Simon Willison’s Weblog

OpenID: Why, how, 37signals. 37signals just enabled OpenID on Basecamp as well as Highrise. This is their excellent attempt at explaining its benefits.

Posted 28th June 2007 at 1:38 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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