Ephes Blog

Spent quite some time fiddling around with my phone and Computers because of the iOS 16.1 / macOS 13 releases. Notes stopped syncing with my Macs (which happens with every major release). Reminders synced shared lists across different users and phones (wow, that usually also breaks on new releases), but it stopped syncing with my watch, so I had to take out my phone and look at it during grocery shopping (like an animal). I also tried out the eagerly awaited shared iCloud photo library, and ran into a lot of edge cases/bugs (the image and video counts stopped being accurate for me a while ago, but now they are just going crazy: edited images are converted to  tiff sometimes and then they cannot be uploaded to iCloud anymore and some images just refuse to be added to the shared library, etc pp). Maybe I have just too many notes, reminders, and photos.

Worked a little bit on django-cast to bring its dependencies up to date. There's a Wagtail RFC 71: support for responsive images that maybe makes my wagtail-srcset workaround obsolete. Would be cool if this is no longer needed. Planning to look into this in the next week.

Articles

• A World Without Why? | Achievable aesthetics over unachievable ethics, no?
• Science and Technology links (October 16 2022)
• Welcome to hell, Elon | Interesting social experiment. I'm curious about how this all will play out, but I wouldn't bet on the fediverse winning, sorry.

Twitter

• Dear White People, No one is asking you to apologise for your ancestors. We are asking you to dismantle the systems of oppression they built, that you maintain and benefit from. | Well, fair enough..
• i hate doing acid with other people. bro over here bugging out talmbout “is this really all there is”. can you please shut up i’m trying to hands-free cum
• 3 rules: -no wishing for death -no falling in love -no bring back dead people. I want to use Excel as a database. There are 4 rules.

Weeknotes

• Weeklog for Week 42: October 17 to October 23 | Johannes

Software

• Welcome to the Textual Tutorial! | Really well-done tutorial
• Common Plots | Lots of cool example plots in matplotlib, plotnine, seaborn, altair, and plotly.

Podcasts

• FG098 Philosophie kommunizieren (Forschergeist) | Learned about denxte which is about philosophy and happens to be located in my home town, so it's kind of relevant. 
• WR1418 Gaspreise, Großbritannien, Bank Run (Wirtschaftskunde) | Another great episode
• #815 (S.S. SHIPIT) (Bits und so)

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Managed to attend the Python Herbst Sprint & Hackathon in Düsseldorf and work on a Django template with an integrated minimal deployment included. Shared some ideas with Jens about how to keep projects that were generated from a template up to date when the template changes - Jens started manageprojects to experiment with solutions for this problem.
 

Articles

• Rant in german about the casual incompetence of authorities dealing with computer security stuff | Just the appropriate amount of rage
• I'm having difficulty making new connections | webcomic

Twitter

• My talk "What's new in Python 3.11" from PyCon Japan is already up on YouTube. #pyconjp https://youtu.be/nZr1Wks07vc?t=11268… The slides are here: http://aka.ms/pyconjp-slides (captions are currently auto-generated, so I don't know how accurate they will be. )
• Put together a video on Python type variables, generics and variadic generics (a 3.11 thing). If you're type annotating your code, I'm sure you'll find any of these examples useful. https://youtube.com/watch?v=7Chd5gPHlDg… p.s. sorry it's a bit chaotic I just got off a flight.
• i'm sick from exposing myself to blue light information overload all day but i need to scroll the infinite collective consciousness for five more minutes to find the divine light of truth before i go to bed. and if i don't find it in five minutes i'll need five more
• Me, at the beginning of a PhD: sure art may be embattled by capital's neverending drive to commoditize everything, but it still contains a radical kernel of possibility! Me, at the end: no it doesn't
• This is really useful. I wish there weren't so many necessary steps to get a robust, isolated Python setup working on macOS but the path Chris described here looks very good to me
• To complement @LionHirth 's excellent explainer on the proposal of Germany's gas commission, here is a graphical illustration. Below is the graph I want to get to in the end to make a few points. The thread below builds up to it slowly
• "the subway wizard" david mattingly 1990

