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TIL Using C_INCLUDE_PATH to install Python packages — I tried to install my [datasette-bplist](https://github.com/simonw/datasette-bplist) plugin today in a fresh Python 3.10 virtual environment on macOS and got this error:

9th Dec 2021, 10:27 pm

Release git-history 0.6.1 — Tools for analyzing Git history using SQLite

8th Dec 2021, 8:29 pm

TIL Storing files in an S3 bucket between GitHub Actions runs — For my [git-history live demos](https://github.com/simonw/git-history/issues/30) I needed to store quite large files (~200MB SQLite databases) in between GitHub Actions runs, to avoid having to recreate the entire file from scratch every time.

7th Dec 2021, 7:52 pm

Release datasette-cluster-map 0.17.2 — Datasette plugin that shows a map for any data with latitude/longitude columns

7th Dec 2021, 7:39 pm · datasette

Release git-history 0.6 — Tools for analyzing Git history using SQLite

7th Dec 2021, 5:15 pm

Release s3-credentials 0.8 — A tool for creating credentials for accessing S3 buckets

7th Dec 2021, 7 am

TIL __init_subclass__ — David Beazley [on Twitter](https://twitter.com/dabeaz/status/1466731368956809219) said:

3rd Dec 2021, 7:19 pm

Release asyncinject 0.2a1 — Run async workflows using pytest-fixtures-style dependency injection

3rd Dec 2021, 6:48 pm

Release git-history 0.5 — Tools for analyzing Git history using SQLite

3rd Dec 2021, 4:05 am

Release datasette-hovercards 0.1a0 — Add preview hovercards to links in Datasette

2nd Dec 2021, 5:14 pm · datasette

Release github-to-sqlite 2.8.3 — Save data from GitHub to a SQLite database

1st Dec 2021, 7:37 pm

TIL Ignoring a line in both flake8 and mypy — I [needed to tell](https://github.com/simonw/sqlite-utils/pull/347#issuecomment-982133970) both `flake8` and `mypy` to ignore the same line of code.

1st Dec 2021, 2:16 am

Release s3-credentials 0.7 — A tool for creating credentials for accessing S3 buckets

30th Nov 2021, 7:49 pm

Release datasette 0.59.4 — An open source multi-tool for exploring and publishing data

30th Nov 2021, 6:50 am · datasette

TIL Reusing an existing Click tool with register_commands — The [register_commands](https://docs.datasette.io/en/stable/plugin_hooks.html#register-commands-cli) plugin hook lets you add extra sub-commands to the `datasette` CLI tool.

29th Nov 2021, 5:32 pm

TIL Publishing a Web Component to npm — I tried this for the first time today with my highly experimental [datasette-table](https://www.npmjs.com/package/datasette-table) Web Component. Here's [the source code](https://github.com/simonw/datasette-table/tree/0.1.0) for version 0.1.0.

28th Nov 2021, 6:47 pm

Release datasette-table 0.1.0 — A Web Component for embedding a Datasette table on a page

28th Nov 2021, 6:29 pm · datasette

TIL Pausing traffic and retrying in Caddy — A pattern I really like for zero-downtime deploys is the ability to "pause" HTTP traffic at the load balancer, such that incoming requests from browsers appear to take a few extra seconds to return, but under the hood they've actually been held in a queue while a backend server is swapped out or upgraded in some way.

25th Nov 2021, 1:18 am

Release datasette-publish-vercel 0.12 — Datasette plugin for publishing data using Vercel

22nd Nov 2021, 4:49 am · datasette

Release git-history 0.4 — Tools for analyzing Git history using SQLite

21st Nov 2021, 5:08 am

Release sqlite-utils 3.19 — Python CLI utility and library for manipulating SQLite databases

21st Nov 2021, 4:42 am · sqlite, sqlite-utils

Release datasette 0.59.3 — An open source multi-tool for exploring and publishing data

20th Nov 2021, 11:41 pm · datasette

Release datasette-redirect-to-https 0.1 — Datasette plugin that redirects all non-https requests to https

20th Nov 2021, 11:26 pm · datasette

TIL Assigning a custom subdomain to a Fly app — I deployed an app to [Fly](https://fly.io/) and decided to point a custom subdomain to it.

20th Nov 2021, 8:46 pm

TIL Using build-arg variables with Cloud Run deployments — For [datasette/issues/1522](https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1522) I wanted to use a Docker build argument in a `Dockerfile` that would then be deployed to Cloud Run.

20th Nov 2021, 12:24 am

Release sqlite-utils 3.19a0 — Python CLI utility and library for manipulating SQLite databases

19th Nov 2021, 7:28 am · sqlite-utils, sqlite

Release s3-credentials 0.6 — A tool for creating credentials for accessing S3 buckets

18th Nov 2021, 8:31 pm

Release csvs-to-sqlite 1.3 — Convert CSV files into a SQLite database

18th Nov 2021, 4:35 pm

TIL Using cog to update --help in a Markdown README file — My [csvs-to-sqlite README](https://github.com/simonw/csvs-to-sqlite/blob/main/README.md) includes a section that shows the output of the `csvs-to-sqlite --help` command ([relevant issue](https://github.com/simonw/csvs-to-sqlite/issues/82)).

18th Nov 2021, 4:27 pm

Release datasette-graphql 2.0 — Datasette plugin providing an automatic GraphQL API for your SQLite databases

17th Nov 2021, 8:33 pm · datasette

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