Ephes Blog

Recorded and produced a new podcast episode about microservices. For my podcast hosting project I need some place to store podcast episodes and therefore I finally automated the setup of minio. Let see if it will be fast enough :). Did a bugfix release of kptncook. And started to collect information about deployed services which then could be used by other services doing logging, monitoring or backup.

Things I Learned

• If you don't want to run your minio installation publicly this ssh-portforwarding command works (you have to change username and ports): ssh -v -L  10000:127.0.0.1:10000 -L 10001:127.0.0.1:10001 minio@staging.wersdoerfer.de

Books

• Fluent Python, 2nd Edition | Just released -> instant buy..

Articles

• OpenTelemetry and Python: A Complete Instrumentation Guide
• Cython is 20!
• Garlic Presses Are the Devil | FInally someone said it!
• Pathways Language Model (PaLM): Scaling to 540 Billion Parameters for Breakthrough Performance | Wow, joke explanation is really impressive
• Yes, You Can Charge More | As a freelancer, I approve the message :)
• Weeklog for Week 13: March 28 to April 03 | Great stuff
• The Majestic Monolith | Old article, but still good
• In defense of simple architectures | I would not use eventlet today and I beg to differ on graphql and kubernetes.. but the general direction: full ack
• How to Squash and Rebase a Git Branch

Software

• django-postgres-metrics | A Django application that exposes a bunch of PostgreSQL database metrics.
• crab is a simple unix toolkit for working with local development environments

Twitter

• This article is great! I didn't know that you could put form inputs outside of the nested <form> tag and specify the form they belong to with form=
• ENTP vs IMDB | ROFL
• DALL·E is impressive
• About Twitter advanced search | I didn't know about this
• "Did you come to my school when I was little and show me dinosaur poo?"
• News from cryptozoology | Hard evidence, just for once..
• Very impressive---indeed, awe-inspiring---AI demos this last week, e.g., from OpenAI (image generation) and Google (text generation). These demos seem to convince many people that current AI is getting closer and closer to human-level intelligence. 🧵 | I'm not sure whether those problems are too hard or there's just not enough interest in solving them..

Podcasts

• Sam Newman: Monolith to Microservices (InfoQ Podcast) | In preparation for own microservices episode
• Folge 99 - Sam Newman - Monolith to Microservices (Software Architektur im Stream) | dito
• Sam Newman on Information Hiding, Ubiquitous Language, UI Decomposition and Building Microservices (InfoQ Podcast) | dito
• WR1347 Bruttointelligenzprodukt (WRINT - Wissenschaft)
• WR1349 Embargo: Modelle, Zölle, Anreize (WRINT - Wirtschaftskunde) | What I like most about this podcast is to get a glance at the economic viewpoint, which is usually really foreign to me. Highlights: Maybe just use tariffs and form a price cartel to rob gas/oil from russia (they have to go down with their own price to be able to sell at market price). Those who scream loudest about oil/gas from russia being not substitutable are those who are most afraid of being substituted.
• Intelligente Kraken - Aliens mit neun Gehirnen (Sein und Streit) | Octopus cannot see color with their eyes, but with their arms :€ and the information about color and ground structure does not need to be transferred to the central brain, because each arm has one (bigger than the central one). They build "houses" with an individual aesthetic and get angry if you mess it up.
• Machtvoll? - Kunstwerke (Das philosophische Radio) | It's weird, every time I listen to Markus Gabriel talking about abstract topics I'm not familiar with, I'm thinking: Hmm, interesting and eloquent. Everytime I hear him say concrete things about topics I know about (computer stuff), I'm like: Wow, this is complete bullshit. Not sure what to make of this. But there were a lot of intereting definitions of art: From having no intent/purpose (Kant) to showing how things really are (which needs to be intentional, Klee) to art is the definition of art (Kosuth). Kept me entertained at least while doing sports.
• Andrew Song of Whisper AI on solving hearing loss with AI (The robot brains) 
• Föderation Mehr als nur Mastodon (Der INNOQ Podcast) | meh
• UKW096 Ukraine: Weltkrieg 2.5 (Unsere kleine Welt) | Really long
• Verletzlichkeit macht nahbar - über Vulnerabilität und was wir daraus lernen können (Was denkst du denn?) | Meh
• Rhetorik zwischen Wahrheit und Propaganda - das Handwerk der Glaubwürdigkeit (Sein und Streit) | Also meh

Applied for Prototype Fund with django-cast, I would love to be able to improve documentation and usabiltiy.  Finished a command line client for syncing kptncook recipes with my self-hosted mealie instance. Revisited my old "will_it_saturate" project to compare caddy vs uvicorn speed. Good fun.

Things I Learned

• You can have validators run befor assigning values in pydantic models, creating a previously non-existing directory, for example.

Articles

• Weeklog of shezi | Lots of interesting stuff as usual.
• The Concept of the Ruliad | Uff, maybe I have to read it again..

