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Monday, 13th November 2017

simonw/csvs-to-sqlite. I built a simple tool for bulk converting multiple CSV files into a SQLite database.

# 6:49 am / csv, github, projects, sqlite, datasette

CSS element() function (via) Vincent De Oliveira explores the CSS element function (2 years ago), which sadly is still only supported by Firefox. It lets you render any HTML element as a CSS background image, enabling folding effects, animated backgrounds, live previews and more.

# 2:34 pm / css

Entering the Quantum Era—How Firefox got fast again and where it’s going to get faster. I’ve been trying out the beta of Firefox 57 and it’s fantastic. All of that work on Servo and Rust is definitely paying off!

# 4:34 pm / firefox, rust, servo

Datasette: instantly create and publish an API for your SQLite databases

I just shipped the first public version of datasette, a new tool for creating and publishing JSON APIs for SQLite databases.

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