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6th April 2026

Release datasette-ports 0.1 — Find all currently running Datasette instances and list their ports

Another example of README-driven development, this time solving a problem that might be unique to me.

I often find myself running a bunch of different Datasette instances with different databases and different in-development plugins, spreads across dozens of different terminal windows - enough that I frequently lose them!

Now I can run this:

datasette install datasette-ports
datasette ports

And get a list of every running instance.

This is a beat by Simon Willison, posted on 6th April 2026.

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