Entries tagged datasette, weeknotes in 2021
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Weeknotes: datasette-tiddlywiki, filters_from_request
I made some good progress on the big refactor this week, including extracting some core logic out into a new Datasette plugin hook. I also got distracted by TiddlyWiki and released a new Datasette plugin that lets you run TiddlyWiki inside Datasette.
[... 1197 words]Weeknotes: Trapped in an eternal refactor
I’m still working on refactoring Datasette’s table view. In doing so I spun out a new plugin, datasette-pretty-traces, which improves Datasette’s tooling for seeing the SQL that was executed to build a specific page.
[... 544 words]Weeknotes: git-history, bug magnets and s3-credentials --public
I’ve stopped considering my projects “shipped” until I’ve written a proper blog entry about them, so yesterday I finally shipped git-history, coinciding with the release of version 0.6—a full 27 days after the first 0.1.
[... 1013 words]Weeknotes: Shaving some beautiful yaks
I’ve been mostly shaving yaks this week—two in particular: the Datasette table refactor and the next release of git-history. I also built and released my first Web Component!
[... 1307 words]Weeknotes: Apache proxies in Docker containers, refactoring Datasette
Updates to six major projects this week, plus finally some concrete progress towards Datasette 1.0.
[... 1630 words]Weeknotes: git-history, created for a Git scraping workshop
My main project this week was a 90 minute workshop I delivered about Git scraping at Coda.Br 2021, a Brazilian data journalism conference, on Friday. This inspired the creation of a brand new tool, git-history, plus smaller improvements to a range of other projects.
[... 1239 words]Weeknotes: datasette-jupyterlite, s3-credentials and a Python packaging talk
My big project this week was s3-credentials, described yesterday—but I also put together a fun expermiental Datasette plugin bundling JupyterLite and wrote up my PyGotham talk on Python packaging.
[... 476 words]Weeknotes: Learning Kubernetes, learning Web Components
I’ve been mainly climbing the learning curve for Kubernetes and Web Components this week. I also released Datasette 0.59.1 with Python 3.10 compatibility and an updated Docker image.
[... 1101 words]Datasette 0.59: The annotated release notes
Datasette 0.59 is out, with a miscellaneous grab-bag of improvements. Here are the annotated release notes.
[... 2103 words]Weeknotes number 100
This entry marks my 100th weeknotes, which I’ve managed to post once a week (plus or minus a few days) consistently since 13th September 2019.
[... 593 words]Datasette Desktop—a macOS desktop application for Datasette
I just released version 0.1.0 of the new Datasette macOS desktop application, the first version that end-users can easily install. I would very much appreciate your help testing it out!
[... 1761 words]Building a desktop application for Datasette (and weeknotes)
This week I started experimenting with a desktop application version of Datasette—with the goal of providing people who aren’t comfortable with the command-line the ability to get Datasette up and running on their own personal computers.
[... 1423 words]Weeknotes: Getting my personal Dogsheep up and running again
I gave a talk about Dogsheep at Noisebridge’s Five Minutes of Fame on Thursday. Just one problem: my regular Dogsheep demo was broken, so I ended up building it from scratch again. In doing so I fixed a few bugs in some Dogsheep tools.
[... 1311 words]Datasette on Codespaces, sqlite-utils API reference documentation and other weeknotes
This week I broke my streak of not sending out the Datasette newsletter, figured out how to use Sphinx for Python class documentation, worked out how to run Datasette on GitHub Codespaces, implemented Datasette column metadata and got tantalizingly close to a solution for an elusive Datasette feature.
[... 2164 words]Apply conversion functions to data in SQLite columns with the sqlite-utils CLI tool
Earlier this week I released sqlite-utils 3.14 with a powerful new command-line tool: sqlite-utils convert, which applies a conversion function to data stored in a SQLite column.
Weeknotes: datasette-remote-metadata, sqlite-transform --multi
I mentioned Project Pelican (still a codename until the end of the embargo) last week. This week it inspired a new plugin, datasette-remote-metadata.
[... 595 words]Weeknotes: sqlite-transform 1.1, Datasette 0.58.1, datasette-graphql 1.5
Work on Project Pelican inspires new features and improvements across a number of different projects.
[... 1419 words]Weeknotes: Fun with Unix domain sockets
A small enhancement to Datasette this week: I’ve added support for proxying via Unix domain sockets.
[... 809 words]Django SQL Dashboard 1.0
Earlier this week I released Django SQL Dashboard 1.0. I also just released 1.0.1, with a bug fix for PostgreSQL 10 contributed by Ryan Cheley.
[... 629 words]Weeknotes: sqlite-utils updates, Datasette and asgi-csrf, open-sourcing VIAL
Some work on sqlite-utils, asgi-csrf, a Datasette alpha and we open-sourced VIAL.
Weeknotes: New releases across nine different projects
A new release and security patch for Datasette, plus releases of sqlite-utils, datasette-auth-passwords, django-sql-dashboard, datasette-upload-csvs, xml-analyser, datasette-placekey, datasette-mask-columns and db-to-sqlite.
[... 861 words]Weeknotes: Docker architectures, sqlite-utils 3.7, nearly there with Datasette 0.57
This week I learned a whole bunch about using Docker to emulate different architectures, released sqlite-utils 3.7 and made a ton of progress towards the almost-ready-to-ship Datasette 0.57.
[... 1081 words]Weeknotes: Spinning back up on Datasette
I’ve been somewhat distracted from Datasette for the past couple of months, thanks to my work on VIAL and the accompanying open source project django-sql-dashboard. This week I scraped back some time to work on Datasette.
[... 401 words]Django SQL Dashboard
I’ve released the first non-alpha version of Django SQL Dashboard, which provides an interface for running arbitrary read-only SQL queries directly against a PostgreSQL database, protected by the Django authentication scheme. It can also be used to create saved dashboards that can be published or shared internally.
[... 2171 words]Animated choropleth of vaccinations by US county
Last week I mentioned that I’ve recently started scraping and storing the CDC’s per-county vaccination numbers in my cdc-vaccination-history GitHub repository. This week I used an Observable notebook and d3’s TopoJSON support to render those numbers on an animated choropleth map.
[... 1138 words]Weeknotes: SpatiaLite 5, Datasette on Azure, more CDC vaccination history
This week I got SpatiaLite 5 working in the Datasette Docker image, improved the CDC vaccination history git scraper, figured out Datasette on Azure and we closed on a new home!
[... 986 words]Weeknotes: Datasette and Git scraping at NICAR, VaccinateCA
This week I virtually attended the NICAR data journalism conference and made a ton of progress on the Django backend for VaccinateCA (see last week).
[... 773 words]Trying to end the pandemic a little earlier with VaccinateCA
This week I got involved with the VaccinateCA effort. We are trying to end the pandemic a little earlier, by building the most accurate database possible of vaccination locations and availability in California.
[... 1154 words]Cross-database queries in SQLite (and weeknotes)
I released Datasette 0.55 and sqlite-utils 3.6 this week with a common theme across both releases: supporting cross-database joins.
[... 720 words]Weeknotes: Finally, an intro video for Datasette
My big project this week was this Video introduction to Datasette and sqlite-utils. I recorded the video a few weeks ago in advance of FOSDEM, but this week I put together the annotated version. I’m really happy with it, and I’ve added it to the datasette.io homepage as a starting point for helping people understand the project.
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