datasette 1.0a32
Release: datasette 1.0a32 (https://github.com/simonw/datasette/releases/tag/1.0a32) A minor bugfix release. Fixes a bug with INSERT ... RETURNING queries via the new /db/-/execute-write
Simon Willison's Weblog
The solution might be cancelling my AI subscription
The solution might be cancelling my AI subscription (https://thoughts.hmmz.org/2026-05-31.html) I find this post by David Wilson very relatable. David lists 16+ projects he's spun up with AI
Quoting Karen Kwok for Reuters Breakingviews
Anthropic defines “run-rate revenue” in two parts. Use the last 28 days of sales from customers charged on a consumption basis and multiply it by 13. Then, multiply the monthly subscription
How we contain Claude across products
How we contain Claude across products (https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/how-we-contain-claude) A complaint I often have about sandboxing products is that they are rarely thoroughly documented,
Running Python ASGI apps in the browser via Pyodide + a service worker
Research: Running Python ASGI apps in the browser via Pyodide + a service worker (https://github.com/simonw/research/tree/main/pyodide-asgi-browser#readme) Datasette Lite
I Am Retiring from Tech to Live Offline
I Am Retiring from Tech to Live Offline (https://openpath.quest/2026/i-am-retiring-from-tech-to-live-offline/) I've seen a lot of posts on forums from people threatening to quit their careers over
Quoting Daniel Jalkut
My take on AI is, essentially, everybody who’s against it is too against it and everybody who’s for it is too for it. — Daniel Jalkut
datasette 1.0a31
Release: datasette 1.0a31 (https://github.com/simonw/datasette/releases/tag/1.0a31) Another significant alpha release, with two new headline features. Datasette now offers users with the
Anthropic's run-rate revenue hits $47 billion
The most interesting thing about Anthropic's $65B Series H announcement (https://www.anthropic.com/news/series-h) is this line (emphasis mine): Since our Series G in February, adoption has continued
Claude Opus 4.8: "a modest but tangible improvement"
Anthropic shipped Claude Opus 4.8 (https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-opus-4-8) today. My favourite thing about it is this note in the release announcement: Users will find Opus 4.8 to be a
sqlite AGENTS.md
sqlite AGENTS.md (https://github.com/sqlite/sqlite/blob/master/AGENTS.md) SQLite gained an AGENTS.md file five days ago
I think Anthropic and OpenAI have found product-market fit
Anthropic are strongly rumored (https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/20/anthropic-says-its-about-to-have-its-first-profitable-quarter/) to be about to have their first profitable quarter. Stories are
Quoting Kyle Ferrana
PICARD: Data, shields up DATA: Brilliant! Shields can reduce damage we sustain. Not immunity. Not hubris. Just prudence. It's not precaution—it's strategy. [camera shakes] WORF: HULL BREACHES ON
The pressure
The pressure (https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2026/05/26/the-pressure/) Daniel Stenberg on the unprecedented level of pressure the curl team are facing right now thanks to the deluge of (credible)
Microsoft Copilot Cowork Exfiltrates Files
Microsoft Copilot Cowork Exfiltrates Files (https://www.promptarmor.com/resources/microsoft-copilot-cowork-exfiltrates-files) The biggest challenge in designing agentic systems continues to be
Quoting Paul Graham
A lot of the emails I get from founders are now written in a hard-hitting journalistic style. I know they're written by AI, because no founder ever wrote this way before. And once you realize
Quoting Corey Quinn
I cannot believe I'm saying this, but getting the literal Pope to canonize your product's specific technical limitations as a spiritual treatise is the single greatest act of vendor lobbying I have
A few notes on Pope Leo XIV's encyclical on AI
Dropped this morning by the Vatican: Magnifica Humanitas of His Holiness Pope Leo XIV on Safeguarding the Human Person in the Time of Artificial Intelligence
datasette 1.0a30
Release: datasette 1.0a30 (https://github.com/simonw/datasette/releases/tag/1.0a30) The big new feature in this alpha is a new customizable "Jump to..." menu, described in detail in The
datasette-agent 0.1a4
Release: datasette-agent 0.1a4 (https://github.com/datasette/datasette-agent/releases/tag/0.1a4) Taking advantage of the new makeJumpSections()