Datasette-atom: Define an Atom feed using a custom SQL query

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For those who didn't know Datasette[0] either, it's a tool for exploring data. Apparently it's an API above SQLite.

[0]: https://github.com/simonw/datasette

A Datasette is a cassette recorder for storing data:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_Datasette

Fun detail: I named it after the C64 cassette drive as an homage to my programming youth in the 80s. I assumed it would be a unique word I could track on Google and Twitter.

Turns out the retro C64 community talk about the Datasette tape player all the time!

https://mobile.twitter.com/search?q=Datasette&src=typed_quer...

Datasette is such an awesome tool and simonw is a force of nature. I've been using it extensively for a ton of data tasks, even teaching SQL basics.

Here's the README for the new plugin: https://github.com/simonw/datasette-atom

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