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A cookiecutter template for writing Datasette plugins

Datasette’s plugin system is one of the most interesting parts of the entire project. As I explained to Matt Asay in this interview, the great thing about plugins is that Datasette can gain new functionality overnight without me even having to review a pull request. I just need to get more people to write them!

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4:15 pm / 20th June 2020 / github, plugins, projects, pypi, datasette, pytest, githubactions, cookiecutter

Weeknotes: Datasette alphas for testing new plugin hooks

A relatively quiet week this week, compared to last week’s massive push to ship Datasette 0.44 with authentication, permissions and writable canned queries. I can now ship alpha releases, such as today’s Datasette 0.45a1, which means I can preview new plugin features before they are completely ready and stable.

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12:30 am / 19th June 2020 / nataliedowne, plugins, projects, datasette, weeknotes

Datasette 0.44: The annotated release notes

I just released Datasette 0.44 to PyPI. With 128 commits since 0.43 this is the biggest release in a long time—and likely the last major release of new features before Datasette 1.0.

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3:11 am / 12th June 2020 / authentication, permissions, plugins, projects, releasenotes, datasette, weeknotes, annotatedreleasenotes

Weeknotes: COVID-19 numbers in Datasette

COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus, gets more terrifying every day. Johns Hopkins Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) have been collating data about the spread of the disease and publishing it as CSV files on GitHub.

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4:49 am / 11th March 2020 / plugins, projects, datasette, weeknotes, coronavirus, covid19

datasette-search-all: a new plugin for searching multiple Datasette tables at once

I just released a new plugin for Datasette, and it’s pretty fun. datasette-search-all is a plugin written mostly in JavaScript that executes the same search query against every searchable table in every database connected to your Datasette instance.

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12:59 am / 9th March 2020 / fulltextsearch, javascript, plugins, projects, search, datasette

Weeknotes: datasette-ics, datasette-upload-csvs, datasette-configure-fts, asgi-csrf

I’ve been preparing for the NICAR 2020 Data Journalism conference this week which has lead me into a flurry of activity across a plethora of different projects and plugins.

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2:27 am / 4th March 2020 / csrf, datajournalism, ical, plugins, projects, search, security, datasette, asgi, weeknotes, datasettecloud

Weeknotes: Datasette Writes

As discussed previously, the biggest hole in Datasette’s feature set at the moment involves writing to the database.

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6:34 am / 26th February 2020 / csv, plugins, sqlite, threads, datasette, weeknotes

Building a sitemap.xml with a one-off Datasette plugin

One of the fun things about launching a new website is re-learning what it takes to promote a website from scratch on the modern web. I’ve been thoroughly enjoying using Niche Museums as an excuse to explore 2020-era SEO.

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11:02 pm / 6th January 2020 / museums, plugins, projects, seo, datasette, weeknotes