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Release datasette-upload-dbs 0.1.2 — Upload SQLite database files to Datasette
TIL Clone, edit and push files that live in a Gist — GitHub [Gists](https://gist.github.com/) are full Git repositories, and can be cloned and pushed to.
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Release datasette-upload-csvs 0.8.2 — Datasette plugin for uploading CSV files and converting them to database tables
Release datasette-upload-csvs 0.8.1 — Datasette plugin for uploading CSV files and converting them to database tables
Release datasette-upload-csvs 0.8 — Datasette plugin for uploading CSV files and converting them to database tables
TIL Run pytest against a specific Python version using Docker — For [datasette issue #1802](https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1802) I needed to run my `pytest` test suite using a specific version of Python 3.7.
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Release datasette-render-image-tags 0.1 — Turn any URLs ending in .jpg/.png/.gif into img tags with width 200
TIL Loading Twitter Birdwatch into SQLite for analysis with Datasette — [Twitter Birdwatch](https://twitter.github.io/birdwatch/) is "a collaborative way to add helpful context to Tweets and keep people better informed".
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TIL How to scp files to and from Fly — I have a Fly instance with a 20GB volume, and I wanted to copy files to and from the instance from my computer using `scp`.
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Release datasette-sitemap 1.0 — Generate sitemap.xml for Datasette sites
Release datasette-block-robots 1.1 — Datasette plugin that blocks robots and crawlers using robots.txt
Release datasette-sitemap 0.1.1 — Generate sitemap.xml for Datasette sites
Release datasette-sitemap 0.1 — Generate sitemap.xml for Datasette sites
TIL SQLite VACUUM: database or disk is full — I was trying to run `VACUUM` against a large SQLite database file (~7GB) using `sqlite-utils vacuum data.db` and I got this error:
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Release sqlite-utils 3.29 — Python CLI utility and library for manipulating SQLite databases
Release datasette-multiline-links 0.1 — Make multiple newline separated URLs clickable in Datasette
Release datasette-publish-vercel 0.14.2 — Datasette plugin for publishing data using Vercel
TIL Seeing which functions are unique to a specific SQLite / Datasette instance — In reading [Scraping JSON, HTML, and ZIP Files with Pure SQLite](https://observablehq.com/@asg017/scrape-json-html-zip-with-sqlite) by Alex Garcia I got curious to see a full list of functions he had registered in his [sqlite-extension-examples.fly.dev](https://sqlite-extension-examples.fly.dev) Datasette instance that weren't available in a regular Datasette.
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Release datasette-edit-schema 0.5.1 — Datasette plugin for modifying table schemas
Release pocket-to-sqlite 0.2.2 — Create a SQLite database containing data from your Pocket account
Release datasette-mp3-audio 0.2 — Turn .mp3 URLs into an audio player in the Datasette interface
Release datasette-mp3-audio 0.1 — Turn .mp3 URLs into an audio player in the Datasette interface
Release sqlite-diffable 0.5 — Tools for dumping/loading a SQLite database to diffable directory structure
TIL Trying out Quarto on macOS — I decided to try out [Quarto](https://quarto.org/), the new notebook/markdown/publishing system built on Pandoc.
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TIL Sort by number of JSON intersections — This [post on Reddit](https://www.reddit.com/r/sqlite/comments/wr0wp0/i_have_a_sqlite_database_of_recipes_i_would_like/) asked how to run a query that takes a list of items (in this case ingredients) as the input and returns all rows with at least one of those items in a JSON list, ordered by the most matches.
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TIL Analyzing Google Cloud spend with Datasette — Google Cloud provide extremely finely grained billing, but you need to access it through BigQuery which I find quite inconvenient.
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Release datasette-sentry 0.2 — Datasette plugin for configuring Sentry
Release datasette-sentry 0.2a1 — Datasette plugin for configuring Sentry
Release datasette 0.62 — An open source multi-tool for exploring and publishing data
Museum Golden State Model Railroad Museum — 900-A Dornan Drive, Point Richmond, CA 94801
A multi-level model railway layout in a well lit warehouse, with a huge model mountain on the left hand side