Hacker News: peller

New comment by peller in "Quart is an async Python web microframework"

peller — Mon, 03 Jul 2023 15:27:16 +0000

IO is blocking within that request. There's no way around that. The difference between sync and async is that with the latter, the event loop from the blocking request is freed up to handle other requests, which is where the performance gain is. If there's only a single request, then sync and async are going to look largely the same from the outside. However if there's thousands of requests, async is going to do much better.

New comment by peller in "Building a fullstack app with Flask and Htmx"

peller — Tue, 29 Mar 2022 17:06:13 +0000

I had the same pain points with Flask, so I built Flask Unchained to integrate many of the best extensions (IMO) to all work together out of the box in a reusable way:

https://github.com/briancappello/flask-unchained

New comment by peller in "Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (November 2021)"

peller — Tue, 02 Nov 2021 03:02:17 +0000

SEEKING WORK | REMOTE/Denver | FULL-STACK | 20-30 hrs/week

My name is Brian, I'm a full-stack web engineer with 8+ years of experience. I specialize in backend architecture but I do it all, frontend and Linux DevOps.

Technologies:

- Python, Flask, Django, GraphQL, REST, Pandas/NumPy

- JavaScript/TypeScript, React, CSS

- PostgreSQL, MySQL, Ansible, Docker, AWS

Email: briancappello AT gmail DOT com

GitHub: github.com/briancappello

New comment by peller in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (November 2021)"

peller — Tue, 02 Nov 2021 02:52:45 +0000

  Location: Denver (front range metro)  
  Remote: Yes  
  Willing to relocate: Possibly  
  Technologies: Python, Go, SQL, React, JavaScript/TypeScript, CSS, Linux DevOps  
  Resume: Upon request  
  Email: briancappello@gmail.com
  GitHub: github.com/briancappello

I'm a full-stack software engineer with 8+ years experience, strongest at backend but I do it all.

New comment by peller in "Ask HN: Show me your half baked project"

peller — Sat, 09 Jan 2021 16:19:18 +0000

Yea, I definitely need to put more effort into promotion and getting more active users.

I'm not familiar with padrino, but at least for Flask Unchained, it's literally Flask under the hood - so my project is less a new framework but more of an improved way to use a highly popular existing framework. I'm hopeful this distinction can help with adoption.

New comment by peller in "Ask HN: Show me your half baked project"

peller — Sat, 09 Jan 2021 15:15:53 +0000

https://github.com/briancappello/flask-unchained

I wanted something better than Django. So I built this. IMO it's already there from a technical perspective but the documentation needs some more work. Would greatly appreciate any feedback!

New comment by peller in "Recreation.gov"

peller — Mon, 25 Nov 2019 10:06:35 +0000

I've had this experience out west too. But anecdotally at least, these spots can be harder to find on the east coast.

New comment by peller in "Tunnel Boring Machines (2018)"

peller — Mon, 18 Nov 2019 09:35:51 +0000

Sounds like it's more so water pollution where tires are bad:

> Driving is not just an air pollution and climate change problem — turns out, it just might be the largest contributor of microplastics in California coastal waters. [...] Rainfall washes more than 7 trillion pieces of microplastics, much of it tire particles left behind on streets, into San Francisco Bay each year — an amount 300 times greater than what comes from microfibers washing off polyester clothes, microbeads from beauty products and the many other plastics washing down our sinks and sewers.

https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2019-10-02/califor...

New comment by peller in "Illegal Pot Grows in America's Public Forests Are Poisoning Wildlife and Water"

peller — Tue, 12 Nov 2019 14:45:14 +0000

I don't think it's fair to say the tax _created_ the illegal market. Perhaps the taxes are too high to eliminate it, but the black market was always there, and it never had any real assurances of safety. Now, you have a safe(r) option, even if it may be more expensive than some people are willing to pay for.

New comment by peller in "Illegal Pot Grows in America's Public Forests Are Poisoning Wildlife and Water"

peller — Tue, 12 Nov 2019 13:30:32 +0000

That's pretty normal for black-market prices. But at least in Colorado, you can get an ounce of top shelf for $120-$140 after taxes (which are 25%). Eighths go for $20-$30. Street prices are even cheaper, but unless you know the grower personally, you obviously don't really know what you're getting.

