Topics covered in this episode:

* Switching to direnv, Starship, and uv*
* rqlite - Distributed SQLite DB*
* Some Markdown Stuff*
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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.

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