GitHub - simonw/datasette-render-markdown: Datasette plugin for rendering Markdown
Datasette plugin for rendering Markdown. Contribute to simonw/datasette-render-markdown development by creating an account on GitHub.
GitHub · github.com [1]
datasette really does everything doesn’t it!
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References:
[1]: https://github.com/simonw/datasette-render-markdown
[2]: /thoughts/
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GitHub - simonw/shot-scraper: A command-line utility for taking automated screenshots of websites
A command-line utility for taking automated screenshots of websites - simonw/shot-scraper
GitHub · github.com [1]
> 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.
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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/si...
shot-scraper: automated screenshots for documentation, built on Playwright
shot-scraper is a new tool that I’ve built to help automate the process of keeping screenshots up-to-date in my documentation. It also doubles as a scraping tool—hence the name—which I …
Simon Willison’s Weblog · simonwillison.net [1]
An interesting way to build automatically annotaatd docs with arrows pointing to elements on a webpage.
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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/2022/Mar/10/shot-scraper/#a-complex-example
[2]: /thoughts/
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I’d never given this much thought, but there are so many guides that are complete guides for beginner workflows, but once you get beyond beginner there is likely no manual for what you are trying to do in programming. There is no guide that will tell you the best way to get your companies salesforce data, alongside of the ERP data and present it to the users who need to know in a way that compels them to make the right decisions. You are going to have to build this out for yourself by piecing together knowledge about each subject.
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This post is a thought [1]. It’s a short note that I make
about someone else’s content online #thoughts
References:
[1]: /thoughts/
HTML Over The Wire | Hotwire
Hotwire is an alternative approach to building modern web applications without using much JavaScript by sending HTML instead of JSON over the wire.
hotwired.dev [1]
An alternative approach to building modern web withhout heavy js and json, but instead html [2] over the wire, keeping the logic in the backend of rails.
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This post is a thought [3]. It’s a short note that I make
about someone else’s content online #thoughts
References:
[1]: https://hotwired.dev/
[2]: /html/
[3]: /thoughts/
How do I post form data using Curl?
ReqBin is the most popular online API testing tool for REST, SOAP and HTTP APIs.
ReqBin · reqbin.com [1]
How to pass form data with curl, give it the d.
curl -X POST https://reqbin.com/echo/post/form
-H "Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded"
-d "param1=value1¶m2=value2"
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This post is a thought [2]. It’s a short note that I make
about someone else’s content online #thoughts
References:
[1]: https://reqbin.com/req/c-sma2qrvp/curl-post-form-example
[2]: /thoughts/
I’m really excited about SHARK-Studio [1], an amazing project by nod-ai [2]. It’s worth exploring!
SHARK Studio – Web UI for SHARK+IREE High Performance Machine Learning Distribution
References:
[1]: https://github.com/nod-ai/SHARK-Studio
[2]: https://github.com/nod-ai
The work on AMD-SHARK-Studio [1] by nod-ai [2].
AMD-SHARK Studio – Web UI for SHARK+IREE High Performance Machine Learning Distribution
References:
[1]: https://github.com/nod-ai/AMD-SHARK-Studio
[2]: https://github.com/nod-ai
Vue.js
Vue.js - The Progressive JavaScript Framework
vuejs.org [1]
A super handy reference to the vuejs lifecycle.
[2]
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about someone else’s content online #thoughts
References:
[1]: https://vuejs.org/guide/essentials/lifecycle.html#lifecycle-diagram
[2]: https://vuejs.org/assets/lifecycle.16e4c08e.png
[3]: /thoughts/
How to Use HTML to Open a Link in a New Tab
Tabs are great, aren't they? They allow the multitasker in all of us to juggle a bunch of online tasks at the same time. Tabs are so common now that, when you click on a link, it's likely it'll ope...
freeCodeCamp.org · freecodecamp.org [1]
Most of the time when creating links in html [2] you want to maintain the default behavior, as this is what users are going to expect, but sometimes your site behaves such that it does not fit, and it does something unexpected anyways. in this case you might want to make the default behavior to open the link in a new tab rather than relying on users to control click.
Use this with restraint as this can make your site feel janky and do things that do not feel natural to the web.
<p>Check out <a href="https://www.freecodecamp.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">freeCodeCamp</a>.</p>
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This post is a thought [3]. It’s a short note that I make
about someone else’s content online #thoughts
References:
[1]: https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-to-use-html-to-open-link-in-new-tab/
[2]: /html/
[3]: /thoughts/
Create Models with a Many-to-Many Link - SQLModel
SQLModel, SQL databases in Python, designed for simplicity, compatibility, and robustness.
sqlmodel.tiangolo.com [1]
Creating many to many relationships with sqlmodel requires a LinkTable Model. The link model will keep track of the linked id’s between each of the models.
