Peter Bengtsson

gg2 - a new CLI for helping me manage git branches - Peterbe.com gg2 is an executable CLI to help with tedious git commands for power users.

Blogged about a new CLI tool I've started hacking on.
www.peterbe.com/plog/gg2-ini...

What I think is neat is that I use `bun build --compile ...` to generate a single executable instead of relying on something like `bunx` or `pipx`.

Been a good start to the month!
Page views on my blog.

Native connection pooling in Django 5 with PostgreSQL - Peterbe.com Enabling native connection pooling in Django 5 gives me a 5.4x speedup.

Native connection pooling in Django v5 gives a 5x speedup.
www.peterbe.com/plog/native-...

Native connection pooling in Django 5 with PostgreSQL - Peterbe.com

5x more requests-per-second improvement with this one single trick. Actually.

Video to screenshots app - Peterbe.com

Blog post about it here

www.peterbe.com/plog/video-t...

Maybe a fun experiment, would be to try to load ffmpeg in Wasm and see what can be done.

GitHub - peterbe/video-to-screenshots: A web app to turn a video file into screenshots without a server A web app to turn a video file into screenshots without a server - peterbe/video-to-screenshots

I made an app!

github.com/peterbe/vide...

It’s simple but useful. Wanted to explore what can be done with video files without sending them to a server.

I’m going to try a new IDE/editor.
What would you recommend? Zed or Cursor?

I loved Zed when it came out but downfall was that I couldn’t add custom completion macros.

Yay for Redis v8!
antirez.com/news/151

This is what I use to have GitHub Dependabot make package updates for Bun projects:
```
version: 2
enable-beta-ecosystems: true
updates:
- package-ecosystem: "npm"
directory: "/"
schedule:
interval: "monthly"
```

`links` is my favorite tool for testing if web pages work without CSS or JS.

How to SSG a Vite SPA - Peterbe.com You can write a script to statically generate the HTML of a SPA to make the initial load feel faster.

Self-posting my latest blog post. It's not about AI.
www.peterbe.com/plog/ssg-vit...

YouTube video by Honeypot BREAKING: Guido van Rossum Returns as Python's BDFL

Can't wait!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgxB...

This’ll be wet

626. Ten Myths About the U.S. Tax System Freakonomics Radio · Episode

One of the most educative podcast episodes out there on US tax policy.
It's not partisan, although it (has to) touches politics. It's more about understanding and it's delivered in a 1h rapid chat. I'm impressed.
open.spotify.com/episode/0Zrw...

This is cool!
docs.numerique.gouv.fr
It's like Google Docs but all Open Source and backed by the French and German government.
Skimmed the code; it's Python/Django on the backend and React on the frontend.

I hope this becomes successful!

I sent this seconds before I noticed a bug in how it updates `uv.lock`. Actively chatting with the people behind this but a fix might have to wait a bit.

Happy to pass along issues/bugs you might find.

Dependabot version updates now support uv in general availability · GitHub Changelog Dependabot version updates now support uv in general availability

For fellow `uv` fans,
github.blog/changelog/20...

You'll need to update your `.github/dependabot.yml` like this
github.com/peterbe/djan...

#python

Spot the Difference A web app game for finding a difference between two snippets of code

Spot the Difference Stats
spot-the-difference.peterbe.com/stats

It now compares your (best) times with the median number of seconds people take.

Need more plays though! So the medians start to make sense :)

Less well. The “training data” is a massive list of English food words.

Announcing: Spot the Difference - Peterbe.com Spot the Difference is a web app where you're shown two snippets of code and you're supposed to find the one difference. If you get it right, you get showered in confetti.

I made a fun web app game.
www.peterbe.com/plog/announc...

Please come up with fun and whimsical ideals to make it more fun.

Adding items to the grocery shopping list by taking a picture from the cookbook.

thatsgroce.web.app

Adding items to the grocery shopping list by speech.

thatsgroce.web.app

I recently rewrote my personal website/blog from Remix to React Router v7.

It was moderately easy and fun. But now I'm dreading the hard work of writing a retrospective blog post about it.

At the time of actual coding, it felt like an engineering feat. Now it feels more like a chore to write up.

Spot the Difference

spot-the-difference.peterbe.com is now using Dexie.js for storage.

In other words, Mitchell Baker is "ends her tenure"

❯ uv cache prune
Pruning cache at: /Users/peterbe/.cache/uv
Removed 98902 files (1.2GiB)

❯ du -sh `uv cache dir`
43M /Users/peterbe/.cache/uv

❯ du -sh `uv cache dir`
1.4G /Users/peterbe/.cache/uv

What you got?

Is this some sort of Apple Watch app?

feat: support for brotli by bjohansebas · Pull Request #194 · expressjs/compression The changes from #172 are brought in, with the exception of using the accept negotiation logic.

If you use `compression` in your Express server, it now supports Brotli as of github.com/expressjs/co...

No more need to pull in `@nitedani/shrink-ray-current`