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Datasette is an open source tool for exploring and publishing data.

2023

How to implement Q&A against your documentation with GPT3, embeddings and Datasette

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If you’ve spent any time with GPT-3 or ChatGPT, you’ve likely thought about how useful it would be if you could point them at a specific, current collection of text or documentation and have it use that as part of its input for answering questions.

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Release datasette-cookies-for-magic-parameters 0.1.2 — UI for setting cookies to populate magic parameters
Release datasette-cookies-for-magic-parameters 0.1.1 — UI for setting cookies to populate magic parameters
Release datasette-cookies-for-magic-parameters 0.1 — UI for setting cookies to populate magic parameters
Release datasette 0.64.1 — An open source multi-tool for exploring and publishing data
Release datasette-faiss 0.1a0 — Maintain a FAISS index for specified Datasette tables

Datasette 0.64, with a warning about SpatiaLite

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I release Datasette 0.64 this morning. This release is mainly a response to the realization that it’s not safe to run Datasette with the SpatiaLite extension loaded if that Datasette instance is configured to enable arbitrary SQL queries from untrusted users.

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Release datasette-auth-passwords 1.1 — Datasette plugin for authentication using passwords
Release datasette 0.64 — An open source multi-tool for exploring and publishing data
Release datasette-publish-fly 1.3 — Datasette plugin for publishing data using Fly

2022

Weeknotes: Datasette 0.63.3, datasette-ripgrep

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We’re back in the UK to see family over Christmas (our first trip back since 2019). Here are a few notes from the past couple of weeks.

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Release datasette-gunicorn 0.1.1 — Plugin for running Datasette using Gunicorn
Release datasette 0.63.3 — An open source multi-tool for exploring and publishing data

Datasette 1.0a2: Upserts and finely grained permissions

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I’ve released the third alpha of Datasette 1.0. The 1.0a2 release introduces upsert support to the new JSON API and makes some major improvements to the Datasette permissions system.

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Release datasette 1.0a2 — An open source multi-tool for exploring and publishing data
Release datasette-ripgrep 0.8 — Web interface for searching your code using ripgrep, built as a Datasette plugin
Release datasette-media 0.5.1 — Datasette plugin for serving media based on a SQL query

Over-engineering Secret Santa with Python cryptography and Datasette

We’re doing a family Secret Santa this year, and we needed a way to randomly assign people to each other without anyone knowing who was assigned to who.

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Release datasette-secret-santa 0.1 — Run secret santa gift circles using Datasette
Release datasette-secret-santa 0.1a0 — Run secret santa gift circles using Datasette
Release datasette-render-binary 0.3.1 — Datasette plugin for rendering binary data

Weeknotes: datasette-ephemeral-tables, datasette-export

Most of what I’ve been working on for the past week and a half is already documented:

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Datasette’s new JSON write API: The first alpha of Datasette 1.0

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This week I published the first alpha release of Datasette 1.0, with a significant new feature: Datasette core now includes a JSON API for creating and dropping tables and inserting, updating and deleting data.

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Release datasette-public 0.2.2 — Make selected Datasette databases and tables visible to the public
Release datasette-ephemeral-tables 0.2.2 — Provide tables that expire after a time limit
Release datasette 1.0a1 — An open source multi-tool for exploring and publishing data
Release datasette-ephemeral-tables 0.2.1 — Provide tables that expire after a time limit
Release datasette-ephemeral-tables 0.2 — Provide tables that expire after a time limit
Release datasette-ephemeral-tables 0.1 — Provide tables that expire after a time limit
Release datasette 1.0a0 — An open source multi-tool for exploring and publishing data