Posts tagged: thought

[1] They had split ergo boards back in 1983??? WTF who the heck keeps these row stagger boards going. This board looks like endgame material, If this thing was more normal, it’d kill a whole section of the ergo mechanical keyboard industry for good reason. References: [1]: /static/https://kbd.news/NEC-M-System-1729.html

- This keyboard layout looks weird af the mix of column staggar and row stagger is wild. Not sure if its genius or an abomination. That solenoid though is absolutely wild though, I kinda want one TBH. and the clear plate with the diodes laid out on it in a herringbone pattern is a very nice touch.

External Link stackoverflow.com [1] today I learned that there is an accessibility feature in chrome that allows you to place a text cursor anywhere on the page. I had accidentally done this and it drove me mad that it was there. References: [1]: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/75886276/text-cursor-bug-in-my-chrome-browser-that-causes-the-blinking-cursor-to-appear-e

- Hard to argue this take, happy to see that its at the top. With it being such an old language its amazing that it still holds this position, and not surprising that it has warts, and thing that have turn users off from wanting anything to do with it. timestamped in the link

Command Line Interface Guidelines An open-source guide to help you write better command-line programs, taking traditional UNIX principles and updating them for the modern day. clig.dev [1] This is a pretty sick set of guidelines to help you write better cli programs, I’m definitely coming back to reading this one more in depth later. References: [1]: https://clig.dev/

External Link fullystacked.net [1] You can explicitly make a script render blocking, nothing will be rendered until this js is ready. <script blocking="render" src="important.js" defer></script> References: [1]: https://fullystacked.net/render-blocking-on-purpose/

Remove Background Web - a Hugging Face Space by Xenova In-browser background removal huggingface.co [1] I’ve long been a user of remove.bg, and I just discovered that you can run this transformer right within your browser with no api limits. References: [1]: https://huggingface.co/spaces/Xenova/remove-background-web

FastHX - FastHX volfpeter.github.io [1] Very interesting approach to htmx [2] and fast api. It uses separate decorators for returning template partials and json that can be stacked to include both options on a single route. The templates are explicitly set in the decorator. Separate decorators are used for full page and partial pages. I don’t see an example of full and partial pages being combined. I think the demo app must be behaving in a spa like fashion where it does not get all of the data when it calls index and index will ask for user-list. Definitely going to keep my eye on this project and ponder on it. from fastapi import FastAPI from fastapi.templating import Jinja2Templates from fasthx import Jinja from pydantic import BaseModel # Pydantic model of the data the example API is using. class User(BaseModel): first_name: str last_name: str # Create the app. app = FastAPI() # Create a FastAPI Jinja2Templates instance and use it to create a # FastHX Jinja instance that will serve as your decorator. jinja = Jinja(Jinja2Templates("templates")) @app.get("/") @jinja.page("index.html") def index() -> None: ... @app.get("/user-list") @jinja.hx("user-list.html") async...

FastHX - FastHX volfpeter.github.io [1] Very interesting approach to htmx [2] and fast api. It uses separate decorators for returning template partials and json that can be stacked to include both options on a single route. The templates are explicitly set in the decorator. Separate decorators are used for full page and partial pages. I don’t see an example of full and partial pages being combined. I think the demo app must be behaving in a spa like fashion where it does not get all of the data when it calls index and index will ask for user-list. Definitely going to keep my eye on this project and ponder on it. from fastapi import FastAPI from fastapi.templating import Jinja2Templates from fasthx import Jinja from pydantic import BaseModel # Pydantic model of the data the example API is using. class User(BaseModel): first_name: str last_name: str # Create the app. app = FastAPI() # Create a FastAPI Jinja2Templates instance and use it to create a # FastHX Jinja instance that will serve as your decorator. jinja = Jinja(Jinja2Templates("templates")) @app.get("/") @jinja.page("index.html") def index() -> None: ... @app.get("/user-list") @jinja.hx("user-list.html") async...

Pinout and Schematic - nice!nano Pinout and schematic for the nice!nano nicekeyboards.com [1] Pinout for nice!nano boards. Note that P0.15 means gpio port 0 pin 15, they can be referenced in zmk when setting column and row pins. #include <dt-bindings/zmk/matrix_transform.h> / { chosen { zmk,kscan = &default_kscan; zmk,matrix_transform = &default_transform; /delete-property/ zephyr,console; /delete-property/ zephyr,shell-uart; }; default_kscan: kscan { compatible = "zmk,kscan-gpio-matrix"; label = "default_kscan"; diode-direction = "col2row"; col-gpios = <&gpio0 31 GPIO_ACTIVE_HIGH> , <&gpio0 29 GPIO_ACTIVE_HIGH> , <&gpio0 2 GPIO_ACTIVE_HIGH> ; row-gpios = <&gpio1 15 (GPIO_ACTIVE_HIGH | GPIO_PULL_DOWN)> , <&gpio1 13 (GPIO_ACTIVE_HIGH | GPIO_PULL_DOWN)> , <&gpio1 11 (GPIO_ACTIVE_HIGH | GPIO_PULL_DOWN)> ; }; default_transform: matrix_transform { compatible = "zmk,matrix-transform"; columns = <3>; rows = <3>; map = < RC(0,0) RC(0,1) RC(0,2) RC(1,0) RC(1,1) RC(1,2) RC(2,0) RC(2,1) RC(2,2) >; }; }; References: [1]: https://nicekeyboards.com/docs/nice-nano/pinout-schematic/

