Simon Willison’s Weblog

1st December 2024 - Link Blog

Turning Your Root URL Into a DuckDB Remote Database. Fun idea from Drew Breunig: DuckDB supports attaching existing databases that are accessible over HTTP using their URL. Drew suggests creating vanity URLs using your root domain, detecting the DuckDB user-agent and serving the database file directly - allowing tricks like this one:

ATTACH 'https://steplist.app/' AS steplist;
SELECT * FROM steplist.lists;