Sunday, 7th March 2021
TIL
How to run MediaWiki with SQLite on a macOS laptop
— Today I [got curious](https://twitter.com/simonw/status/1368414296888070146) about how MediaWiki records page history, so I started digging around and in the process figured out how to run it against a SQLite database on my macOS laptop!
Weeknotes: Datasette and Git scraping at NICAR, VaccinateCA
This week I virtually attended the NICAR data journalism conference and made a ton of progress on the Django backend for VaccinateCA (see last week).
[... 773 words]New call queue ready to test. Also geography.
I just shipped the first working preview version of the new /api/requestCall API [#54]—the API that our caller app uses to get the next location that the caller should be contacting (and lock it so that other users don’t call it at the same time).