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Release: datasette-acl 0.6a0
This release expands
datasette-aclfrom table-only permissions toward a general resource-sharing system.
Alex Garcia did most of the work for this release - we're fleshing out the plugin that will allow multi-user Datasette instances finely grained control over who can access which resources within Datasette.
Tags: datasette, alex-garcia
What happened in 2025 was this: the economics of code production were turned upside down. Instead of being very hard, time-consuming, and expensive to generate code, it became effectively free and instant. Lines of code went from being treasured, reused, cared for and carefully curated, to being disposable and regenerable, practically overnight.
— Charity Majors, AI demands more engineering discipline. Not less
Tags: charity-majors, ai-assisted-programming, generative-ai, ai, llms
Release: datasette 1.0a34
Quoting the release notes:
The big feature in this alpha is tools to insert, edit and delete rows within the Datasette interface. These features are available on table pages, and edit and delete are also available as action items on the row page.
The inspiration for this feature - which is long overdue - was Datasette Agent. I added SQL write support to that the other day which highlighted how absurd it was that you could insert and edit ties via the chat interface but not in the regular Datasette UI!
Tags: projects, datasette, annotated-release-notes
Tool: <click-to-play> — a still that plays
A progressive enchantment Web Component that turns this markup:
<click-to-play>
<a href="URL to GIF">
<img src="URL to first frame" alt="...">
</a>
</click-to-play>
Into a still frame with a click to play button which loads the GIF on demand. For when you don't want big GIFs to be loaded unless people want to play them.
Tags: gif, javascript, progressive-enhancement, web-components
The software is NetNewsWire, first released in 2002 and made open source in 2018. I've been using it on Mac and iPhone for several years now and I'm finding it indispensable.
Via Lobste.rs
Tags: brent-simmons, netnewswire, open-source
Release: datasette-tailscale 0.1a0
A very experimental alpha plugin which lets you do this:
datasette tailscale mydata.db \
--ts-authkey tskey-auth-xxxx --ts-hostname datasette-preview
This starts a localhost Datasette server with a Tailscale sidecar that connects it to your Tailnet, such that http://datasette-preview/ serves Datasette.
It's using the Python bindings for the experimental tailscale-rs library. I filed an issue asking if there's a cleaner way of setting up the proxy mechanism.
I can 100% attest to the fact that Qwen3.6-27B is a very capable local model for coding tasks. Over the last month and a half I've been using it almost daily, either on my M2 Ultra or on my RTX 5090 box. I use it for small mundane tasks at ggml-org - nothing really impressive, but definitely a helpful tool for a maintainer. I think I would be using it much more, if I didn't have to spend a lot of my time on reviewing PRs. Currently, I have a very lightweight harness - the pi agent with everything stripped (
pi -nc --offline) and a short system prompt to align it a bit with my style.
— Georgi Gerganov, Hacker News comment on Running local models is good now by Boykis
Tags: georgi-gerganov, llms, ai, generative-ai, pi, ai-assisted-programming, local-llms, qwen, coding-agents
Katie Moussouris, a cybersecurity expert and the CEO of Luta Security, told me that Anthropic shared with her a copy of the White House’s report on the Fable jailbreak to get her appraisal. (She said that she is not being paid by Anthropic.) The report, Moussouris said, involved IT experts asking Fable to help find and patch bugs. When given deliberately insecure code, she said, Fable refused the prompt “review the code for security issues” but then complied when asked to “fix this code,” followed by some further manual steps. Moussouris told me that this was just “the model working as intended” for cyberdefense.
— Matteo Wong, The Atlantic, The White House Is Ratcheting Up Its War Against Anthropic
Tags: anthropic, claude, ai, llms, ai-ethics, jailbreaking, generative-ai, ai-security-research, claude-mythos
Release: datasette-apps 0.1a3
- Fixed a bug where users without the
create-apppermission could still create apps. #27- Fixed a bug where it was impossible to grant permission to edit an app to users who were not the app's owner. The rules for edit/delete are now the same as view: if the app is private only the owner can modify it, otherwise permission is controlled by Datasette's regular permission system. #29
Tags: datasette
Release: datasette-apps 0.1a2
- Custom network/CSP origins for apps are now guarded by a new
apps-set-csppermission, with an optionalallowed_csp_originsplugin allow-list for non-privileged users. The Datasette Agent app creation tool enforces the same rules. #24- Stored query picker now supports keyboard navigation and shows the three most recent accessible stored queries when focused.
