Weeknotes 2024-04-15
,"Vendor lock-in"? They wish. All these vendors are locked in here with ME. --Forrest Brazeal
Still working on optimizing fetching stuff from the database for django-cast. Did some music stuff and spent a lot of time outside.
Articles
- Web
- Why I’m Ready to Party Like It’s 1999…Again | Yep, and since search engines are getting almost unusable these days, maybe it's time to adopt some techniques from the time before there were usable search engines like webrings etc... let's see
- The creator economy trap: why building on someone else's platform is a dead end | DYI ftw!
- Front-end development’s identity crisis
- Python
- How to optimize PostgreSQL queries from Django using pgMustard | pgMustard is great
- PEP 744 – JIT Compilation | Details about the new JIT-Compiler in Python 3.13
- LLM
- CSS
- Long
- 503 days working full-time on FOSS: lessons learned | from the author of the Pydon't-book below
Weeknotes
- Three major LLM releases in 24 hours (plus weeknotes) | Simon Willison
- Weeklog for Week 15: April 08 to April 14 | Johannes
Books
- Software Design by Example | This by example idea is probably great. How do you become an expert on literature? Probably by reading a lot of it. Maybe it's the same with software...
- Pydon'ts | Skipped a bit over it, seems to be ok
Software
Mastodon
- Bitte, gern geschehen.
- The LMSYS Chatbot Arena Leaderboard is one of the most interesting approaches to evaluating LLMs
- Safari Added support for View Transitions | In the technology preview - this is great! 🎉
- Doing some tidying up of PISpy, an application I wrote in the early days of working on #Textual | Live coding ftw!
- I’ve been making demos of CSS Grid level 3 lately, to show off what putting masonry/waterfall-like layout support in CSS Grid can do. (I’ve got 16 demos and counting!) Here’s one with that includes View Transitions, running in Safari Technology Preview 192. | Cool, need to add something like this to django-cast galleries!