[2]
from typing import List, Optional
from sqlmodel import Field, Relationship, Session, SQLModel, create_engine
class HeroTeamLink(SQLModel, table=True):
team_id: Optional[int] = Field(
default=None, foreign_key="team.id", primary_key=True
)
hero_id: Optional[int] = Field(
default=None, foreign_key="hero.id", primary_key=True
)
class Team(SQLModel, table=True):
id: Optional[int] = Field(default=None, primary_key=True)
name: str = Field(index=True)
headquarters: str
heroes: List["Hero"] = Relationship(back_populates="teams", link_model=HeroTeamLink)
class Hero(SQLModel, table=True):
id: Optional[int] = Field(default=None, primary_key=True)
name: str = Field(index=True)
secret_name: str
age: Optional[int] = Field(default=None, index=True)
teams: List[Team] = Relationship(back_populates="heroes", link_model=HeroTeamLink)
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stackoverflow.com [1]
I went down the route of leveraging the json-enc extention in htmx [2], but later realized that this completely breaks browsers/users who do not wish to use javascript. While most of the web would feel quite broken with javascript disabled, I don’t want to contribute to that without good reason.
Taking a second look into this issue, rather than using json-enc, and using as_form to get form data into a model keeps the nice DX fo everything being a pydantic model, but the site still works without js. with js htmx kicks in, you get a spa like experience by loading partials onto the page, and without, you just get a full page reload.
the implementation # [3]
copied from https://stackoverflow.com/questions/60127234/how-to-use-a-pydantic-model-with-form-data-in-fastapi
import inspect
from typing import Type
from fastapi import Form
from pydantic import BaseModel
from pydantic.fields import ModelField
def as_form(cls: Type[BaseModel]):
new_parameters = []
for field_name, model_field in cls.__fields__.items():
model_field: ModelField # type: ignore
new_parameters.append(
inspect.Parameter(
model_field.alias,
inspect.Parameter.POSITION...
GitHub - chebykinn/sedmario: NES Super Mario Bros level 1 written in pure sed!
NES Super Mario Bros level 1 written in pure sed! Contribute to chebykinn/sedmario development by creating an account on GitHub.
GitHub · github.com [1]
🤯 NES Super Mario Bros level 1 written in pure sed, this is madmess.
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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/chebykinn/sedmario
[2]: /thoughts/
Formatting on save
Use Neovim as a language server to inject LSP diagnostics, code actions, and more via Lua. - jose-elias-alvarez/null-ls.nvim
GitHub · github.com [1]
neovim stopped formatting on save for me awhile ago and I have just been dealing with it. looks like there may have been an api change, idk.
I had to make this update.4
- vim.lsp.buf.format()
+ vim.lsp.buf.format({async=false})
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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/jose-elias-alvarez/null-ls.nvim/wiki/Formatting-on-save#code
[2]: /thoughts/
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How to enable debug mode in pywebview.
import webview
webview.create_window('Woah dude!', 'https://pywebview.flowrl.com/hello')
webview.start(debug=True)
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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://pywebview.flowrl.com/guide/debugging.html
[2]: /thoughts/
`ValueError: Constraint must have a name` in alembic 1.10.0 · Issue #1195 · sqlalchemy/alembic
Describe the bug ValueError: Constraint must have a name in alembic 1.10.0. Expected behavior Migration succeeds. To Reproduce Please try to provide a Minimal, Complete, and Verifiable example, wit...
GitHub · github.com [1]
After a nasty time with alembic upgrades, thoughts is about to get a new users table. This may have came from incorrectly setting up alembic for sqlite from the start, but I was able to fix the issue with this GitHub issue.
alembic sqlite ValueError: Constraint must have a name
The change I needed to make to get my migration to run.
+ batch_op.create_foreign_key('fk_post_author_id_user', 'user', ['author_id'], ['id'])
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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/sqlalchemy/alembic/issues/1195
[2]: /thoughts/
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Since using alembic I have been just running out a new revision checking its content and deleting it if its empty, today I learned there is an alembic check command to check for operations that need to be created.
❯ alembic check
INFO [alembic.runtime.migration] Context impl SQLiteImpl.
INFO [alembic.runtime.migration] Will assume non-transactional DDL.
No new upgrade operations detected.
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This post is a thought [1]. It’s a short note that I make
about someone else’s content online #thoughts
References:
[1]: /thoughts/
API — Jinja Documentation (3.1.x)
jinja.palletsprojects.com [1]
🤯 jinja comes with a loader to pre-compile templates! Defihnitely need to look at this for markata, as jinja is till one of the biggest hot spots.
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This post is a thought [2]. It’s a short note that I make
about someone else’s content online #thoughts
References:
[1]: https://jinja.palletsprojects.com/en/3.0.x/api/#jinja2.Environment.compile_templates
[2]: /thoughts/
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I’ve definitely been missing out on setting up a proper jinja loader on a few projects, I need to lean on this a bit more.
class jinja2.FileSystemLoader(searchpath, encoding='utf-8', followlinks=False):
'''
Load templates from a directory in the file system.
'''
The path can be relative or absolute. Relative paths are relative to the current working directory.
loader = FileSystemLoader("templates")
# A list of paths can be given. The directories will be searched in order, stopping at the first matching template.
loader = FileSystemLoader(["/override/templates", "/default/templates"])
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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://jinja.palletsprojects.com/en/3.0.x/api/#jinja2.FileSystemLoader
[2]: /thoughts/
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Nice intro into tailwind, I definitely started grasping some of the concepts after watching Brad.
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This post is a thought [1]. It’s a short note that I make
about someone else’s content online #thoughts
References:
[1]: /thoughts/