Open-source Python tool for exploring and publishing data, exposing databases as queryable web APIs and apps.
Datasette-llm, the intermediate plugin that configures LLMs for other Datasette plugins, released version 0.1a11 with support for OpenAI-compatible endpoints. Users can now point Datasette at any service speaking the OpenAI pseudo-standard protocol, including local backends like LM Studio, Ollama and llama.cpp, to power a Datasette Agent entirely on local models.
Datasette's charting plugin datasette-vega shipped version 0.7, its first release since July 2018. The update adds compatibility with recent Datasette alphas and cosmetic tweaks for Datasette Lite, enabling the plugin to run in the browser-only environment.
The long-running Datasette plugin datasette-cluster-map shipped version 0.19, adding compatibility with Datasette 1.0a42 and depending on the new datasette-leaflet to send a referrer header for OpenStreetMap tile requests. The author also demos a faceted map of PG&E power plants, highlighting Datasette's recently redesigned facets.
Datasette author Simon Willison found that Firefox automatically prefetches the next page of rows based on the link rel=next HTTP header, causing wasted rendering and bandwidth for the vast majority of visitors who never click through. He changed Datasette to stop sending that header to Firefox for HTML pages. The underlying Mozilla bug has been open for 24 years, and his own 2002 blog post on the behavior had been entirely forgotten.