Entries tagged markdown in 2020

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Weeknotes: airtable-export, generating screenshots in GitHub Actions, Dogsheep!

This week I figured out how to populate Datasette from Airtable, wrote code to generate social media preview card page screenshots using Puppeteer, and made a big breakthrough with my Dogsheep project.

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11:28 pm / 3rd September 2020 / projects, yaml, markdown, dogsheep, weeknotes, githubactions, airtable, puppeteer

Weeknotes: California Protected Areas in Datasette

This week I built a geospatial search engine for protected areas in California, shipped datasette-graphql 1.0 and started working towards the next milestone for Datasette Cloud.

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2 am / 28th August 2020 / atom, gis, projects, markdown, graphql, datasette, weeknotes, datasettecloud

Using a self-rewriting README powered by GitHub Actions to track TILs

I’ve started tracking TILs—Today I Learneds—inspired by this five-year-and-counting collection by Josh Branchaud on GitHub (found via Hacker News). I’m keeping mine in GitHub too, and using GitHub Actions to automatically generate an index page README in the repository and a SQLite-backed search engine.

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1:38 am / 20th April 2020 / github, projects, markdown, datasette, githubactions, til

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.

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

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