simonw VS reader

Everything @simonw has worked on, honestly: https://github.com/simonw

You can create a repo at https://github.com/simonw/simonw (only using your username twice) and the README.md file in there will be used to populate your profile page.

I'd leave the forked repos there, and then use pinned repositories on your profile to highlight the repositories you are most proud of. You can also use a personal README to customize your profile - I have one here for example: https://github.com/simonw

Here's one of mine that runs three times an hour: https://github.com/simonw/simonw/blob/main/.github/workflows/build.yml

As I was browsing examples for some inspiration, I stumbled upon Simon Willison's version, which features some dynamic content like recent work and blog publications. He explained how he used a combination of GitHub Actions and Python to achieve this in a blog post, and I decided to do something similar with PHP.

I have GitHub sponsors setup: https://github.com/simonw

If you really want to please me, consider sponsoring Simon Willinson the author of the framework I'm relying on .

I have 112 mostly-maintained released project listed on https://github.com/simonw/simonw/blob/main/releases.md now - most of which are tools for loading data into SQLite database files (a surprisingly under-served use-case given how ubiquitous SQLite is) and plugins for my https://datasette.io/ project for reading data back out of SQLite again.

I realized a few years ago that SQLite was the perfect tool for doing data analysis at the small-data scale, where small data is less that 10GB which is pretty much everything you might want to analyze - especially for personal projects.

So I've been building tools to fill that niche!

I like this pattern so much, I wrote an article about it; if you want to see what it looks like in real life, check this out.

It can also be used to build bookmarking / read later functionality similar to that of Tiny Tiny RSS; extracting content from arbitrary pages would be pretty helpful here.

To find out more, check out the GitHub repo and the docs, or give the tutorial a try.

[1]: https://death.andgravity.com/query-builder-how#more-init

[2]: https://github.com/lemon24/reader/blob/10ccabb9186f531da04db...

Looking now through the Python API docs, I found the Quoting characters for use in search thing, which may come in handy for something I'm doing for my feed reader library (deduplicating articles). Not sure if I'll vendor it or add sqlite-utils as a new dependency, but it's good to know someone already solved this problem (I have a prototype, but I haven't really tested it).

I'm happy to announce version 2.0 of reader, a Python RSS / Atom / JSON feed reader library.

I'm also working on the 2.0 version of my feed reader library. The backwards compatibility break allows me to clean up a bunch of unnecessary code and fix some bad design decisions; I've deleted 250 lines of code until now, and it's very satisfying.

The exact same problems None has when it's not a valid value. None is different from the variable type, that's why you have Optional[VarType], which is an alias for Union[VarType, None]; you can model this in exactly the same way: Union[VarType, MissingType]; here's an example.

reader is a Python feed reader library – it offers all the high-level things you'd want when making a feed reader app/website, except the actual web app.