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

2022

Release datasette-export 0.1a0 — Export pages from Datasette to files on disk

Weeknotes: Implementing a write API, Mastodon distractions

Everything is so distracting at the moment. The ongoing Twitter catastrophe, the great migration (at least amongst most of the people I pay attention to) to Mastodon, the FTX calamity. It’s been very hard to focus!

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Tracking Mastodon user numbers over time with a bucket of tricks

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Mastodon is definitely having a moment. User growth is skyrocketing as more and more people migrate over from Twitter.

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Release datasette-graphql 2.1.2 — Datasette plugin providing an automatic GraphQL API for your SQLite databases
Release datasette 0.63.2 — An open source multi-tool for exploring and publishing data

Datasette Lite: Loading JSON data (via) I added a new feature to Datasette Lite: you can now pass it the URL to a JSON file (hosted on a CORS-compatible hosting provider such as GitHub or GitHub Gists) and it will load that file into a database table for you. It expects an array of objects, but if your file has an object as the root it will search through it looking for the first key that is an array of objects and load those instead.

# 18th November 2022, 6:43 pm / datasette-lite, json, projects, datasette, cors

Release datasette-edit-schema 0.5.2 — Datasette plugin for modifying table schemas
Release datasette-indieauth 1.2.2 — Datasette authentication using IndieAuth and RelMeAuth
Release datasette-import-table 0.3.1 — Datasette plugin for importing tables from other Datasette instances
Release datasette-public 0.2.1 — Make selected Datasette databases and tables visible to the public
Release datasette-copyable 0.3.2 — Datasette plugin for outputting tables in formats suitable for copy and paste
Release datasette-edit-templates 0.2 — Plugin allowing Datasette templates to be edited within Datasette
Release datasette-configure-fts 1.1.1 — Datasette plugin for enabling full-text search against selected table columns
Release datasette-socrata 0.3.1 — Import data from Socrata into Datasette
Release datasette-ripgrep 0.7.1 — Web interface for searching your code using ripgrep, built as a Datasette plugin
Release datasette-search-all 1.1.1 — Datasette plugin for searching all searchable tables at once

Datasette is 5 today: a call for birthday presents

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Five years ago today I published the first release of Datasette, in Datasette: instantly create and publish an API for your SQLite databases.

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Release datasette 0.63.1 — An open source multi-tool for exploring and publishing data

Designing a write API for Datasette

Building out Datasette Cloud has made one thing clear to me: Datasette needs a write API for ingesting new data into its attached SQLite databases.

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Release datasette-edit-templates 0.1 — Plugin allowing Datasette templates to be edited within Datasette

Datasette 0.63: The annotated release notes

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

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Release datasette 0.63 — An open source multi-tool for exploring and publishing data
Release datasette-indieauth 1.2.1 — Datasette authentication using IndieAuth and RelMeAuth
Release datasette 0.63a1 — An open source multi-tool for exploring and publishing data

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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Release datasette-gunicorn 0.1 — Plugin for running Datasette using Gunicorn

Measuring traffic during the Half Moon Bay Pumpkin Festival

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

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Automating screenshots for the Datasette documentation using shot-scraper

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

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Release datasette-screenshots 0.62 — Screenshots of Datasette, taken using shot-scraper

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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