Monday, 28th February 2022
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Crawling Datasette with Datasette
— I wanted to add the new tutorials on https://datasette.io/tutorials to the search index that is used by the https://datasette.io/-/beta search engine.
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Running the latest SQLite in Datasette using Homebrew
— I made a pleasant discovery today: Homebrew are very quick to update to the latest SQLite release (here's [their formula](https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/blob/master/Formula/sqlite.rb)), and since [Datasette](https://datasette.io/) when installed via Homebrew uses that version, this means you can use `brew update sqlite` to ensure you are running the most recent SQLite version within Datasette.
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Installing Python on macOS with the official Python installer
— I usually use Homebrew on macOS, but I decided to try using the official Python installer based on [this Twitter conversation](https://twitter.com/rtpg_/status/1498115527465914371).