Posts tagged: thought

markdown it py running in rust claims to be 20x faster. I’ll definitely look into this if markdown it py is ever a bottleneck in my performance. At first glance it appears that plugins are written in rust not python, and there is no admonition plugin, so I’ll keep my eye on it for now, but I can’t use it.

diskcache has a peekitem method that allows you to lookup the expire_time of a cached item without changing it. I recently used this to implement debounce for fastapi background tasks with multiple workers running. since all the workers I care about are on the same machine, but running in different processes diskcache was a great option. All workers have access to the same disk, but not the same variables in memory.

Great intro into kustomize. This helped me get started with kustomize.

Huge list of micro controllers tried and used in keeb builds.

Not gonna lie, kinda pumped about this one. I manually did one, jotted down the coordinates, opened the gcode in vim, added markers between setup/teardown and print. then added the wipe, the copy pasted the print+wipe section a bunch of times.

My printer tends to run a bit better on single prints than printing a dozen at once as it has less issues with retract start and stop.

another great use and demo of the one eyed fighting kirby

Damn, supply chain vector attacks are wild. Random guy in Primes stream was getting $40k offers to buy their open source project while in university and they have never made anything from it. What a social engineering attack this is. It would be so easy to make it look like a good deal and that the package was going to a good new owner who has real resources to maintain it.

This is almost exactly what I have been thinking about building for quite awhile. I am going to give it a good try with a few $$ in filiment some cheap switches a microcontroller and go pretty bare bones, maybe open wiring on the bottom.

Absolutely sick post. This is top tier animated blog posts. This posts demos how different queuing systems work with fantastic interactive demos.

Supply chain attacks are so big these days engineers definitely need to take these into consideration. It’s wild that such a simple attack vector hit some really big applications. This particular vector is so easy to avoid. You are already hosting web content, just curl the file and self host the script, then you own it. That eliminates this attack vector all together, but doesn’t completely remove supply chain attacks, the js file can still hit external apis internally.

What I see has happened in this case is that the owner of the domain polyfill.io changed. so anyone who directly linked to them got a malware injected script used.

I can only imagine the number of applicatons that are not even being maintained anymore getting hit by this. TLDR, if you are taking something to production, where you are goind to deploy it and let it run, host the js yourself. these cdns are great for prototyping, but tread with caution.

Well spoken prime. Co-pilot is a fantastic tool for templating, boilerplate, or just getting something done that is just outside your knowledge or care to know. Bit if you really want to learn something, you need to use your hands. Reading the solution only gives you the happy path. This does not give you that path that most people would take, and completely misses debugging. If you are very new and learning it’s unlikely that you can write large blocks of code without running a test or a script to try it. Taking these shortcuts will hinder your ability to do it yourself.

If I were to devils advocate here, copilot is still not the greatest at the big picture, you still have to drive, and tell it I want to use python, fastapi, I want to load settings from .env. taking these shortcuts can help you move quick and get the big picture. This is especially helpful for someone who might know one language or framework and is trying a different one, but at some point you need to do...

pyannotate is a tool that uses runtime types to suggest type annotations to use. Test runners such as pytest can be used to generate the types.

Interesting, linux supports 32 programmable buttons, special buttons that do nothing that hotkey programs like xbindkeys can pick up and run things, seems like it would be very intersting to use on a macro pad. You could easily do dynamic and complex tasks without clashing that keybinding with something else.

I’m going to look into this for my next obs setup. No matter what I try to do with the hyper key it always tends to do odd things depending on the application I am in. typically its tmux, and it starts trying to do something I don’t want it to.

Create virtual environments for any Python version, without needing Python installed.

Love how Daniel just brushed off the number of netflix tv installs as small beans for curl installs. overall great episode on open source, owning a major component to technology with such a small team.

Great keyboard design guide for all the different mounting options that are normal for keyboards with pros and cons of each.

Super cool idea, kinda breaking the rules by talking about it here, but Its a cool idea to throw out posts to the core audience. Apparently its been around for quite while Dave started in 2018.

A linter for linting kubernetes manifests and help charts.

Full reference to all of the qmk keycode list. Handy reference to refer to all of the keycodes that qmk has.

Fantastic guide to building handwried keyboards. I used this guide to build my first hand-wired macro pad.