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Welcome to the Datasette blog

Simon Willison · Simon Willison · 2026-05-13

Simon Willison announces an official Datasette project blog, built using OpenAI Codex desktop's Markdown session transcript export feature, with a promise of upcoming Datasette announcements.

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Topics: datasetteai-assisted-programmingcodexopenai

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  • The Datasette project has launched an official blog to house upcoming project announcements.
  • The blog was built using OpenAI Codex desktop.
  • OpenAI Codex desktop has a Markdown session transcript export feature that Willison has long wanted.

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I built this using OpenAI Codex desktop, which turns out to have the Markdown session transcript export feature I've always wanted.