Weeknotes: Parquet in Datasette Lite, various talks, more LLM hacking

I've fallen a bit behind on my weeknotes. Here's a catchup for the last few weeks.

Parquet in Datasette Lite

Datasette Lite is my build of Datasette (a server-side Python web application) which runs entirely in the browser using WebAssembly and Pyodide. I recently added the ability to directly load Parquet files over HTTP.

This required an upgrade to the underlying version of Pyodide, in order to use the WebAssembly compiled version of the fastparquet library. That upgrade …

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