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39 items tagged “datasettecloud”

2020

Weeknotes: Datasette column actions, plus three new plugins

A renewed emphasis on building out Datasette Cloud has produced three new plugins this week: datasette-dateutil, datasette-import-table and datasette-edit-schema, plus a major improvement to Datasette’s default interface for browsing tables.

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11:27 pm / 2nd October 2020 / projects, datasette, weeknotes, datasettecloud

Weeknotes: California Protected Areas in Datasette

This week I built a geospatial search engine for protected areas in California, shipped datasette-graphql 1.0 and started working towards the next milestone for Datasette Cloud.

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2 am / 28th August 2020 / atom, gis, projects, markdown, graphql, datasette, weeknotes, datasettecloud

Weeknotes: Hacking on 23 different projects

I wrote a lot of code this week: 184 commits over 23 repositories! I’ve also started falling for Zeit Now v2, having found workarounds for some of my biggest problems with it.

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5:03 am / 16th April 2020 / projects, zeitnow, datasette, dogsheep, weeknotes, datasettecloud

Weeknotes: datasette-ics, datasette-upload-csvs, datasette-configure-fts, asgi-csrf

I’ve been preparing for the NICAR 2020 Data Journalism conference this week which has lead me into a flurry of activity across a plethora of different projects and plugins.

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2:27 am / 4th March 2020 / csrf, datajournalism, ical, plugins, projects, search, security, datasette, asgi, weeknotes, datasettecloud

How to cheat at unit tests with pytest and Black

I’ve been making a lot of progress on Datasette Cloud this week. As an application that provides private hosted Datasette instances (initially targeted at data journalists and newsrooms) the majority of the code I’ve written deals with permissions: allowing people to form teams, invite team members, promote and demote team administrators and suchlike.

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6:56 am / 11th February 2020 / projects, python, testing, unittests, datasette, pytest, weeknotes, datasettecloud, black

Weeknotes: Shaving yaks for Datasette Cloud

I’ve been shaving a lot of yaks, but I’m finally ready to for other people to start kicking the tires on the MVP of Datasette Cloud.

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7:34 am / 5th February 2020 / projects, geojson, datasette, weeknotes, datasettecloud

Weeknotes: datasette-auth-existing-cookies and datasette-sentry

Work on Datasette Cloud continues—I’m tantalizingly close to having a MVP I can start to invite people to try out.

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5:58 am / 29th January 2020 / cookies, django, projects, sentry, datasette, weeknotes, datasettecloud, httpx

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, zerodowntime, docker, datasette, weeknotes, traefik, datasettecloud, digitalocean

Weeknotes: Improv at Stanford, planning Datasette Cloud

Last week was the first week of the quarter at Stanford—which is called “shopping week” here because students are expected to try different classes to see which ones they are going to stick with.

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12:22 am / 14th January 2020 / stanford, docker, jsk, weeknotes, datasettecloud, digitalocean

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