Simon Willison

Tracking issue. Main things to solve are: - [ ] #2457 - [ ] #1152 - [ ] #461 Related issues to solve: - [ ] https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/2402 - [ ]...

Clarify permissions terminology around "resource"

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The term "resource" is not consistently applied within Datasette's permissions code at the moment. https://github.com/simonw/datasette/blob/d9a450b19797e89d70aec70406ed595d9f14dcc1/docs/authentication.rst defines our permissions model clearly: > Is this **actor** allowed to perform this **action**, optionally...

[Docs]: browser.new_context(record_har_path=path) is hard to find in docs

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### Page(s) https://playwright.dev/python/docs/next/mock#mocking-with-har-files ### Description The `browser.new_context(record_har_path=path)` parameter is really useful, but it isn't mentioned on the page about mocking with HAR files, despite a section called [Recording a HAR...

Following: - #173 The file path for `shot-scraper multi` should accept a URL too. And it may as well handle `gh:` prefixes too.

Release 4.0a0 - and eventually 4.0

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The change here breaks backwards compatibility a tiny bit: - #652 I'm going to ship it as a 4.0 alpha first to exercise it a bit more. If I'm doing...

Whether or not a table remembers or detects its primary key is confusing and messy

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Creating a table should stash its settings in self._defaults? I bodged around this in: - #653 See this snippet of suggestion from Gemini 2.5 Flash: https://gist.github.com/simonw/d867a1791b40b3a5fbfb66b75417c0a3#response-2 But really what should...

Inspired by: - https://github.com/simonw/llm/issues/1016#issuecomment-2877305544

Ability to pass a URI to the CLI tools

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Thread: https://mastodon.xyz/@Profpatsch/114083481108799334 Goal is to support something like: sqlite-utils query foo.db?inmutable=1 "select * from bar" Might need a `--uri` option?

In 4.0 change default floating point column type to REAL

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This is a bug in 3.x but it only causes problems with strict tables. In 4.0 we should switch from `FLOAT` to `REAL` in the CREATE TABLE used for all...

https://feeds.twtxt.net/feeds appears to be the best available directory but is not yet linked to from this repository.