Nice little trick to create "layers" in CSS.
.original-element { position: relative; } .covering-element { position: absolute; top: 0; right: 0; bottom: 0; left: 0; }
I have been using layers a lot lately. Mostly for small animations during festival season.
I am moving my blog from Pelican to micro.blog. Pelican was great but required efforts to build, deploy and push. Blogging should be as frictionless as possible. I always wanted to write my own blogging engine. But it required a lot more time than I thought. We need to create APIs for handling uploads, integrate rich text editor, handle hosting and then migrate all the old posts. Micro.blog does all of this plus a lot more. **Things that made me move to Micro.blog were:** - **Micropub specs:** Micro.blog follows [micropub](https://micropub.net) specs. That means we can use any blogging software for …
We are a forgetting machine! I read books, articles, research reports and tons of other stuff. Sometimes I go deep into a topic to learn how something works. So many times I get a "wow" moment, like this is something worth remembering and applying. But it is all forgotten after few days. "Inspiration is perishable".
I love Anki because it helps me remember of that stuff. When I find something really insightful, I try to create a one line note of it in Anki. This includes notes for frequently used commands, common stats or mental models on how to think …
Know the secret of writing well? Read out aloud.
Mac has a feature to read out any selected text. We can enable it by:
Going to system preferences >> Accessibility >> Speech >> Speak selected text with shortcut
I use the default shortcut: Option + Esc.
Same panel also provides the option to select voice and read speed.
Now select any text and press the shortcut to read it out.
Sometimes we have duplicate rows in database due to some bad design or schema change. Lets see how we can fix them.
Algorithm
Lets say we have a model Announcement with company_id (FK), title, broadcast_date and other fields. We want to delete duplicate announcements for the company on same date.
from django.db.models import Min, Max, Count from documents.models import Announcement # Groupby by putting group identifiers …“When I was very young, my father practiced law. One of his best friends, Grant McFayden was a client. He was a perfectly marvelous man of enormous charm and integrity - just a wonderful, wonderful man.
In contrast, my father had another client who was a blowhard, overreaching, unfair, pompous, difficult man. And I must have been fourteen years old and thereabouts when I asked, “Dad, why do you do so much work for Mr. X - this overreaching blowhard - instead of working more for wonderful men like Grant McFayden?”
My father said, “Grant McFayden …