This is something I’ve needed myself over the last few years as jobs become shorter and shorter lived. Keep on improving it as some kind of compulsion.
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#42* a library for filesystem tree operations (and other trees, if you're clever enough swapping in components)
* a utility to identify and extract wheels from pip's cache (so that they can be dumped into other installers' caches, for example)
I also hope to return to bbbb soon, if only to make sure that it can build PAPER's wheels smoothly (and with a few other basic conveniences implemented).
Oh, and I wrote an article for LWN recently and have plans for a few more....
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#44Also, every region has different ways of representing a “neighbourhood”, so I get to learn how to extract viable data from each city. Lots of map stuff, I’m genuinely enjoying it!
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#45For example, you can scroll through 60 pictures from my window https://stacks.camera/u/ben/89n1HJNT
Most of the challenges are around handling images & rendering, but I've also been playing with Passkey-only authentication which I'm finding really interesting.
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#48The other more recent is a web based CalDAV client for Todo items. I love the tasks.org mobile app and can't stand the Nextcloud Tasks UI so I'm making an alternative that'll be local first and simple but fast.
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#49it now takes every other minute a webcam pic of me to see whats going on
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#50Likely will do a prosumer SKU, will be faster and cheaper than the Mac Studio equivalent.