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2020

Some patients at the Marine Mammal Center.
Museum The Marine Mammal Center — 2000 Bunker Road, Fort Cronkhite, Sausalito, CA 94965
25th Jan 2020, 6:54 am · museums

Weeknotes: Datasette Cloud and zero downtime deployments

Yesterday’s piece on Tracking FARA by deploying a data API using GitHub Actions and Cloud Run was originally intended to be my weeknotes, but ended up getting a bit too involved.

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8:56 pm / 21st January 2020 / csv, deployment, museums, projects, zero-downtime, docker, datasette, weeknotes, traefik, datasette-cloud, digitalocean

Ray Bandar’s Bone Palace (via) The hundredth museum I’ve posted to Niche Museums, and this one is my absolute favourite. Ray Bandar spent sixty years collecting over 7,000 animal skulls and putting them on display in his house and basement. Natalie managed to score us a tour a few weeks before the entire collection was donated to the California Academy of Sciences. It was the most amazing room I’ve ever been in.

# 18th January 2020, 7:05 am / museums

A basement full of skulls.
Museum Ray Bandar's Bone Palace — Marietta Drive, San Francisco, CA 94127
18th Jan 2020, 6:30 am · museums
An altar in the voodoo museum.
Museum New Orleans Historic Voodoo Museum — 724 Dumaine Street, New Orleans, LA 70116
17th Jan 2020, 5:41 am · museums
The outside of the museum, in the mall.
Museum Cleveland Hungarian Museum — Galleria at Erieview, 1301 East 9th Street, Cleveland, OH 44114
16th Jan 2020, 1:32 am · museums
The ruins of Llano del Rio.
Museum The ruins of Llano del Rio — Llano, CA 93544
15th Jan 2020, 4:27 am · museums
The Palace of Fine Arts, from across the lake.
Museum Palace of Fine Arts — 3601 Lyon St, San Francisco, CA 94123
14th Jan 2020, 7:10 am · museums
Ring-tailed lemurs sitting on a rock.
Museum Anja Community Reserve — Manambolo, Madagascar
13th Jan 2020, 6:55 am · museums
Donner Memorial State Park Visitor Center
Museum Donner Memorial State Park Visitor Center — 12593 Donner Pass Road, Truckee, CA 96161
12th Jan 2020, 7:53 am · museums
Fort Point under the Golden Gate Bridge.
Museum Fort Point — Long Avenue & Marine Drive, San Francisco, CA 94129
11th Jan 2020, 2:42 am · museums
The entrance to the museum.
Museum Museo de las Misiones de Baja California — Salvatierra 16, Centro, 23880 Loreto, Mexico
10th Jan 2020, 6:14 am · museums
Gas lamps.
Museum Bevolo Gas Light Museum — 521 Conti Street, New Orleans, LA 70130
9th Jan 2020, 6:44 am · museums
Jelly bean portraits.
Museum Jelly Belly Factory — 1 Jelly Belly Lane, Fairfield, CA 94533
8th Jan 2020, 4:34 am · museums
The Cohen Bray House.
Museum Cohen Bray House — 1440 29th Ave, Oakland, CA 94601
6th Jan 2020, 11:26 pm · museums

Building a sitemap.xml with a one-off Datasette plugin

Visit Building a sitemap.xml with a one-off Datasette plugin

One of the fun things about launching a new website is re-learning what it takes to promote a website from scratch on the modern web. I’ve been thoroughly enjoying using Niche Museums as an excuse to explore 2020-era SEO.

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11:02 pm / 6th January 2020 / museums, plugins, projects, seo, datasette, weeknotes
Griffith Observatory.
Museum Griffith Observatory — 2800 East Observatory Road, Los Angeles, CA 90027
6th Jan 2020, 4:08 am · museums
Sea Lions at Pier 39.
Museum Sea Lions at Pier 39 — Pier 39, The Embarcadero at Beach Street, San Francisco, CA 94133
5th Jan 2020, 5:20 am · museums
Allen Ginsberg's organ.
Museum The Beat Museum — 540 Broadway, San Francisco, CA 94133
4th Jan 2020, 5:12 am · museums
A tunnel to the beach.
Museum Ilfracombe Tunnels Beaches — Bath Place, Ilfracombe, Devon, EX34 8AN, United Kingdom
3rd Jan 2020, 6:04 am · museums
Inside the sand mine.
Museum Hazel-Atlas Sand Mine — Somersville Road, Antioch, CA 94509
2nd Jan 2020, 4:19 am · museums
Snow monkeys.
Museum Jigokudani Monkey Park — 〒381-0401 Nagano, Shimotakai District, Yamanochi, Hirao, ６８４５, Japan
1st Jan 2020, 6:15 am · museums

2019

Donkeys in the sanctuary.
Museum The Donkey Sanctuary — Slade House Farm, Sidmouth, EX10 0NU, United Kingdom
31st Dec 2019, 12:09 am · museums

sqlite-utils 2.0: real upserts

I just released version 2.0 of my sqlite-utils library/CLI tool to PyPI.

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6:48 am / 30th December 2019 / museums, projects, sql, sqlite, upsert, weeknotes, sqlite-utils
A beautiful pink tram.
Museum Seaton Tramway — Seaton Tramway, Harbour Road, Seaton, Devon EX12 2NQ, United Kingdom
30th Dec 2019, 5:57 am · museums
Outside of Oakley Court.
Museum Oakley Court — Windsor Road, Water Oakley, Windsor, Berkshire, SL4 5UR, United Kingdom
29th Dec 2019, 2:34 pm · museums
Inside the Southern Food and Beverage Museum.
Museum Southern Food and Beverage Museum — 1504 Oretha Castle Haley Boulevard, New Orleans, LA 70113
28th Dec 2019, 8:42 pm · museums
The majestic Horniman walrus.
Museum Horniman Museum and Gardens — 100 London Road, Forest Hill, London SE23 3PQ, United Kingdom
27th Dec 2019, 3:33 pm · museums
A ribbon of bats emerging from the causeway.
Museum Yolo Causeway Bat Colony — 45211 County Road 32B, Davis, CA 95618, United States
26th Dec 2019, 5:02 pm · museums
Stonehenge.
Museum Stonehenge — Amesbury, Wiltshire, SP4 7DE, United Kingdom
25th Dec 2019, 10:49 pm · museums

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