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Ask HN: High quality Python scripts or small libraries to learn from
Simon Willison's github would be a great place to get started imo -
https://github.com/simonw/datasette
- Show HN: TextQuery – Query and Visualize Your CSV Data in Minutes
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Little Data: How do we query personal data? (2013)
I'm a fan on simonw's datasette/dogsheep ecosystem https://datasette.io/
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LaTeX and Neovim for technical note-taking
I use Anki the exact same way. After a lifetime of learning I have accepted that I will never read over anything I write for myself voluntarily - so my two options are:
1. Write an article so good I can publish it and look it over myself later on. I did this last year with https://andrew-quinn.me/fzf/, for example.
2. Create Anki cards out of the material. Use the builtin Card Browser or even https://datasette.io/ on the underlying SQLite database in a pinch to search for my notes any time I have to.
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Daily Price Tracking for Trader Joes
Were you aware of, or tempted by https://datasette.io/ for creating your solution?
- SQLite-Web: Web-based SQLite database browser written in Python
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Ask HN: What two software products should have a kid?
Browsing HN, GitHub and the like we get to see a huge variety of software products and code bases.
I often see products and think - if this product X, got together with Y, it would be pretty cool - kind of like if they had a kid together.
Not too literally, but more on the conceptual level - my level of programming is low.
E.g. Just some....
- pocketable.io & datasette (+with some more charting) [https://pocketbase.io, https://datasette.io]
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Ask HN: Looking for a project to volunteer on? (February 2024)
You might like the Datasette project: https://datasette.io/
I don't think they are desperate for contributions but it's a welcoming environment and a fun project to hack on. You'll learn a lot just from reading the source and the incredibly informative PRs. The creator is a really talented developer with a great blog which shows up on the HN front page often.
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Stuff I Learned during Hanukkah of Data 2023
Last year I worked through the challenges using VisiData, Datasette, and Pandas. I walked through my thought process and solutions in a series of posts.
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What We Watched: A Netflix Engagement Report – About Netflix
> uploads of boring raw excel data and receive a nice UI
https://datasette.io/
datasette-app
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Welcome to Datasette Cloud
Hah, Softbank isn't the goal here!
I realized that Datasette is the first project of my entire career where if I was still working on it in 15 years time I wouldn't feel bored yet. There's just SO MUCH scope for interesting applications of the core idea.
As such, I want to work on it for decades. But it's lonely working on it alone (the community around it has been growing and is delightful, but it's not the same as having a full-time team.)
So the question I'm trying to answer is how to make the project financially sustainable in the long-run - not just for myself, but so I can pay for a team to work on it with me.
There are plenty of other examples of open source projects that have turned SaaS hosting into a sustainable business model - WordPress and GitLab are just two of the best examples. It feels like it's a reasonably well-trodden path.
Plus... I want people to be able to use my software. Currently to use Datasette as an individual you either have to "pip" or "brew" install it, or you can try the macOS Electron app - https://datasette.io/desktop - but I want newsrooms to be able to use it to collaborate on data. And most newsrooms aren't well equipped to configure a Linux server.
So I realized that a hosted SaaS version can solve two issues at once: it can help the audience I care about actually benefit from the value of the software so far, and it provides a reasonably realistic path to financial sustainability for the project as a whole.
And yeah, I'd also like to make a ton of money out of it myself too!
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Bing: “I will not harm you unless you harm me first”
It would be nice if his stuff worked better, ironically. The Datasette app for Mac seems to be constantly stuck on loading (yes I have 0.2.2):
https://github.com/simonw/datasette-app/issues/139
Amd his screen capture library can't capture Canvas renderings:
https://simonwillison.net/2022/Mar/10/shot-scraper/
Lost two days at work on that.
Speaking of technology not working as expected.
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Datasette is my data hammer
I'd love to get the desktop app working on Linux and Windows.
I did manage to get a prototype working on Windows, despite having VERY little experience working on that platform: https://github.com/simonw/datasette-app/issues/71
The bit I'm stuck on is how to turn that prototype into an application with an installer that's signed so people can download and run it.
