Farshid/Ashouri

Notes on software engineering

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  2. 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.

    TIL auth0
    2 min read

  3. 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.

    TIL imagemagick
    1 min read

  4. Close terminal window on Ctrl+D for macOS

    I always forget how to set this up. It's hidden in Preferences - Profiles - Basic - Shell:

    macos terminal productivity tips
    1 min read

  5. 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:

    python calendar datetime standard-library productivity
    1 min read

  6. Getting Mastodon running on a custom domain

    This TIL is mainly a rehash of these two articles by Jacob and Andrew: - Setting up a personal Fediverse ID / Mastodon instance - Jacob Kaplan-Moss - The Fediverse, And Custom Domains - Andrew Godwin…

    mastodon fediverse custom-domain dns web-hosting
    2 min read

  7. Piping from rg to llm to answer questions about code

    Here's a trick I've used a couple of times in the past few days. If I have a question about a codebase and I want to answer it using an LLM, I'll use (aka ) to search that codebase for a specific…

    TIL llms
    4 min read

  8. Creating desktop backgrounds using Midjourney

    I decided to create a new desktop background for my Mac using Midjourney. My laptop has a 16:10 aspect ratio and a retina screen, so I wanted as high a resolution image as possible.

    midjourney ai generative-art image-generation desktop
    1 min read

  9. Escaping strings in Bash using !:q

    TIL this trick, via Pascal Hirsch on Twitter. Enter a line of Bash starting with a comment, then run on the next line to see what that would be with proper Bash escaping applied.

    bash cli shell escaping tips
    1 min read

  10. SQLite can use more than one index for a query

    I was trying to figure out if SQLite has the ability to use more than one index as part of executing a single query, or if it only ever picks a single index that it thinks will give the best…

    TIL sqlite
    1 min read

  11. How to scp files to and from Fly

    I have a Fly instance with a 20GB volume, and I wanted to copy files to and from the instance from my computer using . Here's the process that worked for me. 1. Connect to Fly's WireGuard network.

    fly.io scp ssh cli networking
    1 min read

  12. Loading lit from Skypack

    Lit 2 stable was released today, offering a tiny, feature-full framework for constructing web components using modern JavaScript.

    TIL javascript
    1 min read

  13. Using iconv to convert the text encoding of a file

    In sqlite-utils issue 439 I was testing against a CSV file that used UTF16 little endian encoding, also known as .

    TIL linux
    1 min read

  14. SQLite timestamps with floating point seconds

    Today I learned about this: Which outputs: Note the seconds component which reads - that's what you get from the format string.

    TIL sqlite
    1 min read

  15. Emulating a big-endian s390x with QEMU

    I got a bug report concerning my sqlite-fts4 project running on PPC64 and s390x architectures. The s390x is an IBM mainframe architecture, which I found glamorous!

    qemu docker s390x big-endian emulation
    1 min read

  16. Promoting the stable version of the documentation using rel=canonical

    I was thinking about documentation SEO today. Like many projects, Datasette offers multiple versions of the documentation: - https://docs.datasette.io/en/latest/ is the latest branch on GitHub -…

    TIL readthedocs
    1 min read

  17. Querying for GitHub issues open for less than 60 seconds

    While writing this thread about my habit of opening issues and closing them a few seconds later just so I could link to them in a commit message I decided to answer the question "How many of my issues…

    TIL datasette
    1 min read

  18. Using S3 triggers to maintain a list of files in DynamoDB

    This is a three-quarters-baked experiment that I ran this morning. I'm interested in efficiently tracking which new files have been added to an S3 bucket, where that bucket could potentially hold…

    TIL aws
    6 min read

  19. The most basic possible Hugo site

    With Claude's help I figured out what I think is the most basic version of a static site generated using Hugo.

    TIL hugo
    2 min read

  20. Listing files uploaded to Cloud Build

    Today while running I noticed the following: indicates a Google Cloud Storage bucket. Can I see what's in that bucket? Turns out I can: The option adds the size information.

    TIL cloudrun
    1 min read

  21. Show the SQL schema for a PostgreSQL database

    This took me longer to figure out than I care to admit. pg dump -s name-of-database Surprisingly there doesn't seem to be an easy way to do this using a statement within PostgreSQL itself.

    TIL postgresql
    1 min read