Be nice to us folks who wear glasses. We paid money to see you. --BobGolen

I just released a new version of kptncook because my wife's attempt to export her 800+ favorite recipes from kptncook to Paprika broke the process, so I finally had to fix it. Turns out that when you're generating JSON using Jinja2 templates, you need to remove a lot of junk characters if you want to be able to parse them again 😅.

Articles

• Framework Patterns | Thinking about using the registry pattern soon.
• Passwords have problems, but passkeys have more | Passkeys looked very promising, but I sadly have to agree: there are just too many ways to accidentally lock yourself out 😕.
• CSS @property and the New Style | You can really do a lot with just CSS nowadays.
• UV with Django | II'm going to use UV for my latest private project and tried to figure out how to use it.
• Bear knowledge | Webcomic
• The Eleven Laws of Showrunning | Very insightful and also applies to many aspects of software development.

Software

• Cloudron - Self-hosting has never been simpler | Looks nice
• Python 3.13 release highlights | The release is in two weeks! Time to watch this video about Python 3.13 features by Anthony Sottile 😅.
• Mattermost | Nice open-source Slack replacement.
• Bring Back Free Software Funding: Give Your Feedback to the European | If you want to support free software, here's an opportunity to contribute.

Podcasts

• LLMs are like your weird, over-confident intern | I find it always inspiring to listen to Simon Willison.

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