Simon Willison’s Weblog

Archive for 2021

• January - 7 entries, 9 links, 4 quotes
  • Weeknotes: datasette-leaflet, datasette-plugin cookiecutter upgrades
  • Datasette 0.54, the annotated release notes
  • Drawing shapes on a map to query a SpatiaLite database (and other weeknotes)
  • Weeknotes: Still pretty distracted
  • Weeknotes: datasette-export-notebook, PyInstaller packaged Datasette, CBSAs
  • APIs from CSS without JavaScript: the datasette-css-properties plugin
  • Weeknotes: A flurry of not-quite-finished features
• February - 7 entries, 11 links, 6 quotes
  • Trying to end the pandemic a little earlier with VaccinateCA
  • Cross-database queries in SQLite (and weeknotes)
  • Open source projects: consider running office hours
  • Weeknotes: Finally, an intro video for Datasette
  • Video introduction to Datasette and sqlite-utils
  • Weeknotes: Mostly messing around with map tiles
  • Serving map tiles from SQLite with MBTiles and datasette-tiles
• March - 5 entries, 15 links, 3 quotes
  • Weeknotes: SpatiaLite 5, Datasette on Azure, more CDC vaccination history
  • Weeknotes: django-sql-dashboard widgets
  • Weeknotes: tableau-to-sqlite, django-sql-dashboard
  • Weeknotes: Datasette and Git scraping at NICAR, VaccinateCA
  • Git scraping, the five minute lightning talk
• April - 4 entries, 5 links, 3 quotes
  • Weeknotes: Vaccinate The States, and how I learned that returning dozens of MB of JSON works just fine these days
  • Weeknotes: The Aftermath
  • Porting VaccinateCA to Django
  • Animated choropleth of vaccinations by US county
• May - 2 entries, 7 links
  • Adding GeoDjango to an existing Django project
  • One year of TILs