171 items tagged “weeknotes”
2023
Weeknotes: datasette-enrichments, datasette-comments, sqlite-chronicle
I’ve mainly been working on Datasette Enrichments and continuing to explore the possibilities enabled by sqlite-chronicle.
[... 1124 words]Weeknotes: DevDay, GitHub Universe, OpenAI chaos
Three weeks of conferences and Datasette Cloud work, four days of chaos for OpenAI.
[... 766 words]DALL-E 3, GPT4All, PMTiles, sqlite-migrate, datasette-edit-schema
I wrote a lot this week. I also did some fun research into new options for self-hosting vector maps and pushed out several new releases of plugins.
[... 1362 words]Weeknotes: PyBay, AI Engineer Summit, Datasette metadata and JavaScript plugins
I’ve had a bit of a slow two weeks in terms of building things and writing code, thanks mainly to a couple of conference appearances. I did review and land a couple of major contributions to Datasette though.
[... 564 words]Weeknotes: the Datasette Cloud API, a podcast appearance and more
Datasette Cloud now has a documented API, plus a podcast appearance, some LLM plugins work and some geospatial excitement.
[... 1243 words]Weeknotes: Embeddings, more embeddings and Datasette Cloud
Since my last weeknotes, a flurry of activity. LLM has embeddings support now, and Datasette Cloud has driven some major improvements to the wider Datasette ecosystem.
[... 2427 words]Datasette 1.0a4 and 1.0a5, plus weeknotes
Two new alpha releases of Datasette, plus a keynote at WordCamp, a new LLM release, two new LLM plugins and a flurry of TILs.
[... 2709 words]Datasette Cloud, Datasette 1.0a3, llm-mlc and more
Datasette Cloud is now a significant step closer to general availability. The Datasette 1.03 alpha release is out, with a mostly finalized JSON format for 1.0. Plus new plugins for LLM and sqlite-utils and a flurry of things I’ve learned.
[... 1690 words]Weeknotes: Plugins for LLM, sqlite-utils and Datasette
The principle theme for the past few weeks has been plugins.
[... 1203 words]Weeknotes: Self-hosted language models with LLM plugins, a new Datasette tutorial, a dozen package releases, a dozen TILs
A lot of stuff to cover from the past two and a half weeks.
[... 1742 words]Weeknotes: symbex, LLM prompt templates, a bit of a break
I had a holiday to the UK for a family wedding anniversary and mostly took the time off... except for building symbex, which became one of those projects that kept on inspiring new features.
[... 1120 words]Weeknotes: Parquet in Datasette Lite, various talks, more LLM hacking
I’ve fallen a bit behind on my weeknotes. Here’s a catchup for the last few weeks.
[... 769 words]Weeknotes: sqlite-utils 3.31, download-esm, Python in a sandbox
A couple of speaking appearances last week—one planned, one unplanned. Plus sqlite-utils 3.31, download-esm and a new TIL.
Weeknotes: Miscellaneous research into Rye, ChatGPT Code Interpreter and openai-to-sqlite
I gave myself some time off stressing about my core responsibilities this week after PyCon, which meant allowing myself to be distracted by some miscellaneous research projects.
[... 891 words]Weeknotes: Citus Con, PyCon and three new niche museums
I’ve had a busy week in terms of speaking: on Tuesday I gave an online keynote at Citus Con, “Big Opportunities in Small Data”. I then flew to Salt Lake City for PyCon that evening and gave a three hour workshop on Wednesday, “Data analysis with SQLite and Python”.
[... 225 words]sqlite-history: tracking changes to SQLite tables using triggers (also weeknotes)
In between blogging about ChatGPT rhetoric, micro-benchmarking with ChatGPT Code Interpreter and Why prompt injection is an even bigger problem now I managed to ship the beginnings of a new project: sqlite-history.
[... 1680 words]Weeknotes: A new llm CLI tool, plus automating my weeknotes and newsletter
I started publishing weeknotes in 2019 partly as a way to hold myself accountable but mainly as a way to encourage myself to write more.
[... 830 words]Weeknotes: AI won’t slow down, a new newsletter and a huge Datasette refactor
I’m a few weeks behind on my weeknotes, but it’s not through lack of attention to my blog. AI just keeps getting weirder and more interesting.
[... 1255 words]Weeknotes: NICAR, and an appearance on KQED Forum
I spent most of this week at NICAR 2023, the data journalism conference hosted this year in Nashville, Tennessee.
[... 1941 words]Thoughts and impressions of AI-assisted search from Bing
It’s been a wild couple of weeks.
[... 1763 words]Weeknotes: A bunch of things I learned this week, plus datasette-explain
The Datasette table view refactor, JSON redesign and ?_extra= continues this week, mainly in this ongoing pull request and this tracking issue.
datasette-scraper, Big Local News and other weeknotes
In addition to exploring the new MusicCaps training and evaluation data I’ve been working on the big Datasette JSON refactor, and getting excited about a Datasette project that I didn’t work on at all.
[... 1744 words]Weeknotes: AI hacking and a SpatiaLite tutorial
Short weeknotes this time because the key things I worked on have already been covered here:
[... 477 words]2022
2022 in projects and blogging
In lieu of my regular weeknotes (I took two weeks off for the holidays) here’s a look back at 2022, mainly in terms of projects and things I’ve written about.
[... 1154 words]Weeknotes: Datasette 0.63.3, datasette-ripgrep
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.
[... 801 words]Weeknotes: datasette-ephemeral-tables, datasette-export
Most of what I’ve been working on for the past week and a half is already documented:
[... 603 words]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!
[... 916 words]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.
[... 1493 words]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.
[... 1184 words]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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