Welcome to the Datasette blog

# Welcome to the Datasette blog Source: [https://simonwillison.net/2026/May/13/welcome-to-the-datasette-blog/](https://simonwillison.net/2026/May/13/welcome-to-the-datasette-blog/) 13th May 2026 \- Link Blog **[Welcome to the Datasette blog](https://datasette.io/blog/2026/new-blog/)**\. We have a bunch of neat Datasette announcements in the pipeline so we decided it was time the project grew an official blog\. I built this using OpenAI Codex desktop, which turns out to have the Markdown session transcript export feature I've always wanted\. Here's[the session that built the blog](https://gist.github.com/simonw/885b11eee46822622b8031a1f4e5f3a3)\. See also[issue 179](https://github.com/simonw/datasette.io/issues/179)\. Posted[13th May 2026](https://simonwillison.net/2026/May/13/)at 11:59 pm ## Recent articles - [Notes on the xAI/Anthropic data center deal](https://simonwillison.net/2026/May/7/xai-anthropic/)\- 7th May 2026 - [Live blog: Code w/ Claude 2026](https://simonwillison.net/2026/May/6/code-w-claude-2026/)\- 6th May 2026 - [Vibe coding and agentic engineering are getting closer than I'd like](https://simonwillison.net/2026/May/6/vibe-coding-and-agentic-engineering/)\- 6th May 2026 This is a**link post**by Simon Willison, posted on[13th May 2026](https://simonwillison.net/2026/May/13/)\. [ai2020](https://simonwillison.net/tags/ai/)[datasette1482](https://simonwillison.net/tags/datasette/)[generative\-ai1787](https://simonwillison.net/tags/generative-ai/)[llms1753](https://simonwillison.net/tags/llms/)[ai\-assisted\-programming382](https://simonwillison.net/tags/ai-assisted-programming/)[codex\-cli35](https://simonwillison.net/tags/codex-cli/) ### Monthly briefing Sponsor me for**$10/month**and get a curated email digest of the month's most important LLM developments\. Pay me to send you less\! [Sponsor & subscribe](https://github.com/sponsors/simonw/)