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I do this too! But I call it `.local`

Coming to uv from pip, I fall back to uv pip list --outdated when I need that information.

I was really hoping for a gif or two!

At sufficient scale, Dependabot’s analysis will time out before completing, effectively rate-limiting the number of PRs it can generate. This natural throttling prevents notificati…

Thank you for expressing my thoughts as well. The article seems to be full of contradictory “advice”. Use a dependency cooldown, okay … but don’t commit your lockfile so you are al…

I was surprised, then not really surprised, when I found out this week that Tailscale's native file sharing feature, Taildrive, is implemented as a WebDAV server in the network. ht…

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20030808-00/?p=42...

I don’t like writing YAML. I like writing Python. So I write Python that generates YAML config files. JSON is in the standard library but YAML isn’t. So I generate JSON and name th…

And it only took 20 years!

Access to contacts for iOS apps is no longer all or nothing. You can grant an app access to only specific contacts. This is what I do for WhatsApp. Also, I know in the past I used …

https://github.com/python/cpython/issues/86904

I run an instance of FreshRSS [0] and access it from a browser, but I also use NetNewsWire [1] as a client on platforms where it is available. [0] https://freshrss.org/ [1] https:/…

I use Flask a lot too. I generally just add keyword arguments to url_for() to automatically add querystrings to URLs.

The fact that this is not a manual reimplementation, but a "transpilation" of the psql source from C to JavaScript, makes this super interesting to me. From the Postgres master bra…

In my mind, "move in a straight line due east" can be interpreted as "for as long as you are moving, your movement should be due east". In that case, your latitude will never chang…

I’ve been an admin at https://rainwave.cc for about 15 years now. One of the unique (I think) features we have allows listeners to influence what plays next on the radio. While the…

If you give your thumb an absolute value of 5 (or 50, depending on the hand) you can finger count in base 10 all the way to 99!

https://github.com/simonw/llm

As a kid I always wondered where the name “Maxwell’s Maniac” came from. https://gamicus.fandom.com/wiki/Maxwell%27s_Maniac

This is a (fantastic!) project by Simon Willison, co-creator of the Django framework and creator of Datasette. If you are wondering why the collection is so small, it would appear …

Honest question: if I want to apply IaC to my views, is there a better tool than dbt to take care of that for me? I have never used dbt before, only read about it.

If anyone knows of a tool that can sync both ways between Google Calendar and a CalDAV server, I'd love to know about it.

I guess it depends on which “tech” specifically you care about. The jump from an iPhone 7 to the 3rd gen SE will probably feel amazing, considering it has the same SoC as all the i…

The iPhone SE, described in the article, has Touch ID.