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Daniel Roy Greenfeld @daniel.feldroy.com · 21h

The bugfix was an impressive catch by a relatively new coder. I love it when bright, new people find stuff us more experienced people miss.

Air Web Framework @airwebframework.bsky.social · 22h

Release 0.37.0:
- Adds the first draft of the Air Book by @audrey.feldroy.com
- Vastly improved llms.txt files
- Bugfix for Jinja rendering of non-AirTag data
- Two new first time contributors!

github.com/feldroy/air/...

Release v0.37.0 · feldroy/air

What's Changed BOOK: The Air Book by @audreyfeldroy in #504 BUG: Constrain renderers to only stringify items inheriting from BaseTag by @bluerosej and @pydanny in #561 DOCS: book example uses the...

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Daniel Roy Greenfeld @daniel.feldroy.com · 2d

Isn't there a reason why you can't just configure the Django ORM to work inside a FastAPI project? I used to do it on toy apps but for some reason I can't remember didn't do it on anything with substantial traffic.

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Daniel Roy Greenfeld @daniel.feldroy.com · 6d

This release was a lot of fun effort, and is a display of the rapidly growing Air community. The .htmx object implementation was inspired by @adamj.eu's incredible work on django-htmx.

Air Web Framework @airwebframework.bsky.social · 6d

I am now 0.36.0 releases old! A few of my changes include:
- Adding a .htmx object to every request
- Dropping support for 3.12 (We already support Python 3.14)
- More documentation!

github.com/feldroy/air/...

Release v0.36.0 · feldroy/air

What's Changed Implement .htmx object on air.Request by @pydanny in #524 Drop Python 3.12 support! by @tallerasaf in #538 Add forms quickstart by @pydanny in #536 abd #539 Restore llms.txt for LLM...

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Air Web Framework @airwebframework.bsky.social · 6d

I am now 0.36.0 releases old! A few of my changes include:
- Adding a .htmx object to every request
- Dropping support for 3.12 (We already support Python 3.14)
- More documentation!

github.com/feldroy/air/...

Release v0.36.0 · feldroy/air

What's Changed Implement .htmx object on air.Request by @pydanny in #524 Drop Python 3.12 support! by @tallerasaf in #538 Add forms quickstart by @pydanny in #536 abd #539 Restore llms.txt for LLM...

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Daniel Roy Greenfeld @daniel.feldroy.com · 10d

Only little candies embossed with his face.

To Uma's chagrin, they don't have proper British peas. They do sell frozen bangers and mash and a lot of packaged biscuits.

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Daniel Roy Greenfeld @daniel.feldroy.com · 11d

Anyone remember when you weren't supposed to place a URL on the word "here". Is that still a thing?

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Daniel Roy Greenfeld @daniel.feldroy.com · 12d

I might be far from London and all my friends there, but at least there's M&S in Manila.

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Daniel Roy Greenfeld @daniel.feldroy.com · 12d

Ha ha ha! I would pay to watch this reboot.

youtu.be/3NHd7oC1w58?...

Alien Recut as a Comedy | Trailer Mix

YouTube video by Mashable Screening

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Daniel Roy Greenfeld @daniel.feldroy.com · 15d

A lovely review of Air. Plus the headline image blows us away!

open.substack.com/pub/thefulld...

TFDS Tech Review: AIR Python Web Framework

Fast API, Starlette and Pydantic? Sounds good to me!

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Daniel Roy Greenfeld @daniel.feldroy.com · 15d

For anyone using asyncpg without anything else, what do you use for database migrations? All the existing packages are 5+ years unmaintained.

Yes, I can make my own but if there's something out there that works and is maintained...

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Daniel Roy Greenfeld @daniel.feldroy.com · 20d

I love the art and design of PyCon Davao. I think it's inspired by a regional art style. Can't wait to meet the creator and ask them a zillion questions about it.

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Pycon Davao 2025

PyCon Davao 2025 is the first full-scale Python conference in Davao Region. For two energy packed days it will unite engineers, data scientists, educators, founders, and students to learn, hack, and c...

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Daniel Roy Greenfeld @daniel.feldroy.com · 20d

Well this is exciting.

