Alex Garcia and myself hosted the first Datasette Open Office Hours on Friday—a live-streamed video session where we hacked on a project together an

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2024-11-10 12:30:01

Alex Garcia and myself hosted the first Datasette Open Office Hours on Friday—a live-streamed video session where we hacked on a project together and took questions and tips from community members on Discord.

We didn’t record this one (surprisingly not a feature that Discord offers) but we hope to do more of these and record them in the future.

Every county appears to handle counting and publishing election results differently. For San Mateo County the results are published on this page, and detailed per-precinct and per-candidate breakdowns are made available as a CSV file.

(I optimistically set up a Git scraper for these results in simonw/scrape-san-mateo-county-election-results-2024 only to learn that the CSV is updated just once a day, not continually as the ballots are counted.)

I’m particularly invested in the results of the Granada Community Services District board member elections. Our little town of El Granada is in “unincorporated San Mateo County” which means we don’t have a mayor or any local officials, so the closest we get to hyper-local government is the officials that run our local sewage and parks organization! My partner Natalie ran the candidate forum event (effectively the debate) featuring three of the four candidates running for the two open places on the board.