Lightning Talks 2
We hosted a lightning talks session.
The goal was to see what technologies people in the community had been working with since our last meetup.
Marimo
Elliot had recently attended a conference, during which he learned about Marimo, a Jupyter Notebooks alternative which runs pure python under the hood, making live updates to the entire notebook rather than the usual cell by cell execution we’re used to when working with notebooks.
FastHTML
Mike had been working on a web app using FastHTML - a python interface for building websites. It uses HTMX under the hood, and abstracts away all the HTML, CSS and JavaScript normally needed when building interactive websites. He gave a demo of a riddle generating app, which prompted the user with an LLM generated riddle, and berated the user in a Monty Python-esque manner for incorrect answers. Riddle me this