Sometimes you want to share something with the world but don't want to have it publicly accessible, and don't want to setup serious authentication like OAuth. In that case, Basic Auth might be just the type of authentication you're looking for.

Setting up basic auth in FastAPI can be done with a just of couple lines of code, but I could not find in the project's documentation how to do it for both endpoints and static files (e.g. a Web App, or plain HTML files).

Based on this discussion I was able to create a minimal implementation that you can find in this repository. Please see the README in the repository how to run and test the setup.

Vercel is a powerful platform for hosting serverless functions. A typical serverless function (in TypeScript) on Vercel looks like this:

async function (request: VercelRequest, response: VercelResponse) {
    response.status(200).json({message: 'hello world'});
}

Asciinema is a great way to share and embed terminal recordings on the web.

Getting started with Asciinema on macOS is as simple as installing the tool with brew install asciinema, and creating a new recording with asciinema rec demo.cast.

There's an NPM package

For reasons still unknown my Apple Mail (macOS 13.2) got stuck in an endless "Moving messages" loop. The Internet offers many different solutions to this problem but unfortunately many did not work for me. Until I discoved this page that contained a procedure that did make the "Moving messages" go away.

For future reference, these are the steps:

1. Exit Apple Mail
2. Open Finder and go to this folder: ~/Library/Mail/V10/MailData/ (note that I could not access this folder from the terminal)

Recently I spent two days figuring out why a seemingly trivial use of a cascading delete relationship in SQLAlchemy did not work properly, eventually I found the answer in this StackOverflow post. Because it was a real puzzler I've created this short writing, perhaps it can be of help to someone facing the same problem someday.

The context of the problem is very simple: there are two tables (Parent and Child), each Parent can only have one Child and when a Parent row is deleted the associated Child row should also be deleted.

This is how that looks in SQLAlchemy Python code:

class Child(Base):