Entries in Mar, 2020

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Weeknotes: Datasette 0.39 and many other projects

This week’s theme: Well, I’m not going anywhere. So a ton of progress to report on various projects.

5:33 am / 25th March 2020 / github, projects, sqlite, markdown, jupyter, datasette, dogsheep, weeknotes, fly

Weeknotes: this week was absurd

As of this morning, San Francisco is in a legally mandated shelter-in-place. I can hardly remember what life was like seven days ago. It’s been a very long, very crazy week. This was not a great week for getting stuff done.

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2:52 am / 18th March 2020 / projects, weeknotes, sqliteutils

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

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