Air Web Framework @airwebframework.bsky.social · 20d

In the past 8 hours our GitHub stars jumped by almost 10%!

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Daniel Roy Greenfeld @daniel.feldroy.com · 23d

As someone who has always had to fight the foolish urge to clean up HTML output formatting when he does web stuff, this is a dream come true.

Air Web Framework @airwebframework.bsky.social · 23d

Coming in Air 0.32, released hopefully tomorrow!

To make reading HTML output easier, we will have features for converting dense HTML to pretty printed HTML!

All credit goes to github.com/tallerasaf for the PR and
@willmcgugan.bsky.social for the rich library its built on.

What browsers see from Air, which is HTML with unnecessary whitespace stripped.

What developers using Air can see locally if they so chose, which is carefully formatted, indented, and code highlighted output.

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Daniel Roy Greenfeld @daniel.feldroy.com · 23d

Coming in Air 0.32, released hopefully tomorrow!

To make reading HTML output easier, we will have features for converting dense HTML to pretty printed HTML!

All credit goes to github.com/tallerasaf for the PR and
@willmcgugan.bsky.social for the rich library its built on.

What browsers see being output from Air, which is HTML with unnecessary whitespace stripped for speed and efficiency.

What developers can see if they so choose. Which is HTML formatted for clarity and highlighted for easier reading.

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Daniel Roy Greenfeld @daniel.feldroy.com · 26d

I think code review for sane projects will stay, but with AI descriptions getting better.

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Daniel Roy Greenfeld @daniel.feldroy.com · 29d

Today I started over on a project in a new branch/PR. Doing so allowed me to go super fast because:

1. I now had a deep understanding of the spec
2. In the new branch I only had to good stuff
3. I don't need to worry about git cleanup, it's all new
4. It forced me to take a break

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Daniel Roy Greenfeld @daniel.feldroy.com · Sep 14

Wait... what... married?

That's awesome! I'm happy for you! 😍

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Daniel Roy Greenfeld @daniel.feldroy.com · Sep 13

Attribution matters. I am a zealot about adding people as co-authors to my git commits when we pair. And if I need to merge two projects together ever again, going forward this is how I'm doing it.

daniel.feldroy.com/posts/til-20...

TIL: Merging two git projects

Attribution matters to me, I want contributors to always get full credit for their effort. This is how you preserve the git history of a project you are bringing into another project.

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Audrey M. Roy Greenfeld @audrey.feldroy.com · Sep 13

Sending out email newsletters is something I've absolutely feared for years

Yesterday @daniel.feldroy.com and I finally rebooted ours, sending out an update for the first time in 5 years

We got a few more requests to join after we sent that out. We'll send it to the ~10 of you hopefully by tonight

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Daniel Roy Greenfeld @daniel.feldroy.com · Sep 12

Correct - this is why I shouldn't post to social media right at bedtime. 😂

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Daniel Roy Greenfeld @daniel.feldroy.com · Sep 12

Yes, I misread FastHTML for FastAPI. 😜

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Daniel Roy Greenfeld @daniel.feldroy.com · Sep 9

Air is a layer on top of FastAPI, so technically it's not an alternative. 😁

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Daniel Roy Greenfeld @daniel.feldroy.com · Sep 9

pycon-davao.durianpy.org

Next month I'm giving a keynote talk at PyCon Davao in the Philippines!

Fun fact: Davao is the heart of Bleu cheese production in the Philippines. Imagine European-style cheeses made to exacting standards - In Southeast Asia! 🧀🇵🇭

Pycon Davao 2025

PyCon Davao 2025 is the first full-scale Python conference in Davao Region. For two energy packed days it will unite engineers, data scientists, educators, founders, and students to learn, hack, and c...

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Daniel Roy Greenfeld @daniel.feldroy.com · Sep 2

Just noticed I've been writing online articles for 20 years. 🤯

Screen capture of my personal site that shows I've been writing online for 20.0 years.

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Daniel Roy Greenfeld @daniel.feldroy.com · Sep 2

I love learning new things. Today I learned a pytest-friendly way to set environment variables easily and consistently.

daniel.feldroy.com/posts/til-20...

TIL: Setting environment variables for pytest

An easier way of doing it then modifying os.environ

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