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Thursday, 28th May 2020

Release datasette 0.43 — An open source multi-tool for exploring and publishing data
TIL Asserting a dictionary is a subset of another dictionary — My [lazy approach to writing unit tests](https://simonwillison.net/2020/Feb/11/cheating-at-unit-tests-pytest-black/) means that sometimes I want to run an assertion against most (but not all) of a dictionary.
Release datasette-atom 0.6 — Datasette plugin that adds a .atom output format

Any time you can think of something that is possible this year and wasn’t possible last year, you should pay attention. You may have the seed of a great startup idea. This is especially true if next year will be too late.

Sam Altman

# 9:36 pm / ideas, startups, sam-altman

Advice on specifying more granular permissions with Google Cloud IAM (via) My single biggest frustration working with both Google Cloud and AWS is permissions: more specifically, figuring out what the smallest set of permissions are that I need to assign in order to achieve different goals. Katie McLaughlin’s new series aims to address exactly that problem. I learned a ton from this that I’ve previously missed, and there’s plenty of actionable advice on tooling that can be used to help figure this stuff out.

# 10:44 pm / permissions, cloudrun

Release db-to-sqlite 1.2 — CLI tool for exporting tables or queries from any SQL database to a SQLite file
Release db-to-sqlite 1.2.1 — CLI tool for exporting tables or queries from any SQL database to a SQLite file

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