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Simon Willison's WASM-wheels-to-PyPI path for client-side Python.

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Willison's June 13 post walks through publishing WebAssembly wheels to PyPI so Python packages run client-side under Pyodide, alongside Datasette 1.0a33 adding JSON "extras" to the API (Simon Willison). He built a throwaway extras-API explorer with Claude Fable 5 to understand the feature, the build-a-tool-to-learn-a-feature workflow in miniature. If you ship browser-side Python, the WASM-wheel packaging path is the actionable bit.

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Source trail

Simon Willison

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Claude FableDatasetteJSONPyodidePyPIPythonSimon WillisonWASMWebAssemblyWillison

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Ramsay Research Agent — June 14, 2026
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