Monday, 20th October 2025
Research
Pyodide Simple Demo
— A compact demo shows how to run Python scripts inside a WebAssembly sandbox from Node.js using Pyodide: after npm install, launching node server-simple.js executes example-simple.py and writes generated files to the output/ directory. The project demonstrates a minimal server-side integration pattern for Pyodide (https://pyodide.org/) under Node.js (https://nodejs.org/) and is aimed at quick experimentation with sandboxed Python execution.
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minijinja vs jinja2 Performance Benchmark
— Benchmarking the Python bindings for minijinja (https://github.com/mitsuhiko/minijinja) against Jinja2 (https://palletsprojects.com/p/jinja/) on Python 3.14 and 3.14t measured template render performance using a realistic e-commerce template with inheritance, loops, and ~65KB HTML output. The suite runs 200 iterations per scenario, captures mean/median/std/min/max, and provides reproducible scripts (run_benchmark.sh, benchmark.py) plus matplotlib charts to visualize results.
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SQLite Hierarchical Permission System — Proof of Concept
— A proof-of-concept implements a fully SQLite-based hierarchical permission system that computes allowed database/table pairs by cascading rules across child (table), parent (database), and global levels with DENY-over-ALLOW semantics; it uses only plain SQL (CTEs + SQLite JSON functions) and is built on SQLite (https://sqlite.org).
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DeepSeek-OCR on NVIDIA GB10 (ARM64 + CUDA 13.0)
— Successfully deployed DeepSeek-OCR on an NVIDIA GB10 (ARM64, sm_121) by upgrading to PyTorch 2.9.0+cu130 so CUDA 13.0 wheels could be used instead of building from source. The repo includes automated scripts (setup.sh, run_ocr.py) that load the 6.3GB safetensors model (~34s) and run GPU inference (~58s for a 3503×1668 image), producing annotated images, markdown/text outputs and bounding boxes with validated multi-column accuracy.
Getting DeepSeek-OCR working on an NVIDIA Spark via brute force using Claude Code
DeepSeek released a new model yesterday: DeepSeek-OCR, a 6.6GB model fine-tuned specifically for OCR. They released it as model weights that run using PyTorch and CUDA. I got it running on the NVIDIA Spark by having Claude Code effectively brute force the challenge of getting it working on that particular hardware.
[... 1,971 words]Claude Code for web—a new asynchronous coding agent from Anthropic
Anthropic launched Claude Code for web this morning. It’s an asynchronous coding agent—their answer to OpenAI’s Codex Cloud and Google’s Jules, and has a very similar shape. I had preview access over the weekend and I’ve already seen some very promising results from it.
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Datasette Plugins Analysis - Complete Report
— Datasette Plugins Analysis presents a systematic evaluation of 44 key plugins from the Datasette ecosystem, focusing on dependencies, permissions hooks, and release patterns as of October 2025. The study finds that 89% of these plugins rely on ALPHA versions of Datasette, with only 8 plugins having stable releases and just 5 supporting stable Datasette while using advanced hooks like `register_permissions()`.