Entries in Oct, 2022

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The Perfect Commit

For the last few years I’ve been trying to center my work around creating what I consider to be the Perfect Commit. This is a single commit that contains all of the following:

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8:41 pm / 29th October 2022 / git, github, softwareengineering

Datasette 0.63: The annotated release notes

I released Datasette 0.63 today. These are the annotated release notes.

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10:13 pm / 27th October 2022 / projects, datasette, annotatedreleasenotes

Weeknotes: DjangoCon, SQLite in Django, datasette-gunicorn

I spent most of this week at DjangoCon in San Diego—my first outside-of-the-Bay-Area conference since the before-times.

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7:58 pm / 23rd October 2022 / django, djangocon, projects, sqlite, talks, gunicorn, datasette, weeknotes, shotscraper

Measuring traffic during the Half Moon Bay Pumpkin Festival

This weekend was the 50th annual Half Moon Bay Pumpkin Festival.

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3:41 pm / 19th October 2022 / datajournalism, projects, sqlite, datasette, gitscraping, githistory, datasettelite, halfmoonbay

Automating screenshots for the Datasette documentation using shot-scraper

I released shot-scraper back in March as a tool for keeping screenshots in documentation up-to-date.

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11:44 pm / 14th October 2022 / documentation, datasette, githubactions, shotscraper

Weeknotes: Publishing data using Datasette Cloud

My initial preview releases of Datasette Cloud (the SaaS version of my Datasette open source project) have focused on private data collaboration.

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8:08 pm / 12th October 2022 / plugins, projects, datasette, weeknotes, datasettecloud

Is the AI spell-casting metaphor harmful or helpful?

For a few weeks now I’ve been promoting spell-casting as a metaphor for prompt design against generative AI systems such as GPT-3 and Stable Diffusion.

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8:40 pm / 5th October 2022 / ethics, machinelearning, ai, gpt3, openai, promptengineering, promptinjection, generativeai, llms