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Automating screenshots for the Datasette documentation using shot-scraper
I have trouble answering this question myself, and I created it!
The problem I have is that it can be applied to too many different problems.
I personally have used it for the following (a truncated summary):
- Publishing data online to allow other people to explore it, for example https://scotrail.datasette.io and https://russian-ira-facebook-ads.datasettes.com/
- Building websites, by combining it with custom templates. https://datasette.io and https://www.niche-museums.com and https://til.simonwillison.net are three examples
- Building my own combined search engine over a bunch of different data. https://github-to-sqlite.dogsheep.net is this for my GitHub issues and commits and issue comments across 100+ projects
- Similarly, building a code search engine across multiple repos (partly to demonstrate how far you can go with custom plugins): https://ripgrep.datasette.io
- Any time I have a CSV file I open it in the Datasette Desktop macOS app first to start exploring it: https://datasette.io/desktop
- As a prototyping tool. It's the fastest way I know of to get from some data files (CSV or JSON) to a working JSON API - and a GraphQL API too using this plugin: https://datasette.io/plugins/datasette-graphql
- Messing around with geospatial data - here's a write-up of my favourite experiment with that so far: https://simonwillison.net/2021/Jan/24/drawing-shapes-spatial...
This is a bewilderingly wide array of things! And I keep on finding new problems I can apply it to:
Of course, if all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. But thanks to the plugin system (and the amazing flexibility of SQLite under the good) I can reshape my hammer into all sorts of interesting shapes!
I've been trying to capture some of this at https://datasette.io/for
This is one of my biggest marketing challenges for the project though. If someone asks you for an elevator pitch you need to do better than spending 15 minutes talking through a wide ranging bulleted list!
- Upscayl – Free and Open Source AI Image Upscaler for Linux, macOS and Windows
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What’s the best cheap program to start??
You can use my Datasette software to explore the database: https://datasette.io/desktop - that's the Mac version but you can run the underlying software on Windows too.
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Cool SQL projects?
Then you can either run "pip install datasette" and "datasette healthkit.db" or you can install the Datasette Desktop app from https://datasette.io/desktop and use that to open the database file.
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Need helping actually using SQL
You may find my Datasette Desktop Mac application useful: it provides a read-only interface over SQLite and cdn oprn both SQLite files and CSV files: https://datasette.io/desktop
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JupyterLab Desktop App now available
This is really interesting to see. I've been trying to solve a similar problem over the past few weeks - bundling up a Python web application as an installable Desktop app, in my case for https://datasette.io/desktop - so it's really interesting to see how they've approached the problem.
I ended up including a full copy of Python using https://github.com/indygreg/python-build-standalone - it looks like they've bundled Conda.
I wrote up detailed notes on how I solved the Python bundling problem in https://simonwillison.net/2021/Sep/8/datasette-desktop/#how-... and in https://til.simonwillison.net/electron/python-inside-electro...
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Datasette Desktop 0.2.0: The annotated release notes
I've been having a ton of fun building this. The code is all open source at https://github.com/simonw/datasette-app - it's my first time working with Electron and the biggest task was figuring out how to bundle Python inside an Electron app, which I wrote about in detail here: https://til.simonwillison.net/electron/python-inside-electron
What are some alternatives?
nocodb - 🔥 🔥 🔥 Open Source Airtable Alternative
til - Today I Learned
duckdb - DuckDB is an in-process SQL OLAP Database Management System
fusionauth-site - Website and documentation for FusionAuth
sql.js-httpvfs - Hosting read-only SQLite databases on static file hosters like Github Pages
iron.nvim - Interactive Repl Over Neovim
litestream - Streaming replication for SQLite.
vscode-nodebook - Node.js notebook
Sequel-Ace - MySQL/MariaDB database management for macOS
vscode-jupyter - VS Code Jupyter extension
beekeeper-studio - Modern and easy to use SQL client for MySQL, Postgres, SQLite, SQL Server, and more. Linux, MacOS, and Windows.
django-sql-dashboard - Django app for building dashboards using raw SQL queries