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Week Notes: Elevation Specified and Mostly Solved; Datasette Spatialite Windows Fix;

 It's been a busy and fun week again! Most of my time was spenting finalizing what the elevation profile Datasette enrichment would look like. I finally found the last piece of the puzzle laying around in a pile of Jinja template use practice. One of the goals this week will be to release the elevation package. I made my first pull request for an open source project, datasette, in this case. (I make them at workr, but this is my first foray into the wider world.)  ChatGPT provided the final kick to get the elevation maps plotted really eaisly. Subsequently, I learned about the Pyplot package and how to add labels to charts. I got a start back towards writing about dadding. I spruced up some writing I had lying around about cleaning the kitchen with the gang. I found another older piece that I love while checking out old blog entries here: Meerktas and Ravens . Oh, and then this one about what unschooling with toddlers lools like. Goals Release the elevation package Relea...

Ham Radio, Wi-Fi, Pico-W, Datasette, KML, and WonderCon: Week Notes for the Week Ending April 1, 2024

 Oh my goodness, it's been a busy week! We made our triumphant return to WonderCon, finally pulling off a trip we had planned four years ago in 2020. The funny book show at the Anaheim Convention Center is just kinda spectacular. I highly recommend it. It's laid back enough for me, but there's still a lot of things going on. Among other people, we saw Gail Simone, Marv Wolfman, and Steve Orlando all on one panel. During the trip, we got to try out a new bus route, the Metro 206 which goes from near the convention center to downtown LA over the span of about two hours. We'd plan to take Amtrak, but then the train had delays and, as it turned out, even more delays. We did better taking the bus for $1.75 a piece. I was able to play around with what felt like a lot of code in my spare time. I was releived to find that it's still pretty easy for me to set up a one off Datasette plugin. The result was the elevation profile plugin  and template that sprung out of me ri...