Weeknotes

• Weeknotes: DjangoCon, SQLite in Django, datasette-gunicorn | Simon Willison
• Week in Review 2022-10-17 | Luis
• Weeklog for Week 41: October 10 to October 16 | Johannes

Software

• PostgreSQL 15 Released! | Yay 🎊
• devmarks.io: Bookmarking for developers | written in Django
• BundleWrap: Config management with Python
• YunoHost | self hosting stuff
• PePy: Find out how many downloads from PyPI a package gets

Podcasts

• Scaling Postgres Episode 237 Postgres 15 Released, File Systems, Connection Pooling, Secure Connections (Scaling PostgreSQL)
• Wie gehen Sie mit alternativen Fakten um? (Das philosophische Radio) | Really good episode. Really nuanced view on a topic mostly discussed in a oversimplified emotional context.
• Episode #61 Title Bjarne Stroustrup // Creator of C++ (Alphalist Cto Podcast) | Hmm, I would agree about C++ being one of very few languages supporting both low level and high level programming. But why is having seperated languages for different use cases a bad thing? Personally I think paying the price in extra complexity for having one language fit both is just not worth it.
• Episode 70: Democracy in Peril (with Linda Alcoff) (Hotel Bar Sessions) | Good episode

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No time for side projects, only work.

Articles

• "magst du wetter?" 
• Moving From React to htmx | From the top of that orange site

Twitter

• A long thread after a long night: #gas_cost_break
• hi, are you doomscrolling? You might be tempted to stay up late as an act of agency. Try not to revenge procrastinate. You still deserve time to rest and recover.
• Sorry I’m late, but time is a terrible burden I don’t understand
• Ich moechte den gestrigen von @Alex_J_Thiele organisierten Abend an der @BSP_FakLaw fuer einen Erklaerthread nutzen, weil ich glaube, dass er eine innerlinke Debatte, die gerade um die #Gasrechnungsbremse laeuft, sehr gut erhellt: Soziale Versicherung versus Umverteilung.
• Never ceases to surprise me how many crypto guys don't know the definition of basic terms like inflation, money supply, QE/QT, etc. Bitcoin-denominated inflation has been ~250-260% year on year. E.g. cost of living 1 yr ago: $100/day ~ BTC 0.0016 Today: $110/day ~ BTC 0.0058
• They should do a whole album like this.
• Hier geht Einiges durcheinander. 1) Fahrraddiebstahl ist nicht die richtige Analogie. Denn Fahrraddiebstähle sind normale Dinge des alltäglichen Alltags, sie passieren. Es gibt Wahrscheinlichkeiten, der private Markt kann hier leicht ein Versicherungsprodukt anbieten.
• My favorite Rob Zombie story, when he checked a bunch of metal gatekeepers bashing on Baby Metal.

Weeknotes

• Weeklog for Week 40: October 03 to October 09 | Johannes

Software

• htmx release 1.8.1
• New Django website with dark mode

Podcasts

• Was die Gaskommission vorgelegt hat – erklärt von Christian Bayer (Die Wochendämmerung)
• Django Unicorn - Adam Hill (Django Chat)
• #321 – Ray Kurzweil: Singularity, Superintelligence, and Immortality (Lex Fridman Podcast)

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Not much interesting stuff going on besides work.

Articles

• The Lesson to Unlearn | Well, there's at least one mistake I didn't make
• The Illustrated Stable Diffusion | Earned a reputation for "The Illustrated Transformer" - this is good, too
• Software engineering practices
• Reasoning about asyncio.Semaphore

Twitter

• This is a f**king waste of public healthcare money during a pandemic. And it creates tons of electronic waste during an urging #ClimateCrisis. I hope you are proud of yourselves, @MLeyckDieken , @CGMeHealth and @gematik1 !
• perfect status image
• One painting from every year of the 20th century, in chronological order. 1900: Sunbeams by Vilhelm Hammershøi 1/100
• We need a website that explains the arguments for/against the "should you pin your upper bound for dependencies" question. | Upper bounds on dependencies have bitten me first using the django cookiecutter template and then again by being the default in poetry. I don't do this anymore, but it was quite a painful lesson.

