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TWO NEW SHOWBOAT TOOLS: CHARTROOM AND DATASETTE-SHOWBOAT

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Summary from the TLDR Dev newsletter

Chartroom and datasette-showboat expand the capabilities of a CLI tool, Showboat, which assists coding agents in creating Markdown documents to demonstrate their code. datasette-showboat enables Showboat's new remote publishing feature, allowing incremental updates of documents to a Datasette instance for real-time viewing, addressing the previous delay in seeing agent-generated content. Chartroom is a CLI charting tool designed for coding agents to easily generate and embed various chart types, such as bar, line, and scatter graphs, with alt text directly into Showboat documents.