Wednesday, 2nd February 2022
webvm.io (via) This is one heck of a tech demo: it’s a full copy of Debian, compiled to WebAssembly and running in your browser. It’s fully stocked with Python, Perl, Ruby, Node.js and even a working gcc compiler! The underlying technology, CheerpX, is a closed-source WebAssembly virtualization platform.
TIL
Testing against Python 3.11 preview using GitHub Actions
— I decided to run my CI tests against the Python 3.11 preview, to avoid the problem I had when Python 3.10 came out with [a bug that affected Datasette](https://simonwillison.net/2021/Oct/9/finding-and-reporting-a-bug/).
Help scraping: track changes to CLI tools by recording their --help using Git
I’ve been experimenting with a new variant of Git scraping this week which I’m calling Help scraping. The key idea is to track changes made to CLI tools over time by recording the output of their --help commands in a Git repository.