Today I Learned

ollama is the easiest to get going local llm tool that I have tried, and seems to be crazy fast. It feels faster than chat gpt, which has not been the experience I have had previously with running llm’s on my hardware.

Check out Boeing and their project config-file-validator.

Cross Platform tool to validate configuration files

If you’re into interesting projects, don’t miss out on NeoTweet, created by ChristianChiarulli.

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sse-FastAPI.">starlette provides server sent events for startlette and FastApi. I’m evaluating for use with htmx.

Controlling overflow with tailwindcss

Default scrollbars on a dark theme website are just the ugliest thing. This page covers all the pseudo selectors needed to style the scrollbar.

Wincent (Greg Hurrel) has a pretty solid and fast zshrc. I recently grabbed his completion section and it seems to be working better than whatever I had.

zsh completion snippet

All the hover, select, autofil, focus combinations have left me confused on how to consistently get my form elements styled in dark mode

This snippet from CSS tricks has fixed all the different states for me to give me full control.

arel is a “Lightweight browser hot reload for Python ASGI web apps”

I just implemented this on my thoughts website using fastapi, and it’s incredibly fast and lightweight. There just two lines of js that make a web socket connection back to the backend that watches for changes.

When in development mode, this snippet gets injected directly on the page and does a refresh when arel detects a change.

import os import arel from fastapi import FastAPI, Request from fastapi.templating import Jinja2Templates app = FastAPI() templates = Jinja2Templates("templates") if _debug := os.getenv("DEBUG"): hot_reload = arel.HotReload(paths=[arel.Path(".")]) app.add_websocket_route("/hot-reload", route=hot_reload, name="hot-reload") app.add_event_handler("startup", hot_reload.startup) app.add_event_handler("shutdown", hot_reload.shutdown) templates.env.globals["DEBUG"] = _debug templates.env.globals["hot_reload"] = hot_reload @app.get("/") def index(request: Request): return templates.TemplateResponse("index.html", context={"request": request}) # run: # DEBUG=true uvicorn main:app --reload

I just discovered arel for hot reloading python applications when content changes from this snippet that implements it for fatapi.

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I need to learn regex capture groups better. This is so dang powerful. I really like the \v that bob uses here, it really does cut down on the terseness of all the special characters.

I wanted to replace all occurrences of:

name,[email protected],0,171,,2023-09-21

With:

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HATEOAS gonna hate. More and more htmx seems like the js library for backend devs. So rather than making 55 rest calls here, just make an endpoint that does what you want it to do with one, or a few requests.

Ben Johnson was on the Changelog a few years back covering his work on litestream, and talks about why he chose to go open source, but not open contribution.

You should have a good reason to move off of sqlite.

jpillora/installer is the install script generator I have been looking for. It downloads binaries for your machine from GitHub releases and unzips them for you. It grabs the latest release, so you can easily update them. I have tried scripting these installs in the past and struggled to consistently get the latest version for every package and unpack it correctly.

Also these pre-compiled binaries install rediculously fast compared to building them from source.

Check out some example links.

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I wanted to host some static files through fastapi. Typical use cases for this might be some static web content like html/css/js. It could also be images or some data that doesn’t need dynamically rendered.

The docs cover how to host static files, and give this solution that is built into fastapi.

https://fastapi.tiangolo.com/tutorial/static-files/

from fastapi import FastAPI from fastapi.staticfiles import StaticFiles app = FastAPI() app.mount("/static",...