@simon Why `pip install -e`? That is usually a red flag for me in non-interactive environments, because it suggests you may be relying on some accidental "feature" of the editable install mechanism.
Better to test as your users are expected to install it: https://blog.ganssle.io/articles/2019/08/test-as-installed.html
@brainwane On my instance it's a quote-tweet. I was organizing it as "Interesting details about the project in the thread, then this call for users as a QT-comment-on-the-thread".
If anyone else finds this kind of thing useful, I'd totally love it if someone else started using this project. Particularly if you are the kind of person who is going to make lots of improvements to the front-end and then send me PRs 😉
I keep coming up with interesting improvements for this project, but I only have so much time to work on stuff like this.
I started this application in December 2016, before I knew anything about databases, so I hacked together a pseudo-DB out of YAML files, because I wanted to be able to edit the files by hand if I screwed up. As this "database" grew, parsing huge YAML files became a bottleneck; I lived with this for years, but recently, I managed to switch over to using a SQLite database!
I lived with this for years, but recently, I managed to switch to a SQLite database!
This was surprisingly easy, because I already had a pseudo-ORM, and I just load the whole "database" into memory at startup, but I am still not using the features of a "real database", since my "queries" are basically Python code iterating over dictionaries and such.
I really like the "segmented" feed, which breaks up books along chapter and/or file boundaries, recombining them to minimize total deviation from 60m files. I like to listen to audiobooks in ~60 minute chunks, and this automates the process of chunking them up for me.
The implementation was a rare example where dynamic programming was useful in the wild (and not just in job interviews): https://github.com/pganssle/audio-feeder/blob/1a07c8ffa7c7b548471f979382fedb653ce6ee5a/src/audio_feeder/segmenter.py#L45-L102
Thanks to @njs for suggesting the approach and basically implementing it flawlessly on the first try.
I've also created this probably convenient docker-compose repository for (somewhat) easily deploying `audio-feeder`: https://github.com/pganssle/audio_feeder_docker
Now featuring ✨🌟✨*installation instructions*✨🌟✨ (so fancy).
Yesterday I released version 0.6.0 of my audiobook RSS server, `audio-feeder`: https://github.com/pganssle/audio-feeder
It takes your directory of audiobooks and generates an RSS feed for each one, so that you can listen to them in your standard podcast listening flow.
I'm particularly happy with the new feature "rendered feeds", which uses `ffmpeg` behind the scenes to generate alternate feeds where the audiobook is broken up along different lines.
@brainwane The library is great, but Null Island is so inconveniently located 😉
I was thinking about this because I was thinking about how I might optimize the resource consumption of a program where I'm ~the only user, and then I thought, "Hmmm.. If I spend that same time working on an open source project currently used by millions of people, with even a modest improvement I could probably save more energy than my homebrew project will consume in its entire lifetime."
Fun stuff.
It would be interesting to live in a world where most people used this or something like it in production: https://www.sciagraph.com/
I'm kinda curious to know stuff like, "How much electricity would it save if time zone conversions in pandas were 20% more efficient?"
I have been using Git a long, long time. I have worked on Git clients and libraries. At some places I've worked, I am the person folks go to when they need Git help.
And yet, only today I learned you can pass -m to commit twice (or more) and it will do the right thing of making each successive message a new paragraph (which is useful for the convention of a short summary as a single first line and following paragraphs as a more detailed message).
@hugovk Either way it's a huge footgun. The thing everyone is going to think to do causes this problem.
@hugovk I am not sure if you are supposed to use it that way, and that makes it so you have to choose between including the license file and having a meaningful short description of the license.
I'll probably just fall back to the setuptools config options.
@kevin Do you do any automation to snatch the latest image to seed?
I usually indefinitely seed images after I download them, but I download fresh images pretty rarely.
#askfedi Expanding on my earlier laptop query: I'd love to find a site with a comprehensive database of laptops from say the past ten years that lets you search by filtering on specs like:
* Weight
* Ports
* Screen size, resolution
* Screen brightness
* Claimed battery life
Know of anything like this? It would be a much more direct and efficient way for me to build up my shortlist of machines I look for in the used market. TIA.
Well, here I am on Mastadon.
Intro in order, I suppose. That's how it works, right?
Me:
- That datetime guy. Ask me about time zones, DST, leap year bugs, etc.
- Been doing .NET/C# longer than I can remember. 20+ years. These days I code mostly on a Mac.
- I work at Sentry, and used to work at Microsoft.
- I live in the forests of Woodinville WA, with wife Maggie, my son, and our three dogs.
- I like Star Trek, home improvement, and playing stupid pop music on the piano.
HI! 👋🙂
Programmer working at Google. Python core developer and general FOSS contributor. I also post some parenting content.