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How fast is 10 tokens per second really?
Neat little HTML app by Mike Veerman (source code here) which simulates LLM token output speeds from 5/second to 800/second.Useful if you see a model advertised as "30 tokens/second" and want to get a feel for what that actually looks like.
Via Hacker News
Tags: ai, generative-ai, llms
Release: llm-gemini 0.32
- New model
gemini-3.5-flashfor Gemini 3.5 Flash.
See also my notes on Gemini 3.5 Flash, and the pelican I drew using this upgrade to the plugin.
Release: datasette-llm-accountant 0.1a4
- Fixed bug tracking chains of responses. Refs datasette-llm#7
Release: llm-gemini 0.32a0
- Compatible with
llm>=0.32a0alpha - adds the ability to stream reasoning tokens.
Release: datasette-llm 0.1a8
- Fix for bug where
llm_prompt_context()hook did not fully collect chains of responses. #7
[...] in the last 10 years I’ve learned to really love and respect CSS as a technology.
So I decided years ago that I wanted to react to “CSS is hard” by getting better at CSS and taking it seriously as a technology, instead of devaluing it. Doing that changed everything for me: I learned that so many of my frustrations (“centering is impossible”) had been addressed in CSS a long time ago, and that also what “centering” means is not always straightforward and it makes sense that there are many ways to do it. CSS is hard because it’s solving a hard problem!
— Julia Evans, Moving away from Tailwind, and learning to structure my CSS
Tags: css, julia-evans
Release: inaturalist-clumper 0.1
Part of the infrastructure I use for publishing my iNaturalist sightings on my blog. I've been running this in production for a few weeks now, inspiring some iterations on how it works, so I decided to ship a 0.1 release.
You can see an example of the output in this JSON file.
Tags: projects, inaturalist
Release: datasette-llm-limits 0.1a0
This plugin works in conjunction with datasette-llm and datasette-llm-accountant to let you configure a per-user (or global) spending limit for LLM usage inside of Datasette. Configuration looks something like this:
plugins: datasette-llm-limits: limits: per-user-daily: scope: actor window: rolling-24h amount_usd: 1.00
Tool: QR code generator
Claude helped me build this tool for creating QR codes, for both text/URLs and for connecting to WiFi networks.
Tags: vibe-coding, tools, generative-ai, ai, llms
Release: datasette-agent 0.1a2
- Tool availability can now be attached to a
required_permission. The default background agent tools now require the newdatasette-agent-backgroundpermission. #10
Tags: datasette, datasette-agent
[...] On the interesting side is how fungible programming languages are nowadays. Programming languages used to be LOCK IN, and they're increasingly not so. You think the Bun rewrite in Rust is good for Rust? Bun has shown they can be in probably any language they want in roughly a week or two. Rust is expendable. Its useful until its not then it can be thrown out. That's interesting!
— Mitchell Hashimoto, on Bun porting from Zig to Rust
Tags: zig, ai, mitchell-hashimoto, llms, rust, generative-ai, agentic-engineering, bun
Release: datasette-agent 0.1a1
- Now uses the
execute-sqlpermission when deciding which tables to list to the user. #8
Tags: datasette, datasette-agent
Release: datasette-ip-rate-limit 0.1a0
The datasette.io site was being hammered by poorly-behaved crawlers, so I had Codex (GPT-5.5 xhigh) build a configurable rate limiting plugin to block IPs that were hammering specific areas of the site too quickly.
Here's the production configuration I'm using on that site for the new plugin:
datasette-ip-rate-limit: header: Fly-Client-IP max_keys: 10000 exempt_paths: - "/static/*" - "/-/turnstile*" rules: - name: public-demo-multi-parameter-table-pages paths: - "/global-power-plants/*" - "/legislators/*" window_seconds: 60 max_requests: 60 block_seconds: 20
Tags: datasette, rate-limiting, codex
I built this using OpenAI Codex desktop, which turns out to have the Markdown session transcript export feature I've always wanted. Here's the session that built the blog. See also issue 179.
Tags: ai, datasette, generative-ai, llms, ai-assisted-programming, codex-cli
“11 AI agents” is meaningless as a phrase.
If I said “I have 11 spreadsheets” or “I have 11 browser tabs” to do my work, it means about the same thing.
Tags: ai-agents, ai, agent-definitions
Tool: CSP Allow-list Experiment
An experiment that shows that you can load an app in a CSP-protected sandboxed iframe (see previous note) and have a custom fetch() that intercepts CSP errors and passes them up to the parent window... which can then prompt the user to add that domain to an allow-list and then refresh the page.
I built this one with GPT-5.5 xhigh running in the Codex desktop app.
Tags: content-security-policy, iframes, security
Release: llm 0.32a2
A bunch of useful stuff in this LLM alpha, but the most important detail is this one:
Most reasoning-capable OpenAI models now use the
/v1/responsesendpoint instead of/v1/chat/completions. This enables interleaved reasoning across tool calls for GPT-5 class models. #1435
This means you can now see the summarized reasoning tokens when you run prompts against an OpenAI model, displayed in a different color to standard error. Use the -R or --hide-reasoning flags if you don't want to see that.
Tags: llm, projects, openai, generative-ai, annotated-release-notes, ai, llms
The thing about 90% of TDMs [Technical Decision Makers] is that they're motivated primarily by NOT GETTING FIRED. These aren't people who browser Lobsters or push to GH on the weekend. These are people that work 9 to 5, get paid, go home, and NEVER THINK ABOUT WORK AGAIN. So to achieve all that, they follow secular trends supported by analysts and broad public sentiment. Oh, Gartner said that "AI strategy" is most important? McKinsey said "context" needs to be managed? Well, "Context Engine for AI Apps" is going to be defensible. Buy it.
— Mitchell Hashimoto, in a conversation about the design of the Redis homepage
Tags: marketing, mitchell-hashimoto, redis