External Link unix.stackexchange.com [1] today I learned that /dev/pts is a pseudo-tty. It amazes me how much linux is still built around things like hardware terminals. References: [1]: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/93531/what-is-stored-in-dev-pts-files-and-can-we-open-them

GitHub - svenstaro/miniserve: 🌟 For when you really just want to serve some files over HTTP right now! 🌟 For when you really just want to serve some files over HTTP right now! - svenstaro/miniserve GitHub · github.com [1] miniserve is a sweet http server, replacement for python -m http.server. It’s fast, runs off a small binary, but why would I want to use it over something that already exists on most machines, because it includes a bunch of features like qr codes, pretty themes, and uploads. I’ve used python -m http.server many times to transfer files from one machine to another in a pinch, like at a family members house. But what if they have an android, windows, or something not easy to get a python repl running on, you can run miniserve and upload from their device rather than hosting from their device. References: [1]: https://github.com/svenstaro/miniserve

pacman/Tips and tricks - ArchWiki wiki.archlinux.org [1] The arch wiki is always full of good content, and pacman tips and tricks does not disappoint. Today I discovered this command to remove orphaned dependencies on my system. pacman -Qdtq | pacman -Rns - References: [1]: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/pacman/Tips_and_tricks

Inside 22,734 Steam games About a year ago I blogged about games that use curl. In that post I listed a bunch of well-known titles I knew use curl and there was a list of 136 additional games giving credit to curl. Kind of ... daniel.haxx.se · daniel.haxx.se [1] Interesting to see that curl is used in so many places. I often think of things like games being so windows centric and curl being so linux centric I don’t even think of these things crossing paths as much as they do. References: [1]: https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2024/06/20/inside-22734-steam-games/

wcurl is here Users tell us that remembering what curl options to use when they just want to download the contents of a URL is hard. This is one often repeated reason why some users reach for wget instead of cur... daniel.haxx.se · daniel.haxx.se [1] interesting, seems like such a simple way to completely remove the need of a whole other cli. No offense to anyone working on wget, but generally I use it out of lazyness or something wierd is happening and I am looking for a second opinion. Cool to know that wcurl exists and will start shipping with curl. References: [1]: https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2024/07/03/wcurl-is-here/

Email Address Obfuscation Hide email addresses from bots while keeping them visible to visitors. Cloudflare Docs · developers.cloudflare.com [1] I recently started seeing email-decode.min.js show up on my blog posts, and I wondered what the heck ? I didn’t put it there. Turns out that cloudflare put it there from pages to safely serve email addresses for me. inspecting the page without js running we can see that the mailto email is swapped out for email protected. Neat feature. ❯ curl --silent https://waylonwalker.com/diskcache-as-debounce/ | grep email <a class="decoration-pink-500 hover:decoration-pink-300 hover:text-pink-100" href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#a4ccc1c8c8cbe4d3c5ddc8cbcad3c5c8cfc1d68ac7cbc9" rel="me"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="630b060f0f0c2314021a0f0c0d14020f0806114d000c0e">[email&#160;protected]</span></a> <script data-cfasync="false" src="/cdn-cgi/scripts/5c5dd728/cloudflare-static/email-decode.min.js"></script></body> Looking deeper into this article it looks like this feature comes from Scrape Shield and enabling Email Address Obfuscation. References: [1]: https://developers.cloudflare.com/waf/tools/scrape-shield/email-address-obfuscation/

Background Tasks - FastAPI FastAPI framework, high performance, easy to learn, fast to code, ready for production fastapi.tiangolo.com [1] fastapi [2] comes with a concept of background tasks which are functions that can be ran in the background after a function has been ran. This is handy for longer running functions that may take some time and you want to have fast response times. Here is an example from the docs from fastapi import BackgroundTasks, FastAPI app = FastAPI() def write_notification(email: str, message=""): with open("log.txt", mode="w") as email_file: content = f"notification for {email}: {message}" email_file.write(content) @app.post("/send-notification/{email}") async def send_notification(email: str, background_tasks: BackgroundTasks): background_tasks.add_task(write_notification, email, message="some notification") return {"message": "Notification sent in the background"} References: [1]: https://fastapi.tiangolo.com/tutorial/background-tasks/ [2]: /fastapi/

markdown-it-pyrs A Python interface for markdown-it.rs, using Rust for blazingly fast Markdown parsing ⚡️ PyPI · pypi.org [1] 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. References: [1]: https://pypi.org/project/markdown-it-pyrs/

[1] 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 [2] 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. References: [1]: /static/https://grantjenks.com/docs/diskcache/api.html#diskcache.Cache.peekitem [2]: /fastapi/

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