Talks

• Wagtail Space US 2022 | Wagtail conference talks

Youtube

• Object-Oriented Programming is Bad | Well, I wouldn't say it's all bad, but there are some points in this talk
• Object-Oriented Programming is Good* | Same author, same opinion :)

Twitter

• The microphone talk | I remember having this conversation more often than I would have expected
• I think the 1420 YouTube channel will make for a nice historical reference a few years from now | Really cool youtube channel. Those things are far more interesting to me than the usual media coverage. Previous generations didn't have access to this kind of content. It's not exactly flying cars, but still pretty cool that this is possible today.

Podcasts

• Bits und so #784 (Im Watschnbaumwald) (Bits und so) | Well, there are reasons for limiting the password length that are not completely stupid, but most of the time they are..
• (113) So Long (Das Coronavirus-Update) | I will be missing this. Interesting numbers from this episode: infection fatality rate did go down from 1.5% (begin) to 0.11% (now) which is comparable with the flue.. of course there are far more covid infections so it's not the same risk.. for every person dying from covid there's on which dies in hospital from a different cause, but was tested covid positiv
• Gesund? - Ehrgeiz (Das philosophische Radio) | Good content, really crappy website :/
• Überholt? - die Kultur des Maßes (Das philosophische Radio)
• Episode 505: Daniel Stenberg on 25 years with cURL (Software Engineering Radio) | Asked what he would tell aspiring programmers who want to achieve what he did, he replied: "Well, I don't know if I'm able to give advice on how to win the lottery." - pretty wise.
• Django the Good Parts - James Bennett (Django Chat) | The part about service layers was really interesting.
• Revision 523: Wenig TypeScript und viel Vermischtes (Working Draft) | Learned about those two programming youtube videos above in this episode
• Frontend & Feldfrüchte Mit Anselm Hannemann (Wo wir sind ist vorne.) | I cannot believe I would ever say this, but: maybe those episodes a little bit too long..
• Wege zum Erfolg - Geduld, die lernbare Superpower (Hörsaal) | Hard to swallow pill
• Verhaltensökonomie - Selbstkontrolle macht zufriedener (Hörsaal) | More hard to swallow pills - I do need a drink now
• NEWS 13/22 – Redis Stack // Safari Technology Preview 142 // Java 18 // Entwickler:innen-Zufriedenheit // node-ipc.js  Malware (programmier.bar) | News from other language communities..
• Episode 48: The Simulation Hypothesis (Hotel Bar Sessions) | They talked about roko's basilisk, dammit

Got my kptncook to mealie integration to work. My mealie instance is now running at mealie staging. If you'd like to have an account, drop my a line. Not much progress on other projects.

Things I Learned

• You can record traffic with your fritzbox using this link - very nice for debugging

Articles

• Angriff auf die Zeit
• "Putin wird Rubel drucken" | Interview with Robert Shiller
• Why your mock doesn’t work
• Why your mock still doesn’t work
• Reversing and analyzing the cooking app KptnCook — my recipe collection

Youtube

• Joscha Bach Λ John Vervaeke on Consciousness, Idealism, and Computation [Theolocution] | Great conversation. Pretty dense in content - I had to listen to it twice (sideloaded to my podcast player) because I missed some points

Twitter

• So, some quick thoughts on "The Charisma Machine". | Interesting thread. Unlike the OP I do remember the programming we did at school as being fake. I showed my disrespect for it (not very clever) and was told by a teacher my attitude was a problem and it would never work out for me (also not very clever and actually false). There's definitively a lot of room for improvement, but I also don't know what to do..
• Linux is also fast on m1 | Point against this silly "macs are only fast because macos is optimized for the hardware" myth I hear from time to time
• You can lie to your parents. You can lie to your boss. You can even lie to yourself. But never, ever lie to your anesthesiologist. | hrhr
• German Freelancer/Webdev chat on discord..

Software 

• RecipeMD - markdown format for recipes

Podcasts

• Der intellektuelle Unterbau der Neuen Rechten (Sein und Streit)
• DK033 - Wir werfen den Risiko-Propeller an (Das Klima)
• Episode 47: Style (Hotel Bar Sessions) | "Style is being yourself, but on purpose" - great episode
• Production APIs - Calvin Hendryx-Parker (Django Chat)
• Friedrich Liechtenstein schwebt über den Dingen (Keiner kommt hier lebend raus) | Meh
• Was macht für Sie eine gute Entscheidung aus? | Also meh. "Computers wont ever able to do X" is almost always a very popular opinion. Historically it also tuns out to be wrong almost every time.
• Jeremy Howard interviews Kaggle Grandmaster Sanyam Bhutani | #150 (chaitimedatascience) | All podcast episodes featureing Jeremy Howard I heard were very good. This is no exception.
• WR1342 Krieg und Käffchen (Realitätsabgleich) | Sometimes I listen to podcasts just to be able to think about a different topic. Sounds weird, but it works (something is clearly wrong with me).
• Season 2 Episode 12 Shakir Mohamed (The Robot Brains) | Meh.
• Sexualgeschichte - Männersex im alten Rom (Hörsaal) | Solid entertainment.
• Zukunft der Arbeit - Bedingungsloses Grundeinkommen macht uns resilient (Hörsaal) | Interesting talk.

