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Duty to Document
> If you learn something the hard way, share your findings with others. You have blazed a new trail; now you must mark it for your fellow travellers. Sharing knowledge is an unreasonably effective way of helping others.
This is a really nice philosophy. It's one of the reasons why I have my https://til.simonwillison.net TIL site - any time I search for something and can't find the answer is a hint that there's a tiny gap in the internet which I can help fill.
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Collection of "Today I Learned" notes
Hosting these on GitHub is such a good idea:
- GitHub have world class backups - commit something there and it gets replicated to data centers on three continents (I believe) - and a free public repo there won't vanish if you forget to update an expired credit card
- Related: GitHub is free. I care about this not because of not wanting to pay now, but because I don't want my content to be at risk if I forget to pay in the future (or can't pay for whatever reason)
- GitHub has several great web UIs for editing content, in addition to being able to edit in any other tool that supports the git protocol
- GitHub Actions makes it possible to add all sorts of automations on top of your notes, again for free. I use that to deploy my custom https://til.simonwillison.net site (mainly to give myself search)
- GitHub's own search is pretty good though!
- You can also use GitHub Pages if you just want a custom static site version of your notes.
- if someone spots a typo in your notes they can submit a PR to fix it!
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Building a Blog in Django
That's awesome. Parts of that sound a little bit like how my https://til.simonwillison.net/ site works.
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Write about what you learn. It pushes you to understand topics better
I started publishing "TIL" posts a few years ago and everything in this post here resonated 100% with my experience of writing those.
The great thing about TILs is that once you form a solid set of habits around them they can be extremely quick to put together: the majority of my TIL posts take between 15 minutes and half an hour to write.
I make extensive personal notes on everything I'm doing (in GitHub issues threads or VS Code scratch documents) - turning those into a TIL is mainly about pasting those notes into a Markdown file and tidying them up a bit.
https://til.simonwillison.net/ is my collection so far.
I get a huge amount of value out of these. I don't particularly care if other people read them, the value is in helping me better understand the material and enabling me to refer back to them in the future.
I refer to some of them multiple times every week! This one for example: https://til.simonwillison.net/python/pyproject
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Stopping at 90%
I've started to consider "commit to writing about it" as the price I have to pay for giving into the lure of another project. It's one of the main reasons I publish so much content on https://simonwillison.net/ and https://til.simonwillison.net
A project with a published write-up unlocks so much more value than one which you complete without giving others a chance of understanding what you built.
I've maintained internal blogs (sometimes just a Slack channel or Confluence area) at previous employers for this purpose too.
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Show HN: ChatLLaMA โ A ChatGPT style chatbot for Facebook's LLaMA
https://github.com/simonw/til/blob/main/llms/llama-7b-m2.md
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Datasette is my data hammer
I'm definitely keen on suggestions for improvements I can make to the default UI.
Datasette provides both a JSON API (easily enabled for CORS access) and supports custom templates, so it's possible to customize the UI any way you like.
So far I've not seen many examples of extensive customization. I use the custom templates a lot myself - these four sites are all just regular Datasette with some custom templates:
- https://datasette.io/
- https://til.simonwillison.net/
- https://www.niche-museums.com/
- https://www.rockybeaches.com/us/pillar-point
Source code is on GitHub for all four.
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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!
- Simon Willison's cool categorised TIL page
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Ask HN: How to remember technical topics which you donโt use/refer everyday?
Make notes, in private and in public.
I have a private "notes" repo on GitHub where I keep notes in the issues (the repo itself is empty). Any time I'm trying out a new piece of software I open an issue there, then add notes on the issue comments as I figure things out.
I use GitHub issues because they have excellent backups and they show up on GitHub search - plus there's a really good API which I use to periodically export and backup my note elsewhere.
If something fits. I'll turn my notes into a TIL and publish them on https://til.simonwillison.net - that site uses the markdown format as GitHub issues, so publishing a TIL that started out as an issue comment only takes me a few minutes.
Directus
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How to Deploy Directus as a Backend-as-a-Service (BaaS) on Koyeb
Directus is an open data platform built to serve as a headless CMS, API, or Backend-as-a-Service (BaaS) for other applications. It is designed to make data accessible to people of all technical levels and to make it easy to build data-centric applications. Directus is extensible and can be integrated with many different frontend technologies to create stable, well-structured development and user experiences.
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Headless CMS: Directus vs Payload vs Strapi in 2024
As of April 2024, Directus' GitHub repository has accumulated 25.2k stars and 3.5k forks, showcasing its active community. The project has secured $8+ million in funding, further fueling its growth and development.
- Our repo hit a milestone today with 25k GH stars
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Form to DB
I don't know, it's something I've wanted many times.
Recently I discovered https://directus.io/ which comes pretty close and it's open source.
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Open-Source Headless CMS in 2024
Directus: The Shape-Shifting Maverick
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A Year of Self-Hosting: 6 Open-Source Projects That Surprised Me in 2023
The Backend to Build Anything or Everything | Directus
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Best "Excel-as-a-database" alternative?
today I discovered https://directus.io/
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Ikr
You could try https://www.airtable.com/ (check the prices) or https://directus.io/ (check the prices) or hire someone :)
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Prismic.io is increasing our price by *1900%* over Christmas
I using Directus CMS on several projects with pretty complicated flows, api extensions etc. probably there will be some work if you move. I liked Directus is because it's standard SQL I can always move my DB and documents to another solution. I don't use their hosted solution but they have an unlimited offering for $100 / month.
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Looking for a (primarily) WYSIWYG platform to build a MySQL interface.
Have you looked at Directus? Iโm not sure exactly what your needs are (sorry if Iโve misunderstood). I used it for my most recent project as the backend for data entry/queries/administration. It supports MySQL, but admins donโt need to know anything about SQL to do complex queries/filters/CSV exports from the Directus UI.
What are some alternatives?
nebuly - The user analytics platform for LLMs
supabase - The open source Firebase alternative.
datasette - An open source multi-tool for exploring and publishing data
Strapi - ๐ Strapi is the leading open-source headless CMS. Itโs 100% JavaScript/TypeScript, fully customizable and developer-first.
datasette.io - The official project website for Datasette
Appwrite - Your backend, minus the hassle.
org-roam-server - A Web Application to Visualize the Org-Roam Database
budibase - Budibase is an open-source low code platform that helps you build internal tools in minutes ๐
datasette-app - The Datasette macOS application
KeystoneJS - The most powerful headless CMS for Node.js โ built with GraphQL and React
til - Today I Learned: collection of notes, tips and tricks and stuff I learn from day to day working with computers and technology as an open source contributor and product manager
nocodb - ๐ฅ ๐ฅ ๐ฅ Open Source Airtable Alternative