:
[1]: https://github.com/Boeing
[2]: https://github.com/Boeing/config-file-validator
If you’re into interesting projects, don’t miss out on NeoTweet [1], created by ChristianChiarulli [2].
No description available.
References:
[1]: https://github.com/ChristianChiarulli/NeoTweet
[2]: https://github.com/ChristianChiarulli
GitHub - sysid/sse-starlette
Contribute to sysid/sse-starlette development by creating an account on GitHub.
GitHub · github.com [1]
sse-FastAPI [2].">starlette provides server sent events for startlette and FastApi. I’m evaluating for use with htmx [3].
Installation: # [4]
pip install sse-starlette
Usage: # [5]
import asyncio
import uvicorn
from starlette.applications import Starlette
from starlette.routing import Route
from sse_starlette.sse import EventSourceResponse
async def numbers(minimum, maximum):
for i in range(minimum, maximum + 1):
await asyncio.sleep(0.9)
yield dict(data=i)
async def sse(request):
generator = numbers(1, 5)
return EventSourceResponse(generator)
routes = [
Route("/", endpoint=sse)
]
app = Starlette(debug=True, routes=routes)
if __name__ == "__main__":
uvicorn.run(app, host="0.0.0.0", port=8000, log_level='info')
Note
This post is a thought [6]. It’s a short note that I make
about someone else’s content online #thoughts
References:
[1]: https://github.com/sysid/sse-starlette
[2]: /fastapi/
[3]: /htmx/
[4]: #installation
[5]: #usage
[6]: /thoughts/
overflow - Layout
Utilities for controlling how an element handles content that is too large for the container.
tailwindcss.com [1]
Controlling overflow with tailwindcss
Examples # [2]
<div class="overflow-visible ..."></div>
<div class="overflow-hidden ..."></div>
Note
This post is a thought [3]. It’s a short note that I make
about someone else’s content online #thoughts
References:
[1]: https://tailwindcss.com/docs/overflow
[2]: #examples
[3]: /thoughts/
[1]
Default scrollbars on a dark theme website are just the ugliest thing. This page covers all the pseudo selectors needed to style the scrollbar.
/* width */
::-webkit-scrollbar {
width: 10px;
}
/* Track */
::-webkit-scrollbar-track {
background: #f1f1f1;
}
/* Handle */
::-webkit-scrollbar-thumb {
background: #888;
}
/* Handle on hover */
::-webkit-scrollbar-thumb:hover {
background: #555;
}
Note
This post is a thought [2]. It’s a short note that I make
about someone else’s content online #thoughts
References:
[1]: /static/https://www.w3schools.com/howto/howto_css_custom_scrollbar.asp
[2]: /thoughts/
[1]
Wincent (Greg Hurrel) has a pretty solid and fast zshrc. I recently grabbed his completion section and it seems to be working better than whatever I had.
zsh completion snippet
#
# Completion
#
fpath=($HOME/.zsh/completions $fpath)
autoload -U compinit
compinit -u
# Make completion:
# - Try exact (case-sensitive) match first.
# - Then fall back to case-insensitive.
# - Accept abbreviations after . or _ or - (ie. f.b -> foo.bar).
# - Substring complete (ie. bar -> foobar).
zstyle ':completion:*' matcher-list '' '+m:{[:lower:]}={[:upper:]}' '+m:{[:upper:]}={[:lower:]}' '+m:{_-}={-_}' 'r:|[._-]=* r:|=*' 'l:|=* r:|=*'
# Colorize completions using default `ls` colors.
zstyle ':completion:*' list-colors ''
# Allow completion of ..<Tab> to ../ and beyond.
zstyle -e ':completion:*' special-dirs '[[ $PREFIX = (../)#(..) ]] && reply=(..)'
# $CDPATH is overpowered (can allow us to jump to 100s of directories) so tends
# to dominate completion; exclude path-directories from the tag-order so that
# they will only be used as a fallback if no completions are found.
zstyle ':completion:*:complete:(cd|pushd):*' tag-order 'local-directories named-directories'
# Categorize completion...
Change Autocomplete Styles in WebKit Browsers | CSS-Tricks
We got a nice tip from Lydia Dugger via email with a method for changing the styles that WebKit browsers apply to form fields that have been autocompleted.
CSS-Tricks · css-tricks.com [1]
All the hover, select, autofil, focus combinations have left me confused on how to consistently get my form elements styled in dark mode
This snippet from CSS tricks has fixed all the different states for me to give me full control.
