TIL: Improving µCSS readability on mobile
How to get an otherwise responsive framework to look good on mobile devices.
Til posts by Daniel Roy Greenfeld
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TIL: Checkov's Gun
A powerful technique used in storytelling.
TIL: Using PygmentsRenderer with mistletoe as a partial
Another part of the process of switching from marked.js and python-markdown to just using mistletoe.
TIL: Default code block languages for mkdocs
Really useful for making inline code examples have code highlighting.
TIL: Loading .env files with uv run
Replacing python-dotenv with uv
TIL: Merging two git projects
Attribution matters to me, I want contributors to always get full credit for their effort. This is how you preserve the git history of a project you are bringing into another project.
TIL: Setting environment variables for pytest
An easier way of doing it then modifying os.environ
TIL: Using SQLModel Asynchronously with FastAPI (and Air) with PostgreSQL
SQLModel is a really useful library for working with SQL databases in Python, built on top of SQLAlchemy and Pydantic. However, AFAIK there's no documentation supporting asynchronous operations for PostgreSQL, which can be a limitation when building high-performance web applications with FastAPI and Air.
TIL: Single source version package builds with uv (redux)
Tired of updating the version in multiple places before publishing a package update? Here's how Adam Johnson told me I should be doing it.
TIL: How to type args and kwargs
A reduction in boilerplate confused me, the answer is that the type to define is the value in the containers.
TIL: Single source version package builds with uv
Tired of updating the version in multiple places before publishing a package update? Leery of using inspect.metadata to fetch the package? Here's how to have a single source of version using UV's build subcommand.
TIL: Removing exif geodata from media
How to remove revealing data from your images and videos
TIL: HTML 404 errors for FastAPI
For those times when FastAPI is serving web pages and users go to the wrong place.
TIL: Exception.add_note
Adding extra info to exceptions the easy way.
TIL: ^ bitwise XOR
How to mark a comparison of booleans as True or False using bitwise XOR.