New comment by peller in "New universe of miniproteins is upending cell biology and genetics"

peller — Thu, 17 Oct 2019 19:13:19 +0000

There are early efforts under way to do just that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjD1aLm4Thg

New comment by peller in "System76 Will Ship Linux Laptops With Coreboot-Based Open-Source Firmware"

peller — Thu, 10 Oct 2019 23:24:31 +0000

Yea, something seems fishy. My E485 (one 3-cell battery) gets 3-4 hours on Arch

New comment by peller in "World's largest urban farm to open on a Paris rooftop"

peller — Tue, 20 Aug 2019 17:10:58 +0000

It sounds like they're using aeroponics where possible. Of course that still requires energy, but much less so than growing in soil. There's also much less overall water use, because it's essentially a closed loop system with minimal evaporation.

New comment by peller in "Ask HN: What are some of the best Python related talks that you have watched"

peller — Tue, 28 May 2019 05:28:45 +0000

I'm a big fan of David Beazley for getting into advanced features of Python. He's sometimes a little bit, shall we say, oriented towards the experimental as opposed to "use this in production", but regardless he's a great speaker and a very smart dude. In particular I liked this tutorial on Python 3 Metaprogramming: https://www.dabeaz.com/py3meta/index.html

New comment by peller in "Ryzen R1000 SoC offers dual Zen and triple Vega cores with a 12-25W TDP"

peller — Wed, 17 Apr 2019 19:29:28 +0000

Heh me too :/

Yea, that's definitely possible. I'm running the latest BIOS (at least last I checked, maybe a month ago). The HDMI port basically didn't work until I upgraded to a 5.0 kernel, so they're definitely still working out the kinks. (On 4.x it only worked after a fresh boot; any hotplugging or suspending/waking completely froze the machine)

WiFi is a Realtek 8822BE chip. That was the only option available when I purchased the machine, but yes it is user-replaceable (the machine is quite serviceable, if a bit tricky to open the first time around). Definitely considering getting an Intel or Qualcomm chip - the Realtek mostly works, but I have noticed a few coffee shops around town where it drops the 5GHz connection after a few minutes. Works with my router at home though, so I'm not really sure what's going on there.

I've read better things about Linux on the A485 variant, but I've no first-hand experience with one (high level at least, it looks to be an E485 with two batteries and a $200ish higher price tag).

New comment by peller in "Ryzen R1000 SoC offers dual Zen and triple Vega cores with a 12-25W TDP"

peller — Tue, 16 Apr 2019 21:04:43 +0000

I got one recently. Linux support is pretty so-so. It requires custom kernel parameters to boot, and suspend to ram hasn't been very reliable. Sometimes it refuses to wake up, others it wakes up but WiFi and USB become unstable, and maybe half the time it works as it should. (Running a 5.0 kernel; 4.18 was worse and 4.19 didn't work at all)

Battery life is also pretty weak; it's just over 3 hours under semi-heavy load, altho you can push it to around 5 with low brightness and RyzenAdj to downclock the processor

New comment by peller in "Ask HN: How to learn best practices when you have no one to teach you?"

peller — Mon, 18 Mar 2019 21:02:18 +0000

Yes. I would also include reading other more-experienced developers' code in bullet point #3. Pick a well-respected project from a language you're looking to get better at, and dive in.

New comment by peller in "PureOS is convergent"

peller — Thu, 07 Mar 2019 18:58:15 +0000

Agreed, and that's kind of the point - this shouldn't be a problem to begin with, aside from the fact that "everybody" prefers to write their own shit from scratch :)

New comment by peller in "PureOS is convergent"

peller — Thu, 07 Mar 2019 18:07:50 +0000

The design constraints of the "input devices" are invariably different. The keyboard and mouse are "precise", while fingers are not. This manifests itself exactly like you see it :(

New comment by peller in "PureOS is convergent"

peller — Thu, 07 Mar 2019 17:09:37 +0000

Exactly what you're describing already happened when the netbook fad took hold some years ago. It's crazy obvious on Gnome but KDE apps suffered too, and the defaults to this day are still shit (optimized for form factors 2% of people use).

I feel like the solution is not necessarily to make one app do it all, but to embrace something more akin to a client-server architecture - one "app" with multiple UIs talking over the same API to the same backend logic.