god: i have made a Single page webapp

angels: you fucked up a perfectly good website is what you did. look at it. it’s got dependency injections.

--Eric Meyer

Normal "omg there's only so much time left in the year and we're all sick" work week. Speaking of sick: Last week I caught the latest COVID variant, but what a letdown! It seems like COVID's lost its edge, turning into a mundane, almost commercialized version of its former fearsome self. It's like everyone's getting it these days – hardly the exclusive experience it used to be!

The sync renditions command for django-cast is done -> new release. Upgrading my projects to Django 5.0 and Wagtail 5.2.2 went smoothly. And there's a new version of ktpncook that fixes some minor issues. Nice progress, but my current mood is more like:

Articles

• Geeks, MOPs, and sociopaths in subculture evolution | How could I have missed this one? This is great stuff.
• Long context prompting for Claude 2.1 | Ok, this thing about adding just one sentence to the prompt making that much of a difference is just really wild
• Safer, Not Later | Move fast and break things revisited - good article
• Sharing Pictures of Code | Just to be aware of the options..
• Ext4 data corruption in stable kernels | Uh oh, make sure your servers don't get updated automatically 😱
• Real-world match/case | I had some use cases in the meantime and it's really cool, yep

Videos

• One big fat sound | Perfect answer to: Where do you see yourself in 5 years?
• Sierra Hull - Mad World (Tears For Fears) - DelFest - Cumberland, MD - 5/28/22 | Cheesy song but the mandolin solo is superb!
• Jeremy Keith – Of Time And The Web – border:none 2023 | Easy to forget how much progress we made, yep
• What's new in Django 5.0! | Nice summary video!
• Tobias Baldauf – [mɑːkt] – border:none 2023 | Also interesting. Personally I often think I'm a bit too much into self-reflection and should just do more and think less, but maybe I should reflect a bit more on that (oh no).

Weeknotes

• Weeklog for Week 48: November 27 to December 04 | Johannes
• Week in Review 2023-12-04 | Luis
• Weeknotes: datasette-enrichments, datasette-comments, sqlite-chronicle | Simon Willison

Software

• FastUI - is a new way to build web application user interfaces defined by declarative Python code | react via pyscript?
• Django 5.0 released | 🥳
• Great LLM visualization | And it's available as open source 😎
• Awesome Systematic Trading | Have to do something about this, meh

Podcasts

• Revision 595: „HTML over the Wire“ und Unpoly (Working Draft) | I'm more team htmx, but unpoly seems to be really interesting, too
• Alternativlos, Folge 52 mit Joscha Bach (Alternativlos) | Ok (and it's called naive bayes!)