Posts tagged: thought

Bob Belderbos (@bbelderbos) on X Forget Python for a sec, here's how Vim helped me out today … 💪 📈 Ever felt like you needed a quick string replacement without diving into a script? Here's a Vim trick I just used … I w… X (formerly Twitter) · twitter.com [1] 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: name,[email protected] Easy to do with Python, but what about a bit of > regex in Vim? :%s/\v([^,]+,[^,]+),.*/\1/ References: [1]: https://twitter.com/bbelderbos/status/1709525676154368055

teej dv 🔭 (@teej_dv) on X Hypermedia fixes this HATEOAS gonna hate X (formerly Twitter) · twitter.com [1] HATEOAS gonna hate. More and more htmx [2] 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. References: [1]: https://twitter.com/teej_dv/status/1708258701008593173 [2]: /htmx/

Open source, not open contribution with Ben Johnson (Changelog Interviews #433) This week we're talking with Ben Johnson. Ben is known for his work on BoltDB, his work in open source, and as a freelance Go developer. Late January when Ben open sourced his newest project Litest... Changelog · changelog.com [1] 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. References: [1]: https://changelog.com/podcast/433

Point-in-time recovery - Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org [1] I just learned that the term PITR means Point In Time Recovery. I have never seen this term, but it is most often referred to in relation to database recoveries. References: [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point-in-time_recovery

- Very inspiring talk, TLDR, you probably don’t need a database server. sqlite will probably be faster, simpler to maintain, and simpler to test your application.

GitHub - benbjohnson/litestream: Streaming replication for SQLite. Streaming replication for SQLite. Contribute to benbjohnson/litestream development by creating an account on GitHub. GitHub · github.com [1] `litestream` is a sick cli tool for steaming replicas of sqlite. It automatically does daily snapshots, and streams all of the writes to the replica live. install # [2] Install is fast using installer, no compilation, just copy the binary and run. curl https://i.wayl.one/benbjohnson/litestream References: [1]: https://github.com/benbjohnson/litestream [2]: #install

Why I Built Litestream - Litestream Despite an exponential increase in computing power, our applications require more machines than ever because of architectural decisions made 25 years ago. You can eliminate much of your complexity ... litestream.io [1] As applications scale to the edge, to put compute as close to the user as possible, database queries back to the master node get slower and slower. Enter sqlite replication, put the database wtih the application code and replicate from master. References: [1]: https://litestream.io/blog/why-i-built-litestream/

I'm All-In on Server-Side SQLite Ben Johnson has joined Fly.io Fly · fly.io [1] SQLite is the next big database trend. with more horizontal scaling, close to user read heavy applications, having your database in the same application stack makes a lot of sense. Tools like litestream are going to enable global distribution in an impressive way. References: [1]: https://fly.io/blog/all-in-on-sqlite-litestream/

LiteFS Cloud: Distributed SQLite with Managed Backups Documentation and guides from the team at Fly.io. Fly · fly.io [1] Fly.io’s solution to sqlite managed backups.I definitely want to look into this a bit, but moreso the tech under the hook litestream. References: [1]: https://fly.io/blog/litefs-cloud/

GitHub - jpillora/installer: One-liner for installing binaries from Github releases One-liner for installing binaries from Github releases - jpillora/installer GitHub · github.com [1] This is a sick looking bash script generator for installing binaries off of github releases. it reccomends curl into bash, but you could curl into install.sh and toss that in your dotfiles repo or wherever. Install installer with installer curl -s https://i.jpillora.com/installer | bash References: [1]: https://github.com/jpillora/installer

How to run pods as systemd services with Podman Podman is well known for its seamless integration into modern Linux systems, and supporting systemd is a cornerstone in these efforts. Linux commonly uses th... redhat.com [1] podman comes with a nice command for generating systemd service files (units). $ podman pod create --name=my-pod 635bcc5bb5aa0a45af4c2f5a508ebd6a02b93e69324197a06d02a12873b6d1f7 $ podman create --pod=my-pod --name=container-a -t centos top c04be9c4ac1c93473499571f3c2ad74deb3e0c14f4f00e89c7be3643368daf0e $ podman create --pod=my-pod --name=container-b -t centos top b42314b2deff99f5877e76058ac315b97cfb8dc40ed02f9b1b87f21a0cf2fbff $ cd $HOME/.config/systemd/user $ podman generate systemd --new --files --name my-pod /home/vrothberg/.config/systemd/user/pod-my-pod.service /home/vrothberg/.config/systemd/user/container-container-b.service /home/vrothberg/.config/systemd/user/container-container-a.service References: [1]: https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/podman-run-pods-systemd-services