Things I Learned

• Usually I prefer to run my tests directly with pytest instead of vscode because my console output is nicely colorized and it's much easier to add options like '--full-trace' etc. but I just found out it's at least possible to view the test stdout in vscode using ⌘⇧U and then selecting "Python Test Log" from the dropdown on the upper right. So I might run tests from vscode from time to time now :).
• You can install optional poetry dependencies with `poetry install -E optional_name`

Articles

• Deep Neural Nets: 33 years ago and 33 years from now
• A Gentle Introduction to Testing with PyTest
• TIL: Parametrized pytest Fixtures
• Der Optimismus verbrennt | Andreas Reckwitz about the ukrainian war

Youtube

• Django Ecommerce Website | Preparing the cart | Htmx and Tailwind | Part 7

Twitter

• Wake up my inner child | I'm in this picture and I don't like it
• High Noon | Dst might not shoot me, but I wish I was dead every time
• Serverless means per-request billing | on point
• password rotation policies are the eating horse paste of computer security | Hmm, besides antivirus software, personal firewalls and VPNs? This whole field is a bucket of snakeoil/horse paste
• Hitting up Ask MetaFilter for YouTube video production tips | Dunno, maybe I should collect some tips on a website? Hmm, I'm not an expert, but the usual stuff out there is even less insightful..
• Sovjet jokes on twitter..

Software 

• Mealie A self-hosted recipe manager and meal planner | really interesting, it's a very similar stack compared to fastdeploy
• PEP 594 – Removing dead batteries from the standard library article

Podcasts

• Armut: Eine Welt unter neuen Vorzeichen (Was denkst du denn?)
• Grenzen der Gewaltfreiheit: Das schwierige Ideal des Pazifismus (Sein und Streit) | Interesting, I would have assumend pacifist view would have been far more common
• DK032 - Willkommen bei Teil 2 der Klimazukunft (Das Klima) | New subscription I added because I need to get more confirmation for my confirmation bias :)
• Folge 112 - Wir bauen eine Software-Architektur - Struktur der Lösung (Software Architektur im Stream)
• Kirby CMS mit Bastian Allgeier (programmier.bar)
• Episode 46: Bars (Hotel Bar Sessions)
• (112) Das Virus ist noch nicht fertig mit uns (Das Coronavirus-Update)
• Episode #272: The tools episode (Python Bytes) | Lots of cool stuff in this episode..
• Soziopod #062: Immanuel Kant – Zum ewigen Frieden (Soziopod) | okish
• Lebenswert? - das Leben (Das philosophische Radio)
• Die Vermessung der Bildung (Hörsaal) | Really great talk
• Episode 503: Diarmuid McDonnell on Web Scraping (Software Engineering Radio)

• Fetching the deploy steps for a service now works again
• The cli commands work again with the new application architecture
• All api endpoints work again
• All the e2e frontend tests work again

Maybe this bot can help me preventing further doomscrolling.

Things I Learned

• vscode is able to run jupyter notebooks without any special extension but I needed to put this into my settings.json to have my project dir in pythonpath: '"jupyter.notebookFileRoot": "${workspaceFolder}",'
  But input (getpass) handling in notebooks running in vscode is broken, so the value of this is limited.

Articles

• Django & HTMX Server-Side Datatables
• Scholz hat recht (Ein Gastbeitrag von Thomas Fischer) | Someone is on the same "curb your enthusiasm" side like me :)
• Unravelling Python's classes
• PyPy in Production | Hmm, have to do more benchmarks by myself (no, please halp).
• Modal forms with Django+HTMX

Misc

• Calc expected years of life gained/lost for changes in food consumption

Youtube

• The Common Lie Writers Tell You — YallStayHome 2020 Afternoon Keynote, Brandon Sanderson | Great talk. I probably have told lie number two, too. I'm sorry. 

Books

• Die Realität der Massenmedien | Perfect time to read this again..

Twitter

• matrices are graphs, and graphs are matrices | Yep, LA is still cool
• Was not prepared for where this video ended up | Hrhr

Software 

• inertiajs: Build single-page apps, without building an API | This looks quite interesting...

Podcasts

• UKW092 Krieg in der Ukraine (UKW) | Meh. If you know a podcast dealing with this topy featuring some experts on this topic, drop me a link :/.
• EdgeDB - Building a database in Python (Talk Python To Me) | Great episode. There are so many cool projects coming out of this (httptools, uvloop, asyncpg, ...)
• WR1340 Vom Krieg, einer Venus und Keimen (Wrint: Wissenschaft)
• Episode #273: Getting dirty with __eq__(self, other) (Python Bytes)
• Bits und so #781 (Johny’s Screaming Chamber) (Bits und so) | New macs \o/
• Ambivalent? - das Verhältnis zu Maschinen (Das philosophische Radio) | Great episode. Really sad that all this content will be gone one year from now.
• Episode 502: Omer Katz on Distributed Task Queues Using Celery (Software Engeneering Radio) | This show has a lot of good content, but the audio quality is really bad.