Ephes Blog

• 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.

*Doomscrolling intensivies*

But there has been some progress on the removal of sqlmodel from fastdeploy task (this issue keeps getting bigger, and it was a slow work week) as well:

• While I'm introducing an own unit of work pattern and rewriting lots of the database stuff anyway, I thought: Well, maybe switching to asyncpg and having the whole database layer async would be not a lot more additional work. This is now done.
• Rewrote the auth module, because I wanted to get rid of all fastAPI dependencies. The code now looks much nicer, too.
• Syncing service configurations from filesystem is now also possible again (I have to admit writing things like an AbstractFilesystem class bring me quickly to the point of reconsidering my lifestyle choices).

Things I Learned

• You can use PYTHONPATH=$(pwd) in a Procfile to start jupyter lab/notebooks that keep the project root in pythonpath
• You can use session.expunge(object) to be able to use mapped python objects after a sqlalchemy session is closed (yeah, I'm just beginning to use sqlalchemy)

Youtube

• My Voice Over Chain | I often get mocked for being nerdy about audio quality. Well, maybe go and mock this guy instead (or learn something from him and improve your recordings).
• Have Single-Page Apps Ruined the Web? | Transitional Apps with Rich Harris, NYTimes | Great video. Until a few months ago I would have completely agreed. But seeing what is possible with libraries like htmx I'm currently feeling more like: "Holy shit, SPAs are dead!". And I don't trust this whole notion of "Just use this sparkling framework X and your code will automatically deployed on an edge CDN node in a V8 vm and everything will be like magic". I like things to be simple, not complicated and magic. The reason for that is: I know that my own interest in keeping my stuff running is much greater than the interest of some bored bigcorp ops staff. Even kubernetes is far too complicated from my point of view. If something goes wrong, I want to be able to fix it. But maybe kubernetes or netlify or fly makes things possible that I need and could not do by myself? My opinion on that is: hell no.
• Putin, die Ukraine und danach? | Mit offenen Karten Spezial Ukraine | ARTE | Good signal-to-noise ratio

Twitter

• Javascript and Swift apparently disagree about when January 1, 1 AD was. (Both numbers in milliseconds-since-1970) | Ha, haha, hahahaha..  omg, wtf
• You'll get a JupyterLab+SciPy environment running in your browser! | Wow
• The paradoxical dynamics of nuclear deterrence | Maybe this is the right time to rewatch Dr. Strangelove again :)

Software 

• pgcli | Postgres command line client with syntax highlighting

Podcasts

• Sphinx, MyST, and Python Docs in 2022 (Talk Python To Me) | Really great episode, didn't know it was possible to use markdown with Sphinx and all its super referencing/linking capabilities
• "Wenn sich die Fakten ändern, ändere ich meine Meinung" (Schroeder & Somuncu) | Thought it might increase the doomscrolling experience if the content is provided by comedians - well, this was a dry hole
• (111) It Ain't Over 'Til It's Over (Coronavirus-Update)
• Bits und so #779 (Cringeymouse¹⁰) (Bits und so)
• Episode #46 Taylor Otwell // Creator & CEO of Laravel (Alphalist CTO Podcast) | Taylor is not as enthusiastic as I would have expected about livewire and mentioned inertiajs which I didn't know about.. but he said that starting a podcast hosting SaaS might be fine, so whohoo :)
• WR1338 Ökonomische Folgen der Russland-Sanktionen (Wrint Wirtschaftskunde)
• Zwischen Macht und Ohnmacht (Tag 7) (Streitkräfte und Strategien) | Followed a recommendation from corona update podcast, but this is far from being as good. The expert guest knowing things we dont is clearly missing. And listening to journalists chatting is just boring.
• Folge 111 - Wir bauen eine Sofware-Architektur (Software Architektur im Stream) | This episode shows why it's hard to build software in domains you don't know anything about.

Articles

• Reflections on Foundation Models | Sounds reasonable, let's see if this sticks
• PHP in 2022 | Always good to look what's up in other communities :)
• Build your metadata library | Well, I haven't found a solution for myself but am desperately in need of one :/

Youtube

• List of YouTube channels about machine learning / data science
• what is a .so / .dll / shared object? (intermediate - advanced) anthony explains #399
• Variations Of The Strategy Pattern // Using Python features! | need to improve my production quality (it's really good here, content is improvable)
• Reusable UI components – Thibaud Colas & Ben Dickinson @ Wagtail Space 2020 | pattern library and atomic design for Django, cool
• The Problem with The Problem (Screencast) | Amazing talk by David Beazley
• Why is Ukraine the West's Fault? Featuring John Mearsheimer | Maybe there are rational reasons for all this? Skip linking to all other doomscolling results because they are just to depressing..

Twitter

• Where/what to eat in Düsseldorf | Someone should make a website for that..

Discussions

• Discussion about service layer in Django-Forum | I don't like the idea of service layers, but I also think that DDD and Django don't fit well together.. think there are no best practices, yet

Software 

• Awesome SQLAlchemy
• missing.css: A CSS framework from the htmx community
• Sha256 Algorithm explained

Podcasts

• Episode #270: Can errors really be beautiful? (Python Bytes)
• Bits und so #778 (Die Bargeldkühe) (Bits und so)
• WR1335 An Inflation oder mit Inflation? (wrint: Wirtschaftskunde)
• SQLModel: The New ORM for FastAPI and Beyond (Talk Python To Me)
• Grundlegend? - Arthur Schopenhauer (Das philosophische Radio) | Time for some recreational pessimism
• Episode 45: Turning Up the Heat (Hotel Bar Sessions)
• Switching Protocols Schnell, schnell! (Der INNOQ Podcast) | About different http protocol versions
• Episode 97: Improving Your Django and Python Developer Experience (The Real Python Podcast)

Did not much programming progress last week and no streams. But I did some infrastructure work to migrate fastdeploy from a very "how to do this with fastAPI"-style backend to a more "Architecture Patterns with Python"-style one. Maybe it's because of the research I did for our latest podcast episode about fastAPI or just mundane yak shaving, I don't know. And as always it's amusing/painful/sad to watch my confidence going from "ok, I've read the book, no big deal" to "omg, I've got no clue about anything" pretty quickly while trying to implement it. Doing things is quite different from reading a book and believing you have now a solid understanding and will be able to do things. I suspect it's even worse when you try to write a book/teach about things you thought you know well enough. Let's hope I never have to find out.

