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Thursday, 7th May 2020

Weeknotes: Datasette 0.41, photos breakthroughs

Visit Weeknotes: Datasette 0.41, photos breakthroughs

Shorter weeknotes this week, because my main project for the week warrants a detailed write-up on its own (coming soon... update 21st May here it is).

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html-to-svg (via) ‪This is absolutely ingenious: 50 lines of JavaScript which uses Puppeteer to get headless Chrome to grab a PDF screenshot of a page, then shells out to Inkscape to convert the PDF to SVG. Wraps the whole thing up in a Docker container and ships it to Cloud Run as a web service you can call by passing it a URL.

# 6:01 am / chrome, svg, cloudrun, puppeteer

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