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Apr 2026 | 22 posts

The htmx-request class is added to htmx-target elements. You can target this css selector to create loading state throbbers.

By default the target element will the self, but you can use the typical htmx css selector to select which element will recieve the htmx-request class while the request is running.

The only way to override the name of the class is through config.

Three ways to support updating other content. Fantastic article walking through the different ways to update other parts of the screen using htmx.

In htmx there is no 2 way data binding, the dom is your state, and if you have elements derived from the same data on the screen in different places you need to think about how to keep them in sync.

sqlite-utils is primarily a cli tool for sqlite operations such as enabling full text search, and executing searches, but it also has a nice python api that is exposed and pretty straightforward to use.

from sqlite_utils import Database db = Database("database.db") db["post"].enable_fts(["title", "message", "tags]) db["post"].search("water")

This returns a generator object that you can iterate over the row objects with.

> A command-line utility for taking automated screenshots of websites

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).

pip install shot-scraper # Now install the browser it needs: shot-scraper install shot-scraper waylonwalker.com shot-scraper https://datasette.io/ shot-scraper https://datasette.io/ -h 1280 -w 1920 shot-scraper https://datasette.io/ -h 480 -w 720 shot-scraper shot --selector '#posts' https://thoughts.waylonwalker.com/post/89

Note shot-scraper https://datasette.io/ 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.