Thursday, 3rd September 2020
Render Markdown tool (via) I wrote a quick JavaScript tool for rendering Markdown via the GitHub Markdown API—which includes all of their clever extensions like tables and syntax highlighting—and then stripping out some extraneous HTML to give me back the format I like using for my blog posts.
Release
dogsheep-beta 0.4a0
— Build a search index across content from multiple SQLite database tables and run faceted searches against it using Datasette
TIL
Debugging a Click application using pdb
— This tip is for when you are working on a Python command-line application that runs using that program's name, as opposed to typing `python my_script.py`. I usually need this when I'm working on applications built using [Click](https://click.palletsprojects.com/), e.g. projects I start using my [click-app](https://github.com/simonw/click-app) cookiecutter template.
Release
dogsheep-beta 0.4a1
— Build a search index across content from multiple SQLite database tables and run faceted searches against it using Datasette
Release
dogsheep-beta 0.4
— Build a search index across content from multiple SQLite database tables and run faceted searches against it using Datasette
Release
dogsheep-beta 0.4.1
— Build a search index across content from multiple SQLite database tables and run faceted searches against it using Datasette
Weeknotes: airtable-export, generating screenshots in GitHub Actions, Dogsheep!
This week I figured out how to populate Datasette from Airtable, wrote code to generate social media preview card page screenshots using Puppeteer, and made a big breakthrough with my Dogsheep project.
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