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Entries tagged datasette, githubactions in 2022

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Tracking Mastodon user numbers over time with a bucket of tricks

Mastodon is definitely having a moment. User growth is skyrocketing as more and more people migrate over from Twitter.

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7 am / 20th November 2022 / github, projects, datasette, observable, githubactions, gitscraping, githistory, s3credentials, datasettelite, mastodon

Automating screenshots for the Datasette documentation using shot-scraper

I released shot-scraper back in March as a tool for keeping screenshots in documentation up-to-date.

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11:44 pm / 14th October 2022 / documentation, datasette, githubactions, shotscraper

Automatically opening issues when tracked file content changes

I figured out a GitHub Actions pattern to keep track of a file published somewhere on the internet and automatically open a new repository issue any time the contents of that file changes.

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5:18 pm / 28th April 2022 / github, gzip, projects, python, datasette, asgi, githubactions, gitscraping

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

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