Weeknotes 2024-09-16
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
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Thinking about using the registry pattern soon.
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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 😕.
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CSS @property and the New Style
You can really do a lot with just CSS nowadays.
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II'm going to use UV for my latest private project and tried to figure out how to use it.
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Webcomic
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The Eleven Laws of Showrunning
Very insightful and also applies to many aspects of software development.
Software
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Cloudron - Self-hosting has never been simpler
Looks nice
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Python 3.13 release highlights
The release is in two weeks! Time to watch this video about Python 3.13 features by Anthony Sottile 😅.
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Nice open-source Slack replacement.
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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
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LLMs are like your weird, over-confident intern
I find it always inspiring to listen to Simon Willison.