I've been using a package called pyvis for a while to help visualize general graph data, but it's been pretty limited in terms of exposed API for vis.js (which is what it renders in) so I've been working on a more general full featured wrapper in Python that uses a fast graph library backend.

My test project is to visualize the repository as an interactive graph. It builds the html template in under a second right now and I'm planning on trying to make it something you can use to generate interactive repo graphs with.

It's still very WIP, but I think it's fun so I wanted to share.

Also, you can double click any node to have it open the source on GitHub. My goal is to make it host agnostic so you can just slap a repo url in there and it'll generate a graph with properly formatted links. I've got all the components exposed though, so you can manipulate how the link is generated as needed.

There has been some discussion here about a community where artists can share their work. This community seems like an obvious place for that, but it is currently mostly people sharing art that they appreciate.

I was thinking of possibly doing weekly threads where people could share their art without having it show up in the main feed, but I would also like to open up a discussion on it.

Since I had totally forgotten that I was a moderator of this community since it's never generated any reports, I also went ahead and set the banner and thumbnail to something random. (Last art image on my phone and the first post ever in this comm). I will pick replacements from this thread that get the most upbears.

I miss Trevor Moore

The reporter won't let him speak, and they literally just cut his responses whenever he correctly calls this a defensive war for Iran.

For once the YouTube comment section gives me hope. Everyone's calling them propagandists and pointing out how collected and professional the FM is compared to literally everyone in the western power/media structure.

This is the end of liberalism. There is no mask left.

The muse of Python thinks Claude is his friend/colleague :(

Anyone here have experience with arcpy? I've been working on a wrapper library that tries it's best to bring in into compliance with the Python data model and would like some testers.

I'll dm you a link to the repository if you have any interest. It's still pretty barebones and focused mainly on simplifying interaction with file databases and project files.

So I'm helping a local tech non-profit refurbish some old Chromebooks for distribution to halfway houses and immigrants that need computer access for legal stuff. The current need is basically a rock solid platform for getting to websites, reading email, and editing mostly shared Google docs.

Issue is that the hardware is no longer supported by Google.

We've gone ahead and got Coreboot flashed on all 40 devices and have settled on using Fedora-Onyx (Atomic distro with a Budgie UI).

We need to install some flatpaks on each machine and set up a base configuration. Easy enough with rpm-ostree and some manual configuration, but I was wondering if anyone here has had more experience with managing the atomic distros.

Basically I want to have it so the volunteers just need to plug in a USB installer stick and get a fully setup instance. Is there an easy way to take a tree and transfer it to another machine that isn't using something like clonezilla? I'm assuming we could just maintain an image and rebase to thatafter installing, but I'm not fully aware of the easiest way to accomplish that.

Which shells do you guys tend to use the most?

I've been trying to get into fish lately, have also used xonsh because I'm really comfortable with python so why not use that instead of bash and just inject subshells into my python scripts

I got bored today and made a little python script that takes text and spits out a version of it with typos that maintains readability.

The algorithm is really simple (shuffle all runs of ASCII letters and maintain the first and last letter). Added some options to preserve double letters and prevent the shuffling from moving letters to the other side of the word.

I don't think this has any real world applications beyond maybe messing with text on your site when you detect a bot. ChatGPT can pretty easily decode the typos from my initial testing, but I'm not sure if it would do as well if it's training data was polluted with this type of text obfuscation.

I've been having to occasionally do interviews for the past couple years at my job since I'm one of the most senior developers/engineers. I try to allow people to utilize direct experience first, but our industry is pretty niche, so we've only had maybe 1 or 2 people ever apply that had any knowledge about what we do.

My tactic tends to be just showing people how to do things and making it clear that they can ask questions, then asking them to do what I just did. It seems to work pretty well, at least at finding people who have good communication skills and are comfortable asking questions. My only real requirement is that you at least attempt to figure it out.

Is that a bad way to do it? So far we've become a weird little engineering shop that's staffed mainly by underemployed local service workers. That's what I was before I started here, so I think my process might be a bit biased.