Simon Willison news

`llm openrouter refresh` has been added to instantly update the OpenRouter model list.

Simon Willison·1·2026.04.21 03:00

importdata(), a named function, and Apps Script bring Datasette data into Sheets.

Simon Willison·2026.04.20 11:00

Claude Token Counter has added a feature to compare token counts across models.

Simon Willison·2026.04.20 09:00

Headless services that personal AI can easily use directly could reignite API competition.

Simon Willison·2026.04.20 06:00

Turned Anthropic's Claude system prompt history into something you can browse like git.

Simon Willison·2026.04.18 21:00

Claude Code accurately merged beats into a newsletter by referencing a reference repo.

Simon Willison·2026.04.18 12:00

PyCon US 2026 will be held in May in Long Beach, introducing new AI and Security tracks.

Simon Willison·1·2026.04.18 08:00

Fixes a compatibility issue introduced in 1.0a27 and strengthens shutdown cleanup functionality.

Simon Willison·2026.04.17 13:00

llm-anthropic 0.25 supports Claude Opus 4.7 and new thinking options.

Simon Willison·2026.04.17 05:00

Qwen3.6-35B-A3B produced a better pelican SVG than Claude Opus 4.7 on a local laptop.

Simon Willison·2·2026.04.17 02:00

A preview UI built with Claude instantly shows the rendering and errors of datasette.io's news YAML.

Simon Willison·2026.04.16 09:00

Updated the database export plugin to 0.3a1 to match changes in Datasette's cookie handling.

Simon Willison·2026.04.16 08:00

Datasette alpha replaces CSRF tokens and adds a table rename event.

Simon Willison·2·2026.04.16 08:00

Apple platform's competitiveness depends on native app quality more than fees.

Simon Willison·2026.04.16 02:00

Google has released Gemini 3.1 Flash TTS, enabling voice style control through prompts.

Simon Willison·1·2026.04.16 02:00

Google's Gemini 3.1 Flash TTS text-to-speech model has been introduced.

Simon Willison·2·2026.04.16 01:00

Being a 'meat shield' who absorbs the blame for ML system failures could become a new job.

Simon Willison·2·2026.04.16 00:00

Shows the working directory and DB path of currently running Datasette instances.

Simon Willison·2026.04.15 11:00

Zig 0.16.0 introduces 'Juicy Main,' which gives main() a process.Init.

Simon Willison·2026.04.15 10:00

Datasette has switched from CSRF tokens to Sec-Fetch-Site header-based protection.

Simon Willison·2·2026.04.15 08:00