Ephes Blog

Much of the essence of building a program is in fact the debugging of the specification. — Fred Brooks

Lots of private appointments, didn't have time for open source. Hope this will get better next week.

Articles

• Developers Rail Against JavaScript ‘Merchants of Complexity’
• A fresh look at the CSS grid template areas and how to take advantage of its full potential today
• Evolving Django’s auth.User | Behind paywall but worth it

Important Websites

• 📚 The largest truly open library in human history

Software

• things julia likes about fish | I also like fish 🐡

Weeknotes

• Weak Notes | They don't need to be that strong, right?
• Weeknotes (2024 week 35) | Matthias Kestenholz

Out of Context Images

I've never encountered your problem before, so it must be simple to solve. --Greg Wilson

Dealt with a few unexpected bureaucratic challenges, didn't have time for much else. Went to a local Django meetup and some photo review gathering which were great.

Articles

• Nuclear power: no, yes, maybe, but not like this | Insightful
• The article element | Confession: I use article on pages with just one blog post
• Frontend ohne FOMO: ein Erfahrungsbericht | Create your own framework! Yep, article is in german..
• Python's Preprocessor | Oh wow 😮
• Building search-based RAG using Claude, Datasette and Val Town

Software

• uv: Unified Python packaging | Many new features
• Actual is a local-first personal finance tool | Open source ynab alternative
• You need a budget - personal finance tool | I think, I'll use this first to get an idea on how this all works

Videos

• [Keynote] Digitale Souveränität – Verzweifeln oder Handeln? | Christian Theune, Froscon Talk

Fediverse

• He meant django right ? 🙃

Technology is the art of arranging the world so we don't have to experience it. --Max Frisch

Back from vacation, still catching up.

Articles

• Prompt caching with Claude | Cool!
• The area element
• Drawing boundaries | Unexpected relation between software design and philosophy
• Reckoning | Four-part series of posts arguing against excessive Javascript-First-Frontends

Books

• Now Available: “Rote Learning HTML & CSS,” the Most Boring Free Ebook Ever | Beware, this book is kind of short 😅

Fediverse

• Homeoffice | Webcomic
• Because of the tag string PEP, I probably will be talking about HTML templating a bit. | 🧵 about making html templating in Python more component like as in the JS world
• We started using #htmx at work with #django. We have a table view that includes a form in a modal to add data to that table.

Out of Context Images

It has been said that the great scientific disciplines are examples of giants standing on the shoulders of other giants. It has also been said that the software industry is an example of midgets standing on the toes of other midgets.

--Alan Cooper

Failed to avoid reading things despite being still on vacation.

Articles

• Python
  • Tracing the evolution of a Python function with git log | Nice, didn't know it's possible to trace functions directly
  • Three month suspension for a Core Developer | Welp. Getting trolled by the SC for trolling the board seems kind of fair.
• Frontend Stuff
  • Vanilla CSS and efficiencies over Sass
  • The anchor element | Entertaining despite nothing new for me here 😄
  • The Performance Inequality Gap, 2024 - Frontend is haunted by 2013's Great Branch Mispredict
  • Styling Tables the Modern CSS Way | Cool, didn't know about caption and scope let alone all the CSS tricks..
  • Riffing on the latest CSS fit text approach
• Video
  • Adding sound wave overlays to videos and pictures using FFMPEG
  • Video with alpha transparency on the web
• Don't Lie To Me About Web 2.0
• My weeks of reading hornily: steamy book sales have doubled – and I soon found out why | Hrhr
• GPT-4o System Card | Interesting writeup

Software

• Bookmarking
  • Betula is a free federated self-hosted single-user bookmarking software for the independent web | Cool, bookmarking software is always interesting to me
  • linkding is a bookmark manager that you can host yourself
• RustPython - A Python-3 (CPython >= 3.12.0) Interpreter written in Rust 🐍 😱 🤘 | Heard of it a few years ago, glad to see it's still alive.
• Public Work is a search engine for public domain content | Nice interface!
• Datasette 1.0a14: The annotated release notes
• Python 3.12.5 | New Release
• The Ultimate Collection of CSS-only Shapes
• Django 5.1 released | 🥳

Fediverse

• CSS scroll-driven animation + scroll snap events synchronized with a number input
• How it started. How it's going. | Webcomic - Happy Sisyphus keeps on rollin!
• Gave up and hand coded the #XML files for #SAML2 metadata. | This is only the beginning.
• 1990s internet culture was quite different from 2020s internet culture. | Sigh, those were the times
• This has been passed down in our family for generations | Webcomic - it's not always goodies
• What are examples of fantastic *home pages* of personal websites? 😍 Any site that really stuck with you? And why? | Great examples!
• If a machine accomplishes cognitive tasks in a way that is dissimilar from the way our brain does it, do we call the machine intelligent in this domain, or not? | Nice 🧵

Videos

• How HTMX is changing the web, with Carson Gross | Jeremy Howard speaks with Carson Gross, cool!
• TOY DOLLS-Toccata in D minor

Weeknotes

• Weeknotes: a staging environment, a Datasette alpha and a bunch of new LLMs | Simon Willison

Out of Context Images

Prevent the next Crowdstrike outage! Our company offers an innovative kernel-mode agent that uses advanced cloud-delivered AI to detect EDR malfunctions and correct them on the fly --lcamtuf

More vacation and then a slight vacation from the vacation. Had to move some files from spotify to a mobile speaker for which spotdl worked quite well, but skipped some tracks for unknown reasons.

Articles

• Fit-to-Width Text: A New Technique
• Aider | LLMs in the terminal
• Growing your Business Logic with Django | Article is behind paywall but worth it
• Default To Large Modules
• FastHTML: Modern web applications in pure Python

Fediverse

• Python conference speaker pro tip: If the CFP asks for your past speaking experience, you can share your pyvideo.org speaker page | Now this lonely 1 is staring at me, dang.
• okay, I finally found a good use for an LLM. no, really.
• Luck | War and Peas Webcomic

Videos

• Curlhacker | Daniel Stenberg streaming curl development

Software

• FastHTML - Modern web applications in pure Python
• New in Wagtail 6.2 | 6.2 was released!
• DinkyDash is a simple, customizable dashboard designed to display family-oriented information such as recurring tasks, countdowns to special events, and daily rotations.
• New attrs release!

Weeknotes

• Weeklog for Week 30: July 22 to July 28 | Johannes

Out of Context Images