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How to get credentials for a new Twitter bot
— I wanted to build a Twitter bot that would tweet Covid sewage graphs from [this page](https://covid19.sccgov.org/dashboard-wastewater) every day.
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Trick Apple Photos into letting you access your video files
— I had an 11GB movie in Apple Photos (sync'd from my iPhone) and I wanted to upload it to YouTube (actually via AirDrop to another laptop first).
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GUnion to combine geometries in SpatiaLite
— I was playing around with [datanews/amtrak-geojson](https://github.com/datanews/amtrak-geojson), which provides GeoJSON for Amtrak stations and track segments.
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Using awk to add a prefix
— I wanted to dynamically run the following command against all files in a directory:
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Logging users out of Auth0
— If you [implement Auth0](https://til.simonwillison.net/auth0/oauth-with-auth0) for login, you may be tempted to skip implementing logout. I started out just with a `/logout/` page that cleared my own site's cookies, ignoring the Auth0 side of it.
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Treating warnings as errors in pytest
— I was seeing this warning in a Django project when I thought I was correctly using timezone-aware dates everywhere:
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Allowing a container in Docker Desktop for Mac to talk to a PostgreSQL server on the host machine
— I like using [Postgres.app](https://postgresapp.com/) to run PostgreSQL on my macOS laptop. I use it for a bunch of different projects.
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Generating a calendar week grid with the Python Calendar module
— I needed to generate a grid calendar that looks like this (design [by Natalie Downe](https://github.com/natbat/pillarpointstewards/issues/23)):
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Compiling to WASM with llvm on macOS
— [howto-wasm-minimal](https://github.com/ern0/howto-wasm-minimal) by Zalka Ernő ([my fork here](https://github.com/simonw/howto-wasm-minimal)) is a neat demo of a minimal WASM module. It uses C++ to define functions for simple image manipulation including blurring an image, compiles it to WASM using llvm/clang++, then uses JavaScript to run those functions against an image loaded into a `<canvas>` element.
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Deploying a live Datasette demo when the tests pass
— I've implemented this pattern a bunch of times now - here's the version I've settled on for my [datasette-auth0 plugin](https://github.com/simonw/datasette-auth0) repository.
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