Using the undocumented Fly GraphQL API
Fly has a GraphQL API which is used by some of their own tools - I found it while browsing around their code on GitHub.
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sips: Scriptable image processing system
I wanted to convert some images to on my Mac. I asked ChatGPT: On MacOS use CLI to convert webp images to PNG And it told me about : sips -s format png image.webp –out image.png Or to run it against…
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Controlling the style of dumped YAML using PyYAML
I had a list of Python dictionaries I wanted to output as YAML, but I wanted to control the style of the output.
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Piping echo to a file owned by root using sudo and tee
I wanted to create a file with a shell one-liner where the file lived somewhere owned by root. I tried this but it didn't work: Running using didn't pass through to the bit.
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Publish releases to PyPI from GitHub Actions without a password or token
I published a package to PyPI today using their Trusted Publishers mechanism for the first time. Trusted Publishers provides a mechanism for configuring PyPI to allow a specific GitHub Actions…
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SQLite aggregate filter clauses
SQLite supports aggregate filter clauses (as of 3.30.0, released 2019-10-04), as described in this SQL Pivot in all databases tutorial.
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Turning an array of arrays into objects with jq
Input: I want an array of objects. Here's what I came up with, using jqplay.org: This outputs: If you remove the outer and and use the "Compact output" option you get back this instead:
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Assistance with release notes using GitHub Issues
I like to write the release notes for my projects by hand, but sometimes it can be useful to have some help along the way. Today I figured out this recipe.
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JSON Pointer
I'm looking at options for representing JSON validation errors in more JSON. The recent RFC 7807: Problem Details for HTTP APIs looks relevant here.
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Listen to a web page in Mobile Safari
I found a better way to listen to a whole web page through text-to-speech on Mobile Safari today. Previously I'd been selecting all text on the page manually (an arduous task) and using the "Speak"…
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Running different steps on a schedule
Say you have a workflow that runs hourly, but once a day you want the workflow to run slightly differently - without duplicating the entire workflow. Thanks to @BrightRan, here's the solution.
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Summing columns in remote Parquet files using DuckDB
vivym/midjourney-messages on Hugging Face is a large ( 8GB) dataset consisting of 55,082,563 Midjourney images - each one with the prompt and a URL to the image hosted on Discord.
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TOML in Python
I finally got around to fully learning TOML. Some notes, including how to read and write it from Python. The data structure A TOML file is a document that contains a dictionary of key value pairs.
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Running pip install '.[docs]' on ReadTheDocs
I decided to use ReadTheDocs for my in-development datasette-enrichments project. Previously when I've used ReadTheDocs I've had a folder in my project with its own file containing the requirements.
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Show files opened by pytest tests
My test suite for Datasette has grown so large that running the whole thing sometimes causes me to run out of file handles.
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Guessing Amazon image URLs using GitHub Copilot
I was experimenting with the new Readwise export API and it gave me back the following JSON: The image URL produced a tiny little image - this one: I wanted to get back a bigger version of that image.
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Simplest possible OAuth authentication with Auth0
Auth0 provides an authentication API which you can use to avoid having to deal with user accounts in your own web application.
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Set a GIF to loop using ImageMagick
I managed to accidentally create a GIF that ran once without looping. I think this is because I created it in LICEcap but then deleted some frames and re-saved it using macOS Preview.
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Close terminal window on Ctrl+D for macOS
I always forget how to set this up. It's hidden in Preferences - Profiles - Basic - Shell:
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Generating a calendar week grid with the Python Calendar module
I needed to generate a grid calendar that looks like this (design by Natalie Downe): The Python standard library calendar module has a utility function that really helps here: Outputs:
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