darrenburns

darrenburns, 4 days ago to random

Had some fun integrating VS Code style theme previews and switching into the Textual command palette for my app 👨‍🎨

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darrenburns, 5 days ago to random

Here's an early clip of my new (work in progress) app: Posting.

It's an HTTP client (like Postman, Insomnia, etc) but it runs entirely in the terminal. Keyboard-centric, snappy, and works over SSH. It's written in Python using the Textual framework.

https://github.com/darrenburns/posting

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darrenburns, 17 days ago to random

In Elia 1.7 you can rename chats by pressing ctrl+r or clicking the chat title. Just released!

https://github.com/darrenburns/elia

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darrenburns, 18 days ago to random

Elia 1.6 adds the -i option to run under your prompt (not fullscreen).

In the example below, we use the u keybind to quickly grab the first code block in the response, and y to copy it to the clipboard.

https://github.com/darrenburns/elia/releases/tag/1.6.0

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darrenburns, 25 days ago to python

I just added support for Gemini 1.5 Pro and the new Gemini 1.5 Flash in Elia 1.5 💫

https://github.com/darrenburns/elia/releases/tag/1.5.0

#python #textual

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darrenburns, 28 days ago to random

My plan today is to sit in the sun and write textual-autocomplete v2.0.

I suspect my laptop battery will last about 2 hours though (Intel MacBook problems).

darrenburns, 1 month ago to random

pyinstrument is the greatest thing ever created.

I used it while writing Textual's TextArea widget and within 30 mins cut 97% off of key handling time.

I just used it again for 10 mins and cut the startup time of my app from 2.7s to 1.3s.

davep, 3 months ago to random

Today @darrenburns has rage quit VSCode so hard he’s looped around to rage using it.

darrenburns, 3 months ago to random

There's something wrong with my Discord client :(

darrenburns, 3 months ago to random

A while back I hacked together (don't look at the code please) a tool called dunk which you can pipe your git diff output into and it'll show you the diff in an easier to read form:
https://github.com/darrenburns/dunk

I have a fish shell abbreviation set up as gdd which does git diff | dunk | less -R, so you can page through the output and see exactly what you've changed since your last commit.

I wish there were better options for interacting with Git via Python :blobcatsad:

darrenburns, 3 months ago to random

.text-area--selection {
text-style: reverse bold italic;
}

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darrenburns, 3 months ago to random

Goodbye pyenv I will use rye instead.

Uninstalled pipx and will use rye install instead.

Black is gone too. rye fmt instead.

rye lint will now lint my code.

It's the ryevolution.

darrenburns, 3 months ago to random

Writing some Python today and dependency management stressed me out so much that I switched my project from Poetry to Rye. So far so good!

darrenburns, 4 months ago to random

I'm completely hooked on watching speedrunning documentaries on YouTube. This is so cool! This seems more exciting than playing the games normally 🤩

Techniques go undiscovered for years, and the methods for discovering skips can be highly technical. Games are reverse engineered in order to understand them at a low level, just to save seconds from a run.

I've particularly enjoyed learning about speedruns of Portal 1/2, Pokemon Red/Blue, Halo 2, and Celeste.

darrenburns, 4 months ago to random

A large part of my role now involves threatening my colleagues with "a visit from the walrus police" relating to the use of Python's walrus operator in many scenarios.

I can't think of any examples where I find the walrus operator actually useful outside of the loop condition in a while loop. Most of the time it just reduces readability for me by hiding an assignment somewhere I wouldn't expect it.

Can anyone sell me on other use-cases so the walrus police may rest?

darrenburns, 4 months ago to random

A not so interesting clip of my current project - adding undo/redo to Textual's TextArea widget...

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darrenburns, 4 months ago to random

Does anyone know of heuristics that are used to decide exactly what gets undone when you "undo" in a text editor?

I'm currently batching edits by considering time since last edit, occurrence of any newline characters in replaced or inserted text, and a limit of the number of characters in a batch.

I wonder if there are any other reasonable heuristics that might improve UX that could be easy additions 🤔

darrenburns, 4 months ago to python

We're getting ready to release soft wrapping support for the TextArea widget in Textual! This was one of the toughest projects I've ever worked on 😅

Excited to see people building new apps with it ✨

#python #textual

An example of soft wrapping in the Textual text area widget.

darrenburns, 5 months ago to random

One of the most overlooked features of Textual is hot-reloading on styling changes. It allows you to quickly iterate on layout and design while keeping your app interactive 🏎️

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darrenburns, 9 months ago to python

Added some extra styling for Markdown inside the TextArea widget 🎨

#python

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darrenburns, 9 months ago to python

Dracula 🧛‍♂️ and some bracket matching! #python #textual

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darrenburns, 9 months ago to python

Working on the TextArea widget for Textual has been a lot of fun, and I'm excited to see what apps people build with it soon!

Here's a little demo of it in action...

#python

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