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Friday, 8th September 2023

Release datasette-remote-actors 0.1a0 — Datasette plugin for fetching details of actors from a remote endpoint
Release datasette-debug-actors-from-ids 0.1a0 — Datasette plugin for trying out the actors_from_ids hook
Release datasette 1.0a6 — An open source multi-tool for exploring and publishing data
Release datasette-remote-actors 0.1a1 — Datasette plugin for fetching details of actors from a remote endpoint
Release datasette-debug-actors-from-ids 0.1a1 — Datasette plugin for trying out the actors_from_ids hook
TIL Running Datasette on Hugging Face Spaces — [Julien Chaumond](https://twitter.com/julien_c/status/1700142113713758438), this morning (replying to my tweet about [my Hugging Face TheBloke model git scraper](https://twitter.com/simonw/status/1700130557638869140)):

bpy—Blender on PyPI (via) TIL you can “pip install” Blender!

bpy “provides Blender as a Python module”—it’s part of the official Blender project, and ships with binary wheels ranging in size from 168MB to 319MB depending on your platform.

It only supports the version of Python used by the current Blender release though—right now that’s Python 3.10.

# 3:29 pm / pypi, python, blender

TIL Embedding paragraphs from my blog with E5-large-v2 — Xeophon [suggested](https://twitter.com/TheXeophon/status/1700203810545680542) that [E5-large-v2](https://huggingface.co/intfloat/e5-large-v2) as an embedding model that was worth a closer look.
Release llm-sentence-transformers 0.1.1 — LLM plugin for embeddings using sentence-transformers
Release datasette-llm-embed 0.1a0 — Datasette plugin adding a llm_embed(model_id, text) SQL function

Dynamic linker tricks: Using LD_PRELOAD to cheat, inject features and investigate programs (via) This tutorial by Rafał Cieślak from 2013 filled in a bunch of gaps in my knowledge about how C works on Linux.

# 10:05 pm / c, linux

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