July 15, 2025

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25 minutes

Topics covered in this episode:

* Switching to direnv, Starship, and uv*

* rqlite - Distributed SQLite DB*

* Some Markdown Stuff*

Extras

Joke

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About the show

Sponsored by PropelAuth: pythonbytes.fm/propelauth77

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Brian #1: Switching to direnv, Starship, and uv

Last week I mentioned that I’m ready to try direnv again, but secretly, I still had some worries about the process. Thankfully, Trey has a tutorial to walk me past the troublesome parts.

direnv - an extension for your shell. It augments existing shells with a new feature that can load and unload environment variables depending on the current directory.

Switching from virtualenvwrapper to direnv, Starship, and uv

- Trey Hunner**

Trey has solved a bunch of the problems I had when I tried direnv before

Show the virtual environment name in the prompt

Place new virtual environments in local .venv instead of in .direnv/python3.12

Silence all of the “loading”, “unloading” statements every time you enter a directory

Have a script called

venv

to create an environment, activate it, create a

.envrc

file

I’m more used to a create script, so I’ll stick with that name and Trey’s contents

A

workon

script to be able to switch around to different projects.

This is a carry over from “virtualenvwrapper’, but seems cool. I’ll take it.

Adding

uv

to the mix for creating virtual environments.

Interestingly including --seed which, for one, installs pip in the new environment. (Some tools need it, even if you don’t)

Starship

Trey also has some setup for Starship. But I’ll get through the above first, then MAYBE try Starship again.

Some motivation

Trey’s setup is pretty simple. Maybe I was trying to get too fancy before

Starship config in toml files that can be loaded with direnv and be different for different projects. Neato

Also, Trey mentions his dotfiles repo. This is a cool idea that I’ve been meaning to do for a long time.

See also:

It's Terminal - Bootstrapping With Starship, Just, Direnv, and UV - Mario Munoz

Michael #2: rqlite - Distributed SQLite DB

via themlu, thanks!

rqlite is a lightweight, user-friendly, distributed relational database built on SQLite.

Built on SQLite, the world’s most popular database

Supports full-text search, Vector Search, and JSON documents

Access controls and encryption for secure deployments

Michael #3: A Python dict that can report which keys you did not use

by Peter Bengtsson

Very cool for testing that a dictionary has been used as expected (e.g. all data has been sent out via an API or report).

Note: It does NOT track d.get(), but it’s easy to just add it to the class in the post.

Maybe someone should polish it up and put it on pypi (that person is not me :) ).

Brian #4: Some Markdown Stuff

Textual 4.0.0

adds Markdown.append which can be used to efficiently stream markdown content

The reason for the major bump is due to an interface change to Widget.anchor

Refreshing to see a symantic change cause a major version bump.

html-to-markdown

Converts html to markdown

A complete rewrite fork of markdownify

Lots of fun features like “streaming support”

Curious if it can stream to Textual’s Markdown.append method. hmmm.

Joke: Vibecon is hard to attend

...more

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July 15, 2025

#440 Can't Register for VibeCon

Listen Later

25 minutes

Topics covered in this episode:

* Switching to direnv, Starship, and uv*

* rqlite - Distributed SQLite DB*

* Some Markdown Stuff*

Extras

Joke

Watch on YouTube

About the show

Sponsored by PropelAuth: pythonbytes.fm/propelauth77

Connect with the hosts

Michael: @[email protected] / @mkennedy.codes (bsky)

Brian: @[email protected] / @brianokken.bsky.social

Show: @[email protected] / @pythonbytes.fm (bsky)

Join us on YouTube at pythonbytes.fm/live to be part of the audience. Usually Monday at 10am PT. Older video versions available there too.

Finally, if you want an artisanal, hand-crafted digest of every week of the show notes in email form? Add your name and email to our friends of the show list, we'll never share it.

Brian #1: Switching to direnv, Starship, and uv

Last week I mentioned that I’m ready to try direnv again, but secretly, I still had some worries about the process. Thankfully, Trey has a tutorial to walk me past the troublesome parts.

direnv - an extension for your shell. It augments existing shells with a new feature that can load and unload environment variables depending on the current directory.

Switching from virtualenvwrapper to direnv, Starship, and uv

- Trey Hunner**

Trey has solved a bunch of the problems I had when I tried direnv before

Show the virtual environment name in the prompt

Place new virtual environments in local .venv instead of in .direnv/python3.12

Silence all of the “loading”, “unloading” statements every time you enter a directory

Have a script called

venv

to create an environment, activate it, create a

.envrc

file

I’m more used to a create script, so I’ll stick with that name and Trey’s contents

A

workon

script to be able to switch around to different projects.

This is a carry over from “virtualenvwrapper’, but seems cool. I’ll take it.

Adding

uv

to the mix for creating virtual environments.

Interestingly including --seed which, for one, installs pip in the new environment. (Some tools need it, even if you don’t)

Starship

Trey also has some setup for Starship. But I’ll get through the above first, then MAYBE try Starship again.

Some motivation

Trey’s setup is pretty simple. Maybe I was trying to get too fancy before

Starship config in toml files that can be loaded with direnv and be different for different projects. Neato

Also, Trey mentions his dotfiles repo. This is a cool idea that I’ve been meaning to do for a long time.

See also:

It's Terminal - Bootstrapping With Starship, Just, Direnv, and UV - Mario Munoz

Michael #2: rqlite - Distributed SQLite DB

via themlu, thanks!

rqlite is a lightweight, user-friendly, distributed relational database built on SQLite.

Built on SQLite, the world’s most popular database

Supports full-text search, Vector Search, and JSON documents

Access controls and encryption for secure deployments

Michael #3: A Python dict that can report which keys you did not use

by Peter Bengtsson

Very cool for testing that a dictionary has been used as expected (e.g. all data has been sent out via an API or report).

Note: It does NOT track d.get(), but it’s easy to just add it to the class in the post.

Maybe someone should polish it up and put it on pypi (that person is not me :) ).

Brian #4: Some Markdown Stuff

Textual 4.0.0

adds Markdown.append which can be used to efficiently stream markdown content

The reason for the major bump is due to an interface change to Widget.anchor

Refreshing to see a symantic change cause a major version bump.

html-to-markdown

Converts html to markdown

A complete rewrite fork of markdownify

Lots of fun features like “streaming support”

Curious if it can stream to Textual’s Markdown.append method. hmmm.

Joke: Vibecon is hard to attend

...more

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