Monday, 23rd March 2026
Research
Starlette 1.0 skill
— Starlette 1.0 Skill offers a concise guide for building robust web applications with Starlette, a lightweight ASGI framework. The accompanying demo showcases a task management app featuring projects, tasks, comments, and labels, illustrating Starlette's flexibility in handling routing, templating (Jinja2), async database operations (aiosqlite), and real-time updates.
Last month I added a feature I call beats to this blog, pulling in some of my other content from external sources and including it on the homepage, search and various archive pages on the site.
On any given day these frequently outnumber my regular posts. They were looking a little bit thin and were lacking any form of explanation beyond a link, so I've added the ability to annotate them with a "note" which now shows up as part of their display.
Here's what that looks like for the content I published yesterday:
I've also updated the /atom/everything/ Atom feed to include any beats that I've attached notes to.