Sunday, 4th October 2020
Potential new elevator pitch / tagline for Datasette: The best way to publish data online (via) One of the biggest challenges I’ve had with Datasette is compressing it into a single elevator pitch or tagline that helps answer the question “what does this software do?”—the project does a lot of different things, so finding the right angle for explaining it has proved really difficult. I’m workshopping a new tagline over on the Datasette discussion forum—feedback, suggestions and challenges very welcome!
TIL
Manipulating query strings with URLSearchParams
— The `URLSearchParams` class, in [every modern browser](https://caniuse.com/?search=URLSearchParams) since IE 11, provides a sensible API for manipulating query string parameters in JavaScript. I first used it to build Datasette's column action menu, see [table.js](https://github.com/simonw/datasette/blob/0.50a0/datasette/static/table.js) and [issue 981](https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/981).