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Infra2026-08-12 · source-backed
Simon Willison shipped an alpha that turns an interactive-upload plugin into something programmable, with a formal API for uploading and atomically swapping databases on a running hosted Datasette (Simon Willison). "Rebuild the DB elsewhere, then hot-replace it" stops being a hack. If you publish read-only data, this is the pattern.
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Simon Willison released LLM / Shared entities / Same source domain / Shared topic / Earlier coverage / Tension
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Simon Willison released LLM / Shared entities / Same source domain / Earlier coverage / Tension
Linked by a graph relationship (Simon Willison released LLM); both cover Datasette, Simon Willison, SQLite; reported by the same outlet (simonwillison.net).
Lobsters uses SQLite / Shared entities / Same source domain / Shared topic / Earlier coverage
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Simon Willison released Datasette / Shared entities / Same source domain / Shared topic / Earlier coverage
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Simon Willison uses Fable / Shared entities / Same source domain / Earlier coverage / Tension
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Simon Willison released Datasette / Shared entities / Same source domain / Shared topic / Earlier coverage
Linked by a graph relationship (Simon Willison released Datasette); both cover Datasette, Simon Willison, SQLite; reported by the same outlet (simonwillison.net).
Simon Willison released LLM / Shared entities / Same source domain / Earlier coverage
Linked by a graph relationship (Simon Willison released LLM); both cover Simon Willison, SQLite; reported by the same outlet (simonwillison.net).
Simon Willison released LLM / Shared entities / Shared topic / Earlier coverage
Linked by a graph relationship (Simon Willison released LLM); both cover Simon Willison, SQLite; overlapping topics (data, datasette).