Learning FastAPI (3): “Stock Toolkit”

“Stock Toolkit 3:” the front-end. Wherein I put together a relatively low-rent front-end for the API I just built using svelte and Tailwind CSS, still served up through uvicorn.
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Learning FastAPI (2): “Stock Toolkit”

I’m working on a small application to monitor and inspect stocks to learn some new-to-me development tools. Here are some details about that.
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FastAPI + Svelte

As I’ve been trying to update the tools I lean on for quick web things, I am really enjoying using FastAPI with Svelte. These are notes about the development setup that I currently like. Fair warning: this is not battle hardened yet. I’ve used it to make a couple of toys and like how it’s shaping up, though.
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Excalidraw

This lines up so perfectly with the diagrams I usually need to draw. How was I unaware of it until now?
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Baseball App Wishlist

I’d like a little tool to help with practice and game preparation for younger baseball players.
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Hacking a Cheap IP Camera

I got a $20 HD IP camera from Micro Center. It started out every bit as good as it sounds.
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TRIM - Fedora 32 edition

Weird performance problems return and go away thanks to fstrim.
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Fun with Nginx as an API cache

I’m learning more about front-end development. This means that a debugging session where I get stuck at the wrong point can make me abuse a server and blow past an API rate limit. Here’s my setup for preventing that.
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Making VMWare Workstation launch on Linux 5.8

While VMWare workstation works well on Fedora, it’s not officially supported, and the Fedora kernel regularly gets ahead of what VMWare expects from the host. It’s worse than normal this time.
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Source Debugging for LÖVE2D

As good as existing editing tooling for LÖVE2D, sometimes source debugging is hard to beat.
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