I am wondering what should be the color of this bikeshed? --@kushal

The usual work and usual chores. Nothing interesting here.

Finally tried out Obsidian - wow, this is a deep rabbit hole. Syncing also works with iCloud folders between iOS and macOS. It's not great but sufficient for my needs (sharing links with the daily note).

Split the blog and podcast model and released a new django-cast version.

Articles

• Private and Public Mastodon
• Der Zettelkasten Niklas Luhmanns
• Kommunikation mit Zettelkasten
• My Reaction to Dr. Stroustrup’s Recent Memory Safety Comments | I have to take a closer look at rust soon...
• Twitter is turning off all free access to their apis next week (or at least that’s the plan as of today)
• The Market for Lemons | Good article ranting about the current state of web development (SPAs)

Weeknotes

• Week in Review 2023-01-30 | Luis
• Weeklog for Week 4: January 23 to January 29 | Johannes

Software

• Granian - A Rust HTTP server for Python applications.
• Django Rocket is a Django SaaS boilerplate framework powered by Cookiecutter.
• WhisperX - Whisper-Based Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) with improved timestamp accuracy using forced alignment.
• 😱 Awesome Falsehood Awesome A curated list of falsehoods programmers believe in.
• NiceGUI | Build simple web-UIs using pure Python
• Pyodide 0.22.0 release
• Announcing TypeScript 5.0 Beta

Mastodon / Twitter

• poetry really trying to defend their "< always" stance by breaking everything in a minor release
• Dave Winer on what counts as a podcast
• A webcomic of sheep in a trenchcoat...
• There are two approaches to making projections for business purposes. The one to avoid is estimation based on specification analysis. Unfortunately, that's what most ppl use, and it pretty much always fails because an up-front specification is invariably wong. 1/5 | Good thread - I keep wondering why people keep trying the specification based approach..

Podcasts

• Bits und so #828 (Pro Mac) (Bits und so) | Need to resist my gear acquisition syndrome 🥶
• DK077 - 10.000 Seiten später (Das Klima)
• Folge 149 - Das Strangler Fig Pattern (software-architektur.tv als Podcast)
• MongoDB - Mark Smith (Django Chat)
• Monorepos in Python (Talk Python To Me) | Hmm, still don't know why I want use a monorepo
• Episode 539: Adam Dymitruk on Event Modeling (Software Engineering Radio)