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Understanding FastHTML Components and Architecture

🧑 human (Aug 26, 2024, 03:52 PM)

What are the components of FastHTML, and how do they work together? What are some key things I need to understand to write idiomatic FastHTML apps?

🤖 assistant (Aug 26, 2024, 03:52 PM)

Based on the documentation provided, here are the key components of FastHTML and how they work together to create web applications:

1. Core Components:

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index.md

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Starlette Introduction

Starlette is a lightweight [ASGI][asgi] framework/toolkit, which is ideal for building async web services in Python.

It is production-ready, and gives you the following:

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Anti-hype LLM reading list

Goals: Add links that are reasonable and good explanations of how stuff works. No hype and no vendor content if possible. Practical first-hand accounts of models in prod eagerly sought.

Foundational Concepts

Pre-Transformer Models

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All of the python 3.9 standard library

(Too big for a single gist, so see first reply for the rest)

Table of contents

• abc
• aifc
• argparse
• array

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Stevey's Google Platforms Rant

I was at Amazon for about six and a half years, and now I've been at Google for that long. One thing that struck me immediately about the two companies -- an impression that has been reinforced almost daily -- is that Amazon does everything wrong, and Google does everything right. Sure, it's a sweeping generalization, but a surprisingly accurate one. It's pretty crazy. There are probably a hundred or even two hundred different ways you can compare the two companies, and Google is superior in all but three of them, if I recall correctly. I actually did a spreadsheet at one point but Legal wouldn't let me show it to anyone, even though recruiting loved it.

I mean, just to give you a very brief taste: Amazon's recruiting process is fundamentally flawed by having teams hire for themselves, so their hiring bar is incredibly inconsistent across teams, despite various efforts they've made to level it out. And their operations are a mess; they don't real