Weeknotes 2023-12-11
god: i have made a Single page webapp
angels: you fucked up a perfectly good website is what you did. look at it. it’s got dependency injections.
--Eric Meyer
Normal "omg there's only so much time left in the year and we're all sick" work week. Speaking of sick: Last week I caught the latest COVID variant, but what a letdown! It seems like COVID's lost its edge, turning into a mundane, almost commercialized version of its former fearsome self. It's like everyone's getting it these days – hardly the exclusive experience it used to be!
The sync renditions command for django-cast is done -> new release. Upgrading my projects to Django 5.0 and Wagtail 5.2.2 went smoothly. And there's a new version of ktpncook that fixes some minor issues. Nice progress, but my current mood is more like:
Articles
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Geeks, MOPs, and sociopaths in subculture evolution
How could I have missed this one? This is great stuff.
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Long context prompting for Claude 2.1
Ok, this thing about adding just one sentence to the prompt making that much of a difference is just really wild
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Move fast and break things revisited - good article
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Just to be aware of the options..
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Ext4 data corruption in stable kernels
Uh oh, make sure your servers don't get updated automatically 😱
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I had some use cases in the meantime and it's really cool, yep
Software
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FastUI - is a new way to build web application user interfaces defined by declarative Python code
react via pyscript?
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🥳
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And it's available as open source 😎
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Have to do something about this, meh
Videos
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Perfect answer to: Where do you see yourself in 5 years?
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Sierra Hull - Mad World (Tears For Fears) - DelFest - Cumberland, MD - 5/28/22
Cheesy song but the mandolin solo is superb!
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Jeremy Keith – Of Time And The Web – border:none 2023
Easy to forget how much progress we made, yep
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Nice summary video!
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Tobias Baldauf – [mɑːkt] – border:none 2023
Also interesting. Personally I often think I'm a bit too much into self-reflection and should just do more and think less, but maybe I should reflect a bit more on that (oh no).
Podcasts
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Revision 595: „HTML over the Wire“ und Unpoly Working Draft
I'm more team htmx, but unpoly seems to be really interesting, too
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mit Joscha Bach (Alternativlos) | Ok (and it's called naive bayes!)