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Datasette 1.0a37 is an alpha release of the open-source tool for exploring and publishing data, announced by Simon Willison.

A quant shared a comprehensive 58-page resource on quantitative finance covering alpha, risk, execution, and interview questions, which is now being resold for thousands.

The author shares three key design choices for building an open-source self-evolving agent: gated self-evolution with a fitness signal, security-focused architecture against prompt injection, and honest benchmarking with confidence intervals. The agent is Apache-2.0 licensed and still in alpha.

A tweet discusses the idea of giving AI agents their own email addresses, likening it to having an employee with a corporate email. It promotes Atomic Mail, a service in open alpha that provides email for AI agents via API and MCP.

Clojure 1.13.0-alpha1 is released, adding checked keys for map destructuring that enforce required keys and throwing exceptions when missing, along with other improvements.

Datasette 1.0a35 alpha release introduces a new create table interface and alter table JSON API, along with stable template context documentation.

A thread introducing Loop Engineering as a solution to the common problem of quant strategies that backtest perfectly but fail in live trading, emphasizing the need for iterative optimization.

datasette-tailscale is an experimental alpha plugin that lets Datasette run behind a Tailscale network using a sidecar, enabling easy access via a Tailscale hostname.

Datasette-agent-micropython 0.1a0 is an early alpha release that integrates Micropython into Datasette, utilizing sandboxing and WebAssembly for safe execution.

Datasette 1.0a32, an alpha release of the open-source tool for exploring and publishing data, has been announced.

Datasette 1.0a30 introduces a customizable 'Jump to...' menu with a new plugin hook for adding searchable items.

datasette-agent-sprites 0.1a0 is a new alpha release of a Datasette plugin.

datasette-agent-charts 0.1a2 is an alpha release of a plugin for Datasette that adds charting capabilities.

datasette-agent 0.1a2, a new alpha release of the datasette-agent tool, is now available.

Datasette 1.0a28 alpha release fixes compatibility bugs and resource management issues discovered in the previous alpha, including fixes for execute_write_fn() callbacks, database cleanup methods, and a new pytest plugin for automatic cleanup in tests.

Datasette 1.0a27 released with major security improvements (modern CSRF headers), new RenameTableEvent for plugin compatibility, and various API enhancements including improved upsert handling and database locking fixes.