I just published the videos from our recent Datasette Public Office Hours, with six different demos from six different presenters of new projects built on top of Datasette and LLM simonwillison.net/2025/Jan/22/...
Six short video demos of LLM and Datasette projects
Last Friday Alex Garcia and I hosted a new kind of Datasette Public Office Hours session, inviting members of the Datasette community to share short demos of projects that they …
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January 22, 2025 at 2:11 AM
I just published the videos from our recent Datasette Public Office Hours, with six different demos from six different presenters of new projects built on top of Datasette and LLM simonwillison.net/2025/Jan/22/...
Lecturing the creator of Flask AND the creator of Django/datasette??
November 26, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Lecturing the creator of Flask AND the creator of Django/datasette??
Just launched Datasette Apps - a plugin for Datasette that lets you host full HTML+JS apps in an iframe sandbox that can query your database and do interesting things with your data
simonwillison.net/2026/Jun/18/...
simonwillison.net/2026/Jun/18/...
Datasette Apps: Host custom HTML applications inside Datasette
Today we launched a new plugin for Datasette, datasette-apps, with this launch announcement post on the Datasette project blog. That post has the what, but I’m going to expand on …
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June 19, 2026 at 12:01 AM
Just launched Datasette Apps - a plugin for Datasette that lets you host full HTML+JS apps in an iframe sandbox that can query your database and do interesting things with your data
simonwillison.net/2026/Jun/18/...
simonwillison.net/2026/Jun/18/...
Warte bis ich dir meine Datasette zeige.
October 31, 2023 at 8:47 AM
Warte bis ich dir meine Datasette zeige.
Announcing Datasette for Newsrooms - a hosted version of @datasette.io specifically targeted at newsrooms and data journalists
Think of it as a library for your data - load in CSVs and JSON, extract data with LLMs, collaborate on analysis with the rest of your team
simonwillison.net/2025/Apr/24/...
Think of it as a library for your data - load in CSVs and JSON, extract data with LLMs, collaborate on analysis with the rest of your team
simonwillison.net/2025/Apr/24/...
Introducing Datasette for Newsrooms
We're introducing a new product suite today called **Datasette for Newsroows** - a bundled collection of Datasette Cloud features built specifically for investigative journalists and data teams. We're...
simonwillison.net
April 24, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Announcing Datasette for Newsrooms - a hosted version of @datasette.io specifically targeted at newsrooms and data journalists
Think of it as a library for your data - load in CSVs and JSON, extract data with LLMs, collaborate on analysis with the rest of your team
simonwillison.net/2025/Apr/24/...
Think of it as a library for your data - load in CSVs and JSON, extract data with LLMs, collaborate on analysis with the rest of your team
simonwillison.net/2025/Apr/24/...
A lotta y’all still don’t get it.
Flask holders can use multiple Django’s on a single datasette.
So if you have one datasette and three Django’s you can create three new Flasks.
Flask holders can use multiple Django’s on a single datasette.
So if you have one datasette and three Django’s you can create three new Flasks.
Wow 80% bad-faith responses, and people lecturing the creator of Flask here and the creator of Django/datasette in the comments on why AI is useless for software engineering...
Is this platform still massively against AI or has it moved more towards acceptance?
November 26, 2025 at 3:17 PM
A lotta y’all still don’t get it.
Flask holders can use multiple Django’s on a single datasette.
So if you have one datasette and three Django’s you can create three new Flasks.
Flask holders can use multiple Django’s on a single datasette.
So if you have one datasette and three Django’s you can create three new Flasks.
Age yourself with your first computer
November 18, 2024 at 8:29 PM
Age yourself with your first computer
Nooo not Django/datasette
November 26, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Nooo not Django/datasette
The Ancient Art of Azimuth Tape Adjustment
April 4, 2025 at 11:01 AM
The Ancient Art of Azimuth Tape Adjustment
Datasette 1.0a39 and 0.65.4 security releases - datasette.io/blog/2026/se...
We ran an extensive audit using Claude Fable 5.1, GPT-5.6 Sol and GPT-6 Astra, then fixed a range of different bugs. If you're running a Datasette instance on a public website you should upgrade.
We ran an extensive audit using Claude Fable 5.1, GPT-5.6 Sol and GPT-6 Astra, then fixed a range of different bugs. If you're running a Datasette instance on a public website you should upgrade.
Datasette 1.0a39 and 0.65.4 security releases - Datasette Blog
datasette.io
September 11, 2026 at 3:37 AM
Datasette 1.0a39 and 0.65.4 security releases - datasette.io/blog/2026/se...
We ran an extensive audit using Claude Fable 5.1, GPT-5.6 Sol and GPT-6 Astra, then fixed a range of different bugs. If you're running a Datasette instance on a public website you should upgrade.
We ran an extensive audit using Claude Fable 5.1, GPT-5.6 Sol and GPT-6 Astra, then fixed a range of different bugs. If you're running a Datasette instance on a public website you should upgrade.
Wer noch nie eine Festplatte defragmentiert hat, der werfe die erste Datasette.
August 22, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Wer noch nie eine Festplatte defragmentiert hat, der werfe die erste Datasette.
This is SUCH a cool plugin! Integrates Marimo's WebAssembly Python notebook with Datasette
🎥 New YouTube video!
Datasette is a data-sharing tool for journalists by Django co-creator @simonwillison.net.
In this video, @koaning.bsky.social shows how to integrate marimo into @datasetteproj — letting you explore and transform data with Python.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=32X...
