Farshid/Ashouri

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  1. 2024

  2. Calculating embeddings with gtr-t5-large in Python

    I've long wanted to run some kind of large language model on my own computer. Now that I have a M2 MacBook Pro I'm even more keen to find interesting ways to keep all of those CPU cores busy.

    python embeddings llm ai nlp
    4 min read

  3. Back-dating Git commits based on file modification dates

    https://www.w3.org/History/1991-WWW-NeXT/Implementation/ It's served up as a browseable Apache directory listing, but that's not the most delightful way to browse code - clicking a link to a file…

    git cli python automation history
    2 min read

  4. GitHub Actions, Issues and Pages to build a daily planner

    I'm trying a new thing: a private daily planner, where each day I note down my goals for the day and make notes on my progress towards them as the day progresses.

    github github-actions github-pages issues javascript
    1 min read

  5. Making HTTP calls using IPv6

    Tiny TIL today: I learned how to make an HTTP call to an IPv6 address. The trick is to enclose the address in the URL in square braces: http:// 2a09:8280:1::1:2741 Here's that working as a request to…

    TIL networking
    1 min read

  6. Updating stable docs in ReadTheDocs without pushing a release

    I use ReadTheDocs for several of my projects. It's fantastic: among other things, it makes it easy to publish the documentation for my latest branch at and the documentation for my latest release at…

    TIL readthedocs
    7 min read

  7. Working around the size limit for nodeValue in the DOM

    TIL that in the DOM has a size limit! I had a table cell element containing HTML-escaped JSON and I was doing this: This was breaking on larger JSON strings.

    TIL javascript
    1 min read

  8. KNN queries with SpatiaLite

    The latest version of SpatiaLite adds KNN support, which makes it easy to efficiently answer the question "what are the X closest records to this point".

    TIL spatialite
    1 min read

  9. Pointing a custom subdomain at Read the Docs

    I host the documentation for Datasette on Read the Docs. Until today it lived at https://datasette.readthedocs.io/ but today I moved it to a custom subdomain, https://docs.datasette.io/ Most of this…

    TIL readthedocs
    1 min read

  10. The location of the pip cache directory

    uses a cache to avoid downloading packages again: The command can be used to find the location of that cache on your system: Wheels are cached in - in a nested set of folders based on a hash, for…

    TIL python
    1 min read

  11. Upgrading Homebrew and avoiding the failed to verify attestation error

    I managed to get my Homebrew installation back into shape today. The first problem I was having is that it complained that macOS Sequoia was unsupported: It turns out I was on an older Homebrew…

    TIL homebrew
    1 min read

  12. Using recursive CTEs to explore hierarchical Twitter threads

    This TIL adapted from a Gist I put together in 2019, before I started tracking TILs here. My twitter-to-sqlite tool produced a SQLite table with an column that referenced another tweet ID, for…

    TIL sql
    1 min read

  13. A script to capture frames from a QuickTime video

    I was putting together some notes for a talk I gave, and I wanted an efficient way to create screenshots of specific moments in a video of that talk.

    quicktime video ffmpeg zsh applescript
    2 min read

  14. pytest coverage with context

    This tweet from \@Mariatta tipped me off to the ability to measure "contexts" when running coverage - as a way to tell which tests exercise which specific lines of code.

    TIL pytest
    1 min read

  15. Transferring a GitHub issue from a private to a public repository

    I have my own private repository where I sometimes create research threads. Occasionally I want to transfer these to a public repository to publish their contents.

    TIL github
    1 min read

  16. Grabbing a transcript of a short snippet of a YouTube video with MacWhisper

    I use the MacWhisper macOS desktop app to run Whisper. It's a very pleasant GUI wrapper around the Whisper transcription model.

    macos youtube transcription whisper audio
    1 min read

  17. SQLite VACUUM: database or disk is full

    I was trying to run against a large SQLite database file ( 7GB) using and I got this error: sqlite3.OperationalError: database or disk is full The volume that the database lived in was 20GB in size…

    TIL sqlite
    1 min read

  18. Browsing your local git checkout of homebrew-core

    The homebrew-core repository contains all of the default formulas for Homebrew. It's a huge repo, and if you browse it through the GitHub web interface you can run into errors like this one…

    homebrew git cli macos
    1 min read

  19. Running jupyterlab via uv tool install

    I tried to get jupyterlab working via today and ran into some sharp edges. You can start like this: That ran for a while and output: It also gave me a warning about my PATH.

    TIL jupyter
    1 min read

  20. Installing different PostgreSQL server versions in GitHub Actions

    The GitHub Actions default runner currently includes an installation of PostgreSQL 13. The server is not running by default but you can interact with it like this: You can install alternative…

    TIL github-actions
    1 min read

  21. Publishing a Web Component to npm

    I tried this for the first time today with my highly experimental datasette-table Web Component. Here's the source code for version 0.1.0.

    TIL npm
    2 min read