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by franey 9mo ago
It looks to me like the big benefit is being able to use just one hand for this. I'd be more likely to use the watch, too, but this would be great for people with one arm, for example.
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by franey 1y ago
For anyone looking to use this, I recommend using this CSS before the closing body tag. It disables the fade effect for visitors who prefer reduced motion, and the old page fades out while the new one fades in. (I've got an optional ru
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by franey 2y ago
I had a Pebble Time Round, too, and it was great. For me the Pebble hit a sweet spot for a smart-enough watch that allowed me to keep my phone in my pocket. I could get notifications and reply to them right from the watch. I have a Withings
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by franey 3y ago
This post might have some hot takes and I'm no expert, but over the past decade I've found these rules of thumb to be helpful when reviewing and writing user stories. If you have some other tips, I'd be happy to hear them!
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How to write user stories that get done(johnfraney.ca)
2 points by franey 3y ago|1 comments
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by franey 3y ago
It is something that distinguishes them, certainly. As someone who switched from using Vue to React at my day job, dev tooling & editor support have been the things that stand out the most to me. React works well with Vite, which has he
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by franey 3y ago
https://johnfraney.ca/blog/ Generally I'll write a post when I try to do something that's difficult to find an example of online. I don't get a _ton_ of traffic, but writing prose is a nice change from w
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by franey 4y ago
We're getting pretty off topic, but it wasn't what they were protesting that was illegal, it was how they did it. For a US comparison, First Amendment rights don't include a right to occupy city streets for weeks, even if you
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by franey 4y ago
It wasn't, no. It was meant to clarify for other readers that people didn't have their bank accounts frozen for protesting COVID; they had their bank accounts frozen for financially supporting or participating in an illegal occupa
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by franey 4y ago
For people not familiar with Canadian politics, this summary missed some important nuance. Bank accounts were frozen for some people who donated money to support an illegal occupation of part of Canada's capital city, Ottawa. The occup
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by franey 6y ago
You bet. I've played around with AVIFS and it can autoplay and loop. I made gif2avif.com for fun, but I can't promise that it will work well.
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by franey 6y ago
That was a great MVP plan for that feature! Figuring out what not to build is a great way to save development time.
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by franey 6y ago
I'm over a decade into web development, and I still reference it every week. Last week I thought I should start a blog post about how, for me, it's the single best resource on the web. I sure hope it stays that way!
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by franey 6y ago
This is a good point about complexity. I started with pip + virtualenv, and I'd recommend pip + venv to anyone learning Python. venv is in the standard library, so there's official documentation for it. I picked up Pipenv when a p
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by franey 6y ago
I think this is a good basic overview of the dependency management landscape. I have a few things to add. One is that because Python has been around for so long, it's easy to find outdated or conflicting advice about how to manage Pyth
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by franey 6y ago
Poetry does a good job of managing/publishing a package without having to custom-code a setup.py. I have a blog post about it but I don't want to spam. Poetry works well for a package of average complexity, and it's configure
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by franey 6y ago
Pipenv has had a couple releases recently, but I've had an easier time with Poetry. Poetry is almost always[0] faster than Pipenv, and I find its commands more intuitive. I've been meaning to take another look at Pipenv, but the h
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by franey 6y ago
https://johnfraney.ca I'm not sure how awesome it is, but I like to write about a particular problem that I came across and solved recently or an experiment that I tried, like writing a Vue app using a Python-to-JavaScript
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by franey 6y ago
I think of Poetry as the Yarn of Python packaging for two main reasons (apart from package locking, which is the biggest similarity): the commands are more intuitive and the lockfile starts with a different letter from the dependency file.
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by franey 6y ago
I second this. Poetry is a great all-in-one tool for dependency and package management. I've written a few blog posts about it, and I remain happy with it. The Poetry team has done a great job making quality of life improvements to the
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Pipenv and Poetry: Benchmarks and Ergonomics II(johnfraney.ca)
2 points by franey 7y ago|0 comments
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by franey 7y ago
I've used both and recommend Poetry. It's got a larger feature set (it can be used to manage packages _and_ publish packages), it's faster, and it's more actively developed (measured by releases). Pipenv's last rele
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by franey 7y ago
That could be getting at what confused me about the article. The author mentions the crosstown LRT favourably, and that will link up to the UP commuter/airport line I mentioned, adding another stop. LRT linking to commuter rail lines,
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by franey 7y ago
I got that impression, too. There wasn't much mention of bus/streetcar-plus-train transit strategy, which certainly happens in Toronto.
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by franey 7y ago
One thing I'm surprised this article didn't mention is commute times. To get from Weston Station (northwest of downtown) to Union Station takes: - 22-minute drive (or 1h in rushour) - 1.25-hour bus ride - 13-minute LRT ride LRT (l
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by franey 7y ago
I've used this wrapper[0] for Firefox's reader mode[1], and it worked well: [0] https://www.npmjs.com/package/readability-wrapper [1] https://github.com/mozilla/readability
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by franey 7y ago
What distro? I have a T495s and I haven't had any issues with it running Arch.
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by franey 7y ago
I asked Lenovo support about this, and the rep said a customizable version would be available withing two months. I'm in Canada, but I imagine the US won't be later than here.
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by franey 7y ago
'Everybody' is singular, and 'their' is (generally) plural. One way to resolve that conflict would be to rewrite the second clause to say "...as one ought to do when one falls into deep water in one's clothes&q
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by franey 7y ago
I recently took Poetry for a spin when releasing Flake8 Markdown[1], and I thought it might be helpful to walk through the process of making a package using Poetry, from start to finish. I found it more straightforward than using setup.py a

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