#fragmentlinks inside apps are no longer intercepted by the external-link confirmation modal. #23- Fixed link confirmation modal and logging panels in
?full=1full-screen mode. #26
Tags: datasette
[...] Instead, I picture a specific person and I just write for them. Often this person is "me, but 3 years ago" or a good friend.
— Julia Evans, write for 1 person
Tags: writing, julia-evans
Release: luau-wasm 0.1a0
See Publishing WASM wheels to PyPI for use with Pyodide for details.
Tags: lua, webassembly, pyodide
OpenAI WebRTC Audio Session, now with document context
I built the first version of this tool in December 2024 to try out the then-new OpenAI WebRTC API for interacting with their realtime audio models.Last month OpenAI introduced a brand new model to that API called GPT‑Realtime‑2, which they promoted as "our first voice model with GPT‑5‑class reasoning" - with a Sep 30, 2024 knowledge cut-off.
I've been waiting for that model to show up in the ChatGPT iPhone app but it still hasn't, so I revisited my old playground.
You can now pick the better model, and you can also paste in a big chunk of document context so you can have as audio conversation in your browser about whatever information you think would be useful to explore in a conversational way.
Tags: audio, tools, ai, openai, generative-ai, llms, multi-modal-output, webrtc
Jenny owns a crematorium. John’s propane company gives her a $20 billion investment in return for 5 percent of her operation. Jenny throws $10 billion into the incinerator, then pays John $10 billion to buy propane to burn that money to ashes. John reports that his AI investments have generated $10 billion in revenue this quarter and that he owns 5 percent of a $100 billion business. A reporter from Forbes is assigned to profile John and Jenny, and over the course of his research, he becomes embroiled in a passionate but confusing three-way love affair with them, which eventually turns into a polyamorous common-law marriage. His profile is glowing, but light on financial details.
— Andrew Singleton, AI Economics for Dummies
Tags: ai
Release: datasette 1.0a33
This alpha is a significant step on the road to a stable 1.0, finally extending the ?_extra= pattern I introduced in Datasette 1.0a3 to cover queries and rows in addition to tables. That pattern is also now documented!
I wrote a whole lot more about the new release on the Datasette project blog: Datasette 1.0a33 with JSON extras in the API.
Because API explorer tools are almost free to build now I had Claude Fable 5 in Claude Code (for the plan) and GPT-5.5 xhigh in Codex Desktop (for the implementation) build me this custom extras API explorer to help demonstrate the feature:
Tags: projects, datasette, annotated-release-notes, ai-assisted-programming
Release: asyncinject 0.7
I built this utility library to support an asyncio dependency injection pattern a few years ago. I was using it with Datasette and Claude Fable 5 spotted some bugs in the dependency which it then fixed for me. It's a very proactive model!
Tags: async, projects, python, claude-mythos
Anthropic Walks Back Policy That Could Have ‘Sabotaged’ AI Researchers Using Claude
Big scoop for Maxwell Zeff at Wired:“We’re changing Fable 5’s safeguards for frontier LLM development to make them visible.” Anthropic said in a statement to WIRED. “We made the wrong tradeoff and we apologize for not getting the balance right.”
There's been a huge outcry about Anthropic's policy, tucked away in their system card, that Claude Fable/Mythos would identify "requests targeting frontier LLM development" and "limit effectiveness" without notifying the user.
It's very good news that they're dropping this.
Tags: ai, generative-ai, llms, anthropic, claude, ai-ethics, claude-mythos
That research has returned in the best possible way: as a new open weight (Apache 2 licensed) Gemma model, google/diffusiongemma-26B-A4B-it.
NVIDIA are currently hosting the model for free on their NIM cloud API. I used that API to generate this pelican, which took 4.4s (according to time uv run generate.py) to return 2,409 tokens - so at least 500 tokens/second.
Via Hacker News
Tags: google, ai, generative-ai, llms, nvidia, pelican-riding-a-bicycle, gemma, llm-release, llm-performance