Articles

• Include diagrams in your Markdown files with Mermaid | works in GitHub issues/comments
• Google Search Is Dying | Meh, I don't know.. in Twitter discussion people were pointing to you.com as an alternative
• Datasette table diagram using Mermaid | whoa

Youtube

• my python project setup (+ all tools) (intermediate) anthony explains #396 | Anthony Sottile

Twitter

• Optimist: the glass is 1/2 full Pessimist: the glass is 1/2 empty Excel: the glass is First of February
• Use pg_basebackup | I'm still searching for a good postgres backup solution for my usecase (many databases)

Software 

• Mermaid lets you create diagrams and visualizations using text and code

Podcasts

• Peter & Boris — Fine-tuning OpenAI's GPT-3 (Gradient Dissent) | I honestly didn't know you could tell GPT-3: "Translate from german to english" and it will try to do this.. (other instructions work, too)
• Prof. Dr. Gunter Dueck denkt gerne erstmal nach (Frontaldialoge) | Nothing new for me here, but nice reminder.. and I don't understand the buzz about MBTI and stuff like that, since I find the scientific foundation of the big five already very weak and probably not sufficient.. MBTI seems more like complete bs to me, but meh
• (110) Keep Calm and Maske On (Das Coronavirus-Update) | Well, nothing new - but the SAGE szenarios are really interesting
• Warum Python so universell ist | c’t uplink 41.8 (c't uplink) | Listened to it, because I also podcast about python. I'm probably not in the target audience, therefore I can't say anything about whether this is helpful for beginners or not, but I suspect it's not very helpful. The time for formats like that is just over.
• Revision 516: Tailwind CSS v3.0 (Working Draft) | Ok, have to take a look at tailwind3
• Bits und so #777 (Wo das Llama pelzig ist) (Bits und so) | solid entertainment
• Django Deployments - Eric Matthes (Django Chat) | Yep, deployment is difficult and there's no agreement about how to do this at all.. I'm doing something completely different..
• Episode #271: CPython: Async Task Groups in Python 3.11 (PythonBytes) 
• David Heinemeier Hansson // Ruby on Rails Creator and CTO at Basecamp and Hey (Alphalist) | Found it strange that the business parts were the ones I could agree the most, but here we are..
• Schriftstellerin Kerstin HenselLachen über die Widersprüche unseres Lebens (Hörsaal) | Good fun!
• Meet Ross Wightman, a prolific contributor to the AI/ML open source movement (The Robot Brains Podcast) | Instant follow on GitHub

Renamed castle to pdcst. Found out castle was not available anymore when I tried to upload it to PyPI and wondered about the error message. Delusion level: solipsist. Added some issues to the GitHub repo to make it easier for other people to help me. Or to remind my future self of things I failed to do. Let's find out :).

Managed to record and produce a podcast episode about FastAPI. This is our second episode containing some advertisement. Found out that I feel much better talking about a topic when I'm at least a little bit prepared. Problem: preparation takes time.

Revived a hibernating bookmarking project I started a few years ago together with Claudio. Seems like it could benefit from some htmx magic and I set up a CD-pipeline using fastdeploy which didn't take much time and was quite easy - as it should be.

Articles

• The future of editing in Wagtail | wagtail got some support from google for improving their editor, cool
• Writing better release notes | Ok, having an issue to group changes etc seems like a really good idea, will try this out
• Using FastAPI to Build Python Web APIs | Just some preparation for the FastAPI episode

Youtube

• Dynamic list views with Django and htmx | Hmm, maybe I should do similar videos?

Miscellaneous

• Prototype Fund - We fund Public Interest Tech | Interesting, I didn't know this existed.. 

Software 

• Django got black formatting | DEP 8 - finally \o/
• Simple.css - A classless CSS framework | I'm looking into different css frameworks atm but I cant decide
• Pico.css Minimal CSS Framework for semantic HTML | Well..

Podcasts

• Eindeutig mehrdeutig (Was denkst du denn?)
• Modern and fast APIs with FastAPI (Talk Python To Me) | Some preparation for our own FastAPI episode
• Episode 95: What Is a JIT and How Can Pyjion Speed Up Your Python? (The Real Python Podcast) | This is quite cool
• Running Python in Production (Talk Python To Me) | Hynek and Glyph!
• Setting Your Sites (Django Riffs) | Ok, I'm not the target audience for this podcast :)
• Episode 44: The Godfather Trilogy (Hotel Bar Sessions) | Solid entertainment
• WR1331 Die Jobdescription des Mondes (WRINT: Wer redet ist nicht tot) | Light entertainment :)
• Laravel Livewire mit Christoph Rumpel (programmier.bar) | I didn't know that livewire and Alpine.js are from the same developer
• Folge 109 - Was ist Software-Architektur überhaupt? (Software Architektur im Stream) | Dunno why I'm interested in software architecture that much these days, but here we are..