Stories by simonw

Twenty years of my blog

A Datasette tutorial written by GPT-3

Datasette Lite: a server-side Python web application running in a browser

Automatically filing issues when tracked file content changes

Show HN: I built a Covid sewage numbers Twitter bot

Extracting web page content using Readability.js and shot-scraper

Ask HN: No cynical answers, why do companies push their apps so hard?

Show HN: Instantly create a GitHub repository to take screenshots of a web page

Scraping web pages from the command-line with shot-scraper

Shot-scraper: automated screenshots for documentation, built on Playwright

Support open source that you use by paying the maintainers to talk to your team

Show HN: Google Drive to SQLite

Using SQLite and Datasette with Fly Volumes

Help scraping: track changes to CLI tools by recording their –help using Git

Show HN: S3-credentials, a tool for creating restricted S3 bucket credentials

My process for building a feature

CSS in the Terminal with Python and Textual

Show HN: git-history, for analyzing scraped data collected using Git and SQLite

Show HN: Datasette Desktop, macOS App for SQLite and CSVs

Dynamic content for GitHub repo templates using cookiecutter and GitHub Actions

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