I'm losing my mind watching this. The people involved need to either be given a massive Netflix contract or institutionalised <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jky5ZXI0axc>

Today I found a TUI frontend for curl! 🔥

🌀**cute**: TUI HTTP client with API/auth key management and request history/storage.

🌐 Supports importing Postman collections!

🦀 Written in Rust & built with [@ratatui_rs](https://fosstodon.org/@ratatui_rs)

⭐ GitHub: <https://github.com/PThorpe92/CuTE>

[#rustlang](https://fosstodon.org/tags/rustlang) [#ratatui](https://fosstodon.org/tags/ratatui) [#tui](https://fosstodon.org/tags/tui) [#curl](https://fosstodon.org/tags/curl) [#http](https://fosstodon.org/tags/http) [#request](https://fosstodon.org/tags/request) [#api](https://fosstodon.org/tags/api) [#auth](https://fosstodon.org/tags/auth)

Trying out the new Gemini 1.5 Pro model <https://developers.googleblog.com/2024/04/gemini-15-pro-in-public-preview-with-new-features.html>

Can run it online in Google AI Studio, but very easy to use it on the command line on a linux server with python modules llm & llm-gemini by [@simon](https://fedi.simonwillison.net/@simon) after getting the free API key in AI Studio. Took me 5 minutes to set up.

<https:github.com/simonw/llm-gemini>

Datasette Extract is a new Datasette plugin that uses GPT-4 (and the new GPT-4 Vision) to extract structured data from unstructured text and images and insert it into a SQLite database table. Here's a video demonstrating the plugin:

<https:www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3NtJatmQR0>

yall ever seen a shaved alpaca before?

Ever wondered about UK place names? My new web app lets you search place names (starting with 'south', ending with 'burgh', containing 'sea' etc) and plot them on a map - and then share those maps with friends.

Have a look at <https://placenames.rtwilson.com/>, or try one of the examples, like this map of different suffixes: <https://placenames.rtwilson.com/#W3sidGV4dCI6ImJ1cmdoIiwiY29sb3IiOiIjZTMxYTFjIiwiY2hlY2tlZCI6dHJ1ZSwibWF0Y2hUeXBlIjoiZW5kc3dpdGgifSx7InRleHQiOiJoYW1wdG9uIiwiY29sb3IiOiIjMWY3OGI0IiwiY2hlY2tlZCI6dHJ1ZSwibWF0Y2hUeXBlIjoiZW5kc3dpdGgifSx7InRleHQiOiJiYWNoIiwiY29sb3IiOiIjMzNhMDJjIiwiY2hlY2tlZCI6dHJ1ZSwibWF0Y2hUeXBlIjoiZW5kc3dpdGgifV0>=

[#GIS](https://mastodon.me.uk/tags/GIS) [#geospatial](https://mastodon.me.uk/tags/geospatial) [#UK](https://mastodon.me.uk/tags/UK) [#placenames](https://mastodon.me.uk/tags/placenames) [#mapping](https://mastodon.me.uk/tags/mapping) [#gischat](https://mastodon.me.uk/tags/gischat)

I've been writing serverside SQLite applications for several years now and I still picked things up from this article, which is extremely good. <https://kerkour.com/sqlite-for-servers>

Gorgeous dark-eyed junco at Santa Fe Ski Basin in New Mexico. So very different than the dark-eyed juncos here in Seattle. [#birdphotography](https://fediscience.org/tags/birdphotography) [#birdwatching](https://fediscience.org/tags/birdwatching)

OWC has an actually decent looking USB4 enclosure. I'll probably get one whenever the M3 mini comes out, you know cause no way in hell I’m paying $400 for 1TB of storage.
<https:www.owc.com/solutions/express-1m2>

[@asciinema](https://fosstodon.org/@asciinema) Awesome fix of the double-width characters!

To anyone using this with the [#Hugo](https://fosstodon.org/tags/Hugo) static site generator, I’ve updated my module to this new version: <https://github.com/cljoly/gohugo-asciinema/releases/tag/v3.7.1>

[@simon](https://fedi.simonwillison.net/@simon) Copilot is funny. If you can convince it that it's about programming, it'll tell you all sorts of things...

Another [#HelixEditor](https://fosstodon.org/tags/HelixEditor) change I made which is changing my life.

Pressing x will highlight whole lines. But if you accidentally hit x too many times, there is no way to go back up. So I made shift+x do exactly that.

X = ["extend_line_up", "extend_to_line_bounds"]

Aragorn and Éomer meet, ‘though all the hosts of Mordor lay between us. Did I not say so at the Hornburg?’

‘So you spoke, but hope oft deceives. I knew not then that you were a man foresighted. Yet twice blessed is help unlooked for. Never was a meeting of friends more joyful.’

The Python version of "Software Design by Example" will be out Real Soon: you can read the content at <https://third-bit.com/sdxpy/> or order a hard copy at <https://www.routledge.com/9781032725215> - please use the code "SMA22" to get 20% off. All royalties will go to support the Red Door Family Shelter in Toronto (<https://www.reddoorshelter.ca/>).

My teenager has introduced me to the band Wind Rose and it's awesome. It's like they asked themselves, "What if there was a band from Azeroth or Middle Earth?" Start here: <https://music.apple.com/us/album/diggy-diggy-hole/1472250263?i=1472251230>

[@rob](https://gts.cupcakerob.nl/@rob)

If you use poetry to manage your venv for each repo, you can also do: poetry shell to use start the virtualenv, and then run nvim . to start coding.

