#402 How to monetize your blog

Topics covered in this episode:

• Architecture Decision Records (ADRs)
• narwhals: extremely lightweight compatibility layer between dataframes
• Microsoft wants Three Mile Island to fuel its AI power needs
• zsh-in-docker
• Extras
• Joke

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Brian #1: Architecture Decision Records (ADRs)

• Suggested by Christian Gesell
• Documenting Architecture Decisions
  • Mychael Nygard
  • Original article from 2011
• Why you should be using architecture decision records to document your project
  • Red Hat
  • Includes a quick overview and links to some templates
• Notes so far
  • Writing this out helps me solidify my thinking about a problem.
  • I’m doing this both before starting, and while implementing a first draft
  • GitHub and GitLab render markdown so well that generating a docs site is unnecessary, just throwing these files in something like docs/adr is enough.
  • The lightweight process is enough but not too much.
  • I’ve already filled out None for lots of sections, like “options considered”
  • I’m still playing with what level of decision should have an ADR.
• My template that I’ve been using so far
  • Saved in 000-adr-template.md
  • For easy copy/paste/modify for new records.
• File name is something like 001-some-change.md

Michael #2: narwhals: extremely lightweight compatibility layer between dataframes

• Recently had Marco on Talk Python to discuss
• Primarily for library creators who want to support interacting with multiple data frame libraries (.e.g. Pandas & Polars)
• Just use a subset of the Polars API

Brian #3: Microsoft wants Three Mile Island to fuel its AI power needs

• “Microsoft just signed a deal to revive the shuttered Three Mile Island nuclear power plant. If approved by regulators, the software maker would have exclusive rights to 100 percent of the output for its AI data center needs.”
• Also ran on CNN and other sources:
  • Three Mile Island is reopening and selling its power to Microsoft
• Three Mile Island was the site of the worst nuclear disaster in the US, when one of two reactors experienced a partial meltdown, in 1979.
• It was still operating up until 2019, and now expected to re-open in 2028
• Will be renamed “Crane Clean Energy Center”
• related
  • The Department of Energy Wants You to Know Your Conservation Efforts Are Making a Difference
    • “By switching all the lightbulbs in your house to LED, you saved enough energy for a self-driving car to make an unprotected lefthand turn across three lanes of traffic.”
    • “We know you adopted energy-saving practices to help conserve our planet’s resources and bring down our collective carbon footprint, but what you ultimately accomplished is just as important: helping AI do something menial and stupid.”

Michael #4: zsh-in-docker

• Install Zsh, Oh My Zsh and plugins inside a Docker container with one line!
• Yes docker containers should be light, but also, think of how painful it can be when you run into trouble.
• With Oh My ZSH, you get a nice experience when you have to result to docker exec -it CONTAINER zsh
• Just enter a single command in your docker file: RUN sh -c "$(wget -O- https://github.com/deluan/zsh-in-docker/releases/download/v1.2.0/zsh-in-docker.sh)" -- \ -t robbyrussell

Extras

Michael:

• self-hosting mkennedy.codes
• Loren's journey to developer
• It’s time to stop using Python 3.8
• Sonoma → Sequoia → Sonoma (yikes!)
• Passkeys, maybe they will work out if we don’t let them become lock-in (bitwarden’s support)

Joke:

• How to Monetize a Blog
  • Don’t forget to click on the bottom link: Credits / how this was made