Personal Blog of Jochen Wersdörfer

Weeknotes 2022-10-10

Oct. 10, 2022

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

Weeknotes

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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Weeknotes 2022-10-03

Oct. 3, 2022

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

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..

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No images due to bad weather :).

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Weeknotes 2022-09-26

Sept. 26, 2022

Mainly work, didn't had time to listen to a lot of podcasts this week. Went to a school reunion on the weekend. Slow week.

Articles

How I’m a Productive Programmer With a Memory of a Fruit Fly
Johannes Weeklog
Stable Diffusion based Image Compression
Article Spotlight: “The End of History” by Hanno Sauer

Should read more philosophy articles, even the comments were entertaining 😊

Software

Squoosh

Compress images via webapp
Whisper

ASR model demo from openAI
yFiles

Just wanted to display a little graph on a website *sigh*

Videos

Exception Groups and except: Irit Katriel

Python 3.11 preview

Podcasts

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Mostly work, since I was on a business trip to Munich for a few days. Got tickets for next years beyond tellerrand conference, hope to see you there 😁. Someone opened the first issue on django-fileresponse 🍾 requesting to be able to use it for uploads, too. There were also some discussions and mails around the Python Podcast.

Articles

Software

Fork - A fast and friendly git client
PyMC4 which is now just called PyMC - a probabilistic programming library for Python that allows users to build Bayesian models with a simple Python API and fit them using Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) methods
This release, 3.11.0rc2, is the last preview before the final release of Python 3.11.0 on October 24th
uvloop 0.17 is here

This release adds Python 3.11 support, updates bundled libuv to 1.43.0 and fixes a handful of issues
Safari 16.0 was released

Glad to see the new IE is catching up a bit

Videos

Google’s New AI: Fly INTO Photos! 🐦

Books

Wagtail CMS in Action

Not much there yet. Learn from my mistake and buy it when it's finished next year or so..

Podcasts

17 Libraries You Should Be Using in Django Talk Python To Me

Nothing new for me here..
Habermas‘ „Neuer Strukturwandel der Öffentlichkeit“ - Digitale Plattformen: Manipulation statt Diskussion? Sein und Streit

Ouch, really bad, especially the moderation. Why are there so few good podcasts on topics like this? Dont make me start one!
UKW102 Ukraine: Russki Go Home unsere kleine welt

Meh, also not much good content on this topic available either..
WR1398 Die Fruchtfliege der Botanik WRINT: Wissenschaft
WR1403 Auf frischen fotografischen Wegen WRINT: Fotografie
Muff Potter (Thorsten Nagelschmidt) Reflektor

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Weeknotes 2022-09-12

Sept. 12, 2022

Just got back home after a long day at the being me factory, and as always, it was a long and arduous shift.
-- @AbiShuuwi on Twitter

Work was good this week. Recorded and produced a podcast episode about crypto (yes, the BitCoin and BlockChain stuff, not cryptography).