Ephes Blog

"To whom it may concern"

- vague

- weak

- ignorable

"To whom it will concern"

- ominous

- strong

- alarming

--Aelfred the Great

Released a new version of django-cast with support for Python 3.13, which was just released last week. Made some progress on my frontend-heavy side project using htmx (still not published). Otherwise, it was a fairly typical work week.

Articles

• Lego ideas - proposal of a working turing machine
• Web Components are not Framework Components — and That’s Okay
• Join the Python Developers Survey 2024: Share your experience!
• From software to reality?
• Switching from virtualenvwrapper to direnv, Starship, and uv

Videos

• Smashing Hour With Heydon Pickering | Wow, didn't know you could do something like that (equalizer with CSS custom properties adjusting the height of bars) with the web audio api, cool stuff!
• Cabel Sasser - XOXO 2024 | Great talk

Fediverse

• Pixelimage to SVG conversion tool

hey sorry I missed your text, I am processing a non-stop 24/7 onslaught of information with a brain designed to eat berries in a cave --Janel Comeau

I spent some time outdoors and noticed mushrooms growing everywhere—so cool! I have also been working on an upcoming project that should be easily extensible with plugins. Lets see how that works out.

Articles

• DJP: A plugin system for Django | Cool! I'm thinking about plugins a lot too, atm
• OpenAI DevDay: Let’s build developer tools, not digital God | Yep

Weeknotes

• Weeknotes: Three podcasts, two trips and a new plugin system | Simon Willison

Videos

• uv IS the Future of Python Packaging 🐍📦 | New video from Hynek! Ok, if he approves uv, I have to use it, too 🤷.

Software

• datasette-extract | Create tables from unstructured data in PDFs
• django-ledger - An Accounting, Bookkeeping & Financial Analysis Engine for the Django Framework | Interesting. Worked on something similar in the past.