Monday, 8th December 2025
Niche Museums: The Museum of Jurassic Technology. I finally got to check off the museum that's been top of my want-to-go list since I first started documenting niche museums I've been to back in 2019.
The Museum of Jurassic Technology opened in Culver City, Los Angeles in 1988 and has been leaving visitors confused as to what's real and what isn't for nearly forty years.
Research
Datasette Lite NPM Package Investigation
— Converting Datasette Lite into a self-hostable NPM package enables seamless client-side data exploration using SQLite, CSV, JSON, and Parquet files directly in the browser, powered by Pyodide. The project removes analytics, adds a CLI server for local testing, and exposes all necessary static assets for easy deployment to platforms like GitHub Pages, Netlify, or Vercel.
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Datasette-lite JavaScript Initialization: Problem Analysis & Solution Proposal
— Datasette-lite faces a core limitation: HTML content injected via `innerHTML` does not execute embedded JavaScript, breaking interactive features and plugin functionality. The proposed solution introduces a standardized initialization event (`datasette_init`) triggered after each content update, allowing dependent scripts and plugins to reinitialize reliably.