Provided that your dap is setup like this:

local dap = require("dap")  
dap.configurations.python = {  
 {  
 type = "python",  
 request = "launch",  
 name = "Launch file",  
 program = "${file}",  
 pythonPath = "python",  
 },  
}  

[#nvim](https://mastodon.world/tags/nvim) [#neovim](https://mastodon.world/tags/neovim) [#python](https://mastodon.world/tags/python)

TIL: if I want to debug [#python](https://gts.cupcakerob.nl/tags/python) :python: in [#neovim](https://gts.cupcakerob.nl/tags/neovim) :nvim:
your imported packages need to be in the same python env that debugpy is.

Now in [#LazyVim](https://gts.cupcakerob.nl/tags/lazyvim) , [#mason](https://gts.cupcakerob.nl/tags/mason) installs debugpy in it's own venv and the debug adapter can't find the other packages

so: install debugpy in your venv and run

:lua require('dap-python').setup('./venv/bin/python')

or use vscode/pycharm or something if you have a life ;-)

Here's the list of features you should disable on every installation of Windows 11.

[#microsoft](https://mastodon.social/tags/microsoft) [#windows11](https://mastodon.social/tags/windows11) [#features](https://mastodon.social/tags/features)
<https:tchlp.com/3SXEQEi>

Numbat (<https://numbat.dev/>) is a calculator thing that understands units. They recently added some date and time support, which I'm hoping will satisfy my need for easy to use date math. [#Rust](https://mastodon.decentralised.social/tags/Rust) [#cli](https://mastodon.decentralised.social/tags/cli)

I’ve never been more excited to do a blog post.

My goal was to preserve some never-before-heard recordings of the Firehouse Five Plus Two, a famous Disney-employee dixieland jazz band.

But along the way, I accidentally uncovered something incredible… a lost song that was cut from Walt Disney’s Cinderella, a song that hasn’t been heard in almost 75 years.

And you’re about to hear it too.

Read now: 🌟 <https://cabel.com/2024/02/13/firehouse-five-and-the-cinderella-surprise/>

This is going to be a hard one to explain tomorrow during standup.

As 2024 marks the resurgence of RSS and Atom, I decided to update my rudimentary RSS tools from 2007 to make them contemporary and works under Python 3. The release v1.0 marks this step and allow everyone to use and improve the RSS toolset.

🔗 GitHub <https://github.com/adulau/rss-tools>

[#rss](https://paperbay.org/tags/rss) [#opensource](https://paperbay.org/tags/opensource) [#atom](https://paperbay.org/tags/atom) [#open](https://paperbay.org/tags/open) [#rsstools](https://paperbay.org/tags/rsstools) [#federated](https://paperbay.org/tags/federated) [#unix](https://paperbay.org/tags/unix)

Outline of SQL tutorial has hit the "100 queries" goal <https://gvwilson.github.io/sql-tutorial/> still have at least six diagrams to draw, and would like appendices showing how to use DuckDB to do the same things (easy) and how to use permissions etc. in PostgreSQL (hard because setup and re-run). Help always welcome: please see <https://gvwilson.github.io/sql-tutorial/contributing/> for the contributors' guide.

Thanks to everyone who submitted and participated to the BEAM devroom, it was packed from start to finish and full of interesting talks!

Tonight if anyone wants to get together we will be at the Wolf Sharing Food Market from 7 PM

<https:wolf.be/>

To find us just go around looking for a bunch of people with BEAM looking faces 😄

[#erlang](https://patavium.social/tags/erlang) [#elixir](https://patavium.social/tags/elixir) [#gleam](https://patavium.social/tags/gleam) [#fosdem](https://patavium.social/tags/fosdem) [#WeBEAMTogether](https://patavium.social/tags/WeBEAMTogether)

Corners that glow.

[#streetphotography](https://sfba.social/tags/streetphotography) [#photography](https://sfba.social/tags/photography) [#newyorkcity](https://sfba.social/tags/newyorkcity) [#hithere](https://sfba.social/tags/hithere) [#yourecute](https://sfba.social/tags/yourecute) [#letsbefriends](https://sfba.social/tags/letsbefriends)

Here's some ridiculously exciting news...

One of the most useful nerdy documents on the internet is "Beej's Guide to Network Programming", a comprehensive tutorial on C socket programming that's been continually improved since 1995

I just found out Beej has a new guide (started in March 2023) called "Beej’s Guide to Networking Concepts" - which teaches networking concepts using Python!

<https:beej.us/guide/bgnet0/>

Happy 30th to [#Python](https://mastodon.social/tags/Python) 1.0.0, announced by Guido van Rossum on 27 Jan 1994 in comp.lang.misc! 🎂 🎈 3️⃣0️⃣ 🍾 🎉

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Python 1.0.0 is out!

Guido van Rossum
27 Jan 1994

--> Tired of decyphering the Perl code you wrote last week?

--> Frustrated with Bourne shell syntax?

--> Spent too much time staring at core dumps lately?

Maybe you should try Python, the next generation object-oriented
scripting and prototyping language, with a *readable* syntax.

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Read in full:
<https://groups.google.com/g/comp.lang.misc/c/_QUzdEGFwCo/m/KIFdu0-Dv7sJ>

I hope this email finds you well
I hope this email minds you
I hope this email brings you in
And in the darkness binds you

Finally taking the time to set up Safari Profiles properly and bind certain websites like YouTube, LinkedIn, Twitter, and Facebook to open in an ‘Undesirables' profile that I don't use for anything else. This feels like a better setup. [#Apple](https://toot.cafe/tags/Apple) [#Safari](https://toot.cafe/tags/Safari) [#privacy](https://toot.cafe/tags/privacy)