Archive for August 2021

August 2021

72 posts: 6 entries, 20 links, 8 quotes, 38 beats

Aug. 25, 2021

Allo shows the ultimate failure of Google's Minimum Viable Product strategy. MVP works when you have almost no competition, or if you are taking a radically different approach to what's on the market, but it completely falls on its face when you are just straight-up cloning an established competitor. There's no reason to use a half-baked WhatsApp clone when regular WhatsApp exists.

— Ron Amadeo

# 10:28 pm / product-management, google

Aug. 26, 2021

Release evernote-to-sqlite 0.3.2 — Tools for converting Evernote content to SQLite

26th Aug 2021, 7:02 pm

Aug. 28, 2021

Release datasette 0.59a2 — An open source multi-tool for exploring and publishing data

28th Aug 2021, 1:57 am · datasette

Release datasette-verify 0.1 — Verify that files can be opened by Datasette

28th Aug 2021, 2:31 am · datasette

Dynamic content for GitHub repository templates using cookiecutter and GitHub Actions

GitHub repository templates were introduced a couple of years ago to provide a mechanism for creating a brand new GitHub repository starting with an initial set of files.

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9:29 pm / github-actions, cookiecutter

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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5:13 am / projects, datasette, weeknotes, sqlite-utils, electron, datasette-desktop

Unshipped work is inventory and it costs you money as it spoils

— Avery Pennarun

# 5:46 am / deployment

Aug. 31, 2021

TIL Calculating the AQI based on the Purple Air API for a sensor — [Purple Air](https://www.purpleair.com/) sensors have an API at `https://www.purpleair.com/map.json?show=SENSOR-ID-HERE`, which returns JSON that looks something like this:

31st Aug 2021, 7:46 pm

TIL Using the Chrome DevTools console as a REPL for an Electron app — I figured out how to use the Chrome DevTools to execute JavaScript interactively inside the Electron main process. I always like having a REPL for exploring APIs, and this means I can explore the Electron and Node.js APIs interactively.

31st Aug 2021, 9:09 pm

Release datasette-app-support 0.1 — Part of https://github.com/simonw/datasette-app

31st Aug 2021, 10:24 pm · datasette

Release datasette-app-support 0.1.1 — Part of https://github.com/simonw/datasette-app

31st Aug 2021, 10:35 pm · datasette

Release datasette-app-support 0.1.2 — Part of https://github.com/simonw/datasette-app

31st Aug 2021, 10:40 pm · datasette

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