25-12

• pythops/oryx: 🕵️‍♂️ TUI for sniffing network traffic using eBPF on Linux

  • via Show HN: Network Monitor – a GUI to spot anomalous connections on your Linux | Hacker News

• yojo

  • via GitHub to Codeberg: my experience | Lobsters

• lucc/khard: Console vcard client

• Vanilla CSS is all you need

  • modern css is powerful with features such as

    • variables: --foo: ...; var(--foo)

    • nesting: body { .foo { ... } }

    • container queries: @container { ... }

    • has(): h1:has(+ p)

    • layers: @layer reset, base, components, modules, utilities;

    • color-mix(): color-mix(in lch increasing hue, hsl(200deg 50% 80%), coral)

• Pydantic can do what? - Bite code! pydantic-settings

  • can handle cascading config (.env, env, cli args, defaults as class attributes)

  • can read secrets from Unix secret files, docker secrets, AWS secret manager, Google Cloud Secret Manager, Azure Key Vault, Hashicorp vault

• What is better: a lookup table or an enum type? | CYBERTEC PostgreSQL | Services & Support

• Turtletoy “Create your generative art online using a minimalistic JavaScript Turtle graphics API.”

• What I learnt about making websites by reading two thousand web pages – alexwlchan

• Trees Are So Weird - YouTube

  • kurzgesagt video

  • most of a tree is dead

  • only a small tube near the bark is alive

  • extremely high suction forces from roots to leaves

• Using CSS to fix the irradiation illusion · November 29, 2025

• pomponchik/metacode: The standard language for machine-readable code comments

  • jendrikseipp/vulture: Find dead Python code

  • PyCQA/bandit: Bandit is a tool designed to find common security issues in Python code.

• Dex - A Federated OpenID Connect Provider (CoreOS)

  • via OpenID Connect | OAuth2 Proxy

• Keynote: All The Ways To Use Django | DjangoCon US 2025

  • Anatomy of Django

  • Django and Frontend Frameworks

  • Django and Multi-Service Architectures

  • Django and Worker Environments

  • Django and Other Databases

  • Inheriting an Ecosystem

  • Advice for Django Contributors

  • slides

  • shouts out to silviolleite/django-pwa: Looks like an app, feels like an app, but IS NOT an app.

    • This Django app turns your project into a progressive web app. Navigating to your site on an Android phone will prompt you to add the app to your home screen.

• deployment alternatives to plain ssh/docker-compose or Kubernetes

  • psviderski/uncloud: A lightweight tool for deploying and managing containerised applications across a network of Docker hosts. Bridging the gap between Docker and Kubernetes ✨

  • hunvreus/devpush: Like Vercel, but open source and for all languages.

• anderspitman/awesome-tunneling: List of ngrok/Cloudflare Tunnel alternatives and other tunneling software and services. Focus on self-hosting.

• tomcp.org – Turn any URL into an MCP server | Hacker News

• How I wrote JustHTML using coding agents | Lobsters

  • pure Python HTML parser

  • reuses html5lib-tests

• Log level ‘error’ should mean that something needs to be fixed | Lobsters

• Biscuit is a specialized PostgreSQL index for fast pattern matching LIKE queries | Lobsters

• Dangerzone: Convert potentially dangerous documents into safe PDFs

  • via Pwning Santa before the bad guys do

• File d’attente - file-based job queue tool | Lobsters

• Seeqie: A Terminal-Based Image Viewer Using Sixel Graphics

  • depends on img2sixel and graphicsmagick (an old imagemagick fork)

• Enarx | Enarx open source framework for running applications in TEEs (Trusted Execution Environments)

• What Does a Database for SSDs Look Like? | Lobsters

• TP-Link Tapo C200: Hardcoded Keys, Buffer Overflows and Privacy | Hacker News

• You can now play Grand Theft Auto Vice City in the browser | Hacker News

• It’s always TCP_NODELAY. Every damn time. - Marc’s Blog

• Die Biene Maja und ihre Abenteuer ist von Waldemar Bonsels (1912)

• tsoding/dimooper: Digital Music Looper

  • via Tsoding Outro Song - YouTube

• An experiment in vibe coding | Read the Tea Leaves

  Being able to write detailed bug reports, or even have the right vocabulary to describe the problem, is an invaluable skill here. well put!

• What an unprocessed photo looks like | Lobsters

• Calendar | Hacker News

  • Neato Calendar via https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46409384

• ssh tiny.christmas · eieio.games

• Instant database clones with PostgreSQL 18 | Lobsters

• Server Radar – Find Best Deals on Hetzner Dedicated Servers

  • via Server Radar - Track Hetzner Server Prices & Receive Email Alerts | Lobsters

Django/Flask Frontend 2025

• Django Packages : Live Views

• Level Up Your Django Frontend: Integrate Web Components into Django Templates with Vue Mike Hoolehan - YouTube

  • uses vue component as web component

  • uses Pinia to manage state

  • published demo project at ilikerobots/annotated_django_vue: A Django + Vue >Demo Integration using Templates + Native Web Components

• DjangoCon Europe 2025 | Django + HTMX: Patterns to Success - YouTube

  • uses component library, e.g. Django Cotton - Modern UI Composition for Django

  • for Flask, there is JinjaX

    • Anyone tried JinjaX in production? : r/htmx

• Pico CSS • Minimal CSS Framework for semantic HTML

• Neat CSS via hn comment

• Tailwind vs Semantic CSS / Nue

  • makes a case for semantic css

  • I like semantic HTML

  • I loathe <div class="500-characters-of classes-names here> soups

• hn comments on Pico CSS – Minimal CSS Framework for Semantic HTML | Hacker News

  • CSS Bed - a collection of classless css themes

  • new.css

  • Tailwind CSS vs. Pico CSS (2022) | Hacker News

    • Simple.css

• shadcn

  • shadcn/vue

  • Calendar Standard 3 - Shadcn UI Calendar Component needs React

• Basecoat brings the magic of shadcn/ui to any traditional web stack: no React required

• Django UI Components for Perfectionists with Deadlines with Hernan Lozano - YouTube

  • argues that there are three pillars:

    • Interactivity, e.g. HTMX

    • Styles, e.g. Tailwind

    • Components, e.g. Django-Cotton

• MCP Apps: Extending servers with interactive user interfaces | Model Context Protocol Blog

  • via A2UI: A Protocol for Agent-Driven Interfaces | Hacker News

I am looking for help on modern frontend. I did a lot of ExtJS back in the day; later some Bootstrap and Django/Flask. Then … nothing … in the frontend.

MPA with server-side templating or SPA?

I like server-side MPAs from a deployment perspective.

• different paths with observability

• code-reuse in Django/Flask

• browsers are really good at following links and displaying pages

• built to last

On the negative

• tools like vite with HMR are lost or need weird integration hacks

• frontend docs these days expect you to npm install whatev and import { EpicComponent } from whatev

React? Vue?

I did some react. It is productive. I did not like it. People talk about hooks hell. AI told me that Vue’s learning curve is not as steep and that it would integrate better into an MPA. Most examples online are in React. I like Vue’s style better. It seems less fragmented. Pycharm integration must be good, which is given for both React and Vue I presume.

Prettier

Nope!

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https://joshuatz.com/posts/2020/prettier-function-parenthesis-spacing-opinionated-is-key/

Also: No prek, no pre-commit.