Currently working on [Datasette](https://datasette.io/), [LLM](https://llm.datasette.io/) and associated projects. Read [my blog](https://simonwillison.net/), subscribe to [my newsletter](https://simonw.substack.com/), follow me <a href="https://fedi.simonwillison.net/@simon">on Mastodon</a> or [on Bluesky](https://bsky.app/profile/simonwillison.net).

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### Recent releases
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[sqlite-utils 4.2.1](https://github.com/simonw/sqlite-utils/releases/tag/4.2.1) - 2026-08-13

[llm-gemini 0.33](https://github.com/simonw/llm-gemini/releases/tag/0.33) - 2026-08-13

[alchemy-utils 0.1a1](https://github.com/simonw/alchemy-utils/releases/tag/0.1a1) - 2026-08-13

[datasette-upload-dbs 0.5a0](https://github.com/simonw/datasette-upload-dbs/releases/tag/0.5a0) - 2026-08-11

[datasette-auth-tokens 0.4a13](https://github.com/simonw/datasette-auth-tokens/releases/tag/0.4a13) - 2026-08-06

[datasette 1.0a38](https://github.com/simonw/datasette/releases/tag/1.0a38) - 2026-08-06

[llm-anthropic 0.26](https://github.com/simonw/llm-anthropic/releases/tag/0.26) - 2026-08-04

[llm 0.32](https://github.com/simonw/llm/releases/tag/0.32) - 2026-08-04
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More [recent releases](https://github.com/simonw/simonw/blob/main/releases.md)
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### On my blog
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[Qwen 3.8 27B is excellent, but it defaults to wildly overthinking things](https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/16/qwen-38-27b/) - 2026-08-16

[Now we have a timeline of the OpenAI accidental attack against Hugging Face](https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/7/openai-timeline/) - 2026-08-07

[One-shotting a Raccoon Heist game using Claude Fable 5](https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/5/raccoon-heist/) - 2026-08-05

[New release of LLM adds support for reasoning traces, OpenAI Responses, server-side tools, and smarter logging](https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/4/new-release-of-llm/) - 2026-08-04

[Stateless MCP has recaptured my interest (and inspired mcp-explorer and datasette-mcp)](https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/31/stateless-mcp/) - 2026-07-31

[OpenAI’s accidental cyberattack against Hugging Face is science fiction that happened](https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/22/openai-cyberattack/) - 2026-07-22
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More on [simonwillison.net](https://simonwillison.net/)
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### TIL
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[Adding a custom MCP server to Claude and ChatGPT](https://til.simonwillison.net/llms/mcp-in-claude-and-chatgpt) - 2026-07-29

[Using uvx in GitHub Actions in a cache-friendly way](https://til.simonwillison.net/github-actions/uvx-github-actions-cache) - 2026-07-14

[Cloudflare CAPTCHA on at least one ampersand](https://til.simonwillison.net/cloudflare/captcha-on-at-least-one-ampersand) - 2026-06-16

[Setting a custom price for a model in AgentsView](https://til.simonwillison.net/llms/agentsview-custom-model-price) - 2026-06-09

[Using LLM in the shebang line of a script](https://til.simonwillison.net/llms/llm-shebang) - 2026-05-11

[SQL functions in Google Sheets to fetch data from Datasette](https://til.simonwillison.net/google-sheets/datasette-sql) - 2026-04-20
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More on [til.simonwillison.net](https://til.simonwillison.net/)
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