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Richard Smith

01 Jan 2025

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You Moved The Button

Most enterprise software gets worse because of the "you moved the button" problem. Software evolves over time. You answer customer requests with new features, extend workflows and add new columns in reports. But your training department are struggling to show customers how everything works. Your documentation team can&

22 May 2025 1 min read

SQLAlchemy 2.0 Query Style Is Awful

I write code in Python, and I use SQLAlchemy to connect and query the database. I do this because after 20 years of writing Perl and connecting to the database with DBI and writing hand-rolled SQL, I decided that I wanted a slightly easier life. 99% of all web apps

25 Feb 2025 2 min read

Tapestry and Timeline Apps

Last week saw the release of a new app from The Iconfactory called Tapestry. It can give you a read-only view of feeds from: * Youtube * Mastodon * Bluesky * Reddit * Tumblr * RSS * Podcasts And more, with the ability to build additional connectors using Javascript. I have heard many people say that they

10 Feb 2025 2 min read

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