Simon Willison Turns Mozilla's browser-compat-data Into a CDN-Served SQLite Database

Simon Willison (simonwillison.net)·low signal

On June 24, Willison converted Mozilla's comprehensive mdn/browser-compat-data repository into a SQLite database served over a GitHub CDN with open CORS headers, making it queryable directly in Datasette Lite with no backend. It's a small but instructive pattern: ship a static SQLite file with open CORS and you get a free, serverless query API. Built with AI-assisted code generation, it doubles as a worked example of the 'data-as-a-static-asset' approach.