Items tagged plugins in Feb
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datasette-studio. I’ve been thinking for a while that it might be interesting to have a version of Datasette that comes bundled with a set of useful plugins, aimed at expanding Datasette’s default functionality to cover things like importing data and editing schemas.
This morning I built the very first experimental preview of what that could look like. Install it using pipx:
pipx install datasette-studio
I recommend pipx because it will ensure datasette-studio gets its own isolated environment, independent of any other Datasette installations you might have.
Now running “datasette-studio” instead of “datasette” will get you the version with the bundled plugins.
The implementation of this is fun—it’s a single pyproject.toml file defining the dependencies and setting up the datasette-studio CLI hook, which is enough to provide the full set of functionality.
Is this a good idea? I don’t know yet, but it’s certainly an interesting initial experiment. # 18th February 2024, 8:38 pm
Datasette 1.0a8: JavaScript plugins, new plugin hooks and plugin configuration in datasette.yaml
I just released Datasette 1.0a8. These are the annotated release notes.
[... 1709 words]llm-sentence-transformers 0.2. I added a new --trust-remote-code option when registering an embedding model, which means LLM can now run embeddings through the new Nomic AI nomic-embed-text-v1 model. # 4th February 2024, 7:39 pm
Weeknotes: A bunch of things I learned this week, plus datasette-explain
The Datasette table view refactor, JSON redesign and ?_extra= continues this week, mainly in this ongoing pull request and this tracking issue.
Making SQLite extensions pip install-able (via) Alex Garcia figured out how to bundle a compiled SQLite extension in a Python wheel (building different wheels for different platforms) and publish them to PyPI. This is a huge leap forward in terms of the usability of SQLite extensions, which have previously been pretty difficult to actually install and run. Alex also created Datasette plugins that depend on his packages, so you can now “datasette install datasette-sqlite-regex” (or datasette-sqlite-ulid, datasette-sqlite-fastrand, datasette-sqlite-jsonschema) to gain access to his custom SQLite extensions in your Datasette instance. It even works with “datasette publish --install” to deploy to Vercel, Fly.io and Cloud Run. # 6th February 2023, 7:44 pm
Weeknotes: Datasette Writes
As discussed previously, the biggest hole in Datasette’s feature set at the moment involves writing to the database.
[... 604 words]I think you overstate the usefulness of the [jQuery Rules] plugin. Using this plugin, users are now limited by what selectors that can use (they can only use what the browsers provide—and are at the mercy of the cross-browser bugs that are there) which is a huge problem. Not to mention that it encourages the un-separation of markup/css/js.
— John Resig # 22nd February 2009, 11:11 pm
jQuery.Rule (via) jQuery plugin for manipulating stylesheet rules. For me, this is the single most important piece of functionality currently missing from the core jQuery API. The ability to add new CSS rules makes an excellent complement to the .live() method added in jQuery 1.3. # 22nd February 2009, 5:53 pm
Open in Browser Firefox Add-on (via) Solves the “application/json wants to download” problem, among others. # 9th February 2009, 10:24 pm