Pagefind Pagefind is a fully static search library that aims to perform well on large sites, while using as little of your users’ bandwidth as possible, and without hosting any infrastructure. Pagefind · pagefind.app [1] Pagefind is absolutely insane. I’ve tried a number of static site searches, and found them all hard to get get going, clunky and not the best experience as a user or developer. I setup pagefind in about 2 minutes on my site where it found and indexed 833 pages in 2 minutes. The only downside I see so far is that it is a lot of bandwidth to the user. On simulated slow 3G you can definitly feel it, but not terrible. Anything slower and its going to start feeling frustrating. edit: I have actually fully deployed it on waylonwalker.com, and its fast! create the index npx -y pagefind --site public --serve Then I put this on a page, it looks really nice on a white background, but would need some work to drop into a dark theme. <link href="/pagefind/pagefind-ui.css" rel="stylesheet"> <script src="/pagefind/pagefind-ui.js"></script> <div id="search"></div> <script> window.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', (event) => { new PagefindUI({ element: "#search", s...

- Dang Mariah, killing it with continuous learning perspective.

Simon Willison (@simonw) on X Anyone got a lead on a good embedding model that can embed both images and text into the same space, so you can search for "dog" and get back images most likely to contain a dog? It looks like Vis… X (formerly Twitter) · twitter.com [1] Kinda mindblown that this is even possible. This is so far outside of my current thinking that i didn’t even think of an elegant way to implement semantic search accross images and text at the same time. I know it happens at Google, but I envision that as still text search accross tags and meta data about the image. Based on the number of responses CLIP is the thing that does this. References: [1]: https://twitter.com/simonw/status/1700528222382027039

GitHub - aca/emmet-ls: Emmet support based on LSP. Emmet support based on LSP. Contribute to aca/emmet-ls development by creating an account on GitHub. GitHub · github.com [1] This is the greatest nvim emmet plugin I have tried. In the past I had tried the vim plugin a few times and just could not get a good flow with the keybindings and found it confusing for my occasional use. emmet-ls just uses lsp-completion, so its the same flow as other completions. You can try it out by installing with :Mason config # [2] local lspconfig = require('lspconfig') local configs = require('lspconfig/configs') local capabilities = vim.lsp.protocol.make_client_capabilities() capabilities.textDocument.completion.completionItem.snippetSupport = true lspconfig.emmet_ls.setup({ -- on_attach = on_attach, capabilities = capabilities, filetypes = { "css", "eruby", "html", "javascript", "javascriptreact", "less", "sass", "scss", "svelte", "pug", "typescriptreact", "vue" }, init_options = { html = { options = { -- For possible options, see: https://github.com/emmetio/emmet/blob/master/src/config.ts#L79-L267 ["bem.enabled"] = true, }, }, } }) References: [1]: https://github.com/aca/emme...

LLM now provides tools for working with embeddings LLM is my Python library and command-line tool for working with language models. I just released LLM 0.9 with a new set of features that extend LLM to provide tools … Simon Willison’s Weblog · simonwillison.net [1] Simon’s llm cli is getting quite interesting. I really want to run some clustering on my website content. References: [1]: https://simonwillison.net/2023/Sep/4/llm-embeddings/

Formatter How to use the Biome formatter. Biome · biomejs.dev [1] Tried out biome today and it worked better than prettier on jinja templates, I might adopt this over prettier. References: [1]: https://biomejs.dev/formatter/

htmx ~ The disable-element Extension htmx gives you access to AJAX, CSS Transitions, WebSockets and Server Sent Events directly in HTML, using attributes, so you can build modern user interfaces with the simplicity and power of hypert... v1.htmx.org [1] An extension to disable elements during flight of an htmx [2] request, Looks super useful for things like a create or delete button where the server would end up with an error if you double delete or double create. This eliminates an error path that the user might see under normal use of the ui. References: [1]: https://v1.htmx.org/extensions/disable-element/ [2]: /htmx/

htmx ~ hx-indicator Attribute The hx-indicator attribute in htmx allows you to specify the element that will have the `htmx-request` class added to it for the duration of the request. This can be used to show spinners or progre... htmx.org [1] 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 [2] 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. References: [1]: https://htmx.org/attributes/hx-indicator/ [2]: /htmx/

- Prime concisely made sense of why htmx is so awesome compared to what has become modern reactive web dev in 2 minutes. I had never thought of it this way and it’s incredible. One thing I have comepletely missed out on with my use of htmx is setting the disabled state while the server is working, what a genius move! References: [1]: /htmx/