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Monday, 7th September 2020

Release sqlite-dump 0.1 — An improved version of .iterdump() for sqlite3
Release sqlite-dump 0.1.1 — An improved version of .iterdump() for sqlite3
Release datasette-backup 0.1 — Plugin adding backup options to Datasette
TIL Display EC2 instance costs per month — The [EC2 pricing page](https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/on-demand/) shows cost per hour, which is pretty much useless. I want cost per month. The following JavaScript, pasted into the browser developer console, modifies the page to show cost-per-month instead.
Release sqlite-utils 2.17 — Python CLI utility and library for manipulating SQLite databases
TIL Basic strace to see what a process is doing — I had a long-running process and I wanted to check that it was at least doing _something_.