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Dang Mariah, killing it with continuous learning perspective.
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This post is a thought [1]. It’s a short note that I make
about someone else’s content online #thoughts
References:
[1]: /thoughts/
Posts tagged: thought
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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 [1]
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.
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://twitter.com/simonw/status/1700528222382027039
[2]: /thoughts/
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 [1]
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. emmet-ls just uses lsp-completion, so its the same flow as other completions.
You can try it out by installing with :Mason
config # [2]
local lspconfig = require('lspconfig')
local configs = require('lspconfig/configs')
local capabilities = vim.lsp.protocol.make_client_capabilities()
capabilities.textDocument.completion.completionItem.snippetSupport = true
lspconfig.emmet_ls.setup({
-- on_attach = on_attach,
capabilities = capabilities,
filetypes = { "css", "eruby", "html", "javascript", "javascriptreact", "less", "sass", "scss", "svelte", "pug", "typescriptreact", "vue" },
init_options = {
html = {
options = {
-- For possible options, see: https://github.com/emmetio/emmet/blob/master/src/config.ts#L79-L267
["bem.enabled"] = true,
},
},
}
})
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This post is a thought [3]. It’s a sho...
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 [1]
Simon’s llm cli is getting quite interesting. I really want to run some clustering on my website content.
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://simonwillison.net/2023/Sep/4/llm-embeddings/
[2]: /thoughts/
Formatter
How to use the Biome formatter.
Biome · biomejs.dev [1]
Tried out biome today and it worked better than prettier on jinja templates, I might adopt this over prettier.
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This post is a thought [2]. It’s a short note that I make
about someone else’s content online #thoughts
References:
[1]: https://biomejs.dev/formatter/
[2]: /thoughts/
htmx ~ The disable-element Extension
htmx gives you access to AJAX, CSS Transitions, WebSockets and Server Sent Events directly in HTML, using attributes, so you can build modern user interfaces with the simplicity and power of hypert...
v1.htmx.org [1]
An extension to disable elements during flight of an htmx [2] request, Looks super useful for things like a create or delete button where the server would end up with an error if you double delete or double create. This eliminates an error path that the user might see under normal use of the ui.
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://v1.htmx.org/extensions/disable-element/
[2]: /htmx/
[3]: /thoughts/
htmx ~ hx-indicator Attribute
The hx-indicator attribute in htmx allows you to specify the element that will have the `htmx-request` class added to it for the duration of the request. This can be used to show spinners or progre...
htmx.org [1]
The htmx-request class is added to htmx-target elements. You can target this css selector to create loading state throbbers.
By default the target element will the self, but you can use the typical htmx [2] css selector to select which element will recieve the htmx-request class while the request is running.
The only way to override the name of the class is through config.
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This post is a thought [3]. It’s a short note that I make
about someone else’s content online #thoughts
References:
[1]: https://htmx.org/attributes/hx-indicator/
[2]: /htmx/
[3]: /thoughts/
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Prime concisely made sense of why htmx is so awesome compared to what has become modern reactive web dev in 2 minutes. I had never thought of it this way and it’s incredible.
One thing I have comepletely missed out on with my use of htmx is setting the disabled state while the server is working, what a genius move!
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This post is a thought [2]. It’s a short note that I make
about someone else’s content online #thoughts
References:
[1]: /htmx/
[2]: /thoughts/
htmx ~ Examples ~ Updating Other Content
htmx gives you access to AJAX, CSS Transitions, WebSockets and Server Sent Events directly in HTML, using attributes, so you can build modern user interfaces with the simplicity and power of hypert...
htmx.org [1]
Three ways to support updating other content. Fantastic article walking through the different ways to update other parts of the screen using htmx [2].
In htmx there is no 2 way data binding, the dom is your state, and if you have elements derived from the same data on the screen in different places you need to think about how to keep them in sync.
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This post is a thought [3]. It’s a short note that I make
about someone else’s content online #thoughts
References:
[1]: https://htmx.org/examples/update-other-content/
[2]: /htmx/
[3]: /thoughts/
Bigger Applications - Multiple Files - FastAPI
FastAPI framework, high performance, easy to learn, fast to code, ready for production
fastapi.tiangolo.com [1]
Fastapi [2] lets you tag your APIRouter’s so that the swagger docs are grouped according to the router.
router = APIRouter(tags=['router'])
Now all routes in router will appear in the router group in the swagger docs.
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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/bigger-applications/#another-module-with-apirouter
[2]: /fastapi/
[3]: /thoughts/
Custom pages and templates - Datasette documentation
docs.datasette.io [1]
Datasette has its own static server that can host assets such as style sheets.
datasette -m metadata.json --static assets:static-files/
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This post is a thought [2]. It’s a short note that I make
about someone else’s content online #thoughts
References:
[1]: https://docs.datasette.io/en/stable/custom_templates.html#serving-static-files
[2]: /thoughts/
[1]
Tailwind css component library. There are many examples with copy and pastabily with the tailwind classes already setup.
