Release: datasette-ports 0.1
Another example of README-driven development, this time solving a problem that might be unique to me.
I often find myself running a bunch of different Datasette instances with different databases and different in-d…
Eight years of wanting, three months of building with AI
Lalit Maganti provides one of my favorite pieces of long-form writing on agentic engineering I’ve seen in ages.
They spent eight years thinking about and then three months building syntaqli…
From anonymized U.S. ChatGPT data, we are seeing:
~2M weekly messages on health insurance
~600K weekly messages [classified as healthcare] from people living in “hospital deserts” (30 min drive to nearest hospital)
7 out of 10 msgs happen outside…
Tool: Syntaqlite Playground
Lalit Maganti’s syntaqlite is currently being discussed on Hacker News thanks to Eight years of wanting, three months of building with AI, a deep dive into exactly how it was built.
This inspired me to revisit a res…
Release: scan-for-secrets 0.2
CLI tool now streams results as they are found rather than waiting until the end, which is better for large directories.
-d/–directory option can now be used multiple times to scan multiple directories.
New -f/-…
Release: scan-for-secrets 0.1.1
Added documentation of the escaping schemes that are also scanned.
Removed unnecessary repr escaping scheme, which was already covered by json.
Release: scan-for-secrets 0.1
I like publishing transcripts of local Claude Code sessions using my claude-code-transcripts tool but I’m often paranoid that one of my API keys or similar secrets might inadvertently be revealed in the detailed l…
Release: research-llm-apis 2026-04-04
I’m working on a major change to my LLM Python library and CLI tool. LLM provides an abstraction layer over hundreds of different LLMs from dozens of different vendors thanks to its plugin system, and some…
[GitHub] platform activity is surging. There were 1 billion commits in 2025. Now, it’s 275 million per week, on pace for 14 billion this year if growth remains linear (spoiler: it won’t.)
GitHub Actions has grown from 500M minutes/week in 2023 to …
Vulnerability Research Is Cooked
Thomas Ptacek’s take on the sudden and enormous impact the latest frontier models are having on the field of vulnerability research.
Within the next few months, coding agents will drastically alter both the pract…