Weeknotes: Datasette Cloud ready to preview
I made an absolute ton of progress building Datasette Cloud on Fly this week, and also had a bunch of fun playing with GPT-3.
Datasette Cloud
Datasette Cloud is my upcoming hosted SaaS version of Datasette. I’ve been re-building my initial alpha on top of Fly because I want to be able to provide each team account with their own Datasette instance running in a dedicated Firecracker container, and the recently announced Fly Machines lets me do exactly that.
As-of this weekend I have all of the different pieces in place, and I’m starting to preview it to potential customers.
Interested in trying it out? You can request access to the preview here.
GPT-3 explorations
Most of my GPT-3 explorations over the past week are covered by these two blog posts:
- A Datasette tutorial written by GPT-3 is the point at which I really started taking GPT-3 seriously, after convincing myself that I could use it to help with real work, not just as a form of entertainment.
- How to play with the GPT-3 language model is a very quick getting started tutorial, because I polled people on Twitter and found that more than half didn’t know you could try GPT-3 out now for free.
Searching my tweets for GPT captures a bunch of other, smaller experiments. A few highlights:
- How to safely run two processes in one Docker container
- “Write a book outline about Datasette in Spanish”
- Getting GPT-3 to write yes-and improv scripts
- Generating and then explaining complex ffmpeg recipes
Releases this week
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datasette-upload-csvs: 0.7—(8 releases total)—2022-06-03
Datasette plugin for uploading CSV files and converting them to database tables -
mbox-to-sqlite: 0.1a0—2022-05-31
Load email from .mbox files into SQLite -
datasette-graphql: 2.0.2—(34 releases total)—2022-05-30
Datasette plugin providing an automatic GraphQL API for your SQLite databases -
datasette-auth-existing-cookies: 1.0a1—(12 releases total)—2022-05-29
Datasette plugin that authenticates users based on existing domain cookies
TIL this week
More recent articles
- AI-enhanced development makes me more ambitious with my projects - 27th March 2023
- I built a ChatGPT plugin to answer questions about data hosted in Datasette - 24th March 2023
- Weeknotes: AI won't slow down, a new newsletter and a huge Datasette refactor - 22nd March 2023
- Don't trust AI to talk accurately about itself: Bard wasn't trained on Gmail - 22nd March 2023
- A conversation about prompt engineering with CBC Day 6 - 18th March 2023
- Could you train a ChatGPT-beating model for $85,000 and run it in a browser? - 17th March 2023