This has already been mentioned a few times. Just find the relevant issue on GitHub and give it an upvote.

• The rank of a post in the aggregated feed should be inversely proportional to the size of the community #1026
• Weighted Community Subscription for Customized Feed #3518
• Balance Instance Scores Based on Monthly Active Users #3642

I knew I recognized him from somewhere. He was the developer of lib.reviews. https://github.com/eloquence

Imagus is a browser extension for Firefox that allows users to enlarge images and display images/videos from links with a simple mouse-over. It is similar to the Hover Zoom extension, which is a popular tool for browsing memes and gifs on desktop. However, Hover Zoom has been flagged as spyware, so users may want to consider using Imagus instead. Imagus works with a wider range of links than Hover Zoom, including those from imgur. The extension also has customizable settings, including an expandable set of rules for getting larger images, media, or other content.

I’ve saved this, but it would be nice to see the syntax somewhere in the search engine

A function decorator: You can create a decorator that handles the connection and cursor creation and passes the cursor to the decorated function.

import sqlite3
from functools import wraps

DB_FILE = "your_database_file.db"

def with_cursor(func):
    @wraps(func)
    def wrapper(*args, **kwargs):
        conn = sqlite3.connect(DB_FILE)
        cursor = conn.cursor()

        result = func(cursor, *args, **kwargs)

        conn.commit()
        cursor.close()
        conn.close()

        return result

    return wrapper

@with_cursor
def insert_post_to_db(cursor: sqlite3.Cursor, issue: Issue, lemmy_post_id: int) -> None:
    cursor.execute(
        "INSERT INTO posts (issue_url, lemmy_post_id, issue_title, issue_body) VALUES (?, ?, ?, ?)",
        (issue.url, lemmy_post_id, issue.title, issue.formatted_body),
    )

A context manager: Create a context manager that handles the connection and cursor creation, as well as closing the connection when done. This way, you can use the with statement to manage the connection and cursor in your functions.

import sqlite3

DB_FILE = "your_database_file.db"

class DatabaseConnection:
    def __enter__(self):
        self.conn = sqlite3.connect(DB_FILE)
        self.cursor = self.conn.cursor()
        return self.cursor

    def __exit__(self, exc_type, exc_val, exc_tb):
        self.conn.commit()
        self.cursor.close()
        self.conn.close()

def insert_post_to_db(issue: Issue, lemmy_post_id: int) -> None:
    with DatabaseConnection() as cursor:
        cursor.execute(
            "INSERT INTO posts (issue_url, lemmy_post_id, issue_title, issue_body) VALUES (?, ?, ?, ?)",
            (issue.url, lemmy_post_id, issue.title, issue.formatted_body),
        )

This is so cool. It’s exactly what I had in mind when thinking of a modern bash alternative.

Which is why we should make the implementer’s job easier by providing only the relevant information instead of wasting their time with a flood of comments on the issue tracker.