Azure Fundamentals and Services
2024-02-15
Day 46 of 90 Days of DevOps - Azure Fundamentals and Services. Part of the Cloud Platforms series covering essential DevOps concepts and hands-on practices.
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Trick Apple Photos into letting you access your video files
2024-02-14
I had an 11GB movie in Apple Photos (sync'd from my iPhone) and I wanted to upload it to YouTube (actually via AirDrop to another laptop first).
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AWS Networking - VPC and Security Groups
2024-02-14
Day 45 of 90 Days of DevOps - AWS Networking - VPC and Security Groups. Part of the Cloud Platforms series covering essential DevOps concepts and hands-on practices.
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Logging OpenAI API requests and responses using HTTPX
2024-02-14
My [LLM](https://llm.datasette.io/) tool has a feature where you can set a `LLM_OPENAI_SHOW_RESPONSES` environment variable to see full debug level...
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Running self-hosted QuickJS in a browser
2024-02-14
I want to try using [QuickJS](https://bellard.org/quickjs/) compiled to WebAssembly in a browser as a way of executing untrusted user-provided Java...
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Testing Electron apps with Playwright and GitHub Actions
2024-02-14
Yesterday [I figured out (issue 133)](https://github.com/simonw/datasette-app/issues/133) how to use Playwright to run tests against my Electron ap...
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impaste: pasting images to piped commands on macOS
2024-02-13
I wanted the ability to paste the image on my clipboard into a command in the macOS terminal.
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AWS Storage Solutions - S3 and EBS
2024-02-13
Day 44 of 90 Days of DevOps - AWS Storage Solutions - S3 and EBS. Part of the Cloud Platforms series covering essential DevOps concepts and hands-on practices.
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Using async/await in JavaScript in Selenium
2024-02-12
Thanks [Stuart Langridge](https://twitter.com/sil/status/1312137808111304704) for showing me how to do this:
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Providing a "subscribe in Google Calendar" link for an ics feed
2024-02-12
If you provide your own custom generated ICS file hosted at a URL it's nice to be able to give Google Calendar users an easy way to subscribe to th...
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AWS EC2 and Compute Services
2024-02-12
Day 43 of 90 Days of DevOps - AWS EC2 and Compute Services. Part of the Cloud Platforms series covering essential DevOps concepts and hands-on practices.
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Using sqlite-vec with embeddings in sqlite-utils and Datasette
2024-02-12
Alex Garcia's [sqlite-vec](https://github.com/asg017/sqlite-vec) SQLite extension provides a bunch of useful functions for working with vectors ins...
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Enabling the fuzzystrmatch extension in PostgreSQL with a Django migration
2024-02-12
The PostgreSQL [fuzzystrmatch extension](https://www.postgresql.org/docs/13/fuzzystrmatch.html) enables several functions for fuzzy string matching...
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Using iconv to convert the text encoding of a file
2024-02-12
In [sqlite-utils issue 439](https://github.com/simonw/sqlite-utils/issues/439) I was testing against a CSV file that used UTF16 little endian encod...
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Finding uses of an API with the new GitHub Code Search
2024-02-12
The [GitHub Code Search beta](https://docs.github.com/en/search-github/github-code-search) is really powerful - it allows advanced search - includi...
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AWS Core Services Overview
2024-02-11
Day 42 of 90 Days of DevOps - AWS Core Services Overview. Part of the Cloud Platforms series covering essential DevOps concepts and hands-on practices.
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Cloud Computing Fundamentals
2024-02-10
Day 41 of 90 Days of DevOps - Cloud Computing Fundamentals. Part of the Cloud Platforms series covering essential DevOps concepts and hands-on practices.
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Kubernetes Security and RBAC
2024-02-09
Day 40 of 90 Days of DevOps - Kubernetes Security and RBAC. Part of the Containerization & Orchestration series covering essential DevOps concepts and hands-on practices.
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Kubernetes StatefulSets and Persistent Storage
2024-02-08
Day 39 of 90 Days of DevOps - Kubernetes StatefulSets and Persistent Storage. Part of the Containerization & Orchestration series covering essential DevOps concepts and hands-on practices.
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HTML video with subtitles
2024-02-08
Via [Mariatta](https://fosstodon.org/@mariatta/112883308634473940) I found my [PyVideo speaker page](https://pyvideo.org/speaker/simon-willison.htm...
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Shrinking PNG files with pngquant and oxipng
2024-02-07
I usually use [Squoosh.app](https://squoosh.app/) to reduce the size of my PNGs, but in this case I had a folder with nearly 50 images in it so I w...
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Kubernetes Ingress and Load Balancing
2024-02-07
Day 38 of 90 Days of DevOps - Kubernetes Ingress and Load Balancing. Part of the Containerization & Orchestration series covering essential DevOps concepts and hands-on practices.
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A simple pattern for inlining binary content in a Python script
2024-02-06
For [simonw/til issue #82](https://github.com/simonw/til/issues/82) I needed to embed some binary content directly in a Python script.
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