Farshid/Ashouri

Notes on software engineering

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  1. 2024

  2. Livestreaming a community election event on YouTube

    I live in El Granada, California. Wikipedia calls us a census designated place - we don't have a mayor or city council.

    TIL youtube
    4 min read

  3. Registering temporary pluggy plugins inside tests

    While implementing more finely-grained permissions for (issue 8) I decided I wanted to register a Datasette pluggy plugin for the duration of a single test.

    TIL pytest
    1 min read

  4. Summarizing Hacker News discussion themes with Claude and LLM

    I've been experimenting with the combination of Claude and my LLM CLI tool to give me quick summaries of long discussions on Hacker News.

    TIL llms
    8 min read

  5. Trick Apple Photos into letting you access your video files

    I had an 11GB movie in Apple Photos (sync'd from my iPhone) and I wanted to upload it to YouTube (actually via AirDrop to another laptop first).

    TIL macos
    1 min read

  6. Dropdown menu with details summary

    I added dropdown menus to Datasette 0.51 - see 1064. I implemented them using the HTML element. The HTML looked like this: See the top right corner of https://latest-with-plugins.datasette.io/ for a…

    html css javascript web-development ui
    1 min read

  7. Useful Markdown extensions in Python

    I wanted to render some markdown in Python but with the following extra features: - URLize any bare URLs in the content, like GFM - Handle python from mdx urlize import UrlizeExtension import markdown…

    TIL markdown
    1 min read

  8. Enabling WAL mode for SQLite database files

    I was getting occasional messages from a Datasette instance that was running against a bunch of different SQLite files that were updated by cron scripts (my personal Dogsheep).

    sqlite database wal performance cli
    1 min read

  9. Error 153 Video player configuration error on YouTube embeds

    In all cases the HTML looked something like this: It turned out the solution may be to replace with : (Weirdly on some refreshes of the page I get the same error. I'm not sure why that is.)

    youtube embed html web-development troubleshooting
    1 min read

  10. Named Entity Resolution with dslim/distilbert-NER

    I was exploring the original BERT model from 2018, which is mainly useful if you fine-tune a model on top of it for a specific task. dslim/distilbert-NER by David S.

    TIL llms
    1 min read

  11. Conditionally running a second job in a GitHub Actions workflow

    My simonwillisonblog-backup workflow periodically creates a JSON backup of my blog's PostgreSQL database, using db-to-sqlite and sqlite-diffable.

    github-actions ci/cd automation workflow yaml
    1 min read

  12. Setting cache-control: max-age=31536000 with a Cloudflare Transform Rule

    I serve static assets for my blog (mainly images) from , which is an AWS S3 bucket served via Cloudflare.

    TIL cloudflare
    1 min read

  13. The pdb interact command

    Today Carlton told me about the interact command in the Python debugger. Here's how to use it with (but it works anywhere else where you find yourself in a session).

    TIL python
    1 min read

  14. Using ChatGPT to write AppleScript

    I found a killer application for ChatGPT today: writing AppleScript! I've been stubbornly refusing to learn AppleScript for nearly twenty years at this point.

    TIL gpt3
    1 min read

  15. Custom Jinja template tags with attributes

    I decided to implement a custom Jinja template block tag for my datasette-render-markdown plugin. I wanted the tag to work like this: A basic Jinja extension After some fiddling around with GitHub…

    jinja python templating web-development markdown
    2 min read

  16. Restricting SSH connections to devices within a Tailscale network

    I'm running an AWS Lightsail instance and I want to only be able to SSH to it from devices connected to my Tailscale network.

    TIL tailscale
    1 min read

  17. Using grep to write tests in CI

    GitHub Actions workflows fail if any of the steps executes something that returns a non-zero exit code. Today I learned that returns a non-zero exit code if it fails to find any matches.

    TIL github-actions
    1 min read

  18. Adding a CORS policy to an S3 bucket

    Amazon S3 buckets that are configured to work as public websites can support CORS, allowing assets such as JavaScript modules to be loaded by JavaScript running on other domains.

    aws s3 cors cloud web-development
    2 min read

  19. Sort by number of JSON intersections

    This post on Reddit asked how to run a query that takes a list of items (in this case ingredients) as the input and returns all rows with at least one of those items in a JSON list, ordered by the…

    TIL sqlite
    1 min read

  20. Running pip install -e .[test] in zsh on macOS Catalina

    macOS Catalina uses rather than as the default shell (apparently because Apple don't like GPL 3). I usually set up my Python projects for development like this: datasette % pipenv shell Launching…

    TIL macos
    1 min read

  21. Seeing files opened by a process using opensnoop

    I decided to try out atuin, a shell extension that writes your history to a SQLite database. It's really neat.

    TIL macos
    1 min read