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Entries in Feb, 2024

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Weeknotes: Getting ready for NICAR

Next week is NICAR 2024 in Baltimore—the annual data journalism conference hosted by Investigative Reporters and Editors. I’m running a workshop on Datasette, and I plan to spend most of my time in the hallway track talking to people about Datasette, Datasette Cloud and how the Datasette ecosystem can best help support their work.

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4:21 am / 27th February 2024 / datajournalism, projects, datasette, weeknotes, datasettecloud, nicar

The killer app of Gemini Pro 1.5 is video

Last week Google introduced Gemini Pro 1.5, an enormous upgrade to their Gemini series of AI models.

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7:20 pm / 21st February 2024 / google, ai, generativeai, llms, gemini

Weeknotes: a Datasette release, an LLM release and a bunch of new plugins

I wrote extensive annotated release notes for Datasette 1.0a8 and LLM 0.13 already. Here’s what else I’ve been up to this past three weeks.

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11:59 pm / 9th February 2024 / projects, datasette, weeknotes, shotscraper, llm, quickjs, enrichments

Datasette 1.0a8: JavaScript plugins, new plugin hooks and plugin configuration in datasette.yaml

I just released Datasette 1.0a8. These are the annotated release notes.

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4:37 pm / 7th February 2024 / plugins, projects, datasette, annotatedreleasenotes

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