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.
References:
[1]: https://fly.io/blog/litefs-cloud/
Publishing rhythm
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
References:
[1]: https://github.com/jpillora/installer
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
References:
[1]: https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/podman-run-pods-systemd-services
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 #
npm is used to install the cli that you will need to configure and compile tailwindcss.
npm install -g tailwindcss-cli
Setup #
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 #
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 #
I like to use the @tailwind base;, to do this I set up an input.css file.
@tailwind base;
@tailwind components;
@tailwind utilities;
Compiling #
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
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Dang Mariah, killing it with continuous learning perspective.
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...
Simon Willison (@simonw) on X
Anyone got a lead on a good embedding model that can embed both images and text into the same space, so you can search for "dog" and get back images most likely to contain a dog?
It looks like Vis…
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.
References:
[1]: https://twitter.com/simonw/status/1700528222382027039
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,
},
},
}
})
References:
[1]: https://github.com/aca/emme...
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.
References:
[1]: https://simonwillison.net/2023/Sep/4/llm-embeddings/
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.
References:
[1]: https://biomejs.dev/formatter/
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...
Check out aboutfeeds [1] by genmon [2]. It’s a well-crafted project with great potential.
Web feeds/RSS “getting started” guide for new users.
References:
[1]: https://github.com/genmon/aboutfeeds
[2]: https://github.com/genmon