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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.

Miscellaneous

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

Got podcast deployment progress showing with htmx \o/ using the standard HTTP-API without WebSockets in cast-registry. This is not bad at all. Apart from that, I spent most of my spare time (as if I had a lot of this...) on creating a new command-line podcast client called castle. I'm not sure why I did it - I just wanted to answer an email and demonstrate something simple in a notebook. And then I couldn't stop writing it. Maybe it turns out to be useful for something or a bad digression, we'll see.

I didn't record any programming streams this week, but we published the first python podcast episode including advertisement.

Papers

• World of Bits: An Open-Domain Platform for Web-Based Agents (revisiting the old shop.co idea)

Worked on using the new deployment context feature of fastdeploy to automate deploying cast_hosting instances for my podcast hosting SaaS. It finally worked and the hardest part of this was getting the traefik config right. If users can choose domain names by themselves, you have to use wildcard certificates. This means that you have to use an API key for your DNS provider allowing traefik to manipulate DNS records for the dnsChallenge, which is the only one supporting wildcard DNS. But then you still have to get both this part and your httpChallenge based certificates to work well together. Ok, here's the static config part that made traefik work for me.

Additionally, I did two programming streams last week, which is an improvement. And then there was an interesting discussion on the PyDDF telegram channel about automatic speech recognition. I haven't looked at this topic since mid-2019 and wow, a lot is going on there. Maybe it's even possible to train an asr model for german just by using existing labeled training data like the Mozilla common voice dataset plus lots of unlabeled audio data (podcasts maybe?).

Useful Websites

• Create and share beautiful images of your source code

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• schnelltest test

We made a chicken soup a few days ago. It's based roughly on this recipe.

The ist of ingredients

• 1 chicken
• 1 onion
• 500g carrots
• 1 garlic bulb
• 20 peppercorns
• 1 bayleaf
• some salt
• 80g rice
• 1 tablespoon of tomato paste
• 200g white cabbage
• some grated parmesan

Instructions

Get the ingredients :).

Put the chicken in a pot.

Cut the onion in half, peel the carrots and cut of the top of the garlic bulb.

Put the vegetables, the bayleaf, peppercorns and some salt in the pot together with the chicken and add cold water until the chicken is covered. Let this simmer for at least 1.5h, probably a bit longer.

Drain the chicken stock from the pot and keep it somewhere. Cut the carrots in bite-sized pieces, remove the chicken's skin and peel the meat of the bones. Throw away the bones. Cook the rice. Meanwhile combine the carrots, chicken and stock and get the heat up again. While the soup is simmering again, cut the white cabbage into thin slices. Add the cabbage and grate the cheese.

After a few minutes after adding the cabbage the soup should be ready. Season with salt and pepper.

Serve with some grated cheese added on top.