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Vincent D. Warmerdam @koaning.bsky.social · 6d

I'm just gonna leave this url as a slight flex. It's the 2nd time that I seem to have made it to the top 10.

It's one of the coolest competitions in the world IHMO.

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SoME — Create and discover new math content

The Summer of Math Exposition is an annual competition to foster the creation of excellent math content online.

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Vincent D. Warmerdam @koaning.bsky.social · 6d

Sometimes you use a tool for so long that you just assume it's the tool to use. And, that's bad. There's loads of improvements these days, especially in the terminal!

One recent example: turns out there's an awesome "ls" replacement called "eza"!

youtu.be/ocBnpYdsVAo

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Vincent D. Warmerdam @koaning.bsky.social · 8d

There's a bunch of folks that ask me things like "what makes a good devrel?" and honestly I can't come up with a simple answer.

That said, sofar all the "devrel" that I enjoy to follow all seem to listen to this podcast: scalingdevtools.com/.

So go treat yourself.

Scaling DevTools

Lessons from 100+ DevTool founders - DevTools successes, failures and stories in a free weekly email and podcast.

scalingdevtools.com

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Vincent D. Warmerdam @koaning.bsky.social · 9d

Can I just make one comment about my social media feed this morning?

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Vincent D. Warmerdam @koaning.bsky.social · 9d

@djangoproject @simonwillison.net y'all might enjoy this technique

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Vincent D. Warmerdam @koaning.bsky.social · 10d

I wonder what today's video will be about ...

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Vincent D. Warmerdam @koaning.bsky.social · 12d

It was a fun exercise, gotta admit that!

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Vincent D. Warmerdam @koaning.bsky.social · 16d

I wonder what today's marimo video will be about ...

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Vincent D. Warmerdam @koaning.bsky.social · 20d

Banned imports from flake8/ruff are such a nice video I felt compelled to make a video about it.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxO...

How and why I ban SQLAlchemy submodules with ruff

It's a simple enough trick. Blogpost here: https://koaning.io/posts/ruff-banned-imports/

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Vincent D. Warmerdam @koaning.bsky.social · 21d

It is.

By the end of it, no file will be left untitled!

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Vincent D. Warmerdam @koaning.bsky.social · 21d

The perfect talk title does not exi...

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Vincent D. Warmerdam @koaning.bsky.social · 22d

TIL about banned import rules for ruff. You can use them to make sure that nobody uses a specific submodule.

TIAL that there's a SQLAlchemy use-case for it!

koaning.io/posts/ruff-...

ruff banned imports

I was thinking about SQLAlchemy and how it has specific features for different backends. PostgresSQL has JSON support, for example, but Sqlite doesn't.

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Vincent D. Warmerdam @koaning.bsky.social · 28d

It turns out that you can buy MX switches with ... ball bearings?

It's totally over-engineered, but ... I may have also found a use-case for them ...

Details are in my latest review:
youtu.be/VtzGyonUr4o

Some switches come with ball-bearings. But why?

You can buy ball-bearing switches here: https://milktooth.com/products/ws-pearlYou can see the inside of these switches here:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=...

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Vincent D. Warmerdam @koaning.bsky.social · Sep 9

I can see the merits of pyproject.toml for sure, but requirements.txt still feels fair enough for smaller projects imho.

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Vincent D. Warmerdam @koaning.bsky.social · Sep 8

Wrote about it in more detail here:

koaning.io/posts/dev-r...

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Vincent D. Warmerdam @koaning.bsky.social · Sep 8

"dev-requirements.txt" is bad and "requirements-dev.txt" makes much more sense.

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Vincent D. Warmerdam @koaning.bsky.social · Sep 8

It's also the perfect project to move around. Have tried about 6 cloud services now and moved it again this weekend. f

What's cool this time around: it all runs with SQLite!

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Vincent D. Warmerdam @koaning.bsky.social · Sep 8

I started calmcode about 5 years ago, and while I don't work on it as actively anymore, I am still overjoyed that when-ever I log into the analytics pane ... there's always visitors on the site!

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Vincent D. Warmerdam @koaning.bsky.social · Sep 8

Blogpost here:
koaning.io/posts/pytho...

Python can open a webbrowser for you

I have a line in my `justfile` that goes like this: ```bash serve port=

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Vincent D. Warmerdam @koaning.bsky.social · Sep 8

TIL that python has a webbrowser module and it plays super nice with my justfile to immediately open the page when I run pythom -m http.serve

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Vincent D. Warmerdam @koaning.bsky.social · Sep 5

And then one thing led to another.

marimo users now have plugin that makes terminal commands reactive in notebooks *and* this also gives you llm completion for terminal-stuff to.

Made a recording of a full demo here:
youtu.be/2LAX-u5WYpU...

The Happy Accident that gave me Rich Terminal Support

Sometimes you really want to take recreational programming seriously. This was one of those moments.

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Vincent D. Warmerdam @koaning.bsky.social · Sep 5

I made a thing by accident.

I noticed that rich, by Will McGugan, has an export svg feature that renders very nicely in marimo notebooks. So I was looking for an excuse to use that in useful way ...

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Vincent D. Warmerdam @koaning.bsky.social · Sep 4

There's an offsite in SF in October and I may be organizing a live event when we have the whole team in a single room.

Follow me for live updates!

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Vincent D. Warmerdam @koaning.bsky.social · Sep 3

One way to learn vim is to build your own game for it.

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Vincent D. Warmerdam @koaning.bsky.social · Sep 3

Been thinking lately about how "deliberate play" is perhaps the best way to "getting better at getting better".

Wrote about it in detail here:
koaning.substack.com/p/deliberat...

Deliberate play

Getting better at getting better.

koaning.substack.com

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