A Cline prompt for codebase analysis and feature extraction
From time-to-time, I’m asked to evaluate a large codebase. This is usually from a client who has a project in distress, or who needs to quickly …
2024
My Claude Artifact Prompt
I’ve found myself writing a lot of Claude artifact prompts recently. I don’t remember if I started writing these little personal software …
Fingerprint Authentication on a Lenovo Z13 and Fedora 40
I’ve previously used fingerprint authentication on Thinkpads in the very distant past. There have been a lot of changes to the software stack …
New in Python 3.13: SQLite support in dbm
Python 3.13 was released today, and it would be easy to overlook this:
“dbm.sqlite3: An SQLite backend for dbm. (Contributed by Raymond …
Django Carbon Measurement Notes
At work recently, I’ve been working on some code to measure the bandwidth required to display webpages, and from there calculate the approximate …
Using ruff for everything in VSCode
Ruff’s VSCode extension is nice, and can handle the jobs previously done by black and isort. To turn on everything, and to run this on every …
Automatic, persistent autoreload in iPython
I like that iPython can be configured to automatically reload modules. It’s useful to be able to keep REPL context through development, without …
A minimal Django application
I wanted to put together a single-file Django application, which could still do ‘useful’ work; that is, define models, operate on them, …
Logging git commits with a git hook
Similar to my previous post (more than a year ago!) about using Git hooks to enforce conventional commits, I wanted to start logging all of my …