Simon Willison
Aug 13
sqlite-utils 4.2
Release: sqlite-utils 4. 2 Lots of improvements in this one relating to the table.
github-to-sqlite 2.9.1
The article announces the release of github-to-sqlite version 2.9.1. It includes a fix that ensures compatibility with sqlite-utils 4.x. The update is relevant for users integrating GitHub data into SQLite databases.
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Simon Willison
3d ago
datasette-explain 0.2.2
The article announces the release of datasette-explain version 0.2.2, noting that the plugin’s plan explanations now work on read‑only stored‑query pages. The author upgraded the demo site to Datasette 1.0a40, which motivated the new plugin version. The release is tagged for sqlite and datasette users.
Simon Willison
Aug 13
sqlite-utils 4.2.1
Release: sqlite-utils 4. 2.
Simon Willison
4d ago
Quoting Thariq Shihipar
The article announces that Claude Code will now support AGENTS.md files starting with version 2.1.277. If a CLAUDE.md file is absent in a folder, Claude will automatically look for and use AGENTS.md, leveraging Claude Code mods to customize the harness. The built‑in mod is available for use, and users can also create their own custom project instructions.
Simon Willison
Aug 12
alchemy-utils 0.1a0
Release: alchemy-utils 0. 1a0 I've long pondered what a database agnostic version of my sqlite-utils Python library and CLI utility might look like.
Simon Willison
Sep 11
Quoting Boris Cherny
The article discusses how production code generated by Claude, Anthropic’s AI, should meet higher standards than human-written code. Anthropic enforces this through numerous guardrails such as lint rules, extensive testing, Claude-driven end‑to‑end tests, daily fuzzers, automated code and security reviews, and automated refactoring. These measures aim to prevent the code from becoming difficult to maintain.
Simon Willison
Aug 16
Markdown SVG upgrades
I started building my markdown-svg-renderer tool in May , but I've since added enough features to it that it's worth talking about here again. It's evolved into my ideal tool for sharing Markdown transcripts that include SVG documents.
Simon Willison
Sep 11
datasette-publish-fly 1.4
The article announces the release of datasette-publish-fly version 1.4. It highlights new features such as setting force_https=true in fly.toml, a fix for the "Volume could not be found" bug, and compatibility with app‑scoped deploy tokens. The release is tagged under datasette and fly.
Simon Willison
Aug 11
datasette-upload-dbs 0.5a0
Release: datasette-upload-dbs 0. 5a0 This plugin has been around for a while - it lets users upload a brand new SQLite database to a hosted Datasette instance, at which point that database will start being served by that instance.
Simon Willison
6d ago
datasette 1.0a40
The article announces the release of Datasette 1.0a40, which includes a security fix identical to that in version 0.65.5, new features such as the ability for plugins to launch and manage background tasks via the datasette.add_background_task() method, and a migration to httpx2 to support features like datasette.client.get(). The update also contains numerous bug fixes, many of which were addressed during a recent triage effort for the upcoming 1.0 stable release.
Simon Willison
Aug 24
llm-anthropic 0.27
The release of llm‑anthropic 0.27 updates the Anthropic plugin for LLM to be compatible with the newly released anthropic v1.0.0 Python library, which has switched from httpx to httpx2. This mirrors a similar change made by OpenAI in their v3.0.0 release two weeks prior. The update includes a migration guide and a pull request that ensures tests pass after upgrading to anthropic>=1.
Simon Willison
Sep 14
commit-rewriter 0.1
Simon Willison released commit-rewriter 0.1, a web app that lets users edit commit messages for a repository. The tool is useful for cleaning up commits that contain internal references or unwanted code before publication. After editing, it creates a timestamped branch to preserve the original state and rewrites the selected commits.