Making SQLite extensions pip install-able Alex Garcia figured out how to bundle a compiled SQLite extension in a Python wheel (building different wheels for different platforms) and publish them…

The technology behind GitHub’s new code search I've been a beta user of the new GitHub code search for a while and I absolutely love it: you really can run a regular expression search acro…

Last night I was in London Town™️ to see the enigmatic Hamish Hawk at the Scala. His 2021 album Heavy Elevator got a lot of plays with me last year, and his new one, Angel Numbers was released o…

Copying and pasting from Console is annoying but there is a better way. The Console variable $_ contains the last result. You can use this with the copy() command to copy the data to the clipboard wit…

Today I learned that MacOS can remove backgrounds from images, much like remove.bg does. All you need to do is right-click an image and select Quick Actions > Remove Background. For example, it turned…

When you start a creative project but don’t finish, the experience drags you down. Worst of all is when you never decisively abandon a project, instead allowing it to fade into forgetfulness. T…

The 21st century is being delayed: We’re stuck with corporations building these incredible artifacts and then staring at them and realizing the questions they encode are too vast and unwieldy t…

The most dramatic optimization to nanoGPT so far (~25% speedup) is to simply increase vocab size from 50257 to 50304 (nearest multiple of 64). This calculates added useless dimensions but goes do…

Just used prompt injection to read out the secret OpenAI API key of a very well known GPT-3 application.In essence, whenever parts of the returned response from GPT-3 is executed directly, e.g. u…

I’m Now a Full-Time Professional Open Source Maintainer Filippo Valsorda, previously a member of the Go team at Google, is now independent and making a full-time living as a maintainer of vario…

GROUNDHOG-DAY.com "The leading Groundhog Day data source". I love this so much: it's a collection of predictions from all 59 groundhogs active in towns scattered across North America (I had…

Carving the Scheduler Out of Our Orchestrator Thomas Ptacek describes Fly's new custom-built alternative to Nomad and Kubernetes in detail, including why they eventually needed to build some…

So happy to see the replacement signage I designed for local independent record store TRUCK has finally been installed in Witney! The original signage. The extended font was based on Radiohead's The…

Before the present owner, I was a Twitter Blue customer, because I always pay for software—to support its creators and help prevent it from disappearing, as so many great websites and platforms have…

It's never too early to explore design ideas.After all, it's called "design thinking" for a reason — critical thinking doesn't happen only inside…

Those who follow me on Instagram might have seen pictures and I already also told you about the Wonderwalls Exhibition in Düsseldorf. This week it i…

Python’s “Disappointing” Superpowers Luke Plant provides a fascinating detailed list of Python libraries that use dynamic meta-programming tricks in interesting ways - including SQLAlchemy,…

pyfakefs usage New to me pytest fixture library that provides a really easy way to mock Python's filesystem functions - open(), os.path.listdir() and so on - so a test can run against a fake…