First, checkout the cpython repo:

I wanted to add a `--encoding` option to `sqlite-utils insert` which could be used to change the file encoding used to read the incoming CSV or TSV...

I needed to bulk-delete a large number of objects today. Django deletions are relatively inefficient by default, because Django implements its own ...

Day 55 of 90 Days of DevOps - Application Performance Monitoring. Part of the Monitoring & Observability series covering essential DevOps concepts and hands-on practices.

Day 54 of 90 Days of DevOps - ELK Stack for Log Management. Part of the Monitoring & Observability series covering essential DevOps concepts and hands-on practices.

I'm working with several huge CSV files - over 5 million rows total - and I ran into a problem: it turned out there were a few lines in those files...

Day 53 of 90 Days of DevOps - Grafana Dashboards and Visualization. Part of the Monitoring & Observability series covering essential DevOps concepts and hands-on practices.

I decided to implement a custom Jinja template block tag for my [datasette-render-markdown](https://datasette.io/plugins/datasette-render-markdown)...

This came up as [a question](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26443148) on Hacker News. How can you query a SQLite database for items that were...

Day 52 of 90 Days of DevOps - Prometheus Setup and Configuration. Part of the Monitoring & Observability series covering essential DevOps concepts and hands-on practices.

[GitHub Codespaces](https://github.com/features/codespaces) provides full development environments in your browser, and is free to use with anyone ...

I had [a bug](https://github.com/simonw/llm/issues/82#issuecomment-1629735729) that was only showing up in CI against Python 3.8.

Day 51 of 90 Days of DevOps - Monitoring Strategy and Metrics. Part of the Monitoring & Observability series covering essential DevOps concepts and hands-on practices.

Input:

You can search for a string in any resource loaded by a page (including across HTML, JavaScript and CSS) in the Debugger pane by hitting Command+Sh...

Day 50 of 90 Days of DevOps - Cloud Cost Optimization. Part of the Cloud Platforms series covering essential DevOps concepts and hands-on practices.

Day 49 of 90 Days of DevOps - Multi-Cloud Strategy and Management. Part of the Cloud Platforms series covering essential DevOps concepts and hands-on practices.

[Julien Chaumond](https://twitter.com/julien_c/status/1700142113713758438), this morning (replying to my tweet about [my Hugging Face TheBloke mode...

I like to write the release notes for my projects by hand, but sometimes it can be useful to have some help along the way.

Day 48 of 90 Days of DevOps - Google Cloud Platform Essentials. Part of the Cloud Platforms series covering essential DevOps concepts and hands-on practices.

I used this pattern to pass a SQL query to Datasette's CSV export via curl and output the results, stripping off the first row (the header row) usi...

I wanted a script running as a non-root user to be able to restart a systemd service on my Ubuntu machine without needing a password.

Day 47 of 90 Days of DevOps - Azure DevOps and Pipelines. Part of the Cloud Platforms series covering essential DevOps concepts and hands-on practices.

I wanted to change the layout of [my blog](https://simonwillison.net/) on mobile screens such that the content from the "Elsewhere" right hand colu...