Weeknotes 2024-04-15

"Vendor lock-in"? They wish. All these vendors are locked in here with ME. --Forrest Brazeal

Still working on optimizing fetching stuff from the database for django-cast. Did some music stuff and spent a lot of time outside.

Articles

• Web
  • Why I’m Ready to Party Like It’s 1999…Again | Yep, and since search engines are getting almost unusable these days, maybe it's time to adopt some techniques from the time before there were usable search engines like webrings etc... let's see
  • The creator economy trap: why building on someone else's platform is a dead end | DYI ftw!
  • Front-end development’s identity crisis
• Python
  • How to optimize PostgreSQL queries from Django using pgMustard | pgMustard is great
  • PEP 744 – JIT Compilation | Details about the new JIT-Compiler in Python 3.13
• LLM
  • Building files-to-prompt entirely using Claude 3 Opus
  • Code in Context: How AI Can Help Improve Our Documentation
• CSS
  • An Interactive Guide to CSS Container Queries
  • Testing HTML With Modern CSS
• Long
  • 503 days working full-time on FOSS: lessons learned | from the author of the Pydon't-book below