/* Change Autocomplete styles in Chrome*/
input:-webkit-autofill,
input:-webkit-autofill:hover,
input:-webkit-autofill:focus,
textarea:-webkit-autofill,
textarea:-webkit-autofill:hover,
textarea:-webkit-autofill:focus,
select:-webkit-autofill,
select:-webkit-autofill:hover,
select:-webkit-autofill:focus {
border: 1px solid green;
-webkit-text-fill-color: green;
-webkit-box-shadow: 0 0 0px 1000px #000 inset;
transition: background-color 5000s ease-in-out 0s;
}
Note
This post is a thought [2]. It’s a short note that I make
about someone else’s content online #thoughts
References:
[1]: https://css-tricks.com/snippets/css/change-autocomplete-styles-webkit-browsers/
[2]: /thoughts/
GitHub - florimondmanca/arel: Lightweight browser hot reload for Python ASGI web apps
Lightweight browser hot reload for Python ASGI web apps - florimondmanca/arel
GitHub · github.com [1]
arel is a “Lightweight browser hot reload for Python ASGI web apps”
I just implemented this on my thoughts website using fastapi [2], and it’s incredibly fast and lightweight. There just two lines of js that make a web socket connection back to the backend that watches for changes.
When in development mode, this snippet gets injected directly on the page and does a refresh when arel detects a change.
const ws = new WebSocket("ws://localhost:5000/hot-reload");
ws.onmessage = () => window.location.reload();
Note
This post is a thought [3]. It’s a short note that I make
about someone else’s content online #thoughts
References:
[1]: https://github.com/florimondmanca/arel
[2]: /fastapi/
[3]: /thoughts/
main.py [1]
python
import os
import arel
from fastapi import FastAPI, Request
from fastapi.templating import Jinja2Templates
app = FastAPI()
templates = Jinja2Templates("templates")
if _debug := os.getenv("DEBUG"):
hot_reload = arel.HotReload(paths=[arel.Path(".")])
app.add_websocket_route("/hot-reload", route=hot_reload, name="hot-reload")
app.add_event_handler("startup", hot_reload.startup)
app.add_event_handler("shutdown", hot_reload.shutdown)
templates.env.globals["DEBUG"] = _debug
templates.env.globals["hot_reload"] = hot_reload
@app.get("/")
def index(request: Request):
return templates.TemplateResponse("index.html", context={"request": request})
# run:
# DEBUG=true uvicorn main:app --reload
I just discovered arel [2] for hot reloading python applications when content changes from this snippet that implements it for fatapi.
On app startup add the /hot-reload routes if in DEBUG mode.
import os
import arel
from fastapi import FastAPI, Request
from fastapi.templating import Jinja2Templates
app = FastAPI()
templates = Jinja2Templates("templates")
if _debug := os.getenv("DEBUG"):
hot_reload = arel.HotReload(paths=[arel.Path(".")])
app.add_websocket_route("...
External Link
X (formerly Twitter) · twitter.com [1]
I need to learn regex capture groups better. This is so dang powerful. I really like the \v that bob uses here, it really does cut down on the terseness of all the special characters.
I wanted to replace all occurrences of:
name,[email protected],0,171,,2023-09-21
With:
name,[email protected]
Easy to do with Python, but what about a bit of > regex in Vim?
:%s/\v([^,]+,[^,]+),.*/\1/
Note
This post is a thought [2]. It’s a short note that I make
about someone else’s content online #thoughts
References:
[1]: https://twitter.com/bbelderbos/status/1709525676154368055
[2]: /thoughts/
External Link
X (formerly Twitter) · twitter.com [1]
HATEOAS gonna hate. More and more htmx [2] seems like the js library for backend devs. So rather than making 55 rest calls here, just make an endpoint that does what you want it to do with one, or a few requests.
Note
This post is a thought [3]. It’s a short note that I make
about someone else’s content online #thoughts
References:
[1]: https://twitter.com/teej_dv/status/1708258701008593173
[2]: /htmx/
[3]: /thoughts/
Open source, not open contribution with Ben Johnson (Changelog Interviews #433)
This week we're talking with Ben Johnson. Ben is known for his work on BoltDB, his work in open source, and as a freelance Go developer. Late January when Ben open sourced his newest project Litest...
