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Welcome to the Datasette blog

Creation of a blog using OpenAI Codex desktop, highlighting its Markdown session transcript export feature. It provides a link to the session that built the blog and references issue 179. The post is tagged with topics including AI, Datasette, and AI-assisted programming.

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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

source & further reading
simonwillison.net — original article Stop Making TUIs Quoting Matt Webb smolmachines / smolvm as a sandbox for untrusted Python & JavaScript
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