Simon Willison Releases datasette.io News Preview Tool
Published 2026-04-16AI-Assisted DevelopmentLow⭐ Timeline Candidate
Summary
Simon Willison, creator of the open-source Datasette project, published a small utility tool for previewing news entries on the datasette.io website. The tool helps format and preview items from the news.yaml file that powers the news section of the Datasette project's website, which is maintained in a GitHub repository. Datasette is an open-source tool for exploring and publishing data, and Willison frequently builds small developer utilities — often leveraging AI-assisted coding workflows — t
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