Damian’s notes

Blurhash is an algorithm that lets you transform image data into a small text representation of a blurred version of the image that might be used as a placeholder while the image downloads, for example.

(Via halcy​:icosahedron: (@halcy@icosahedron.website))

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  halcy/blurhash-python Implementation of the blurhash algorithm in pure python - halcy/blurhash-python

Cog is a nifty code-generator utility done with python scripts hidden in comments in the source files, so the generated code is OK to check in to source-code control. Useful for repetitive compiled-in data, or for filling in gaps in the syntax of the host language.

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  Ned Batchelder: Cog Cog is a file generation tool. It lets you use pieces of Python code as generators in your source files to generate whatever text you need.

Simon Willison demonstrates how to use SQLite and datasettes to do autocomplete in very little JavaScript.

• Fast Autocomplete Search for Your Website Code

Retrospective on the history of the PyPy project to date.

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  The First 15 Years of PyPy — a Personal Retrospective PyPy has turned 15 years old this year, so I decided that that's a good reason to dig into and talk about the history of the project so far.