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My comment on The Web Is More Than Enough, by Paul Ford — Hacker News.

OK, this comment convinced me to give that a shot.

Here's a thing I made in T...

Most of the changes I make to my projects these days come in the form of PRs opened for me by Claude Code or Codex. The PR is my unit of work - I use them to bundle commits together, iterating on them until a feature is complete, document decisions and then merge the finished result. Today's coding agents are great at writing PR descriptions.

They're too good at describin...

Research: parse_number() as a SQLite extension: C vs Rust

I was out walking the dog when I got curious about how easy/difficult it would be to write a SQLite C extension that adds a parse_number() function for tur...

datasette #3046: Don't serve link: rel=next HTTP headers to Firefox for HTML pages

I was looking at the Firefox network panel today when I noticed that requests to a Datasette table page were triggering an

The products aren't good enough to sell people on the costs.

You cannot tell people that you have to listen to the whine of a data center in their backyard for AI overviews and some of the most hilarious deep fake slop in history.

It's not worth it. It just isn't worth it to anyone. And agents aren't real and they might not be being used the way that anyone want...