Gridfinity
The modular, open-source grid storage system.
Gridfinity · gridfinity.xyz [1]
I am starting to build out some custom tool holders for my tool box, and using gridfinity. This is a super handy reference guide for spec’ing out the bases.
Note
This post is a thought [2]. It’s a short note that I make
about someone else’s content online #thoughts
References:
[1]: https://gridfinity.xyz/specification/
[2]: /thoughts/
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Read a Range of Data - LIMIT and OFFSET - SQLModel
SQLModel, SQL databases in Python, designed for simplicity, compatibility, and robustness.
sqlmodel.tiangolo.com [1]
Today I was running some sqlmodel queries through the sqlalchemy orm. Admittedly I’ve not done enough orm queries before, and I’ve done quite a bit of raw sql. I was trying to get objects from two separate models that had relationships setup.
session.query(User, Images).where(User.id == 3).all()
It is incredibly slow, and gives me the following warning.
SELECT statement has a cartesian product between FROM element(s)
What I learned from the SQLModel docs is that you should give it a join to correct this and go much faster.
session.query(User, Images).join(Images).where(User.id == 3).all()
Note
This post is a thought [2]. It’s a short note that I make
about someone else’s content online #thoughts
References:
[1]: https://sqlmodel.tiangolo.com/tutorial/limit-and-offset/
[2]: /thoughts/
Template Designer Documentation — Jinja Documentation (3.1.x)
jinja.palletsprojects.com [1]
html [2] code generated by my jinja templates generally look half garbage because of indents and whitespace all over the place. I just learned about these pesky Whitespace Control characters that can get rid of the whitespace added from templating.
You can also strip whitespace in templates by hand. If you add a minus sign (-) to the start or end of a block (e.g. a For tag), a comment, or a variable expression, the whitespaces before or after that block will be removed:
{% for item in seq -%}
{{ item }}
{%- endfor %}
Note
This post is a thought [3]. It’s a short note that I make
about someone else’s content online #thoughts
References:
[1]: https://jinja.palletsprojects.com/en/3.0.x/templates/#whitespace-control
[2]: /html/
[3]: /thoughts/
Intro - Minecraft Server on Docker (Java Edition)
Documentation for Minecraft Server on Docker
docker-minecraft-server.readthedocs.io [1]
I just learned that if you can exec into the container running minecraft with the itzg/minecraft container you can run rcon-cli to get command access to the server. You need to set the RCON_PASSWORD if you want to access rcon remotely, but if you have not already done this and have access to the server you can just run rcon-cli when you are in.
Note
This post is a thought [2]. It’s a short note that I make
about someone else’s content online #thoughts
References:
[1]: https://docker-minecraft-server.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
[2]: /thoughts/
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Theo’s response puts a lot of my feelings about unit testing into words. It’s crazy how cargo culty it becomes that the echo chamber of twitter can bring in beliefs that we think we believe, but have not experienced enough or put enough thought in to form our own opinion.
This video made me think so much that it turned into it’s own blog post
Thoughts on Unit Testing [1]
Note
This post is a thought [2]. It’s a short note that I make
about someone else’s content online #thoughts
References:
[1]: https://waylonwalker.com/thoughts-on-unit-tests
[2]: /thoughts/
Mastodon.py — Mastodon.py 2.2.1 documentation
mastodonpy.readthedocs.io [1]
Mastadon.py is a python api client for mastadon that makes it easy to cross post to mastadon.
from mastodon import Mastodon
Mastodon.create_app(
'pytooterapp',
api_base_url = 'https://mastodon.social',
to_file = 'pytooter_clientcred.secret'
)
from mastodon import Mastodon
mastodon = Mastodon(client_id = 'pytooter_clientcred.secret',)
mastodon.log_in(
'[email protected]',
'incrediblygoodpassword',
to_file = 'pytooter_usercred.secret'
)
mastodon.toot('Tooting from Python using #mastodonpy !')
Note
This post is a thought [2]. It’s a short note that I make
about someone else’s content online #thoughts
References:
[1]: https://mastodonpy.readthedocs.io/en/stable/
[2]: /thoughts/
bunny.net - The Global Edge Platform that truly Hops
Hop on bunny.net and speed up your web presence with the next-generation Content Delivery Service (CDN), Edge Storage, and Optimization Services at any scale.
bunny.net · bunny.net [1]
bunny.net looks like an interesting cloudflare alternative.
Note
This post is a thought [2]. It’s a short note that I make
about someone else’s content online #thoughts
References:
[1]: https://bunny.net/
[2]: /thoughts/
IndieWebify.Me - a guide to getting you on the IndieWeb
indiewebify.me [1]
This is a sick guided site to validate indieweb tags on your site. It makes it much easier than trying to do it yourself.
