Simon Willison

Documentation and unit tests for urls.row() urls.row_blob() methods

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https://github.com/simonw/datasette/blob/5db7ae3ce165ded57c7fb1cfbdb3258b1cf06c10/datasette/app.py#L1307-L1313

Switch to more recent, smaller Docker image

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For the package published to Docker Hub and also the containers used by `datasette package` and `datasette publish cloudrun`.

Ability to set a custom favicon

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If you're running a website on Datasette, like https://www.niche-museums.com/ or https://til.simonwillison.net/ - you should have the ability to easily specify a custom favicon. Currently the `/favicon.ico` view is hard-coded to...

Datasette feature for publishing snapshots of query results

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https://twitter.com/simonw/status/1514392335718645760 > Maybe [@datasetteproj](https://twitter.com/datasetteproj) should grow a feature that lets you cache the results of a query and give that snapshot a stable permalink > > A plugin that publishes...

I've used this pattern twice now: https://til.simonwillison.net/datasette/register-new-plugin-hooks - in `datasette-graphql` and `datasette-low-disk-space-hook`. I should describe the pattern on https://docs.datasette.io/en/stable/writing_plugins.html

The `--create` option currently creates databases if they are missing, but does not enable WAL mode for them. It turns out WAL mode is useful for databases that are accepting...

> It seems to me Janus dependency is not necessary, `async with app.database_write_mutex(): out = await app.transaction(func)` may be enough. Comment here: https://lobste.rs/s/fki4tj/architecture_notes_datasette#c_a2ihon

Use YAML examples in documentation by default, not JSON

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YAML configuration is much better for multi-line strings, and I'm increasingly adding configuration options to Datasette that benefit from that - fragments of HTML in `description_html` or SQL queries used...

Because I'm using it in this plugin: - https://github.com/simonw/datasette-upload-dbs/issues/1

?_trace=1 fails with datasette-geojson for some reason

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view-source:https://calands.datasettes.com/calands/CPAD_2020a_SuperUnits.geojson?_sort=id&id__exact=4&_labels=on&_trace=1 is showing me a blank page.