Simon Willison’s Weblog

24th September 2026

Release datasette 1.0a41 — An open source multi-tool for exploring and publishing data

Alec Garcia added support for OpenTelemetry to Datasette in this release.

I've also refactored all of Datasette's modal dialogs to a single Web Component, which is now documented for other plugins to use.

Posted 24th September 2026 at 7:15 pm

Recent articles

Claude Opus 5.5, GPT-6 Sol, GPT-6 Luna, and a new price war - 22nd September 2026
Jev introduces a new shape of LLM - System One, aka Decision Models - 21st September 2026
Generating running routes with GPT-6 Astra and ChatGPT Work - 12th September 2026

This is a beat by Simon Willison, posted on 24th September 2026.

javascript 765 datasette 1,547 web-components 27 alex-garcia 33 opentelemetry 4

Monthly briefing

Sponsor me for $10/month and get a curated email digest of the month's most important LLM developments.

Pay me to send you less!

Sponsor & subscribe