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Monday, 30th January 2023

Release shot-scraper 1.1 — A command-line utility for taking automated screenshots of websites
TIL Combining CTEs and VALUES in SQLite — Here's how to use SQLite's `VALUES` syntax with a CTE to create a temporary table that you can then perform joins against in a query:
Release shot-scraper 1.1.1 — A command-line utility for taking automated screenshots of websites

datasette-scraper, Big Local News and other weeknotes

Visit datasette-scraper, Big Local News and other weeknotes

In addition to exploring the new MusicCaps training and evaluation data I’ve been working on the big Datasette JSON refactor, and getting excited about a Datasette project that I didn’t work on at all.

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TIL Using recursive CTEs to explore hierarchical Twitter threads — This TIL adapted from [a Gist](https://gist.github.com/simonw/656a8c6e4688f720773c474080abe1b0) I put together in 2019, before I started tracking TILs here.
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