For anyone who has been taking my pelican riding a bicycle benchmark seriously as a robust way to test models, here are pelicans from this morning’s two big model releases – Qwen3.6-35B-A3B from Alibaba and Claude Opus 4.7 from Anthropic.
Here’s t…
Tool: datasette.io news preview
The datasette.io website has a news section built from this news.yaml file in the underlying GitHub repository. The YAML format looks like this:
– date: 2026-04-15
body: |-
[Datasette 1.0a27](https://docs….
Release: datasette-export-database 0.3a1
This plugin was using the ds_csrftoken cookie as part of a custom signed URL, which needed upgrading now that Datasette 1.0a27 no longer sets that cookie.
Tags: datasette
Release: datasette 1.0a27
Two major changes in this new Datasette alpha. I covered the first of those in detail yesterday – Datasette no longer uses Django-style CSRF form tokens, instead using modern browser headers as described by Filippo Va…
The real goldmine isn’t that Apple gets a cut of every App Store transaction. It’s that Apple’s platforms have the best apps, and users who are drawn to the best apps are thus drawn to the iPhone, Mac, and iPad. That edge is waning. Not because so…
Gemini 3.1 Flash TTS
Google released Gemini 3.1 Flash TTS today, a new text-to-speech model that can be directed using prompts.
It’s presented via the standard Gemini API using gemini-3.1-flash-tts-preview as the model ID, but can only output aud…
Tool: Gemini 3.1 Flash TTS
See my notes on Google’s new Gemini 3.1 Flash TTS text-to-speech model.
Tags: gemini, google
I think we will see some people employed (though perhaps not explicitly) as meat shields: people who are accountable for ML systems under their supervision. The accountability may be purely internal, as when Meta hires human beings to review the d…
Release: datasette-ports 0.3
A small update for my tool for helping me figure out what all of the Datasette instances on my laptop are up to.
Show working directory derived from each PID
Show the full path to each database file
Output now …
Zig 0.16.0 release notes: "Juicy Main"
Zig has really good release notes – comprehensive, detailed, and with relevant usage examples for each of the new features.
Of particular note in the newly released Zig 0.16.0 is what they are call…