Simon Willison’s Weblog

4th January 2023

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TIL Geopoly in SQLite — I noticed this morning that one of my Datasette installations had the [Geopoly](https://www.sqlite.org/geopoly.html) SQLite extension enabled. I don't know how it got there - it has to be compiled specifically - but since it was there I decided to try it out.

Posted 4th January 2023 at 5:52 pm

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