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Release sqlite-utils 3.32.1 — Python CLI utility and library for manipulating SQLite databases
21st May 2023, 9:12 pm · sqlite, sqlite-utils
Release sqlite-utils 3.32 — Python CLI utility and library for manipulating SQLite databases
21st May 2023, 6:55 pm · sqlite, sqlite-utils
Release strip-tags 0.3 — CLI tool for stripping tags from HTML
19th May 2023, 5:19 am
Release ttok 0.1 — Count and truncate text based on tokens
18th May 2023, 7:53 pm
Release strip-tags 0.2 — CLI tool for stripping tags from HTML
18th May 2023, 4:26 pm
Release strip-tags 0.1 — CLI tool for stripping tags from HTML
18th May 2023, 4:11 pm
Release llm 0.3 — Access large language models from the command-line
17th May 2023, 9:13 pm · llm
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TIL Exploring Baseline with Datasette Lite — One of the announcements from Google I/O 2023 was [Baseline](https://web.dev/baseline/), a new initiative to help simplify the challenge of deciding which web platform features are now widely enough supported by modern browsers to be safe to use.
12th May 2023, 6:01 pm
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TIL Running Python code in a Pyodide sandbox via Deno — I continue to seek a solution to the Python sandbox problem. I want to run an untrusted piece of Python code in a sandbox, with limits on memory and time.
10th May 2023, 9:40 pm · pyodide
Release sqlite-utils 3.31 — Python CLI utility and library for manipulating SQLite databases
8th May 2023, 10:37 pm · sqlite, sqlite-utils
Release download-esm 0.1a0 — Download ESM modules from npm and jsdelivr
2nd May 2023, 2:05 am
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TIL Expanding ChatGPT Code Interpreter with Python packages, Deno and Lua — The ChatGPT Code Interpreter alpha remains incredibly interesting. I wrote about how I was using it [for Python and SQLite benchmarking](https://simonwillison.net/2023/Apr/12/code-interpreter/) a few weeks ago. Today I found a neat pattern for expanding its capabilities with custom binaries.
1st May 2023, 4:49 am
Release s3-credentials 0.15 — A tool for creating credentials for accessing S3 buckets
30th Apr 2023, 10:09 pm
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TIL Social media cards generated with shot-scraper — My [TIL website](https://til.simonwillison.net/) has social media card images to make links shared from it look slightly more interesting when shared on sites like Mastodon and Twitter.
30th Apr 2023, 5:14 am
Release openai-to-sqlite 0.3 — Save OpenAI API results to a SQLite database
29th Apr 2023, 6:19 am
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TIL Deno KV — *Initial article: April 28th 2023 - see below for an update*
28th Apr 2023, 10:02 pm
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TIL The location of the pip cache directory — `pip` uses a cache to avoid downloading packages again:
28th Apr 2023, 6:58 pm
Release datasette 0.64.3 — An open source multi-tool for exploring and publishing data
27th Apr 2023, 3 pm · datasette
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TIL A few notes on Rye — [Rye](https://github.com/mitsuhiko/rye) is Armin Ronacher's new experimental Python packaging tool. I decided to take it for a test-run.
27th Apr 2023, 4:50 am
Release shot-scraper 1.2 — A command-line utility for taking automated screenshots of websites
27th Apr 2023, 3:03 am · shot-scraper
Sighting 7:06 PM — Brewer's Blackbird, in Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary, CA, US, CA
Brewer's Blackbird
Brewer's Blackbird
25th Apr 2023
Release datasette-explain 0.1a2 — Explain and validate SQL queries as you type them into Datasette
24th Apr 2023, 3:57 am · datasette
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TIL Interpreting photo orientation and locations in EXIF data — I upgraded my [Niche Museums](https://www.niche-museums.com/) site to use [PhotoSwipe](https://photoswipe.com/) for its photo galleries today. Here's [my issue](https://github.com/simonw/museums/issues/37).
22nd Apr 2023, 4:01 pm
A grand building with Pioneer Memorial Museum written in gold letters along the top, and a plaque in front of it reading Headquarters International Society Daughters of Utah Pioneers
Museum Pioneer Memorial Museum — 300 N Main Street, Salt Lake City, Utah
21st Apr 2023, 11:35 pm · museums
A sign above the gallery wall reads Sorry for killing most of humanity
Museum Misalignment Museum — 1699 3rd St. San Francisco, CA, 94158
16th Apr 2023, 3:42 am · museums
Release asyncinject 0.6 — Run async workflows using pytest-fixtures-style dependency injection
14th Apr 2023, 1:22 am
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TIL Running Dolly 2.0 on Paperspace — [Dolly 2.0](https://www.databricks.com/blog/2023/04/12/dolly-first-open-commercially-viable-instruction-tuned-llm) looks to be a big deal. It calls itself "the first open source, instruction-following LLM, fine-tuned on a human-generated instruction dataset licensed for research and commercial use."
12th Apr 2023, 4:02 pm
Pots, pots - so many beautiful pots. They are enormous, and brightly coloured, and jumbled together in an outdoor space.
Museum Mattie Leeds Sculpture Garden — 7258 Empire Grade, Santa Cruz, CA 95060
12th Apr 2023, 4:24 am · museums
Release swarm-to-sqlite 0.3.4 — Create a SQLite database containing your checkin history from Foursquare Swarm
11th Apr 2023, 3:18 am
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TIL Creating desktop backgrounds using Midjourney — I decided to create a new desktop background for my Mac using [Midjourney](https://midjourney.com/). My laptop has a 16:10 aspect ratio and a retina screen, so I wanted as high a resolution image as possible.
10th Apr 2023, 11:36 pm · midjourney

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