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://preline.co/docs/index.html
[2]: /thoughts/
Tailwind CSS Cheat Sheet
Cheat sheet to learn Tailwind CSS quickly. Browse and search all Tailwind utility classes or CSS properties on one page.
nerdcave.com [1]
A nice searchable cheatsheet for tailwindcss classes.
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://nerdcave.com/tailwind-cheat-sheet
[2]: /thoughts/
cURL Command Without Using Cache | Baeldung on Linux
A quick and practical guide to using curl without cache.
Baeldung on Linux · baeldung.com [1]
Busting cache with curl. I’m not sure how much gets cached by curl, but I have ran into several cases where I am looking for new content and I want to ensure the content is new and no chance of being cached.
This article suggests 3 different techniques.
curl -H 'Cache-Control: no-cache, no-store' http://www.example.com
curl -H 'Pragma: no-cache' http://www.example.com
curl http://www.example.com/?xyzzyspoon
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This post is a thought [2]. It’s a short note that I make
about someone else’s content online #thoughts
References:
[1]: https://www.baeldung.com/linux/curl-without-cache#adding-the-pragma-http-header
[2]: /thoughts/
[1]
sqlite has 3 different tokenizers, porter, ascii, trigram.
These can be used with sqlite-utils.
sqlite-utils enable-fts --tokenize porter database.db post title message tags
And with the python api.
db = Database('database.db')
db["post"].enable_fts(
["title", "message", "tags"], create_triggers=True, tokenize="trigram"
)
posts = list(db["post"].search(search))
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://www.sqlite.org/fts5.html
[2]: /thoughts/
GitHub - sharkdp/bat: A cat(1) clone with wings.
A cat(1) clone with wings. Contribute to sharkdp/bat development by creating an account on GitHub.
GitHub · github.com [1]
Bat is my favorite pager, its the one for me that seems to just work more than the rest. colors, syntax highlighting, line numbers search, it just feels the most natural.
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/sharkdp/bat
[2]: /thoughts/
sqlite_utils Python library - sqlite-utils
sqlite-utils.datasette.io [1]
sqlite-utils is primarily a cli tool for sqlite operations such as enabling full text search, and executing searches, but it also has a nice python api that is exposed and pretty straightforward to use.
from sqlite_utils import Database
db = Database("database.db")
db["post"].enable_fts(["title", "message", "tags])
db["post"].search("water")
This returns a generator object that you can iterate over the row objects with.
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This post is a thought [2]. It’s a short note that I make
about someone else’s content online #thoughts
References:
[1]: https://sqlite-utils.datasette.io/en/stable/python-api.html#full-text-search
[2]: /thoughts/
How To Format All Files in a Directory with Prettier
Format any project, folder, or workspace using Prettier code formatter one line in the Prettier CLI.
Medium · levelup.gitconnected.com [1]
Use prettier to format all files in a directory. By default prettier does not write, it just echos out the format that it would do. Give it the --write and it will write the changes to the files.
prettier --write .
I just used this on my thoughts repo.
prettier --write templates
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This post is a thought [2]. It’s a short note that I make
about someone else’s content online #thoughts
References:
[1]: https://levelup.gitconnected.com/how-to-format-all-files-in-a-directory-with-prettier-5f0ff5f4ffb2
[2]: /thoughts/
GitHub - simonw/datasette-render-markdown: Datasette plugin for rendering Markdown
Datasette plugin for rendering Markdown. Contribute to simonw/datasette-render-markdown development by creating an account on GitHub.
GitHub · github.com [1]
datasette really does everything doesn’t it!
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/simonw/datasette-render-markdown
[2]: /thoughts/
GitHub - simonw/shot-scraper: A command-line utility for taking automated screenshots of websites
A command-line utility for taking automated screenshots of websites - simonw/shot-scraper
GitHub · github.com [1]
> A command-line utility for taking automated screenshots of websites
Daaaang, this is such an elegantly simple way to get web screenshots with a cli. I was literally up and running with two commands on my arch linux machine (which it warned was unsupported by playwright).
pip install shot-scraper
# Now install the browser it needs:
shot-scraper install
shot-scraper waylonwalker.com
shot-scraper https://datasette.io/
shot-scraper https://datasette.io/ -h 1280 -w 1920
shot-scraper https://datasette.io/ -h 480 -w 720
shot-scraper shot --selector '#posts' https://thoughts.waylonwalker.com/post/89
Note shot-scraper https://datasette.io/ is a full length screenshot of the entire page.
Oh and its pretty dang fast, let alone the setup time, this crushes on startup time in my attempts to use a headless browser in the past.
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/si...