Changelog · changelog.com [1]
Ben Johnson was on the Changelog a few years back covering his work on litestream, and talks about why he chose to go open source, but not open contribution.
You should have a good reason to move off of sqlite.
Note
This post is a thought [2]. It’s a short note that I make
about someone else’s content online #thoughts
References:
[1]: https://changelog.com/podcast/433
[2]: /thoughts/
jpillora/installer is the install script generator I have been looking for. It
downloads binaries for your machine from GitHub releases and unzips them for
you. It grabs the latest release, so you can easily update them. I have
tried scripting these installs in the past and struggled to consistently get
the latest version for every package and unpack it correctly.
Also these pre-compiled binaries install rediculously fast compared to building
them from source.
Check out some example links.
opening in a browser will show metadata
https://i.jpillora.com/serve
If you pass in script=true it will instead return the install script as it
would by default through curl.
https://i.jpillora.com/serve?script=true
Use it to install neovim # [1]
All you need to do to generate an install script is to pass in the GitHub repo
slug with the org.
curl https://i.jpillora.com/neovim/neovim | bash
The shell script that it generates for neovim looks like this.
#!/bin/bash
if [ "$DEBUG" == "1" ]; then
set -x
fi
TMP_DIR=$(mktemp -d -t jpillora-installer-XXXXXXXXXX)
function cleanup {
rm -rf $TMP_DIR > /dev/null
}
function fail {
cleanup
msg=$1
echo "============"
echo "Error: $msg" 1>&2
...
I wanted to host some static files through fastapi [1]. Typical use cases for this
might be some static web content like html [2]/css/js. It could also be images or
some data that doesn’t need dynamically rendered.
From the Docs # [3]
The docs cover how to host static files, and give this solution that is built
into fastapi.
https://fastapi.tiangolo.com/tutorial/static-files/
from fastapi import FastAPI
from fastapi.staticfiles import StaticFiles
app = FastAPI()
app.mount("/static", StaticFiles(directory="static"), name="static")
Authenticated Static Files # [4]
Thanks to #858 [5].
OscartGiles [6] posted this solution to add
authentication to static files. I tried this out on my
thoughts [7] and it worked flawlessly.
import typing
from pathlib import Path
import secrets
from fastapi import FastAPI, Request, HTTPException, status
from fastapi.staticfiles import StaticFiles
from fastapi.security import HTTPBasic, HTTPBasicCredentials
PathLike = typing.Union[str, "os.PathLike[str]"]
app = FastAPI()
security = HTTPBasic()
async def verify_username(request: Request) -> HTTPBasicCredentials:
credentials = await security(request)
correct_username = secrets.compare_diges...
Point-in-time recovery - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org [1]
I just learned that the term PITR means Point In Time Recovery. I have never seen this term, but it is most often referred to in relation to database recoveries.
Note
This post is a thought [2]. It’s a short note that I make
about someone else’s content online #thoughts
References:
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point-in-time_recovery
[2]: /thoughts/
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Very inspiring talk, TLDR, you probably don’t need a database server. sqlite will probably be faster, simpler to maintain, and simpler to test your application.
Note
This post is a thought [1]. It’s a short note that I make
about someone else’s content online #thoughts
References:
[1]: /thoughts/
I recently se tup minio object storage in my homelab [1] for litestream sqlite
backups. The litestream quickstart made it easy to get everything up and
running on localhost, but I hit a wall when dns was involved to pull it from a
different machine.
Here is what I got to work # [2]
First I had to configure the Key ID and Secret Access Key generated in the
minio ui.
❯ aws configure
AWS Access Key ID [****************VZnD]:
AWS Secret Access Key [****************xAm8]:
Default region name [us-east-1]:
Default output format [None]:
Then set the the s3 signature_version to s3v4.
aws configure set default.s3.signature_version s3v4
Now when I have minio running on https://my-minio-endpoint.com I can use the
aws cli to access the bucket.
Note that https://my-minio-endpoint.com resolves to the bucket endpoint
(default 9000) not the ui (default 9001).
aws --endpoint-url https://my-minio-endpoint.com s3 ls my_bucket
Now Configuring Litestream # [3]
Litestream also accepts the endpoint argument via config. I could not get it
to work just with the ui.
Note the aws configure step above is not required for litestream, only the
aws cli.
dbs:
- path: /path/to/database.db
replicas:
-...
GitHub - benbjohnson/litestream: Streaming replication for SQLite.
