Items tagged projects, zeitnow in 2018
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Building smaller Python Docker images
Changes are afoot at Zeit Now, my preferred hosting provider for the past year (see previous posts). They have announced Now 2.0, an intriguing new approach to providing auto-scaling immutable deployments. It’s built on top of lambdas, and comes with a whole host of new constraints: code needs to fit into a 5MB bundle for example (though it looks like this restriction will soon be relaxed a little—update November 19th you can now bump this up to 50MB).
[... 1872 words]Make Near Me (via) The natural evolution of owlsnearme.com—Make Near Me uses the Zeit Now API to allow anyone to deploy their own version of Owls Near Me for any species! I announced this on stage at Zeit Day SF 2018 as part of my talk on Datasette and Datasette Publish. # 28th April 2018, 9:28 pm
Datasette Publish: a web app for publishing CSV files as an online database
I’ve just released Datasette Publish, a web tool for turning one or more CSV files into an online database with a JSON API.
[... 863 words]ftfy—fix unicode that’s broken in various ways (via) I shipped a small web UI wrapper around the excellent Python FTFY library, which can take broken unicode strings and suggest a sequence of operations that can be applied to get back sensible text. # 9th January 2018, 3:22 am