Datasette is a data-sharing tool for journalists by Django co-creator @simonwillison.net.
In this video, @koaning.bsky.social shows how to integrate marimo into @datasetteproj — letting you explore and transform data with Python.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=32X...
marimo for datasette users
Datasette is a data-sharing tool, made by Simon Willison, meant for the field of data journalism. It has a lot of cool features out of the box, especially if...
www.youtube.com
February 27, 2025 at 9:56 PM
This is SUCH a cool plugin! Integrates Marimo's WebAssembly Python notebook with Datasette
Adding more fun data to my datasette instance.
September 24, 2026 at 12:22 PM
Adding more fun data to my datasette instance.
Ran off of this little guy.
September 23, 2026 at 12:42 AM
Ran off of this little guy.
New TIL on fetching data from a Datasette instance into Google Sheets using importdata(), named custom functions or Google Apps Script til.simonwillison.net/google-sheet...
SQL functions in Google Sheets to fetch data from Datasette
I've been experimenting with ways to fetch data from Datasette and display it in Google Sheets.
til.simonwillison.net
April 20, 2026 at 2:53 AM
New TIL on fetching data from a Datasette instance into Google Sheets using importdata(), named custom functions or Google Apps Script til.simonwillison.net/google-sheet...
Waren Spiele auf Datasette eigentlich Videospiele oder Filmspiele
September 19, 2026 at 10:52 AM
Waren Spiele auf Datasette eigentlich Videospiele oder Filmspiele
Würde Datasette empfehlen.
July 19, 2024 at 6:48 AM
Würde Datasette empfehlen.
New video! I found another Datasette and have to repair it. I am also repairing a 1531 adapter plug.
YouTube: youtu.be/Q93njiMxDN4
PeerTube: makertube.net/w/8Cm8LXuCax...
#Commodore #C2N #Commodore1531 #Commodore64 #C64 #Datasette #Datassette #Retrogaming #RetroComputing #VintageComputing
YouTube: youtu.be/Q93njiMxDN4
PeerTube: makertube.net/w/8Cm8LXuCax...
#Commodore #C2N #Commodore1531 #Commodore64 #C64 #Datasette #Datassette #Retrogaming #RetroComputing #VintageComputing
One More Commodore 1531 Datasette Repair
YouTube video by Jan Beta
youtu.be
May 24, 2026 at 5:53 PM
New video! I found another Datasette and have to repair it. I am also repairing a 1531 adapter plug.
YouTube: youtu.be/Q93njiMxDN4
PeerTube: makertube.net/w/8Cm8LXuCax...
#Commodore #C2N #Commodore1531 #Commodore64 #C64 #Datasette #Datassette #Retrogaming #RetroComputing #VintageComputing
YouTube: youtu.be/Q93njiMxDN4
PeerTube: makertube.net/w/8Cm8LXuCax...
#Commodore #C2N #Commodore1531 #Commodore64 #C64 #Datasette #Datassette #Retrogaming #RetroComputing #VintageComputing
Commodore Minidisc Datasette.
June 15, 2026 at 2:04 PM
Commodore Minidisc Datasette.
Someone messaged me earlier and said they saw a post of my C64 set-up and want to know why I don’t have a disk-drive or datasette. 🤔
#TheyDontReallyKnowMe 🤪
#TheyDontReallyKnowMe 🤪
December 16, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Someone messaged me earlier and said they saw a post of my C64 set-up and want to know why I don’t have a disk-drive or datasette. 🤔
#TheyDontReallyKnowMe 🤪
#TheyDontReallyKnowMe 🤪
Shift+RUNSTOP 💜
July 5, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Shift+RUNSTOP 💜
I released the first alpha of Datasette Agent - a conversational AI assistant for Datasette that can answer questions about data in SQLite databases, and can be extended with plugins to add extra tools and features
You can watch a demo video or try it out yourself on agent.datasette.io
You can watch a demo video or try it out yourself on agent.datasette.io
May 21, 2026 at 8:10 PM
I released the first alpha of Datasette Agent - a conversational AI assistant for Datasette that can answer questions about data in SQLite databases, and can be extended with plugins to add extra tools and features
You can watch a demo video or try it out yourself on agent.datasette.io
You can watch a demo video or try it out yourself on agent.datasette.io
Another custom theme for #picocad2 based on the classic Datasette for the #commodore64
The model here is untextured, using the solid colour rendering option for all faces/meshes.
#picocad #lowpoly #3d #c64 #datasette
The model here is untextured, using the solid colour rendering option for all faces/meshes.
#picocad #lowpoly #3d #c64 #datasette
October 3, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Another custom theme for #picocad2 based on the classic Datasette for the #commodore64
The model here is untextured, using the solid colour rendering option for all faces/meshes.
#picocad #lowpoly #3d #c64 #datasette
The model here is untextured, using the solid colour rendering option for all faces/meshes.
#picocad #lowpoly #3d #c64 #datasette
This isn't exactly a surprise, but here's a note that Claude 4.5 Sonnet in Claude Code can write a full working Datasette plugin from a single prompt now simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/8/c...
Claude can write complete Datasette plugins now
This isn’t necessarily surprising, but it’s worth noting anyway. Claude Sonnet 4.5 is capable of building a full Datasette plugin now. I’ve seen models complete aspects of this in the …
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October 8, 2025 at 11:45 PM
This isn't exactly a surprise, but here's a note that Claude 4.5 Sonnet in Claude Code can write a full working Datasette plugin from a single prompt now simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/8/c...