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Entries tagged weeknotes in Apr, 2022

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Weeknotes: Parallel SQL queries for Datasette, plus some middleware tricks

A promising new performance optimization for Datasette, plus new datasette-gzip and datasette-total-page-time plugins.

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7:01 pm / 27th April 2022 / async, gzip, python, datasette, weeknotes

Building a Covid sewage Twitter bot (and other weeknotes)

I built a new Twitter bot today: @covidsewage. It tweets a daily screenshot of the latest Covid sewage monitoring data published by Santa Clara county.

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2:49 am / 18th April 2022 / projects, twitter, datasette, weeknotes, githubactions, covid19, sqliteutils

Pillar Point Stewards, pypi-to-sqlite, improvements to shot-scraper and appreciating datasette-dashboards

This week I helped Natalie launch the Pillar Point Stewards website and built a new tool for loading PyPI package data into SQLite, in order to help promote the excellent datasette-dashboards plugin by Romain Clement.

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8:26 pm / 8th April 2022 / continuousdeployment, continuousintegration, plugins, projects, pypi, datasette, weeknotes, shotscraper, benwelsh

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