Weeknotes

• Luis Weeklog
• Weeknotes: Datasette Cloud preview invitations
• Weeklog for Week 39: September 26 to October 02

Software

• 🚀 Just released version 2 of my heroicons package
• I’ve been playing with using GPT-3 to control a browser the last couple days. Here’s a quick demo. As you can see it's pretty neat! But also quite flakey. | This is really cool - maybe the shop.co idea becomes finally possible

Podcasts

• #325 – Michael Levin: Biology, Life, Aliens, Evolution, Embryogenesis & Xenobots (Lex Fridman Podcast) | Fascinating stuff going on in biology..
• Die Nerven (Reflektor) | New album is out. It's good.
• Scaling Postgres Episode 235 Postgres 15 RC1, ICU Collations, Listen & Notify, Understanding TOAST (Scaling PostgreSQL)
• Stuart Russell: The Foundations of Artificial Intelligence (The Gradient Podcast)
• Was fasziniert Sie an Montaigne? (Das philosophische Radio)
• Episode #303: This title is required or is it optional? (Python Bytes)
• #69 Polymorphism Unbound (Happy Path Programming) | Good episode

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Got not much done besides work. Attended a in person meeting of the local Python user group.

Articles

• 7 things I've learned building a modern TUI framework
• Johannes Weeklog
• I can't even | Charles Stross about the recent "Bank of England had to step in and save the day" fuckup.
• Software Development Attitude | Yep, enabling it is..
• 11 Laws of Software Estimation for Complex Work 

Twitter

• Restriktive Geldpolitik = (Massen)Arbeitslosigkeit? So lautet die Klage, ja Anschuldigung vieler Linken. Ein etwas längerer Thread dazu.
• The hard truth is that 100% of people who confuse correlation with causation will die.
• Microservices grug wonder why big brain take hardest problem factoring system correctly, and introduce network call too seem very confusing to grug
• The programmer's credo (JFK voice): we do this, and the other things, not because they are easy... but because we _thought_ they were _going to be_ easy. | via What's your favourite software engineering quote? 👇
• Humans. Yeast. Eating sugar, farting gas, dying from too much alcohol. Pretty much the same, tbh.
• DevOps engineer explaining why we need to use Kubernetes
• “The role of management is to change the system rather than badgering individuals to do better.” W. Edwards Deming
• im gonna say it: i don't care which numbers are prime

Software

• Stable Diffusion is now available directly in KerasCV!
• Welcome to django-startproject 👋 | Django project template by Jeff Triplett - pros: pip-tools cons: docker?
• Model Bakery: Smart fixtures for better tests | For Django
• Django Click | click command line library for Django management commands.. I use typer and a separate script for that, but maybe this is an alternative..

Meetups

• Python Meeting Düsseldorf - 2022-09-28 (Alle Vorträge)

Books

• Designing Data-Intensive Applications

Videos

• why I will never use python-poetry | Whoa

Podcasts

• WR1407 Kommissar Bayer jagt den Heterogenen Agenten (Wirtschaftskunde) | Great to learn about economic basics casually
• Bits und so #811 (Präzisionsstart) (Bits und so) 
• Episode 69: Fear (Hotel Bar Sessions)
• UKW103 Ukraine: Atomkrieg nicht vor Weihnachten (Unsere kleine Welt) | Not good, but I cannot find good content on this topic :(
• DjangoCon Europe 2022 - Kojo Idrissa (Django Chat) | Really important to recognize.non-code contributions, but how? Sales is important, but: „For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled. Richard Feynman, Rogers Commission Report“
• Von Verstecken, Katzentischen, Ferien und Büchern (Was denkst du denn?)
• #316 – Noam Chomsky: Putin, Ukraine, China, and Nuclear War (Lex Fridman Podcast) | Noam Chomsky is one of the people you should listen to, even if he's wrong.
• #68 The End of Ivory Tower Architecture with Andrew Harmel-Law (Happy Path Programming) | Didn't know about the advice process, sounds interesting. Nice episode.
• #318 – Nick Lane: Origin of Life, Evolution, Aliens, Biology, and Consciousness Audio Player (Lex Fridman Podcast) | This whole biology thing is fascinating!

 
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