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Serious question. No one ever got fired for choosing PostgreSQL # But, why. It’s the most loved db, right? Right? Maybe it’s time to rethink it. Don’t get me wrong, if I need a relational db as a service, PostgreSQL is going to be my first choice, but why do I need to run a separate application for it? Tutorials use sqlite # Why is that? Because there is nothing else to stand up. Nothing else to maintain. And you probably already have it installed on just about anything that has a battery. SQLite runs in memory # Don’t need, or maybe don’t want to persist state. Run it in memory. This is a nice feature for running tests. Less exposure # SQLite is a file on your filesystem. It’s not a web service. It’s not a cloud service. Not that postgres is insecure, but it is one more endpoint that you have to think about securing. this means that is probably also cheaper 🤑 SQLite is easy to replicate # Want to run your new feature with prod data? Pull a replica or backup. It’s a file, you can cp, s…
Why I Built Litestream - Litestream litestream.io
Why I Built Litestream - Litestream Despite an exponential increase in computing power, our applications require more machines than ever because of architectural decisions made 25 years ago. You can eliminate much of your complexity... litestream.io As applications scale to the edge, to put compute as close to the user as possible, database queries back to the master node get slower and slower. Enter sqlite replication, put the database wtih the application code and replicate from master.
I’m All-In on Server-Side SQLite · The Fly Blog fly.io
I'm All-In on Server-Side SQLite Ben Johnson has joined Fly.io Fly · fly.io SQLite is the next big database trend. with more horizontal scaling, close to user read heavy applications, having your database in the same application stack makes a lot of sense. Tools like litestream are going to enable global distribution in an impressive way.
jpillora/installer: One-liner for installing binaries from Git… github.com
GitHub - jpillora/installer: One-liner for installing binaries from Github releases One-liner for installing binaries from Github releases - jpillora/installer GitHub · github.com This is a sick looking bash script generator for installing binaries off of github releases. it reccomends curl into bash, but you could curl into install.sh and toss that in your dotfiles repo or wherever. Install installer with installer
Pagefind | Pagefind — Static low-bandwidth search at scale pagefind.app
Pagefind Pagefind is a fully static search library that aims to perform well on large sites, while using as little of your users’ bandwidth as possible, and without hosting any infrastructure. Pagefind · pagefind.app Pagefind is absolutely insane. I’ve tried a number of static site searches, and found them all hard to get get going, clunky and not the best experience as a user or developer. I setup pagefind in about 2 minutes on my site where it found and indexed 833 pages in 2 minutes. The only downside I see so far is that it is a lot of bandwidth to the user. On simulated slow 3G you can definitly feel it, but not terrible. Anything slower and its going to start feeling frustrating. edit: I have actually fully deployed it on waylonwalker.com, and its fast! create the index Then I put this on a page, it looks really nice on a white background, but would need some work to drop into a dark theme.
⭐ makeplane plane
makeplane has done a fantastic job with plane. Highly recommend taking a look. 🔥 🔥 🔥 Open Source JIRA, Linear, Monday, and Asana Alternative. Plane helps you track your issues, epics, and product roadmaps in the simplest way possible.
⭐ ahmedkhalf project.nvim
If you’re into interesting projects, don’t miss out on project.nvim, created by ahmedkhalf. The superior project management solution for neovim.

I’ve recently given tailwindcss a second chance and am really liking it. Here is how I set it up for my python based projects.

https://waylonwalker.com/a-case-for-tailwindcss

Installation #

npm is used to install the cli that you will need to configure and compile tailwindcss.

npm install -g tailwindcss-cli

Setup #

You will need to create a tailwind.config.js file, to get this you can use the cli.

npx tailwindcss init

Using tailwind with jinja templates #

To set up tailwind to work with jinja templates you will need to point the tailwind config content to your jinja templates directory.

module.exports = {
  content: ["templates/**/*.html"],
};

Setting up the base styles #

I like to use the @tailwind base;, to do this I set up an input.css file.

@tailwind base;
@tailwind components;
@tailwind utilities;

Compiling #

Now that it’s all setup you can run the tailwindcss command. You will get an output.css with base tailwind plus any of the classes that you used.

tailwindcss -i ./input.css -o ./output.css --watch

A Case For Tailwindcss

I was watching @theprimeagen recently and I think he sold me on using tailwindcss. The thing about tailwind is that it is not a big component library, it’s a set of css classes mapped to a few (usually one) style. All css classes are shitty, so you might as well use someone else’s shitty css classes on all your projects rather than thinking you’re being smart with a new set of classes that you will hate in 6 months when you come back to the project. roughly quoted from memory of @theprimeagen It’s tiny # So unlike big component libraries like tailwind, it comes with a cli that that it uses to create the final css file. It is able to treeshake out all the tailwind classes that you are not using and only ship the ones that you are using. It’s hard to clash # Since the classes are so small and single purpose it’s hard to end up with something like in two places that mean different things causing you to duplicate most of that css anyways so that the whole design doesn’t break when you chan…
Simon Willison on X: “Anyone got a lead on a good embedding mo… twitter.com
Simon Willison (@simonw) on X Anyone got a lead on a good embedding model that can embed both images and text into the same space, so you can search for "dog" and get back images most likely to contain a dog? It looks like Vis… X (formerly Twitter) · twitter.com Kinda mindblown that this is even possible. This is so far outside of my current thinking that i didn’t even think of an elegant way to implement semantic search accross images and text at the same time. I know it happens at Google, but I envision that as still text search accross tags and meta data about the image. Based on the number of responses CLIP is the thing that does this.
aca/emmet-ls: Emmet support based on LSP. github.com
GitHub - aca/emmet-ls: Emmet support based on LSP. Emmet support based on LSP. Contribute to aca/emmet-ls development by creating an account on GitHub. GitHub · github.com This is the greatest nvim emmet plugin I have tried. In the past I had tried the vim plugin a few times and just could not get a good flow with the keybindings and found it confusing for my occasional use. just uses lsp-completion, so its the same flow as other completions. You can try it out by installing with config #
LLM now provides tools for working with embeddings simonwillison.net
LLM now provides tools for working with embeddings LLM is my Python library and command-line tool for working with language models. I just released LLM 0.9 with a new set of features that extend LLM to provide tools … Simon Willison’s Weblog · simonwillison.net Simon’s llm cli is getting quite interesting. I really want to run some clustering on my website content.