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datasette-auth-tokens 0.4a13

Release: datasette-auth-tokens 0.4a13 Upgraded for compatibility with `sqlite-utils 4. Tags: datasette

datasette 1.0a38

Release: datasette 1.0a38 This release fixes a SQL injection security issue that affects Datasette instances that serve a mixture of public and private tables in the same database, with access configured using the…

datasette 0.65.3

Release: datasette 0.65.3 Back-ported the SQL Injection security fix from 1.0a38. Tags: datasette

Simon Willison on Technical Blogging

Simon Willison on Technical Blogging I was interviewed by Cynthia Dunlop for her "Write that blog!" series back in January, but I just realized I never linked to the interview from my own blog! It includes my answers to…

Call for applicants for a Django Executive Director

The Django Software Foundation is announcing a call for an Executive Director. The Executive Director is the operational leader of the Django Software Foundation, a paid position reporting to the Board of Directors,…

Println Debugging Done Right

The simplest tools are often the most useful, and debugging is a prime example of this. There are many advanced debugging techniques, and while they all have their use cases, println debugging is still the #1 choice,…

Generic Variables: simple implicity context passing

Hello everyone I have an idea for a new language feature to solve the problem of types that depend on runtime context to be meaningful. I also made a post about this on Zulip [1], but it isn't getting much traction so I…

An AI model from Meta also hacked another company during testing

An AI model from Meta also hacked another company during testing Stop me if you've heard this one before: An AI model from the parent company of Facebook and Instagram hacked into another company’s systems during…

Episode 65 “Embracing Virtual Threads with Helidon” [I/O]

How Helidon 4.4 embraces virtual threads, ahoead-of-time computation, and OpenJDK

A Bootiful Podcast: Data guru Gregory Green on RabbitMQ, Valkey, Gemfire, Data Flow, and more

Hi, Spring and data fans! Want a faster, smarter data stack? Tune into this episode with Gregory Green for a deep dive into GemFire, RabbitMQ Streams, Dataflow, and more. We cover real-time event processing,…

Module descriptor

This idea is for module attribute getting and setting: If the original object’s type has __get__ and (__set__ or __delete__), when get it from module visiting attribute, it will call obj.__get__(module, ModuleType) and…

Export Statement for DRY Re-exports

Building a public layout API from a library’s internal layout usually means one of two things today: Writing every exported name twice, once in an import and again as a string in __all__. The reflexive-alias idiom, from…

piece I kept coming

First edition of the month, so this is the Foojay roundup: the best of what landed on foojay.io in July.

Quiz: Python's Assignment Operator: Write Robust Assignments

Practice using Python's assignment operator to create, initialize, and update variables, plus augmented assignments and the walrus operator.

Embedding DuckDB in a Maven App (and Using It for Things That Aren’t Databases)

DuckDB is described as "SQLite for analytics," which is true: it's an in-process database engine that runs inside your application, with no server to install or manage. What's less obvious from that description is that…

Sheetmusic4J 0.0.3: ABC Notation, Guitar Pro, Engraving Improvements

Last week I introduced Sheetmusic4J, a Java(FX) library to render and interact with sheet music. That first 0.0.1 release was really a question more than a product: is there any interest in a native Java(FX) sheet music…

Astro 7.2

Astro 7.2 adds experimental incremental static builds, an option to opt out of session support, background mode for astro preview, and relative logger entrypoints.

Node.js 26.7, vlt 1.0, and Shai-Hulud Returns

#​636 — August 6, 2026 Read on the Web Node.js 26.7.0 (Current) Released — Landing just two days after 26.6, coverage reports can now include files your tests didn't touch with --test-coverage-include-all, FFI and…

python string literals are kinda funny

Python raw strings still follow normal string-literal lexing rules, which leads to surprising cases such as raw strings being unable to end with a single backslash. The post highlights surprising f-string parsing rules,…

Form v2 is here: All you need to know about the alpha | TanStack Blog