Everyone seems to be obsessed with passive income but I’m set on passive-aggressive income, so you should probably pay me back if you care even the slightest amount about our friendship and how much I thought it meant to you. --Alice McFlurry

Short work week. Normally, I just sport a Neandertal look at work, but last week I decided to go full method-acting by working directly from the actual Neandertal!

Released a new version of django-cast that introduces cover images for posts. For podcasts, the iTunes artwork is used as a fallback. There are also some bugfixes and documentation improvements.

Articles

• Writing
  • Knowledge Graph Extraction & Visualization with local LLM from Unstructured Text: a History example | One of the projects worked on at the 2024 spring sprint of PyDDF Düsseldorf
  • On Opening Essays, Conference Talks, and Jam Jars
  • Writing with AI
  • Slop is the new name for unwanted AI-generated content
• Design
  • Masonry Layouts in CSS
  • The evolution of Figma’s mobile engine: Compiling away our custom programming language
  • Adobe abandons $20 billion acquisition of Figma | Didn't know about this, whoa!
• The Night Watch | I devolved from systems programming to machine learning to web development, but I saw it as an arbitrary, random mutation. Now I'm beginning to suspect it was inevitable. I also like scarves. Classic 🏛️ post.
• Peer review is not the gold standard in science | I think this lab leak stuff is bullshit, but that science has to be against gatekeeping? Full ack.

Weeknotes

• Own Your Web – Issue 14: Webmentions | Matthias Ott - hmm, I should implement Webmentions in django-indieweb, no?
• Weeknotes: more datasette-secrets, plus a mystery video project | Simon Willison
• Weeklog for Week 18: April 29 to May 05 | Johannes

Videos

• NOX vs TOX – WHAT are they for & HOW do you CHOOSE? 🐍 | Great video!

Software

• Cohere Toolkit - is a collection of prebuilt components enabling users to quickly build and deploy RAG applications
• btop++ - Resource monitor that shows usage and stats for processor, memory, disks, network and processes | c++ continuation of bpytop

Podcasts

• Self-Hosted Open Source - Michael Kennedy | Yep, the vibe is mostly right. Personally I go a step further and ditch Docker as well (Michael made the argument that using Docker increases security somehow, which is false, of course ).

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