1,521 posts tagged “datasette”
Datasette is an open source tool for exploring and publishing data.
2021
Datasette is four years old today. I marked the occasion with a short Twitter thread about the project so far.
AWS IAM definitions in Datasette (via) As part of my ongoing quest to conquer IAM permissions, I built myself a Datasette instance that lets me run queries against all 10,441 permissions across 280 AWS services. It’s deployed by a build script running in GitHub Actions which downloads a 8.9MB JSON file from the Salesforce policy_sentry repository—policy_sentry itself creates that JSON file by running an HTML scraper against the official AWS documentation!
Weeknotes: datasette-jupyterlite, s3-credentials and a Python packaging talk
My big project this week was s3-credentials, described yesterday—but I also put together a fun expermiental Datasette plugin bundling JupyterLite and wrote up my PyGotham talk on Python packaging.
[... 476 words]Weeknotes: Learning Kubernetes, learning Web Components
I’ve been mainly climbing the learning curve for Kubernetes and Web Components this week. I also released Datasette 0.59.1 with Python 3.10 compatibility and an updated Docker image.
[... 1,101 words]Datasette 0.59: The annotated release notes
Datasette 0.59 is out, with a miscellaneous grab-bag of improvements. Here are the annotated release notes.
[... 2,103 words]Where does all the effort go? Looking at Python core developer activity (via) Łukasz Langa used Datasette to explore 28,780 pull requests made to the CPython GitHub repository, using some custom Python scripts (and sqlite-utils) to load in the data.
Weeknotes number 100
This entry marks my 100th weeknotes, which I’ve managed to post once a week (plus or minus a few days) consistently since 13th September 2019.
[... 593 words]Datasette Desktop 0.2.0: The annotated release notes
Datasette Desktop is a new macOS desktop application version of Datasette, an “open source multi-tool for exploring and publishing data” built on top of SQLite. I released the first version last week—I’ve just released version 0.2.0 (and a 0.2.1 bug fix) with a whole bunch of critical improvements.
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