Simon Willison simonw

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How to browse your volumes on Docker for Mac

Docker for Mac runs a virtual machine on your laptop. To view the volumes, you need to attach a terminal to that virtual machine. You can do that like this:

screen ~/Library/Containers/com.docker.docker/Data/com.docker.driver.amd64-linux/tty

Now the volumes can be found here:

cd /var/lib/docker/volumes

Datasette for Polar Bears

I found an interesting looking dataset about Polar Bear ear tag tracking on a USGS website: https://alaska.usgs.gov/products/data.php?dataid=130

I deployed it as a datasette website and API here: https://polar-bears.now.sh/

Here's how I did it:

Install datasette and csvs-to-sqlite:

	Narcoossee Middle School
	2700 N Narcoossee Rd, St Cloud, FL 34771
	latitude=28.122861, longitude=-81.272736
	Liberty High School
	4250 Pleasant Hill Rd, Kissimmee, FL 34746
	latitude=28.122861, longitude=-81.272736
	-------
	Livestock Shelter: Oconee Heritage Park
	2380 Athens Hwy, Madison, GA, United States
	latitude=33.6284624, longitude=-83.4531959

	class BatchIndexer(object):
	def __init__(self, batch_size):
	self.batch_size = batch_size

	def __enter__(self):
	self.batch = []
	return self

	def index(self, item):
	self.batch.append(item)

	[
	{
	"TOTAL_POPULATION": 115,
	"GENERAL_POPULATION": 115,
	"ORG_POC_AFTER_HOURS_PHONE": null,
	"PET_ACCOMMODATIONS_CODE": null,
	"FACILITY_TYPE": "SHELTER",
	"COUNTY_PARISH": "MARION",
	"FIPS_CODE": null,
	"INCIDENT_ID": null,