Ruff v0.16.0 now enables 413 rules by default, up from 59 in previous versions, according to an announcement from Brent Westbrook. The update, which expands the total rule count from 708 to 968, catch…
SpaceX has open-sourced the Grok Build CLI after researchers discovered the AI coding tool was uploading users' entire repositories to Google Cloud storage. Elon Musk promised to delete all retained d…
Simon Willison shared a GitHub code-frequency chart for his open-source project Datasette, showing a spike in activity that he attributes to coding agents and models including Opus 4.8, GPT-5.5, Fable…
Simon Willison released shot-scraper 1.10 with a new video command that records browser sessions as WebM videos from YAML storyboards, a feature that had been blocked for two years until Playwright 1.…
Simon Willison released shot-scraper 1.10 with a new `video` command that records Playwright-driven video demos of web applications from a storyboard YAML file, enabling coding agents to produce visua…
DeepReinforce released Ornith-1.0, a family of self-scaffolding LLMs for agentic coding built on Gemma 4 and Qwen 3.5, achieving state-of-the-art performance among open-source models of comparable siz…
Datasette released version 0.3a2 of datasette-export-database, fixing a critical compatibility issue where pyproject.toml incorrectly pinned the dependency to datasette==1.0a27, making the plugin unus…
Developer Simon Willison ported the Moebius 0.2B image inpainting model to run in a browser using WebGPU, bypassing the original requirement for PyTorch and NVIDIA CUDA. The project, completed with as…
Datasette creator Simon Willison launched datasette-apps, a plugin that embeds sandboxed HTML/JS applications directly alongside SQLite databases, transforming the tool from a read-only data explorer …
Datasette launched a new plugin, datasette-apps, that allows users to host custom HTML+JavaScript applications inside a Datasette instance. The apps run in a sandboxed iframe with strict CSP headers t…
Datasette ACL 0.6a0 expands from table-only permissions toward a general resource-sharing system, with Alex Garcia contributing most of the work for this release. The plugin will enable multi-user Dat…
Datasette 1.0a34 introduces tools to insert, edit, and delete rows within its interface, a feature inspired by Datasette Agent's SQL write support. The update addresses the inconsistency where such op…
Datasette-apps 0.1a2 introduces a new 'apps-set-csp' permission to guard custom network/CSP origins, with an optional plugin allow-list for non-privileged users. The update also improves the stored qu…
Datasette released version 0.3a0 of datasette-agent, introducing an execute_write_sql tool that requests user approval before writing to a database. The update also enhances the datasette agent chat t…
Simon Willison is researching methods to map SQLite query result columns back to their source table and column names, aiming to enhance Datasette's ability to render additional metadata for arbitrary …
Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 coding agent autonomously debugged a horizontal scrollbar issue in developer Simon Willison's Datasette tool by launching browser automation, building test pages, and patchi…
Simon Willison released Datasette 1.0a33, a significant alpha toward a stable 1.0 that extends the `?_extra=` pattern to cover queries and rows in addition to tables. The new JSON extras feature is no…
On 11 June 2026, a developer released asyncinject 0.7, a utility library supporting an asyncio dependency injection pattern. The library, previously used with Datasette, had bugs identified and fixed …
Datasette-agent 0.2a0 was released, introducing tools that can ask users questions mid-execution via a new `ToolContext` object and `ask_user()` method. The release also adds a built-in `save_query` t…
Datasette 1.0a32 was released on May 31, 2026, as a minor bugfix update. The release addresses a bug with `INSERT ... RETURNING` queries through the new `/db/-/execute-write` endpoint and resolves sev…