Simon Willison’s Weblog

Java SE 6 Released. “Script engines” (like JavaScript, Jython and JRuby) become a first class citizen.

Posted 12th December 2006 at 8:48 am

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Video + notes on upgrading a Datasette plugin for the latest 1.0 alpha, with help from uv and OpenAI Codex CLI - 6th November 2025
Code research projects with async coding agents like Claude Code and Codex - 6th November 2025
A new SQL-powered permissions system in Datasette 1.0a20 - 4th November 2025

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