Ed Rivas

As a long-time #Django developer, it was hard to wrap my head around #SQLAlchemy at first. I wrote an article on the @OddBird@front-end.social blog explaining the main differences between both ORMs https://www.oddbird.net/2023/10/23/sqlalchemy-for-django-developers/

Excellent advice here for all web applications, and #htmx ones in particular:

- Only call routes you control
- Always use an auto-escaping template engine
- Only serve user-generated content inside HTML tags
- If you have authentication cookies, set them with Secure, HttpOnly, and SameSite=Lax

https://htmx.org/essays/web-security-basics-with-htmx/

In the last few years, OddBird has directly supported my work on:

🐎 Django
🌐 Various polyfills for the web
🐍 Any Python project I have wanted to contribute to

Help us keep doing that! 👇
https://opencollective.com/oddbird-open-source

Are you a #Django developer and want to learn about #fastapi? I just started a series on the @OddBird@front-end.social blog exploring FastAPI as a long time Django user https://www.oddbird.net/2023/10/19/fastapi-path-operations-for-django-developers/

Have you ever wondered how to use #playwright UI mode with #docker? I wrote an article explaining how and recently updated it to stay up to date with the underlying tools. It also has a whole new section on using it with your end-to-end test suite. https://www.oddbird.net/2022/11/30/headed-playwright-in-docker/

"Both things can be true at the same time. Millions of Salvadorans can feel less at risk from gangs, while tens of thousands of families have lost someone innocent to the exception regime. To highlight the abuses in the prisons and the criminal justice system is not to deny that gangs inflicted horrible damage on the country for two decades or more."

https://www.elsalvadorperspectives.com/2024/04/state-of-exception-in-communities.html

The human rights group Cristosal released a 126 page report titled El silencio no es opción (Silence is not an option) which reviews torture, deaths, and the absence of justice under the ongoing State of Exception in El Salvador. During the first two years of the State of Exception 79,211 persons were arrested, including 12,704 in the second year as the pace of detentions slowed down.

https://www.elsalvadorperspectives.com/2024/07/silence-regarding-state-of-exception-in.html

@jgerigmeyer@front-end.social It is!

A GitHub Security Lab initiative, providing an in-repo learning experience, where learners secure intentionally vulnerable code. #security #course #learning

https://github.com/skills/secure-code-game

Tackling an interesting challenge with #svelte and #vite. All help appreciated! https://github.com/sveltejs/kit/discussions/12206

Companies that send "happy birthday" emails: why? I would appreciate a discount on whatever I'm paying you for, but instead it's just a generic "best wishes" email. No thanks.

"The real battle doesn’t involve the nonbeliever as the enemy, our knowledge as the weapon, or winning the argument as the prize. It’s a battle against the powers of darkness, and our only hope of defeating it is with the light of gospel truth (Eph. 6:12). The salvation of souls, received by grace through faith in Christ alone, is the prize (Luke 15:7)."

https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/article/win-people-arguments/

Christ suggests our obligation to love means we must fix messes we didn’t cause and cure injustices for which we weren’t responsible. Christian love is proactive, affirmative, and interventionist. Christian love jumps in to help.
https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/article/ask-neighbor-you-are/

Just had what feels like a breakthrough moment with LLMs.

I'm attending a class and would really like a high-quality transcript of the weekly 90-minute sessions. Zoom has its own transcript feature but it really struggles with "uhms" and "ahs" and in general forming cohesive sentences from spoken word.