Streaming replication for SQLite. Contribute to benbjohnson/litestream development by creating an account on GitHub.
GitHub · github.com [1]
`litestream` is a sick cli tool for steaming replicas of sqlite. It automatically does daily snapshots, and streams all of the writes to the replica live.
install # [2]
Install is fast using installer, no compilation, just copy the binary and run.
curl https://i.wayl.one/benbjohnson/litestream
Note
This post is a thought [3]. It’s a short note that I make
about someone else’s content online #thoughts
References:
[1]: https://github.com/benbjohnson/litestream
[2]: #install
[3]: /thoughts/
why-is-postgres-default
Serious question.
No one ever got fired for choosing PostgreSQL # [1]
But, why. It’s the most loved db, right? Right? Maybe it’s time to rethink
it.
Don’t get me wrong, if I need a relational db as a service, PostgreSQL is going
to be my first choice, but why do I need to run a separate application for it?
Tutorials use sqlite # [2]
Why is that? Because there is nothing else to stand up. Nothing else to
maintain. And you probably already have it installed on just about anything
that has a battery.
SQLite runs in memory # [3]
Don’t need, or maybe don’t want to persist state. Run it in memory. This is a
nice feature for running tests.
Less exposure # [4]
SQLite is a file on your filesystem. It’s not a web service. It’s not a cloud
service. Not that postgres is insecure, but it is one more endpoint that you
have to think about securing.
this means that is probably also cheaper 🤑
SQLite is easy to replicate # [5]
Want to run your new feature with prod data? Pull a replica or...
Why I Built Litestream - Litestream
Despite an exponential increase in computing power, our applications require more machines than ever because of architectural decisions made 25 years ago. You can eliminate much of your complexity ...
litestream.io [1]
As applications scale to the edge, to put compute as close to the user as possible, database queries back to the master node get slower and slower. Enter sqlite replication, put the database wtih the application code and replicate from master.
Note
This post is a thought [2]. It’s a short note that I make
about someone else’s content online #thoughts
References:
[1]: https://litestream.io/blog/why-i-built-litestream/
[2]: /thoughts/
I'm All-In on Server-Side SQLite
Ben Johnson has joined Fly.io
Fly · fly.io [1]
SQLite is the next big database trend. with more horizontal scaling, close to user read heavy applications, having your database in the same application stack makes a lot of sense. Tools like litestream are going to enable global distribution in an impressive way.
Note
This post is a thought [2]. It’s a short note that I make
about someone else’s content online #thoughts
References:
[1]: https://fly.io/blog/all-in-on-sqlite-litestream/
[2]: /thoughts/
LiteFS Cloud: Distributed SQLite with Managed Backups
Documentation and guides from the team at Fly.io.
Fly · fly.io [1]
Fly.io’s solution to sqlite managed backups.I definitely want to look into this a bit, but moreso the tech under the hook litestream.
Note
This post is a thought [2]. It’s a short note that I make
about someone else’s content online #thoughts
References:
[1]: https://fly.io/blog/litefs-cloud/
[2]: /thoughts/
If you’re into interesting projects, don’t miss out on litestream [1], created by benbjohnson [2].
Streaming replication for SQLite.
References:
[1]: https://github.com/benbjohnson/litestream
[2]: https://github.com/benbjohnson
I’m impressed by flameshow [1] from laixintao [2].
A terminal Flamegraph viewer.
References:
[1]: https://github.com/laixintao/flameshow
[2]: https://github.com/laixintao
Looking for inspiration? installer [1] by jpillora [2].
One-liner for installing binaries from Github releases
References:
[1]: https://github.com/jpillora/installer
[2]: https://github.com/jpillora
GitHub - jpillora/installer: One-liner for installing binaries from Github releases
One-liner for installing binaries from Github releases - jpillora/installer
GitHub · github.com [1]
This is a sick looking bash script generator for installing binaries off of github releases. it reccomends curl into bash, but you could curl into install.sh and toss that in your dotfiles repo or wherever.
Install installer with installer
curl -s https://i.jpillora.com/installer | bash
Note
This post is a thought [2]. It’s a short note that I make
about someone else’s content online #thoughts
References:
[1]: https://github.com/jpillora/installer
[2]: /thoughts/
How to run pods as systemd services with Podman
Podman is well known for its seamless integration into modern Linux systems, and supporting systemd is a cornerstone in these efforts. Linux commonly uses th...
redhat.com [1]
podman comes with a nice command for generating systemd service files (units).
