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Monday, 9th August 2021

Release datasette 0.59a1 — An open source multi-tool for exploring and publishing data
Release datasette-query-links 0.1 — Turn SELECT queries returned by a query into links to execute them
Release datasette-query-links 0.1.1 — Turn SELECT queries returned by a query into links to execute them
Release datasette-query-links 0.1.2 — Turn SELECT queries returned by a query into links to execute them

The World of CSS Transforms. Comprehensive, clearly explained tutorial on CSS transforms by Josh W. Comeau, with some very neat interactive demos. I hadn’t understood how useful it is that the translate() transform treats percentages as applying to the dimensions of the element being transformed, not its parent. This means you can use expressions like transform: translateX(calc(100% + 4px)); to shift an element by its entire width plus a few more pixels.

# 2:30 pm / css, josh-comeau

TIL Tailing Google Cloud Run request logs and importing them into SQLite — The `gcloud` CLI tool has [the alpha ability to tail log files](https://cloud.google.com/logging/docs/reference/tools/gcloud-logging#live-tailing) - but it's a bit of a pain to setup.
TIL Find local variables in the traceback for an exception — For [sqlite-utils issue #309](https://github.com/simonw/sqlite-utils/issues/309) I had an error that looked like this:
Release sqlite-utils 3.15 — Python CLI utility and library for manipulating SQLite databases
Sunday, 8th August 2021
Tuesday, 10th August 2021

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