Sunday, 4th April 2021
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Useful Markdown extensions in Python
— I wanted to render some markdown in Python but with the following extra features:
Animated choropleth of vaccinations by US county
Last week I mentioned that I’ve recently started scraping and storing the CDC’s per-county vaccination numbers in my cdc-vaccination-history GitHub repository. This week I used an Observable notebook and d3’s TopoJSON support to render those numbers on an animated choropleth map.
[... 1,138 words]Spatialite Speed Test. Part of an excellent series of posts about SpatiaLite from 2012—here John C. Zastrow reports on running polygon intersection queries against a 1.9GB database file in 40 seconds without an index and 0.186 seconds using the SpatialIndex virtual table mechanism.
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Language-specific indentation settings in VS Code
— When I'm working with Python I like four space indents, but for JavaScript or HTML I like two space indents.