$ podman pod create --name=my-pod
635bcc5bb5aa0a45af4c2f5a508ebd6a02b93e69324197a06d02a12873b6d1f7
$ podman create --pod=my-pod --name=container-a -t centos top
c04be9c4ac1c93473499571f3c2ad74deb3e0c14f4f00e89c7be3643368daf0e
$ podman create --pod=my-pod --name=container-b -t centos top
b42314b2deff99f5877e76058ac315b97cfb8dc40ed02f9b1b87f21a0cf2fbff
$ cd $HOME/.config/systemd/user
$ podman generate systemd --new --files --name my-pod
/home/vrothberg/.config/systemd/user/pod-my-pod.service
/home/vrothberg/.config/systemd/user/container-container-b.service
/home/vrothberg/.config/systemd/user/container-container-a.service
Note
This post is a thought [2]. It’s a short note that I make
about someone else’s content online #thoughts
References:
[1]: https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/podman-run-pods-systemd-services
[2]: /thoughts/
I like MordechaiHadad’s [1] project bob [2].
A version manager for neovim
References:
[1]: https://github.com/MordechaiHadad
[2]: https://github.com/MordechaiHadad/bob
makeplane [1] has done a fantastic job with plane [2]. Highly recommend taking a look.
🔥 🔥 🔥 Open Source JIRA, Linear, Monday, and Asana Alternative. Plane helps you track your issues, epics, and product roadmaps in the simplest way possible.
References:
[1]: https://github.com/makeplane
[2]: https://github.com/makeplane/plane
Pagefind
Pagefind is a fully static search library that aims to perform well on large sites, while using as little of your users’ bandwidth as possible, and without hosting any infrastructure.
Pagefind · pagefind.app [1]
Pagefind is absolutely insane. I’ve tried a number of static site searches, and found them all hard to get get going, clunky and not the best experience as a user or developer.
I setup pagefind in about 2 minutes on my site where it found and indexed 833 pages in 2 minutes.
The only downside I see so far is that it is a lot of bandwidth to the user. On simulated slow 3G you can definitly feel it, but not terrible. Anything slower and its going to start feeling frustrating.
edit: I have actually fully deployed it on waylonwalker.com, and its fast!
create the index
npx -y pagefind --site public --serve
Then I put this on a page, it looks really nice on a white background, but would need some work to drop into a dark theme.
<link href="/pagefind/pagefind-ui.css" rel="stylesheet">
<script src="/pagefind/pagefind-ui.js"></script>
<div id="search"></div>
<script>
window.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', (event) => {
new PagefindUI({ element: "#search", s...
If you’re into interesting projects, don’t miss out on project.nvim [1], created by ahmedkhalf [2].
The superior project management solution for neovim.
References:
[1]: https://github.com/ahmedkhalf/project.nvim
[2]: https://github.com/ahmedkhalf
I’ve recently given tailwindcss a second chance and am really liking it. Here
is how I set it up for my python based projects.
https://waylonwalker.com/a-case-for-tailwindcss
Installation # [1]
npm is used to install the cli that you will need to configure and compile tailwindcss.
npm install -g tailwindcss-cli
Setup # [2]
You will need to create a tailwind.config.js file, to get this you can use the cli.
npx tailwindcss init
Using tailwind with jinja templates # [3]
To set up tailwind to work with jinja templates you will need to point the
tailwind config content to your jinja templates directory.
module.exports = {
content: ["templates/**/*.html"],
};
Setting up the base styles # [4]
I like to use the @tailwind base;, to do this I set up an input.css file.
@tailwind base;
@tailwind components;
@tailwind utilities;
Compiling # [5]
Now that it’s all setup you can run the tailwindcss command. You will get an
output.css with base tailwind plus any of the classes that you used.
tailwindcss -i ./input.css -o ./output.css --watch
References:
[1]: #installation
[2]: #setup
[3]: #using-tailwind-with-jinja-templates
[4]: #setting-up-the-base-styles
[5]: #compiling
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Dang Mariah, killing it with continuous learning perspective.
Note
This post is a thought [1]. It’s a short note that I make
about someone else’s content online #thoughts
References:
[1]: /thoughts/
A Case For Tailwindcss
I was watching @theprimeagen recently and I think he sold me on using
tailwindcss. The thing about tailwind is that it is not a big component
library, it’s a set of css classes mapped to a few (usually one) style.
