Last weeknotes of 2023

31st December 2023

I’ve slowed down for that last week of the year. Here’s a wrap-up for everything else from the month of December.

datasette-plot

Alex Garcia released this new plugin for Datasette as part of our collaboration around Datasette Cloud. He introduced it on the Datasette Cloud blog: datasette-plot—a new Datasette Plugin for building data visualizations.

On the blog

• Recommendations to help mitigate prompt injection: limit the blast radius, extracted from a podcast episode I recorded with Kate Holterhoff for RedMonk Conversations.
• Many options for running Mistral models in your terminal using LLM, demonstrating how LLM’s plugins system has really started to pay off.
• The AI trust crisis talking about how Dropbox learned the hard way that people are extremely sensitive to any uncertainty about whether or not their data is being used to train a model.

Releases

Most of these are minor bug fixes. A few of the more interesting highlights:

• Django SQL Dashboard now provides a read-only JSON API for saved dashboards. This makes it really easy to spin up a quick ad-hoc AI for data in a Django PostgreSQL database.
• The sqlite-utils-shell plugin now supports the --load-extension option—I added this to let it be used with Steampipe extensions.
• My ospeak tool for running text-to-speech on the command-line now supports -m tts-1-hd for higher quality output, thanks to a PR from Mikolaj Holysz.
• llm-llama-cpp now supports a llm -m gguf -o path una-cybertron-7b-v2-bf16.Q8_0.gguf option, making it much easier to quickly try out a new model distributed as a GGUF file.

Here’s the full list of releases:

• datasette-haversine 0.2.1—2023-12-29
  Datasette plugin that adds a custom SQL function for haversine distances
• datasette 0.64.6—2023-12-22
  An open source multi-tool for exploring and publishing data
• sqlite-utils-shell 0.3—2023-12-21
  Interactive shell for sqlite-utils
• django-sql-dashboard 1.2—2023-12-16
  Django app for building dashboards using raw SQL queries
• llm-mistral 0.2—2023-12-15
  LLM plugin providing access to Mistral models busing the Mistral API
• datasette-sqlite-authorizer 0.1—2023-12-14
  Configure Datasette to block operations using the SQLIte set_authorizer mechanism
• llm-anyscale-endpoints 0.4—2023-12-14
  LLM plugin for models hosted by Anyscale Endpoints
• llm-gemini 0.1a0—2023-12-13
  LLM plugin to access Google’s Gemini family of models
• ospeak 0.3—2023-12-13
  CLI tool for running text through OpenAI Text to speech
• github-to-sqlite 2.9—2023-12-10
  Save data from GitHub to a SQLite database
• llm-llama-cpp 0.3—2023-12-09
  LLM plugin for running models using llama.cpp
• datasette-chronicle 0.2.1—2023-12-08
  Enable sqlite-chronicle against tables in Datasette

TILs

• Running Steampipe extensions in sqlite-utils and Datasette—2023-12-21
• Editing an iPhone home screen using macOS—2023-12-12