189 items tagged “weeknotes”
I publish weeknotes once every two or three weeks documenting what I've been working on recently.
2022
Weeknotes: Camping, a road trip and two new museums
Natalie and I took a week-long road trip and camping holiday. The plan was to camp on Santa Rosa Island in the California Channel Islands, but the boat to the island was cancelled due to bad weather. We treated ourselves to a Central Californian road trip instead.
[... 872 words]Weeknotes: Datasette Lite, nogil Python, HYTRADBOI
My big project this week was Datasette Lite, a new way to run Datasette directly in a browser, powered by WebAssembly and Pyodide. I also continued my research into running SQL queries in parallel, described last week. Plus I spoke at HYTRADBOI.
[... 1,434 words]Weeknotes: Parallel SQL queries for Datasette, plus some middleware tricks
A promising new performance optimization for Datasette, plus new datasette-gzip and datasette-total-page-time plugins.
Building a Covid sewage Twitter bot (and other weeknotes)
I built a new Twitter bot today: @covidsewage. It tweets a daily screenshot of the latest Covid sewage monitoring data published by Santa Clara county.
[... 1,079 words]Pillar Point Stewards, pypi-to-sqlite, improvements to shot-scraper and appreciating datasette-dashboards
This week I helped Natalie launch the Pillar Point Stewards website and built a new tool for loading PyPI package data into SQLite, in order to help promote the excellent datasette-dashboards plugin by Romain Clement.
[... 1,985 words]Weeknotes: datasette-auth0
Datasette 0.61, a Twitter Space and a new Datasette plugin for authenticating against Auth0.
[... 957 words]Weeknotes: Tildes not dashes, and the big refactor
After last week’s shot-scraper distractions with Playwright, this week I finally managed to make some concrete progress on the path towards Datasette 1.0.
[... 1,292 words]Weeknotes: Distracted by Playwright
My goal for this week was to unblock progress on Datasette by finally finishing the dash encoding implementation I described last week. I was getting close, and then I got very distracted by Playwright.
[... 892 words]Weeknotes: Datasette Tutorials
I published two new tutorials for Datasette this week, both focused at end-users of the web application.
[... 479 words]Google Drive to SQLite
I released a new tool this week: google-drive-to-sqlite. It’s a CLI utility for fetching metadata about files in your Google Drive and writing them to a local SQLite database.
[... 1,221 words]Using SQLite and Datasette with Fly Volumes
A few weeks ago, Fly announced Free Postgres Databases as part of the free tier of their hosting product. Their announcement included this snippet:
[... 1,463 words]Help scraping: track changes to CLI tools by recording their --help using Git
I’ve been experimenting with a new variant of Git scraping this week which I’m calling Help scraping. The key idea is to track changes made to CLI tools over time by recording the output of their --help commands in a Git repository.
Weeknotes: python_requires, documentation SEO
Fixed Datasette on Python 3.6 for the last time. Worked on documentation infrastructure improvements. Spent some time with Fly Volumes.
[... 1,497 words]Weeknotes: s3-credentials prefix and Datasette 0.60
A new release of s3-credentials with support for restricting access to keys that start with a prefix, Datasette 0.60 and a write-up of my process for shipping a feature.
[... 1,134 words]What’s new in sqlite-utils 3.20 and 3.21: --lines, --text, --convert
sqlite-utils is my combined CLI tool and Python library for manipulating SQLite databases. Consider this the annotated release notes for sqlite-utils 3.20 and 3.21, both released in the past week.
[... 2,456 words]Weeknotes: Taking a break in Moss Landing
Took some time off. Saw some whales and sea otters. Added a new spot to Niche Museums.
[... 578 words]2021
Weeknotes: datasette-tiddlywiki, filters_from_request
I made some good progress on the big refactor this week, including extracting some core logic out into a new Datasette plugin hook. I also got distracted by TiddlyWiki and released a new Datasette plugin that lets you run TiddlyWiki inside Datasette.
[... 1,197 words]Weeknotes: Trapped in an eternal refactor
I’m still working on refactoring Datasette’s table view. In doing so I spun out a new plugin, datasette-pretty-traces, which improves Datasette’s tooling for seeing the SQL that was executed to build a specific page.
[... 544 words]Weeknotes: git-history, bug magnets and s3-credentials --public
I’ve stopped considering my projects “shipped” until I’ve written a proper blog entry about them, so yesterday I finally shipped git-history, coinciding with the release of version 0.6—a full 27 days after the first 0.1.
[... 1,013 words]Weeknotes: Shaving some beautiful yaks
I’ve been mostly shaving yaks this week—two in particular: the Datasette table refactor and the next release of git-history. I also built and released my first Web Component!
[... 1,307 words]Weeknotes: Apache proxies in Docker containers, refactoring Datasette
Updates to six major projects this week, plus finally some concrete progress towards Datasette 1.0.
[... 1,630 words]Weeknotes: git-history, created for a Git scraping workshop
My main project this week was a 90 minute workshop I delivered about Git scraping at Coda.Br 2021, a Brazilian data journalism conference, on Friday. This inspired the creation of a brand new tool, git-history, plus smaller improvements to a range of other projects.
[... 1,239 words]Weeknotes: datasette-jupyterlite, s3-credentials and a Python packaging talk
My big project this week was s3-credentials, described yesterday—but I also put together a fun expermiental Datasette plugin bundling JupyterLite and wrote up my PyGotham talk on Python packaging.
[... 476 words]Weeknotes: Learning Kubernetes, learning Web Components
I’ve been mainly climbing the learning curve for Kubernetes and Web Components this week. I also released Datasette 0.59.1 with Python 3.10 compatibility and an updated Docker image.
[... 1,101 words]Datasette 0.59: The annotated release notes
Datasette 0.59 is out, with a miscellaneous grab-bag of improvements. Here are the annotated release notes.
[... 2,103 words]Finding and reporting an asyncio bug in Python 3.10
I found a bug in Python 3.10 today! Some notes on how I found it and my process for handling it once I figured out what was going on.
[... 1,789 words]Weeknotes: CDC vaccination history fixes, developing in GitHub Codespaces
I spent the last week mostly surrounded by boxes: we’re completing our move to the new place and life is mostly unpacking now. I did find some time to fix some issues with my CDC vaccination history Datasette instance though.
[... 514 words]Weeknotes number 100
This entry marks my 100th weeknotes, which I’ve managed to post once a week (plus or minus a few days) consistently since 13th September 2019.
[... 593 words]Datasette Desktop—a macOS desktop application for Datasette
I just released version 0.1.0 of the new Datasette macOS desktop application, the first version that end-users can easily install. I would very much appreciate your help testing it out!
[... 1,761 words]Building a desktop application for Datasette (and weeknotes)
This week I started experimenting with a desktop application version of Datasette—with the goal of providing people who aren’t comfortable with the command-line the ability to get Datasette up and running on their own personal computers.
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