18th February 2021
TIL
Using sphinx.ext.extlinks for issue links
— Datasette's [release notes](https://github.com/simonw/datasette/blob/main/docs/changelog.rst) are formatted using Sphinx. Almost every bullet point links to the corresponding GitHub issue, so they were full of lines that look like this:
Recent articles
- Claude Opus 4.8: "a modest but tangible improvement" - 28th May 2026
- I think Anthropic and OpenAI have found product-market fit - 27th May 2026
- Notes on Pope Leo XIV's encyclical on AI - 25th May 2026