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lcamtuf’s thing
• lcamtuf
If you know about my professional background, the most puzzling aspect of this Substack must be that I don’t use it to talk about my primary field of expertise: information security.
Miguel Grinberg's Blog
• Miguel Grinberg
This is the fifth chapter of my SQLAlchemy 2 in Practice book. If you'd like to support my work, I encourage you to buy this book, either directly from my store or on Amazon. Thank you!
You have now learned the design blocks used in relational databases. Sometimes, however, these building blocks have to be "tweaked" a bit to achieve a desired goal. This chapter is dedicated to exploring a very useful variation on the many-to-many relationship.
Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
• Cory Doctorow
Release: datasette-export-database 0.3a1
This plugin was using the ds_csrftoken cookie as part of a custom signed URL, which needed upgrading now that Datasette 1.0a27 no longer sets that cookie.
Tags: datasette
I’m really pleased to share that I’ve been awarded a 2026 Libraries Tasmania Research Fellowship. The project is on Tasmania’s space history, from the establishment of Rossbank Observatory in 1840 through to the contemporary work being done here on tracking interplanetary spacecraft. There’s a surprisingly long thread connecting convict-era astronomy in Hobart to the antennas, satellites, and deep-space tracking that I talk about most months on ABC Radio, and I’m looking forward to spending some quality time in the State Library and Archives pulling that thread.
The real goldmine isn’t that Apple gets a cut of every App Store transaction. It’s that Apple’s platforms have the best apps, and users who are drawn to the best apps are thus drawn to the iPhone, Mac, and iPad. That edge is waning. Not because software on other platforms is getting better, but because third-party software on iPhone, Mac, and iPad is regressing to the mean, to some extent, because fewer developers feel motivated — artistically, financially, or both — to create well-crafted idiomatic native apps exclusively for Apple’s platforms.
Tags: apple, john-gruber
Tool: Gemini 3.1 Flash TTS
See my notes on Google's new Gemini 3.1 Flash TTS text-to-speech model.
Release: datasette-ports 0.3
A small update for my tool for helping me figure out what all of the Datasette instances on my laptop are up to.
- Show working directory derived from each PID
- Show the full path to each database file
Output now looks like this:
http://127.0.0.1:8007/ - v1.0a26
Directory: /Users/simon/dev/blog
Databases:
simonwillisonblog: /Users/simon/dev/blog/simonwillisonblog.db
Plugins:
datasette-llm
datasette-secrets
http://127.0.0.1:8001/ - v1.0a26
Directory: /Users/simon/dev/creatures
Databases:
creatures: /tmp/creatures.db
Tags: datasette
I think we will see some people employed (though perhaps not explicitly) as meat shields: people who are accountable for ML systems under their supervision. The accountability may be purely internal, as when Meta hires human beings to review the decisions of automated moderation systems. It may be external, as when lawyers are penalized for submitting LLM lies to the court. It may involve formalized responsibility, like a Data Protection Officer. It may be convenient for a company to have third-party subcontractors, like Buscaglia, who can be thrown under the bus when the system as a whole misbehaves.
— Kyle Kingsbury, The Future of Everything is Lies, I Guess: New Jobs
Tags: ai-ethics, careers, ai, kyle-kingsbury
Jeff Geerling
• Jeff Geerling
Using the repair-friendly Framework 13 laptop chassis, I've tested the low-end x86 option (a Ryzen AI 5 340 Mainboard), the fastest RISC-V option (DC-ROMA II), and today I'm publishing results from the only Arm Mainboard, the MetaComputing AI PC, which has a 12-core Arm SoC and up to 32 GB of soldered-on RAM.
My Framework 13 has run on x86, RISC-V, and now Arm, making it something of a 'Ship of Theseus'.
Dwarkesh Podcast
• Dwarkesh Patel
“If our next several years are a trillion dollars in scale, we have the supply chain to do it"
Dwarkesh Podcast
• Dwarkesh Patel
April 15, 2025
Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
• Cory Doctorow
