# The interesting ideas in Datasette

<https://simonwillison.net/2018/Oct/4/datasette-ideas/>

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- Saved: October 4, 2018 (2018-10-05T02:28:49Z)
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- JSON: https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/c55f3b229f95.json

## What Jamie wrote

I like this set of highlights from the creator of Datasette on the main concepts that he used to create the project, and how those concepts allowed him to do some very cool things easily.

## Facts

- Kind: [Page](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/kinds/page/)

## Appears in

- [WT74: Weekly Thing #74 / Oct 6, 2018](https://weekly.thingelstad.com/archive/74/), Notable Links 📌

## Same host

- [How to set up world-class continuous deployment using free hosted tools](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/0ee96102807a/) (simonwillison.net, October 19, 2017)
- [Datasette: instantly create and publish an API for your SQLite databases](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/8a96eda06557/) (simonwillison.net, November 14, 2017)
- [Datasette Publish: a web app for publishing CSV files as an online database](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/fa44846b7a7c/) (simonwillison.net, January 17, 2018)
- [Running Datasette on Glitch](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/533670f22d6e/) (simonwillison.net, April 23, 2019)
- [Git scraping: track changes over time by scraping to a Git repository](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/e989627ee1a1/) (simonwillison.net, October 15, 2020)

## Saved the same week

- [Mike Bollinger is stepping down from TECHdotMN - TECHdotMN](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/c1147c4ec723/) (tech.mn, October 4, 2018)
- [Daring Fireball: Bloomberg’s ‘The Big Hack’](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/72954ec697d0/) (daringfireball.net, October 4, 2018)
- [Privacy Badger Now Fights More Sneaky Google Tracking | Electronic Frontier Foundation](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/59fe4f9ecae0/) (eff.org, October 4, 2018)
- [Google is losing users’ trust.](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/74950ee993fe/) (slate.com, October 4, 2018)
- [The Feeling That You’re Always Behind on Work : zen habits](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/a5ec9db6211c/) (zenhabits.net, October 4, 2018)

## Elsewhere

- Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://simonwillison.net/2018/Oct/4/datasette-ideas/