https://simonwillison.net/2021/Feb/14/weeknotes/
Weeknotes: Finally, an intro video for Datasette
My big project this week was this Video introduction to Datasette and sqlite-utils. I recorded the video a few weeks ago in advance of FOSDEM, but this week I...
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https://simonwillison.net/2024/Aug/22/optimizing-datasette/
Optimizing Datasette (and other weeknotes)
I’ve been working with Alex Garcia on an experiment involving using Datasette to explore FEC contributions. We currently have a 11GB SQLite...
optimizingdatasetteweeknotes
https://simonwillison.net/2024/May/7/datasette-secrets/
Weeknotes: more datasette-secrets, plus a mystery video project
I introduced datasette-secrets two weeks ago. The core idea is to provide a way for end-users to store secrets such as API keys in Datasette, allowing other...
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https://simonwillison.net/2021/Aug/30/datasette-app/
Building a desktop application for Datasette (and weeknotes)
This week I started experimenting with a desktop application version of Datasette—with the goal of providing people who aren’t comfortable with the...
desktop applicationbuilding
https://simonwillison.net/2023/Dec/8/weeknotes/
Weeknotes: datasette-enrichments, datasette-comments, sqlite-chronicle
I’ve mainly been working on Datasette Enrichments and continuing to explore the possibilities enabled by sqlite-chronicle. Enrichments This is the biggest...
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https://simonwillison.net/2021/Jan/10/weeknotes/
Weeknotes: datasette-export-notebook, PyInstaller packaged Datasette, CBSAs
What a terrible week. I’ve found it hard to concentrate on anything substantial. In a mostly futile attempt to distract myself from doomscrolling I’ve...
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https://simonwillison.net/2023/Aug/5/weeknotes-plugins/
Weeknotes: Plugins for LLM, sqlite-utils and Datasette
The principle theme for the past few weeks has been plugins. Llama 2 in LLM via plugins I added the ability to support models other than the OpenAI ones to …
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https://simonwillison.net/2022/Sep/16/weeknotes/
Weeknotes: Datasette Lite, s3-credentials, shot-scraper, datasette-edit-templates and more
Despite distractions from AI I managed to make progress on a bunch of different projects this week, including new releases of s3-credentials and shot-scraper,...
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https://simonwillison.net/2020/Aug/28/weeknotes-cpad/
Weeknotes: California Protected Areas in Datasette
This week I built a geospatial search engine for protected areas in California, shipped datasette-graphql 1.0 and started working towards the next milestone...
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https://simonwillison.net/2023/Jan/30/datasette-scraper/
datasette-scraper, Big Local News and other weeknotes
In addition to exploring the new MusicCaps training and evaluation data I’ve been working on the big Datasette JSON refactor, and getting excited about a...
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https://simonwillison.net/2023/Feb/9/weeknotes/
Weeknotes: A bunch of things I learned this week, plus datasette-explain
The Datasette table view refactor, JSON redesign and ?_extra= continues this week, mainly in this ongoing pull request and this tracking issue. I’ve also...
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https://simonwillison.net/2021/Aug/14/datasette-on-codespaces/
Datasette on Codespaces, sqlite-utils API reference documentation and other weeknotes
This week I broke my streak of not sending out the Datasette newsletter, figured out how to use Sphinx for Python class documentation, worked out how to run...
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https://simonwillison.net/2021/Mar/28/weeknotes/
Weeknotes: SpatiaLite 5, Datasette on Azure, more CDC vaccination history
This week I got SpatiaLite 5 working in the Datasette Docker image, improved the CDC vaccination history git scraper, figured out Datasette on Azure and we...
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