Simon Willison’s Weblog

Ficlets (via) AOL’s first application to launch on Rails, and their first application to accept OpenIDs as well as AOL screen names.

Posted 10th March 2007 at 5:41 pm

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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
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A new SQL-powered permissions system in Datasette 1.0a20 - 4th November 2025

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