I stumbled across this clever service when looking for a “pastebin” that handled rendering terminal output with ANSI codes. The irony is that they don’t actually allow that (just plain text can be piped to their pastes service), but I found their whole site and vibe delightful!

And the two authors, qudat, and antoniomima are active on HN, as their responsive comments here demonstrate. Just good work all around.

Pico.sh – SSH powered services for developers

This looks cool.

1) I looked at the pricing. Is search included in the price - (you just pay credits/browser time?)

2) Can you tell me more about the source of your residential proxies? I am new to this space, so don’t know how people source these legitimately.

Thanks!

It’s funny you mention Modal. I use modal to do fan-out processing of large-ish datasets. Right now I store the transient data in duckdb on modal, using polars (and sometimes ibis) as my api of choice.

I did this, rather than use snowflake, because our custom python “user defined functions” that process the data are not deployable on snowflake out of the gate, and the ergonomics of shipping custom code to modal are great, so I’m willing to pay a bit more complexity to ship data to modal in exchange for these great dev ergonomics.

All of that is to say: what does it look like to have custom python code running on my polars cloud in a distributed fashion? Is that a solved problem?

I agree with this so much! I recently started using patito, which is a typesafe pydantic based library for Polars. I’m not really deep into it yet, but I prefer polars syntax and the extra functions that Patito adds to the dataframes. (https://patito.readthedocs.io/en/latest/)

Otherwise, it feels so broken to just pass a dataframe around. It’s like typing everything as a “dict” and hoping for the best. It’s awful.