This is awesome Simon! I actually had it on my todo list to explore using datasette with PLDB.

Here's my quick query to see the number of things that are missing a year and also a count of the total things in each year: https://lite.datasette.io/?csv=https://pldb.com/pldb.csv#/da...

2 pieces of feedback (which I'm sure you're aware of):

1. super slow startup time (30seconds or so, but then things are instant).

2. autocomplete column names (and syntax highlighting) for the editor?

Yeah the slow startup is because this is using Datasette Lite, which loads an entire Python runtime compiled to WebAssembly into your browser every turn you load the page! Server-side Datasette starts a whole lot quicker than that, eg https://scotrail.datasette.io/scotrail/random_apology

The editor has syntax highlighting in server-side Datasette - I've not got that working in Datasette Lite yet.

Column autocompletion would definitely be cool!

> which loads an entire Python runtime compiled to WebAssembly into your browser every turn you load the page

Oh wow! (the lengths people will go to to avoid learning Javascript ;) )

> Server-side Datasette starts a whole lot quicker than that, eg https://scotrail.datasette.io/scotrail/random_apology

Is there anyone I can pay to take care of setting that up for PLDB?

Drop me an email at swillison at Google's mail provider.