Visualising Flight Patterns with Datasette

I wondered what the first plane internationally was. I ended up hosting a flight data visualisation site.It started with a question. In June, I wrote about loading the official statistics for international flights to and from the US into an instance of Datasette, partly to answer a question: who did I fly with, from Heathrow to New York, in 2001?I got an answer, and some rudimentary visualisations; pushed the code, and a dev website; then did nothing for months.I was reminded of it earlier last week, and with a lot of help from Claude Code, I ticked off various things I wanted, such as loading in the domestic data, adding globes as a mapping option, improving plots, and setting up a proper (sub)domain.The result is t100.husk.org: a site that’s still using Datasette underneath to serve JSON, using it as a source for dedicated, specific plots, like the globe above. It builds on the original focus of airports and their route pairs over time, but it’s grown to include aggregations across…