Entries in Jan, 2020

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Weeknotes: datasette-auth-existing-cookies and datasette-sentry

Work on Datasette Cloud continues—I’m tantalizingly close to having a MVP I can start to invite people to try out.

5:58 am / 29th January 2020 / cookies, django, projects, sentry, datasette, weeknotes, datasettecloud, httpx

Weeknotes: Datasette Cloud and zero downtime deployments

Yesterday’s piece on Tracking FARA by deploying a data API using GitHub Actions and Cloud Run was originally intended to be my weeknotes, but ended up getting a bit too involved.

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8:56 pm / 21st January 2020 / csv, deployment, museums, projects, zerodowntime, docker, datasette, weeknotes, traefik, datasettecloud, digitalocean

Tracking FARA by deploying a data API using GitHub Actions and Cloud Run

I’m using the combination of GitHub Actions and Google Cloud Run to retrieve data from the U.S. Department of Justice FARA website and deploy it as a queryable API using Datasette.

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7:51 am / 21st January 2020 / continuousdeployment, continuousintegration, datajournalism, github, projects, datasette, cloudrun, githubactions, gitscraping

Weeknotes: Improv at Stanford, planning Datasette Cloud

Last week was the first week of the quarter at Stanford—which is called “shopping week” here because students are expected to try different classes to see which ones they are going to stick with.

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12:22 am / 14th January 2020 / stanford, docker, jsk, weeknotes, datasettecloud, digitalocean

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

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