Software Project Plans for December: Two Datasette Enrichments and a Gladych Podcast/Vlog

We have new software projects to play with here at the KD0FNR/KO6BTY ham shack in December.

First, Datasette announced a new toy to play with! Enrichments

If you've been regularly reading, or watching the repository for the logging software the kids and I have been building for oursevles, you've seen me mention Datasette before. It's a tool for browsing data sets using SQLite, and then applying various analyses to the data. The kids and I have used it to map QSOs in a number of different ways. Simon Willison announced that the tool now feautres something called enrichments. What do they do? In short, they allow the user to apply operations to data that can subsequently be written back into a database. The post linked to above demonstrates how enrichments work using a geocoding example. The example uses OpenCage to geocode addresses. We've been using the Google Maps API here to do a similar thing, so the first obvious project is

Creating a Datasette enhancement that uses the Maps API

This will give us a chance to learn how to craeate enrichments for Datasette. We're going to start with the geocoding example for OpenCage. The project will also teach us how to use secrets locally, (I hope), since the existing enrichment code looks for an OpenCage API key. We'll be adapting that to look for a Google Maps geocoding API key.

When we finish that, we'll cruise on into the second project

A qrz.com call sign to address enrichment

After we have geocoding down, it only makes sense to go the one extra step to add a qrz.com enrichment that returns a column of addresses given a call sign. By combining the two enrichments together, we will have basically re-written our current logging/mapping project in yet another different way.

Gladych Podcast/Vlog

In the last few months the number of hits on the antigravity post about Michael Gladych has gone up inexplicably. I mean, in terms of this blog at least, when something eclipses the post about deriving the divergence in a different coordinate system, something's up.

This increased readership about Gladych inspired the kids and I to start talking about Gladych stories again, and so, we've decided to set up a murder board. We'll be video-casting the results both becausei it's fun, and in hopes that someone will comment, (feel free to comment here also), with details on what drove readership for Gladych up in the first place. Who knows, maybe we'll turn the whole thing into a Datasette data source to boot.

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