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22 Dec, 4 tweets, 1 min read
I'm excited to dig into this. Turbolinks has always appealed to me for skipping fill page reloads without going all-in on client-side-rendering, and the new turbo frames thing looks like a very useful extension to that concept
More on that frames concept:
Full page reloads, not fill page reloads
Also love seeing the branding efforts the Basecamp tram put into this kind of thing - Hotwire for HTML Over The Wire is a very clever parent project name

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21 Dec
Having decent test coverage for a software project turns out to be the single biggest boost to programming productivity that I know of
It lets you drop in to a project, make a change, commit and release it and then forget EVERYTHING you know about that project again
When I think about the amount of programming time I've wasted in the past because a project didn't have tests, so any changes at all involved first having to understand everything about how it was built and what it was supposed to do (entirely undocumented, of course)
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12 Oct
Notes, links and notebook from my #JupyterCon2020 session on Datasette and sqlite-utils this morning: gist.github.com/simonw/656c21b… - I live-coded a SQLite database containing earthquakes from last week using data from USGS
Here's a Datasette instance showing the database of earthquakes I built in that notebook - facet by type shows that there were 17 ice quakes, 1 mine collapse and 1 chemical explosion in the past week! jupytercon-earthquakes-demo.vercel.app/earthquakes/qu… Screenshot of Datasette displaying a map of earthquakes, plu
Looks like this is the mine collapse: triblive.com/local/westmore…
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12 Oct
Built a tool to load Evernote exported notes (ENEX files) into a SQLite database - so now I can load them into Datasette and see all of my notes on a map! github.com/dogsheep/evern… A screenshot of my notes on...
ENEX is a slightly tricky format - each note is CDATA XML embedded in a larger XML document, plus base64 attachments (usually images).

All of my notes exported at once result in an XML file that's 2.6GB!
One neat detail is that the output of Evernote's cloud OCR system (run automatically against every image embedded in a note) is available in the XML. evernote-to-sqlite extracts out these OCR strings and uses them to populate a SQLite full-text search table. An image containing the tex...A <recoIndex> XML document ...
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9 Oct
Git scraping: track changes over time by scraping to a Git repository
simonwillison.net/2020/Oct/9/git…
I realized I've been using the term "git scraping" for a while without publishing a clear explanation of what I mean by the term

Git scraping = writing scrapers that record their results in a Git repository in order to track changes to the scraped resource over time
The Hacker News thread has some great examples of people who've discovered the same pattern news.ycombinator.com/item?id=247329…

I particularly like this one - it's been running for three years scraping bug bounty target domains from sites like @Hacker0x01 github.com/arkadiyt/bount…
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17 Jul
15 years ago today on my blog: Introducing Django simonwillison.net/2005/Jul/17/dj…
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I really like this post by @mc on Django Gotchas from the next day for more historical context - you had to install it by symlinking to site-packages! postneo.com/2005/07/18/dja…
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9 Jun
I got curious about how git knows what a Python function / class definition looks like when displaying diffs. Turns out it ships with a giant ball of regular expressions covering 22 different languages, in github.com/git/git/blob/m… Screenshot of a git diff where it highlighted the Python claScreenshot of the python regular expressions from userdiff.c
Here's where they added support for Python "async def" functions seven months ago. The way to conquer terrifying regular expressions is with neat, comprehensive unit tests: github.com/git/git/commit…
I like that those unit tests are accompanied by a README explaining how to write them: github.com/git/git/blob/0…
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