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

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