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ScotRail audio announcements as an interactive database Scottish train operator ScotRail released a two-hour long MP3 file containing all of the components of its automated station announcements, as the result of a Freedom of Information request. I have been having SO much building things with this.
Datasette Lite I've been working on Datasette, a Python application for exploring databases for a few years now. Today I released a new tool built on top of it: Datasette Lite, which runs the existing server-side Python application entirely in your browser, using a WebAssembly version of Python.
git-history: a tool for analyzing scraped data collected using Git and SQLite I've been exploring a way of running web scrapers for a few years that I call Git scraping: the idea is to scrape a source of data (like a "current power outages" map from an electricity company) into a Git repository such that the history of that repository tells the story of changes to that information over time. git-history is a new command-line utility I've released which helps convert that collected history into a SQLite database to support analysis using my Datasette tool.
Datasette Desktop (macOS application) This is the new Mac desktop version of my Datasette application, which helps people explore SQLite databases and CSV files and install plugins to visualize them, clean them up and more.
Reverse engineering Apple Photos to extract photo metadata and do fun things with it I've been building tools to liberate my photo metadata from Apple Photos. In addition to machine learning labels (it automatically tags my photos with categories as detailed as lemur, pelican and seal) I also found an intriguing collection of quality scores, with names like ZPLEASANTCAMERATILTSCORE and ZSHARPLYFOCUSEDSUBJECTSCORE. I've used them to identify my most aesthetically pleasing photographs of pelicans according to Apple's fancy machine learning algorithms!
Niche Museums I love visiting tiny or niche museums. I've started posting one museum I've explored every day to my new website, and I plan to keep doing so for as long as I can find new niche museums to explore. Since there are more than 30,000 museums in just the USA I'm hoping this will keep me going for a very long time. Hit the "Use my location" button to see niche museums I've visited near you!
Datasette Publish I've been working on Datasette for a while: it's a tool for publishing static structured data online with a browseable web interface and a JSON API. Until today you had to install various bits and pieces on your computer to use it, but I just released Datasette Publish which provides a web interface that lets you upload data as CSV files and click a button to turn that into an online database and API. My blog has more, including an animated screencast showing how I used it to build an API for exploring California campaign finance data.
Lanyrd - the social conference directory My wife and I launched this site last week - we've been building it while travelling around Morocco on our honeymoon. Search or browse for conferences (mostly web / technology at the moment, but the site is rapidly growing outside its original niche). Sign in with Twitter and it will tell you about conferences your Twitter friends are attending or speaking at. You're also encouraged to build up your own speaker profile of conferences you have presented at or will be presenting in the future.
idproxy.net I've been playing around with OpenID a lot recently, and idproxy.net is my latest experiment. It's an OpenID provider that you can log in to with your Yahoo! account, thereby enabling any Yahoo! user to log in to any OpenID supporting site (for example Zooomr or Ma.gnolia.com).
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