Note
This post is a thought [2]. It’s a short note that I make
about someone else’s content online #thoughts
References:
[1]: https://indiewebify.me/
[2]: /thoughts/
External Link
stackoverflow.com [1]
After struggling to get dependencies inside of middleware I learned that you can make global dependencies at the app level. I used this to set the user on every single route of the application without needing Depend on getting the user on each route.
from fastapi import Depends, FastAPI, Request
def get_db_session():
print("Calling 'get_db_session(...)'")
return "Some Value"
def get_current_user(session=Depends(get_db_session)):
print("Calling 'get_current_user(...)'")
return session
def recalculate_resources(request: Request, current_user=Depends(get_current_user)):
print("calling 'recalculate_resources(...)'")
request.state.foo = current_user
app = FastAPI(dependencies=[Depends(recalculate_resources)])
@app.get("/")
async def root(request: Request):
return {"foo_from_dependency": request.state.foo}
Note
This post is a thought [2]. It’s a short note that I make
about someone else’s content online #thoughts
References:
[1]: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/72243379/fastapi-dependency-inside-middleware#answer-72480781
[2]: /thoughts/
Handling Errors - FastAPI
FastAPI framework, high performance, easy to learn, fast to code, ready for production
fastapi.tiangolo.com [1]
This page shows how to customize your fastapi [2] errors. I found this very useful to setup common templates so that I can return the same 404’s both programatically and by default, so it all looks the same to the end user.
from fastapi import FastAPI, Request
from fastapi.responses import JSONResponse
class UnicornException(Exception):
def __init__(self, name: str):
self.name = name
app = FastAPI()
@app.exception_handler(UnicornException)
async def unicorn_exception_handler(request: Request, exc: UnicornException):
return JSONResponse(
status_code=418,
content={"message": f"Oops! {exc.name} did something. There goes a rainbow..."},
)
@app.get("/unicorns/{name}")
async def read_unicorn(name: str):
if name == "yolo":
raise UnicornException(name=name)
return {"unicorn_name": name}
Note
This post is a thought [3]. It’s a short note that I make
about someone else’s content online #thoughts
References:
[1]: https://fastapi.tiangolo.com/tutorial/handling-errors/
[2]: /fastapi/
[3]: /thoughts/
logs with FastAPI and Uvicorn · Issue #1508 · fastapi/fastapi
Hello, Thanks for FastAPI, easy to use in my Python projects ! However, I have an issue with logs. In my Python project, I use : app = FastAPI() uvicorn.run(app, host="0.0.0.0", port=8000) And when...
GitHub · github.com [1]
Setting an additional log handler to the uvicorn logger for access logs in fastapi [2] was not straightforward, but This post was very helpful.
@app.on_event("startup")
async def startup_event():
logger = logging.getLogger("uvicorn.access")
handler = logging.StreamHandler()
handler.setFormatter(logging.Formatter("%(asctime)s - %(levelname)s - %(message)s"))
logger.addHandler(handler)
Note
This post is a thought [3]. It’s a short note that I make
about someone else’s content online #thoughts
References:
[1]: https://github.com/tiangolo/fastapi/issues/1508
[2]: /fastapi/
[3]: /thoughts/
External Link
stackoverflow.com [1]
Setting tags in your fastapi endpoints will group them in the docs. You can also set some metadata around the tags to get nice descriptions.
Here is a full example from the post.
from fastapi import FastAPI
tags_metadata = [
{"name": "Get Methods", "description": "One other way around"},
{"name": "Post Methods", "description": "Keep doing this"},
{"name": "Delete Methods", "description": "KILL 'EM ALL"},
{"name": "Put Methods", "description": "Boring"},
]
app = FastAPI(openapi_tags=tags_metadata)
@app.delete("/items", tags=["Delete Methods"])
@app.put("/items", tags=["Put Methods"])
@app.post("/items", tags=["Post Methods"])
@app.get("/items", tags=["Get Methods"])
async def handle_items():
return
Note
This post is a thought [2]. It’s a short note that I make
about someone else’s content online #thoughts
References:
[1]: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/63762387/how-to-group-fastapi-endpoints-in-swagger-ui#answer-63762765
[2]: /thoughts/
waylon walker (@_WaylonWalker) on X
Bloggers where do you put your markdown?
X (formerly Twitter) · twitter.com [1]
Most bloggers on my twitter blog right into a file that goes on git [2]. I kinda expected to have more database folk. I have my blog in markdown on git and the editing experience is top notch. I can just find files edit them in MY EDITOR, push them and I got a post. I am running thoughts in a sqlite database with a fastapi [3] backend, and holy crap the instant nature of posting feels so much better. Both sides have good points.
Note
This post is a thought [4]. It’s a short note that I make
about someone else’s content online #thoughts
References:
[1]: https://twitter.com/_WaylonWalker/status/1734387536716308693
[2]: /glossary/git/
[3]: /fastapi/
[4]: /thoughts/
Show some equivalent list comprehensions in filter examples · Issue #1068 · pallets/jinja
I'm willing to write a pull-request for this, but I just want to see what people think before I write it. So the issue is this. I'm very familiar with python. I'm new to Jinja2. Often I find myself...
