June 2026
74 posts: 7 entries, 14 links, 10 quotes, 3 notes, 40 beats
June 16, 2026
A very experimental alpha plugin which lets you do this:
datasette tailscale mydata.db \
--ts-authkey tskey-auth-xxxx --ts-hostname datasette-preview
This starts a localhost Datasette server with a Tailscale sidecar that connects it to your Tailnet, such that http://datasette-preview/ serves Datasette.
It's using the Python bindings for the experimental tailscale-rs library. I filed an issue asking if there's a cleaner way of setting up the proxy mechanism.
Quoting the release notes:
The big feature in this alpha is tools to insert, edit and delete rows within the Datasette interface. These features are available on table pages, and edit and delete are also available as action items on the row page.
The inspiration for this feature - which is long overdue - was Datasette Agent. I added SQL write support to that the other day which highlighted how absurd it was that you could insert and edit ties via the chat interface but not in the regular Datasette UI!
June 17, 2026
NetNewsWire Status (via) I find this inspiring. Brent Simmons retired a year ago, and his retirement project is making one piece of software really, really good - free from any commercial pressure.
The software is NetNewsWire - "it's like podcasts, but for reading" - first released in 2002 and made open source in 2018.
I've been using it on Mac and iPhone for several years now and I'm finding it indispensable.
A progressive enchantment Web Component that turns this markup:
<click-to-play>
<a href="URL to GIF">
<img src="URL to first frame" alt="...">
</a>
</click-to-play>
Into a still frame with a click to play button which loads the GIF on demand. For when you don't want big GIFs to be loaded unless people want to play them.
Here's an example that demonstrates the new row editing tools in Datasette - in fact I built this Web Component for that post.
What happened in 2025 was this: the economics of code production were turned upside down. Instead of being very hard, time-consuming, and expensive to generate code, it became effectively free and instant. Lines of code went from being treasured, reused, cared for and carefully curated, to being disposable and regenerable, practically overnight.
— Charity Majors, AI demands more engineering discipline. Not less
GLM-5.2 is probably the most powerful text-only open weights LLM
Chinese AI lab Z.ai released GLM-5.2 to their coding plan subscribers on June 13th, and then yesterday (June 16th) released the full open weights under an MIT license. Similar in size to their previous GLM-5 and GLM-5.1 releases, this is 753B parameter, 1.51TB monster—with 40 active parameters (Mixture of Experts). GLM-5.2 is a text input only model—Z.ai have a separate vision family most recently represented by GLM-5V-Turbo, but that one isn’t open weights. GLM-5.2 has a 1 million token context window, up from GLM-5.1’s 200,000.
[... 598 words]June 18, 2026
This release expands
datasette-aclfrom table-only permissions toward a general resource-sharing system.
Alex Garcia did most of the work for this release - we're fleshing out the plugin that will allow multi-user Datasette instances finely grained control over who can access which resources within Datasette.
Datasette Apps: Host custom HTML applications inside Datasette
Today we launched a new plugin for Datasette, datasette-apps, with this launch announcement post on the Datasette project blog. That post has the what, but I’m going to expand on that a little bit here to provide the why.
[... 2,301 words]June 19, 2026
The real valuable capability MCP offers over skills/CLI is isolating the auth flow outside of the agent’s context window, and potentially out of the harness completely. [...]
Maybe the idealized form of MCP is just an auth gateway for the API and nothing else. That’d still be a win.
— Sean Lynch, comment on Hacker News
June 21, 2026
Temporary Cloudflare Accounts for AI agents (via) The announcement says this is "for AI agents" but (as is pretty common these days) the AI hook isn't really necessary, this is an interesting feature for everyone else as well.
Short version: you can now create a Cloudflare Workers project and run this, without even creating a Cloudflare account:
npx wrangler deploy --temporary
Cloudflare will deploy the application to a new, ephemeral project which will stay live for 60 minutes.
I had GPT-5.5 xhigh in Codex Desktop build this test application providing a tool for following HTTP redirects and returning the final destination. The temporary deployment worked as advertised.
Running the deployment spits out the URL to a page for claiming the new project, for if you want it to last for more than 60 minutes. Here's what that claim screen looks like:
sqlite-utils 4.0rc1 adds migrations and nested transactions
sqlite-utils is my combined Python library and CLI tool for working with SQLite databases. It provides an extensive set of higher-level operations on top of Python’s default sqlite3 package, including support for complex table transformations, automatic table creation from JSON data and a whole lot more.
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