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Weeknotes: A new llm CLI tool, plus automating my weeknotes and newsletter

I started publishing weeknotes in 2019 partly as a way to hold myself accountable but mainly as a way to encourage myself to write more.

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11:28 pm / 4th April 2023 / projects, datasette, observable, weeknotes, llms, llm

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.

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5:37 am / 4th April 2021 / choropleths, vaccines, d3, datasette, observable, weeknotes

Weeknotes: Datasette 0.41, photos breakthroughs

Shorter weeknotes this week, because my main project for the week warrants a detailed write-up on its own (coming soon... update 21st May here it is).

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5:02 am / 7th May 2020 / projects, sqlite, datasette, observable, dogsheep, weeknotes, applephotos

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