I'm working on [dclient](https://github.com/simonw/dclient), a CLI tool for interacting with Datasette instances via the Datasette API.

Django supports storing dates in a database as UTC but displaying them in some other timezone - which is good. But... by default datetimes are show...

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I wanted to have a GitHub Action step run that might fail, but if it failed the rest of the steps should still execute and the overall run should b...

Google Cloud provide extremely finely grained billing, but you need to access it through BigQuery which I find quite inconvenient.

Pasting this code into a DevTools console should load [Tesseract.js](https://github.com/naptha/tesseract.js) from a CDN, loop through every image l...

I figured out how to migrate a [GitHub wiki](https://docs.github.com/en/communities/documenting-your-project-with-wikis/about-wikis) (public or pri...

For a tantalizing moment today I thought I'd found a recipe for adding facet counts to the Django admin.

I published a reusable Django application today: **[django-http-debug](https://github.com/simonw/django-http-debug)**, which lets you define mock H...

[Via Tony Hirst](https://twitter.com/psychemedia/status/1357280624319553537) I found out about [MapZen's elevation tiles](https://www.mapzen.com/bl...

I tried to get [jupyterlab](https://jupyter.org/install) working via `uv tool install` today and ran into some sharp edges.

The GitHub Actions `ubuntu-latest` default runner currently includes an installation of PostgreSQL 13. The server is not running by default but you...

I wanted to take a nested set of JSON objects and import them into a SQLite database using `sqlite-utils insert` - but I wanted to "flatten" some o...

I figured out how to serve a JavaScript project built using [Vite](https://vitejs.dev/) using GitHub Pages and a custom build script that runs usin...

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GitHub's Dependabot can automatically file PRs with bumps to dependencies when new versions of them are available.

The [register_commands](https://docs.datasette.io/en/stable/plugin_hooks.html#register-commands-cli) plugin hook lets you add extra sub-commands to...

My [datasette-export-notebook](https://github.com/simonw/datasette-export-notebook) plugin worked fine in the stable release of Datasette, currentl...

[VisiData 2.0](https://www.visidata.org/) came out today. I previously installed VisiData using Homebrew, but the VisiData tap has not yet been upd...

I ran into a tricky problem while working [on this issue](https://github.com/simonw/datasette-publish-fly/issues/17): the following line was behavi...

I found out today (via [this post](https://github.com/github-community/community/discussions/19988)) about a dedicated interface for reporting bugs...

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