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sodimel

547 karma · joined April 29, 2014

Web dev (python/django/django-cms)

Rants (en): https://misc.l3m.in/txt/

Interesting links (en/fr): https://links.l3m.in/

Personal website (fr): https://l3m.in/

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sodimel··on OpenJev
I'm working on something from a crappy laptop, those numbers from jev can totally be matched:

    Local Latency: 0.1813 seconds
sodimel··on “I just chose words carefully”
I was in awe when I discovered this, and decided to apply this simple rule to the help text of a small command line tool I was working on: https://git.bitmycode.com/sodimel/n#help
sodimel··on Count Binface
Even the favicon is great!
sodimel··on Ternlight – 7 MB embedding model that runs in browser (WASM)
Thank you for this tool!

We've just used it to embed the entire django doc + our private knowledge base, allowing us to search in the 2 sources instantly!

sodimel··on CodingFont: A game to help you pick a coding font
(I may also add that I'm using synthwave 84' in vscode, which adds neon effects on my code using text-shadow)
sodimel··on CodingFont: A game to help you pick a coding font
My coding font is comic-shanns-mono, here's how it looks: https://github.com/jesusmgg/comic-shanns-mono?tab=readme-ov-...
sodimel··on Show HN: Pano, a bookmarking tool built around shareable shelves
If I understood it right, the app allows you to group links by categories (shelves), and share those categories pages?

I haven't found any information about search, tagging, descriptions, saving content. Are those also available features?

sodimel··on The 49MB web page
Here's something I wrote in 2021:

> Today, there's ~30 times more js than html on homepages of websites (from a list of websites from 5 years ago).

It seems that this number only go up.

sodimel··on Show HN: Hacker Smacker – Spot great (and terrible) HN commenters at a glance
That's a nice project!

I searched a few comments I agreed using the "Ask HN: What are some iconic comments on HN?" thread (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40719253) and I'm pleased to see some green comments here and there :)

I also made 2 QoL [fire|grease]monkey extensions for hn:

- display favicons of sites next to links: https://gist.github.com/corentinbettiol/6d9dc3a032c17ebcd94d...

- display karma next to usernames: https://gist.github.com/corentinbettiol/289503b4033a788df91f...

sodimel··on Todd C. Miller – Sudo maintainer for over 30 years
Didn't knew that sudo had a website with a... somewhat interesting logo: https://www.sudo.ws/
sodimel··on RSS Tinder
That's a nice project, I'm interested to take a look at the source code if you publish it!
sodimel··on Ask HN: Share your personal website
https://l3m.in - Main website, (for now) in french

https://misc.l3m.in/txt/ - Small rants in txt (fr & english content)

https://links.l3m.in/en/ - List of saved interesting links

sodimel··on Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)
Trying to rebuild my website (php mvc built a decade ago) using Django. I want to be able to update any page content, upload and display images, have multiple blog instances. I do a lot of django-cms by day, but it's too much for a small personal website, so I started to create a (tiny, foss) CMS based on Django, django-prose-editor for the content, and some new apps (for now, Page & Blog).

The site isn't even online, but for now I'm starting to think about the next steps (seo-related things to implement, generalize app functions to handle not only blog but other (hypothetical) apps as well, improve code quality and repo readability, separate apps from the website so anyone can add them to their django website if they want to). It's a lot of work for something no one will ever use, but I must at least try to make it clean and discoverable :)

sodimel··on Guarding My Git Forge Against AI Scrapers
I, too, am selfhosting some projects on an old computer. And the fact that you can "hear internet" (with the fans going on) is really cool (unless you're trying to sleep while being scrapped).
sodimel··on Penpot: The Open-Source Figma
There is in fact an effort to make a desktop application!

Source (& releases): https://github.com/author-more/penpot-desktop

Topic on penpot forum: https://community.penpot.app/t/penpot-desktop-road-to-1-0/72...

sodimel··on Live Stream from the Namib Desert
Oh I suscribed to a bot on the fediverse that posts screenshots from this live!