GitHub · github.com [1]
I often want to reach for non existing list comprehensions in jinja 2, Here are a few nice equivalents.
a: {{ data | selectattr('x', 'gt', 5) | list }}
b: {{ data | map(attribute='c') | list }}
c: {{ data | selectattr('x', 'gt', 5) | map(attribute='c') | list }}
Note
This post is a thought [2]. It’s a short note that I make
about someone else’s content online #thoughts
References:
[1]: https://github.com/pallets/jinja/issues/1068
[2]: /thoughts/
External Link
vi.stackexchange.com [1]
I fixed my missing macro recording indicator that I lost and was never quite sure why. (because I forgot that I set cmdheight=0).
vim.cmd [[ autocmd RecordingEnter * set cmdheight=1 ]]
vim.cmd [[ autocmd RecordingLeave * set cmdheight=0 ]]
Note
This post is a thought [2]. It’s a short note that I make
about someone else’s content online #thoughts
References:
[1]: https://vi.stackexchange.com/questions/39947/nvim-vim-o-cmdheight-0-looses-the-recording-a-macro-messages
[2]: /thoughts/
GitHub - DataDog/ddqa: Datadog's QA manager for releases of GitHub repositories
Datadog's QA manager for releases of GitHub repositories - DataDog/ddqa
GitHub · github.com [1]
DataDog ddqa is building out a textual app and deploying it with pyapp. They have CI setup to fully build and cross compile their textual tui into github releases that you can just download from their releases page. This is something I am looking at for markata. This would be pretty sweet to be able to make it just work on places like windows. It would also be interesting to try to build a full desktop app with pyapp.
Note
This post is a thought [2]. It’s a short note that I make
about someone else’s content online #thoughts
References:
[1]: https://github.com/DataDog/ddqa
[2]: /thoughts/
[1]
Full list of imagemagick color names.
Note
This post is a thought [2]. It’s a short note that I make
about someone else’s content online #thoughts
References:
[1]: /static/https://imagemagick.org/script/color.php
[2]: /thoughts/
Adam Wathan (@adamwathan) on X
Hear me out. https://t.co/QHkEI6SJYZ
X (formerly Twitter) · twitter.com [1]
I’m going to give this trick a shot on my sites, and see how I like it.
* {
min-width: 0
}
Down in the comments @adamwathan [2] goes on to say.
Basically every layout overflow bug ever boils down to some flex or grid child needing min-width: 0 😄
Oh and @ryanflorence [3] also says in the comments.
I … do this.
Note
This post is a thought [4]. It’s a short note that I make
about someone else’s content online #thoughts
References:
[1]: https://twitter.com/adamwathan/status/1734696245015494711
[2]: https://twitter.com/adamwathan/
[3]: https://twitter.com/ryanflorence
[4]: /thoughts/
External Link
tushar.lol [1]
Nice message by @tusharsadhwani [2].
Write it down.
You had to dig deeper than face value at something.
Write it down.
You had to combine multiple pages of docs.
Write it down.
Someting was simply not obvious to you at first and it took someone else to give you that ah ha moment.
Write it down.
You had a small discovery that had a marginal impact on your day.
Write it down.
A blog does not have to be a Blog, it can be small meaningful posts. There are absolutely no rules. If you think you are going to end up with too many posts, that is a solvable problem, make a search, curate your favorite posts, make multiple feeds.
At the end of the day.
Write it down.
This post itself is a thought, the smallest component to my blogging strategy.
Write it down.
Note
This post is a thought [3]. It’s a short note that I make
about someone else’s content online #thoughts
References:
[1]: https://tushar.lol/post/write-a-blog/
[2]: https://twitter.com/sadhlife
[3]: /thoughts/
Path Operation Advanced Configuration - FastAPI
FastAPI framework, high performance, easy to learn, fast to code, ready for production
fastapi.tiangolo.com [1]
Excluding routes from fastapi docs, can be done from the route configuration using `include_in_schema`. This is handy for routes that are not really api based or duplicates.
From the Docs # [2]
from fastapi import FastAPI
app = FastAPI()
@app.get("/items/", include_in_schema=False)
async def read_items():
return [{"item_id": "Foo"}]
trailing slash # [3]
I’ve had better luck just routing both naked and trailing slash routes in fastapi [4]. I’ve had api’s deployed as a subroute to a site rather than a subdomain, and the automatic redirect betweens them tended to always get messed up. This is pretty easy fix for the pain is causes just give vim a yyp, and if you don’t want deuplicates in your docs, ignore one.
from fastapi import FastAPI
app = FastAPI()
@app.get("/items")
@app.get("/items/", include_in_schema=False)
async def read_items():
return [{"item_id": "Foo"}]
favicon.ico # [5]
Now you do not need to deploy favicons to your api in any way, it is nice to have it in your browser tab, but more importantly ...