When you lock the laboratory door, you always lock out more than you lock in. --John Wheeler

I had an interesting work week as I spent two days in Amsterdam - fancy. And I made significant progress on implementing responsive images in django-cast. Maybe I should use a web component for this image gallery stuff? Or just plain htmx? Maybe both to figure out which is easier to use? We'll see 🙃.

Articles

• Hobbitos™ | Webcomic
• The Dunning-Kruger Effect is Autocorrelation | It always seemed a little bit too good to be true
• CSS
  • Learn CSS | Do it! (just a reminder for myself..) and in related news: Learn to write better, resilient CSS
  • Getting started with CSS container queries
• Web Components
  • The elevator pitch for Web Components | Ok, fine
  • HTML Web Components: An Example | Web components can render stuff before any javascript is executed

Software

• This is a phenomenal web demo. Enabled by window.getScreenDetails() which provides basic live info (size, position etc) from all screens on the device. Ok, so a lot of people have been asking me for code/writeup of this so I made a stripped down example (works with an infinite amount of windows) so that you can look at to get the basic gist of it (that's all I have time for now, sorry!). | Whoa
• 🦝Tanuki - The easiest way to build scalable, LLM-powered functions and applications that get cheaper and faster the more you use them
• Draw Things | Really cool, let's you use a zoo of fine tuned models for different purposes

Weeknotes

• Weeknotes: DevDay, GitHub Universe, OpenAI chaos | Simon Willison
• Week in Review 2023-11-20 | Luis
• Weeklog for Week 46: November 13 to November 19 | Johanns

Podcasts

• Afrika - "Der Westen redet, China investiert" (Hörsaal) | Interesting..
• FS271 Ich glaube das wird ein bisschen mehr Aufwand im Schnitt | Good, how did I not know about Draw Things?