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Sighting 12:16 PM — Southern Sea Otter, in Monterey Bay Area, CA, US
Southern Sea Otter
Southern Sea Otter
3rd Jan 2022
Sighting 11:58 AM — Northern Elephant Seal, in Monterey Bay Area, CA, US
Northern Elephant Seal
Northern Elephant Seal
3rd Jan 2022
A two story orange-pink-brown building with a sign that says Shakespeare Socity of America, New Shakespeare Sanctuary
Museum Shakespeare Society of America — 7981 Moss Landing Road, Moss Landing, CA 95039
3rd Jan 2022, 1:45 am · museums
Sighting 11:49 AM – 2:21 PM — Southern Sea Otter, in Monterey Bay Area, CA, US
Southern Sea Otter
Southern Sea Otter
Southern Sea Otter
Southern Sea Otter
2nd Jan 2022
Sighting 11:16 AM – 2:25 PM — Harbor Seal, Snowy Egret, Turkey Vulture, Great Egret, in Monterey Bay Area, CA, US
Harbor Seal
Harbor Seal
Snowy Egret
Snowy Egret
Turkey Vulture
Turkey Vulture
Great Egret
Great Egret
2nd Jan 2022
Sighting 2:40 PM – 4:23 PM — California Sea Lion, Great Blue Heron, in Monterey Bay Area, CA, US
California Sea Lion
California Sea Lion
Great Blue Heron
Great Blue Heron
1st Jan 2022
Sighting 12:44 PM — Humpback Whale, in Monterey Bay Area, CA, US
Humpback Whale
Humpback Whale
1st Jan 2022
Sighting 12:06 PM — Humpback Whale, in Monterey Bay Area, CA, US
Humpback Whale
Humpback Whale
1st Jan 2022
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TIL WebAuthn browser support — I [started exploring](https://twitter.com/simonw/status/1476249939516616704) **[WebAuthn](https://webauthn.guide/)** today - a set of browser standards that adds support for both Yubikey 2FA hardware devices and "platform" authentication using things like Touch ID and Face ID.
29th Dec 2021, 10:15 pm
None
TIL kubectl proxy — Learned about this today as a way of accessing the Kubernetes REST API.
29th Dec 2021, 1:06 am
None
TIL Transferring a GitHub issue from a private to a public repository — I have my own private `notes` repository where I sometimes create research threads. Occasionally I want to transfer these to a public repository to publish their contents.
23rd Dec 2021, 1:46 am
Release datasette-tiddlywiki 0.1 — Run TiddlyWiki in Datasette and save Tiddlers to a SQLite database
23rd Dec 2021, 1:11 am · datasette
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TIL Adding a robots.txt using Cloudflare workers — I got an unexpected traffic spike to https://russian-ira-facebook-ads.datasettes.com/ - which runs on Cloud Run - and decided to use `robots.txt` to block crawlers.
21st Dec 2021, 11:07 pm
Release asyncinject 0.2 — Run async workflows using pytest-fixtures-style dependency injection
21st Dec 2021, 5:18 pm
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TIL Annotated explanation of David Beazley's dataklasses — David Beazley [on Twitter](https://twitter.com/dabeaz/status/1472742536649351173):
20th Dec 2021, 4:30 am
Release datasette 0.60a1 — An open source multi-tool for exploring and publishing data
19th Dec 2021, 10:11 pm · datasette
Release datasette-pretty-traces 0.3.1 — Prettier formatting for ?_trace=1 traces
19th Dec 2021, 4:31 am
Release datasette-pretty-traces 0.3 — Prettier formatting for ?_trace=1 traces
19th Dec 2021, 3:51 am
None
TIL Safely outputting JSON — Carelessly including the output of `json.dumps()` in an HTML page can lead to an XSS hole, thanks to the following:
18th Dec 2021, 1:06 am
None
TIL Creating a minimal SpatiaLite database with Python — When writing a test for [datasette-leaflet-freedraw](https://github.com/simonw/datasette-leaflet-freedraw) I realized I didn't have a simple tiny recipe for creating an in-memory SpatiaLite database in Python. I came up with this:
17th Dec 2021, 11:57 pm · leaflet
Release datasette 0.60a0 — An open source multi-tool for exploring and publishing data
17th Dec 2021, 7:15 pm · datasette
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TIL Registering the same Pluggy hook multiple times in a single file — I found myself wanting to register more than one instance of a [Pluggy](https://pluggy.readthedocs.io/) plugin hook inside a single module.
16th Dec 2021, 11:16 pm
Release datasette-pretty-traces 0.2.1 — Prettier formatting for ?_trace=1 traces
13th Dec 2021, 11:38 pm
Release datasette-pretty-traces 0.2 — Prettier formatting for ?_trace=1 traces
13th Dec 2021, 8:30 pm
Release datasette-pretty-traces 0.1 — Prettier formatting for ?_trace=1 traces
13th Dec 2021, 7:48 pm
None
TIL Using lsof on macOS — `lsof` stands for "list open files". Here are some very basic usage notes for the version that ships with macOS.
11th Dec 2021, 10:37 pm
None
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
None
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

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