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AI, LLMs, web engineering, open source, data science, Datasette, SQLite, Python and more.
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Avg Comments
6.4
Avg Likes
75.7
Engagement Rate
0.13%· ~82 likes + comments/post
(comments + likes) / subscribers
Quality Score
Engagement vs AI
0.13% engagement rate
Score Breakdown
Engagement Score
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| Have your agent record video demos of its work with shot-scraper videosqlite-utils 4.0rc2, mostly written by Claude Fable (for about $149.25)Jul 5, 2026 | Public |
| Porting the Moebius 0.2B image inpainting model to run in the browser with Claude Codesqlite-utils 4.0rc1 adds migrations and nested transactionsJun 26, 2026 | Public |
| Datasette Apps: Host custom HTML applications inside DatasetteGLM-5.2 is probably the most powerful text-only open weights LLMJun 19, 2026 | Public |
| Claude Fable is relentlessly proactiveI have a lot to say about Anthropic's new Mythos-class modelJun 13, 2026 | Public |
| Running Python code in a sandbox with MicroPython and WASMPlus Claude's containers, Uber's AI spending caps and OpenAI's lockdown modeJun 6, 2026 | Public |
| I think Anthropic and OpenAI have found product-market fitPlus Claude Opus 4.8: “a modest but tangible improvement”, and the Pope!May 29, 2026 | Public |
| Datasette Agent: an AI assistant for Datasette built on LLMPlus Gemini 3.5 Flash and more from Google I/OMay 22, 2026 | Public |
| The last six months in LLMs in five minutesIn this newsletter:May 19, 2026 | Public |
| Vibe coding and agentic engineering are getting closer than I’d likePlus updates from Anthropic's Code w/ Claude conferenceMay 8, 2026 | Public |
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Engagement Rate
0.13%
median: 0.00%
Posts per Week
1.1
median: 1.0
Publishing Consistency
78/100
median: 67/100
Subscribers
64K
median: 2K
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Publishing Frequency
Weekly
Last published Jul 10, 2026
Usually publishes Fri
1.1 posts/week avg
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