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I recently discovered elia by darrenburns, and it’s truly impressive.

A snappy, keyboard-centric terminal user interface for interacting with large language models. Chat with ChatGPT, Claude, Llama 3, Phi 3, Mistral, Gemma and more.

AUR.">paru is an aur helper that allows you to use a package manager to install packages from the aur.

The Aur is a set of community managed packages that can be installed on arch based distros.

paru just makes it easy, no clone and run makepkg. You can do everything paru can do using the built in pacman installer.

You will need to manually instal pacman from the aur in order to get started.

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I took a break

Life comes in waves, and sometimes you need to set down some of your projects to focus on others. For the first part of 2023 I’ve really had a lot of family stuff to focus on, we also are pretty new homeowners and are still trying to get our new to us house cleaned up and modernized.

You can see in my growing list of repos that I have poked around on quite a few side projects over the past few months. This has been quite relaxng to me, mostly things that I use to learn from, but also a lot that are tools and things I use that bring me joy.

I haven’t wrote about it at all yet, but I have really been starting to lean into pydantic on all of these side projects. I have really been enjoying the type system. A good friend

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Pydantic and singledispatch

I was reading about pydantic-singledispatch from Giddeon’s blog and found it very intersting. I’m getting ready to implement pydantic on my static site generator markata, and I think there are so uses for this idea, so I want to try it out.

Let’s set up some pydantic settings. We will need separate Models for each environment that we want to support for this to work. The whole idea is to use functools.singledispatch and type hints to provide unique execution for each environment. We might want something like a path_prefix in prod for environments like GithubPages that deploy to /<name-of-repo> while keeping the root at / in dev.

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