Friday, 29th January 2021
Release
datasette-cluster-map 0.17
— Datasette plugin that shows a map for any data with latitude/longitude columns
Making GitHub’s new homepage fast and performant. A couple of really clever tricks in this article by Tobias Ahlin. The first is using IntersectionObserver in conjunction with the video preload=“none” attribute to lazily load a video when it scrolls into view. The second is an ingenious trick to create an efficiently encoded transparent JPEG image: embed the image in a SVG file twice, once as the image and once as a transparency mask.
Release
datasette-export-notebook 0.3
— Datasette plugin providing instructions for exporting data to Jupyter or Observable