# 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
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