Here's the url: https://puntarella.party/@NamibDesertBot

sodimel··on Ask HN: What is nowadays (opensource) way of converting HTML to PDF?
+1 - Weasyprint is an excellent tool to make pdf from html content, and we're using it at work (with django) to export various documents.
sodimel··on This website is for humans
There are already a lot of initiatives following this logic (like the small web movement, the indieweb, gemini/gopher protocols...), but the problem here is that people are using the web, not those projects. Even the fediverse is growing slowly, while it's using the web.
sodimel··on This website is for humans
Yeah the AI solve a problem created by the company that made the AI because their algorithms are biased to display websites containing content written for them instead of content written for humans :/
sodimel··on This website is for humans
> Personal experience however shows me that when I look at a recipe site I will first have to skip through the entire backstory to the recipe and then try to parse it inbetween annoying ads in a bloated wordpress page

That's when money comes into view. People were putting time and effort to offer something for free, then some companies told them they could actually earn money from their content. So they put on ads because who don't like some money for already-done work?

Then the same companies told them that they will make less money, and if they wanted to still earn the same amount as before, they will need to put more ads, and to have more visits (so invest heavily in seo).

Those people had already organized themselves (or stopped updating their websites), and had created companies to handle money generated from their websites. In order to keep the companies sustainable, they needed to add more ads on the websites.

Then some people thought that maybe they could buy the companies making the recipes website, and put a bunch more ads to earn even more money.

I think you're thinking about those websites owned by big companies whose only goal is to make money, but author is writing about real websites made by real people who don't show ads on websites they made because they care about their visitors, and not about making money.

sodimel··on Show HN: Scream to Unlock – Blocks social media until you scream “I'm a loser”
It seems to send the data to google's servers.

> Note: On some browsers, like Chrome, using Speech Recognition on a web page involves a server-based recognition engine. Your audio is sent to a web service for recognition processing, so it won't work offline.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Web_Speech_...

sodimel··on Lyon Drops Microsoft to Boost Digital Sovereignty
You can learn more about weasyprint on their website (https://weasyprint.org/ ). It's an open source Python package that can be launched using cli or from Python code. It uses pypdf, which is "pydyf is a low-level PDF generator written in Python and based on PDF specification 1.7" (from their README at https://github.com/CourtBouillon/pydyf ).
sodimel··on Lyon Drops Microsoft to Boost Digital Sovereignty
We generate pdf files using weasyprint (convert html+css into cool pdf files), I think tools like this are very valuable and practical for building higher-level pdf-generators tools.
sodimel··on Amoeba: A distributed operating system for the 1990s (1990) [pdf]
Very surprised to learn that Guido van Rossum worked on Amoeba!
sodimel··on Hytale Is Ending Development
How sad, this project seemed very interesting, and their blog posts explaining what they did were incredible.
sodimel··on Merlin Bird ID
I had the same idea a few years ago. Would be really great.
sodimel··on Why blog if nobody reads it?
Absolutely, I created this txt blog to prove a point to a friend that you can get started to blogging in seconds instead of minutes if you really wanted to.
sodimel··on Why blog if nobody reads it?
Yes, although no link points to it :)

Here's the file:

https://misc.l3m.in/txt/createfile.sh

I use it like this:

    ./createfile.sh file_name  # without the extension!
I then edit the file using vim, save it, and it's published :)

(the three first bytes the bash script write to the txt file is the BOM, used by the browser to know that it's dealing with utf-8 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte_order_mark)

sodimel··on Why blog if nobody reads it?
You can also write txt files to blog, you don't even have to worry about formatting, and search engines are able to generate titles and descriptions for you (source: I got a txt file somewhat popular on hn a few years ago, and google decided to index it very quickly, and generate a title & a small description).

I posted a txt "blog" post just a few hours ago just here: https://misc.l3m.in/txt/raw_txt.txt

And here's a list of all the blog posts: https://misc.l3m.in/txt/

sodimel··on I Blog with Raw Txt
Hey, thank you for posting my link!

Since I can't make links on raw txt blog posts, visitors needs to be creative (at least a little bit), and update the url in order to access the list of articles (written in html, sorry but I really wanted to have some clickable links available), just here: https://misc.l3m.in/txt/

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