I finished migrating my site to the latest release of Hugo today. It’s been quite a while since I’d pulled the latest changes but most of the fixes were straightforward. A number of the partials had been updated, so I need to port my custom components to incorporate the changes. I also migrated what I’d previously kept in a static directory to assets.
I looked further into using hidutil to replace Karabiner.I’ve been looking into hidutil to potentially replace Karabiner for overriding my capslock behavior. My first attempt, follow instructions similar to this post, was close but unsuccessful. I was able to remap the capslock key, but it wasn’t trigger the key combo I had hoped for – I use cmd+option+ctrl+shift. Caplock wasn’t performing it’s normal function and the key light wasn’t turning on but it also wasn’t triggering my hotkeys. Hopefully I will have something workable after a bit more time with this.I’ve been working on a Next.js app with a Leaflet map component. Using this combination of technologies has not gone smoothly. I’ve been running into an issue trying to make the Leaflet component render client side. From my understanding, Next.js renders React server-side by default, but this is easy to change with the 'use client' directive. After a bit of work, I was able to get a map component rendering on the page by importing it withI spent some time experiementing with Inngest, cloud software for running async jobs, workflows, crons and more. It’s quite similar to Temporal, which I am big advocate for for running durable workflows and gracefully handling failures. There are some drawbacks, but it feels simpler to get started than Temporal and has a most of the same topline capabilities. The main feature deficiencies I noticed in about an hour of research were lack of as granular retry configurations and timeouts and no support for query handlers to inspect the status of a running function/workflow.I had a bunch of fun following along with this post with my own Hugo blog to construct a sqlite database of metadata. Building the database indices, I found a mistake I had made years ago in defining a post’s alias, which was a duplicate, so I fixed that. I’ve read a lot of praise of sqlite lately and wanted to get more familiar with the tools and ecosystem and this was a nice way to start to do that.Further investigation with Open Interpreter today reaffirmed certain strengths but also revealed a number of weaknesses. The look is excellent at parsing structured data like JSON or CSV, doing analysis with tools like pandas and numpy, and plotting the results with matplotlib. However, it falls short when trying to perform more complex data fetching tasks. It seems to struggle to scrape websites or make use of less common libraries, at least when I tried without providing any additional documentation.I did some more experimentation with open-interpreter today. The first use case I tried was to create, organize and reorganize files. It didn’t generate interesting content, but it was fluent at writing Python code to organize and rename files. When I prompted it to generate a fake dataset, it installed faker and created a CSV with the columns I requested. When I requested it plot those data points, it installed matplotlib and did so without issue.I read quote from a long tweet the other day that made me smile.
Writing pure JavaScript is like trying to cut a watermelon with a chainsaw in the dark. It sounds fun and free and quite easy until there’s a roomful of mess to clean up.
https://twitter.com/kettanaito/status/1699440414812504443Playing with Rivet and OpenInterpreterIt’s much easier to test Temporal Workflow in Python by invoking the contents of the individual Activities first, in the shell or via a separate script, then composing them into a Workflow. I need to see if there’s a better way to surface exceptions and failures through Temporal directly to make the feedback loop faster.
From this paper:
62% of the generated code contains API misuses, which would cause unexpected consequences if the code is introduced into real-world software