All css classes are shitty, so you might as well use someone else’s shitty
css classes on all your projects rather than thinking you’re being smart with a
new set of classes that you will hate in 6 months when you come back to the
project. roughly quoted from memory of @theprimeagen
It’s tiny # [1]
So unlike big component libraries like tailwind, it comes with a cli that that
it uses to create the final css file. It is able to treeshake out all the
tailwind classes that you are not using and only ship the ones that you are
using.
It’s hard to clash # [2]
Since the classes are so small and single purpose it’s hard to end up with
something like .card in two places that mean different things causing you to
duplicate most of that css anyways so that the whole design doesn...
External Link
X (formerly Twitter) · twitter.com [1]
Kinda mindblown that this is even possible. This is so far outside of my current thinking that i didn’t even think of an elegant way to implement semantic search accross images and text at the same time. I know it happens at Google, but I envision that as still text search accross tags and meta data about the image.
Based on the number of responses CLIP is the thing that does this.
Note
This post is a thought [2]. It’s a short note that I make
about someone else’s content online #thoughts
References:
[1]: https://twitter.com/simonw/status/1700528222382027039
[2]: /thoughts/
I came across textual-web [1] from Textualize [2], and it’s packed with great features and ideas.
Run TUIs and terminals in your browser
References:
[1]: https://github.com/Textualize/textual-web
[2]: https://github.com/Textualize
GitHub - aca/emmet-ls: Emmet support based on LSP.
Emmet support based on LSP. Contribute to aca/emmet-ls development by creating an account on GitHub.
GitHub · github.com [1]
This is the greatest nvim emmet plugin I have tried. In the past I had tried the vim plugin a few times and just could not get a good flow with the keybindings and found it confusing for my occasional use. emmet-ls just uses lsp-completion, so its the same flow as other completions.
You can try it out by installing with :Mason
config # [2]
local lspconfig = require('lspconfig')
local configs = require('lspconfig/configs')
local capabilities = vim.lsp.protocol.make_client_capabilities()
capabilities.textDocument.completion.completionItem.snippetSupport = true
lspconfig.emmet_ls.setup({
-- on_attach = on_attach,
capabilities = capabilities,
filetypes = { "css", "eruby", "html", "javascript", "javascriptreact", "less", "sass", "scss", "svelte", "pug", "typescriptreact", "vue" },
init_options = {
html = {
options = {
-- For possible options, see: https://github.com/emmetio/emmet/blob/master/src/config.ts#L79-L267
["bem.enabled"] = true,
},
},
}
})
Note
This post is a thought [3]. It’s a sho...
LLM now provides tools for working with embeddings
LLM is my Python library and command-line tool for working with language models. I just released LLM 0.9 with a new set of features that extend LLM to provide tools …
Simon Willison’s Weblog · simonwillison.net [1]
Simon’s llm cli is getting quite interesting. I really want to run some clustering on my website content.
Note
This post is a thought [2]. It’s a short note that I make
about someone else’s content online #thoughts
References:
[1]: https://simonwillison.net/2023/Sep/4/llm-embeddings/
[2]: /thoughts/
Formatter
How to use the Biome formatter.
Biome · biomejs.dev [1]
Tried out biome today and it worked better than prettier on jinja templates, I might adopt this over prettier.
Note
This post is a thought [2]. It’s a short note that I make
about someone else’s content online #thoughts
References:
[1]: https://biomejs.dev/formatter/
[2]: /thoughts/
Make the easy things easy
It’s so easy to get out of rhythm, get busy, and drop the ball on some things
that you really want to do or should do. This blog is a good example. I took
some time off for some family reasons, but have taken a long time to get back
to it simply because I am out of rhythm. As I am trying to get back into the
rhythm there is some tooling that I have set up for it that I completely forgot
about that feel good to use again.
Repetitive Tasks # [1]
Simple Repetitive Tasks that I have to do often can just feel soul crushing,
and one main thing that got me interested in programming.
AI tools are becoming more and more useful at solving these problems. For
instance code generation tools like co-pilot or codeium are really good at
boilerplate and pattern repetition. Things that used to be a few vim macros is
now just banging on tab.
I often look for setting up templates or some sort of snippet to replace a big
chunk of boilerplate that I know I will need over and over.
timebox # [2]
Do...