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Weeklog for Week 28: July 07 to July 13

Progress

Lots of ice cream. I repaired a bicycle.

Great progress at work.

Then: illness. Damn, it was going so well!

A good old friend visited on the weekend, that was great!

Articles

Libraries, programming, etc

  • GitHub - justinmayer/typogrify: A set of Django template filters to make caring about typography on the web a bit easier.: underwhelming
  • GitHub - PlutoLang/Pluto: A superset of Lua 5.4 with a focus on general-purpose programming.
  • GitHub - asottile/dict-unpacking-at-home: can we have dict unpacking in python?
  • Django-Rest-Knox: Knox provides easy-to-use authentication for Django REST Framework The aim is to allow for common patterns in applications that are REST based, with little extra effort; and to ensure that connections remain secure. Knox authentication is token based, similar to the TokenAuthentication built into DRF. However, it overcomes some problems present in the default implementation: DRF tokens are limited to one per user. This does not facilitate securely signing in from multiple devices, as the token is shared. It also requires all devices to be logged out if a server-side logout is required (i.e. the token is deleted). Knox provides one token per call to the login view - allowing each client to have its own token which is deleted on the server side when the client logs out. Knox also provides an optional setting to limit the amount of tokens generated per user. Knox also provides an option for a logged in client to remove all tokens that the server has - forcing all clients to re-authenticate. DRF tokens are stored unencrypted in the database. This would allow an attacker unrestricted access to an account with a token if the database were compromised. Knox tokens are only stored in an encrypted form. Even if the database were somehow stolen, an attacker would not be able to log in with the stolen credentials. DRF tokens track their creation time, but have no inbuilt mechanism for tokens expiring. Knox tokens can have an expiry configured in the app settings (default is 10 hours.)
  • brack3t/django-braces: Reusable, generic mixins for Django: django-braces provides useful Mixins for Django's class-based views. Most of these mixins replicate the behavior of Django's function-based view decorators. Others solve common headaches with working with class-based views. You can read more in the documentation.
  • django-commons/django-click: Write Django management command using the click CLI library: django-click is a library to easily write Django management commands using the click command line library.
  • revsys/django-test-plus: Useful additions to Django's default TestCase: Let's face it, writing tests isn't always fun. Part of the reason for that is all of the boilerplate you end up writing. django-test-plus is an attempt to cut down on some of that when writing Django tests.
  • citusdata/django-multitenant: Python/Django support for distributed multi-tenant databases like Postgres+Citus: Python/Django support for distributed multi-tenant databases like Postgres+Citus Enables easy scale-out by adding the tenant context to your queries, enabling the database (e.g. Citus) to efficiently route queries to the right database node. There are architecures for building multi-tenant databases viz. Create one database per tenant, Create one schema per tenant and Have all tenants share the same table(s). This library is based on the 3rd design i.e Have all tenants share the same table(s), it assumes that all the tenant relates models/tables have a tenant_id column for representing a tenant.

Books

  • Watch Your Mouth by Daniel Handler: The author, who writes under a pseudonym here, is otherwise well-known as Lemony Snicket, having written “A Series of Unfortunate Events”, seems to have bottled up all their adult-ness during the writing of their children's book series; here, it comes out in full strength. It ranges from the subtle (“There's never been an opera about me, never in my entire life.”) to the less subtle (“the older couples in formal, non-funky suits with pearls hanging around the women's necks like drops of semen”), and that's just on the first page. It goes on with a lot of sex in different places and porn descriptions thereof.

Games

  • Planet Crafter
  • Lightyear Frontier

Other media

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