transponderings.blog
Helpful review of a number of Mastodon clients for iOS, available late 2022.
Spacebear Federation
Mastodon hosting company.
Virtual Environments with Eglot, Tramp, and Pyright · robbmann
Blog post talking about getting eglot and pyright working together nicely.
A collective list of free APIs
Pretty epic list of all sorts of free public APIs. Handy when you're looking for inspiration for a project to mess with.
PyPi - API reference - Warehouse documentation
PyPi API reference.
Upload & sell your music on Apple, Spotify, Amazon and YouTube Music
A service that can be used to distribute music to all sorts of streaming services.
Asteroid Launcher
Throw rocks and more at places on Earth.
A Case Study on Raspberry Pi’s Incident on the Fediverse || Eiara Limited - Sustainable DevOps
Excellent write up of RPi’s social media meltdown after folk weren’t terribly happy about their glorification of a surveillance state.
What Are Python Wheels and Why Should You Care? – Real Python
Pretty comprehensive article covering the concept of Python "wheels".
A year of building for the terminal on Hacker News
Textualize devlog blog post on Hacker News; of course with the usual collection of very Hacker News replies along the way.
It's probably time to stop recommending Clean Code
Well-written review of why Clean Code isn’t a great book.
GitHub Contributions Chart Generator
Generate a full history of your GitHub contributions.
XTerm Control Sequences
A pretty definitive document covering XTerm control sequences.
These Years in Common Lisp: 2022 in review - Lisp journey
A revew of Common Lisp's 2022.
Full archive of BYTE magazines
Every issue of BYTE magazine, from 1975 until 1998, as a PDF.
Ask HN: Why are toggle switches replacing checkboxes? Isn't on/off less obvious? | Hacker News
A rare good discussion on Hacker News; folk pondering the issues of toggle switches vs checkboxes.
Trimmed down python setup for Emacs. This is a basic `init.el` file for Python, you can pick the bits you like.
Handy cut-down config for Emacs and Python, showing examples of comapny and eglot (or optionally lsp-mode) along the way.
How should Pyright consider typing stubs with try-excepted imports?
Visual design rules you can safely follow every time
Visual design rules you can safely follow every time.
You do not have to follow these rules every time. If you have a good reason to break any of them, do. But they are safe to follow every time.
Why (Python) type hinting sucks
I don’t agree with the post - type hinting is awesome in my experience - but it’s a cleverly-crafted argument and there’s some interesting debate in the comments.
Swearing makes code better
Fuck yeah quality fucking code!
Style guides for Google-originated open-source projects
Google's style guide for Python code. Obviously not the law, not even always a good suggestion, but worthy of consideration.
Textual 0.11.0 adds a beautiful Markdown widget
Reddit thread where the Textual Markdown widget was announced.
Also includes the rather hilarious comment "I wish there were more full blown app examples out there", back when Textual was pretty damn new and barely out of the initial "CSS branch" release.
Try out CSS Nesting today
CSS nesting in webkit.
Basic introduction to Pydantic
Nice little introduction to what Pydantic offers.
Install Linux on a MacBook Air
Explainer on how to get Linux up and running on a MacBook Air. I’ve got an old “legacy” Air and this could be a good use for it.
lofi air traffic control
lofi music with ATC mixed in. Weird but cool
Free Open-Source Weather API | Open-Meteo.com
A very comprehensive-looking free weather API; looks like the perfect sort of thing to build on top of. No API keys needed too!
Bresenham's Circle Drawing Algorithm
Description of a method of drawing a circle
LIBERATING THE MACBOOK AIR 2013 WITH LINUX
Article detailing how you can revive an end-of-lifed MacBook Air with GNU/Linux.