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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 years, 10 months ago.
- data
- Datasette
- Dogsheep
- Python
- Simon Willison
- SQLite
Apple’s photos app does machine-learning-powered analysis of all your photos and stores the result sin SQLite files that can reveal a wealth of information if you know how.
- Using SQL to find my best photo of a pelican according to Apple Photos According to the Apple Photos internal SQLite database, this is the most aesthetically pleasing photograph I have ever taken of a pelican: Here’s the SQL query that found me my …
Noted by Damian Cugley 4 years, 6 months ago.
Using GitHub Actions to updatge the README of a repository of short tips & tricks articles.

(Via Simon Willison on Twitter)
- Using a self-rewriting README powered by GitHub Actions to track TILs I’ve started tracking TILs—Today I Learneds—inspired by this five-year-and-counting collection by Josh Branchaud on GitHub (found via Hacker News). I’m keeping mine in GitHub too, and using GitHub Actions to …
Noted by Damian Cugley 4 years, 6 months ago.
- Generating a commit log for San Francisco’s official list of trees San Francisco has a neat open data portal (as do an increasingly large number of cities these days). For a few years my favourite file on there has been Street …
Noted by Damian Cugley 5 years, 7 months ago.