Weeknotes 2024-09-23

Sept. 23, 2024

This week, I released a new version of kptncook that includes a fix for Windows by setting the default encoding to UTF-8. I also attended a meeting of the Django User Group in Cologne and enjoyed a really good talk comparing Django and Laravel.

Articles

The unreasonable effectiveness of simple HTML
Web Components for Password Input Enhancements
Python is two languages now, and that's actually great

Software

Sidekick helps you along all the steps of deployment on your VPS
i-html is a drop in tag that allows for dynamically importing html, inline. It's a bit like an <iframe>, except the html gets adopted into the page

A web component for including html, nice!
django-cotton - Bringing component-based design to django templates

Need to take a closer look at this one

Videos

Flux, the UI Library for Livewire | Caleb Porzio at Laracon US 2024 in Dallas, TX

From a Django developer's perspective, I'm kind of jealous of this deep integration. But it's probably not that easy to get right — see this thread

Books

Compiling to Assembly from Scratch

now available as a print version!