Damian’s notes

Slides & notes from a talk by Simon Willison mostly on his projects Datasette and Dogsheep aimed at streamlining the process of aggregating and publishing datasets and searching one’s personal data.
- Personal Data Warehouses: Reclaiming Your Data I gave a talk yesterday about personal data warehouses for GitHub’s OCTO Speaker Series, focusing on my Datasette and Dogsheep projects. The video of the talk is now available, and …
Noted by Damian Cugley 3 months, 1 week ago.
- data
- Datasette
- Dogsheep
- Python
- Simon Willison
- SQLite
DuckDB is an embeddable SQL OLAP database management system with a silly name. Especially aimed at data analysts who already use Python+Pandas or R

(Via @tomwhoscontrary on Twitter)
- DuckDB - An embeddable SQL OLAP database management system DuckDB is an embeddable SQL OLAP database management system. Simple, feature-rich, fast & open source.
Noted by Damian Cugley 6 months, 2 weeks ago.
- database
- library
- Python
In the computing equivalent of using a sledgehammer to crack a nut, Ethan Rosenthal has created a software package that uses machine vision to analyze a banana and slice of bread to determine the optimum banana-slice arrangement for a peanut-butter-and-banana sandwich.

(Via @simonw on Twitter)
- Optimal Peanut Butter and Banana Sandwiches | Ethan Rosenthal
Noted by Damian Cugley 7 months, 3 weeks ago.
- banana
- computer vision
- folly
- Python
- sandwich
HTTPretty is a Python package for writing tests for code that interacts with remote web services. You write expectations for requests the test code should make and the responses, and the tests run without accessing real networks at all. Works particularly nicely with JSON-based protocols.
- HTTPretty’s - HTTP Client Mocking for Python — HTTPretty 0.9.6 documentation
Noted by Damian Cugley 11 months, 1 week ago.
- docs
- programming
- Python
- unit testing
pipx is a tool to help you install and run end-user applications written in Python. Each app is installed in its own virtualenv and the commands added to a directory you put on your path.
- pipx
Noted by Damian Cugley 11 months, 2 weeks ago.
Retrofitting async I/O to Django will be a complex process—but is underway.

(Via Andrew Godwin on Twitter)
- andrewgodwin/deps Django Enhancement Proposals. Contribute to andrewgodwin/deps development by creating an account on GitHub.
Noted by Damian Cugley 1 year, 8 months ago.
- async
- Django
- future
- Python
Blurhash is an algorithm that lets you transform image data into a small text representation of a blurred version of the image that might be used as a placeholder while the image downloads, for example.

(Via halcy:icosahedron: (@halcy@icosahedron.website))
- halcy/blurhash-python Implementation of the blurhash algorithm in pure python - halcy/blurhash-python
Noted by Damian Cugley 1 year, 11 months ago.
Cog is a nifty code-generator utility done with python scripts hidden in comments in the source files, so the generated code is OK to check in to source-code control. Useful for repetitive compiled-in data, or for filling in gaps in the syntax of the host language.
- Ned Batchelder: Cog Cog is a file generation tool. It lets you use pieces of Python code as generators in your source files to generate whatever text you need.
Noted by Damian Cugley 2 years, 1 month ago.
Simon Willison demonstrates how to use SQLite and datasettes to do autocomplete in very little JavaScript.
- Fast Autocomplete Search for Your Website Code
Noted by Damian Cugley 2 years, 3 months ago.
- 24 Ways
- Datasette
- JavaScript
- Python
Retrospective on the history of the PyPy project to date.
- The First 15 Years of PyPy — a Personal Retrospective PyPy has turned 15 years old this year, so I decided that that's a good reason to dig into and talk about the history of the project so far.
Noted by Damian Cugley 2 years, 3 months ago.
- PyPy
- Python