Monday, 29th June 2020
Release
datasette-write 0.1a
— Datasette plugin providing a UI for executing SQL writes against the database
Data Science is a lot like Harry Potter, except there's no magic, it's just math, and instead of a sorting hat you just sort the data with a Python script.
— GPT-3, shepherded by Max Woolf
TIL
Writing tests for the ASGI lifespan protocol with HTTPX
— Uvicorn silently ignores exceptions that occur during startup against the ASGI lifespan protocol - see [starlette/issues/486](https://github.com/encode/starlette/issues/486).
Unlocking value with durable teams (via) Anna Shipman describes the FT’s experience switching from project-based teams to “durable” teams—teams which own a specific area of the product. Lots of really smart organizational design thinking in this. I’ve seen how much of a difference it makes to have every inch of a complex system “owned” by a specific team. I also like how Anna uses the term “technical estate” to describe the entirety of the FT’s systems.