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Thursday, 18th June 2020

Release datasette-publish-vercel 0.6 — Datasette plugin for publishing data using Vercel

Refactoring optional chaining into a large codebase: lessons learned (via) JavaScript now supports foo?.bar?.baz?.() optional chaining syntax across all major browsers. Lea Verou provides the definitive guide to using it to refactor code.

# 3:23 pm / javascript

Release datasette-auth-tokens 0.1.2 — Datasette plugin for authenticating access using API tokens
Release datasette-render-images 0.2a0 — Datasette plugin that renders binary blob images using data-uris
Release datasette-render-images 0.2 — Datasette plugin that renders binary blob images using data-uris
Release datasette 0.45a0 — An open source multi-tool for exploring and publishing data

Datasette: A Developer, a Shower and a Data-Inspired Moment (via) Matt Asay interviewed me over Zoom last month. This captures a lot of my thinking around open source really well: “Datasette is aggressively open source for a bunch of reasons. Most of them are very selfish reasons.”

# 11:32 pm / interview, open-source, datasette

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