datasette-ports 0.1

Simon Willison’s Weblog Subscribe Sponsored by: WorkOS — Production-ready APIs for auth and access control, so you can ship faster. RELEASE datasette-ports 0.1 — Find all currently running Datasette instances and list their ports 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-development plugins, spreads across dozens of different terminal windows - enough that I frequently lose them! Now I can run this: datasette install datasette-ports datasette ports And get a list of every running instance that looks something like this: http://127.0.0.1:8333/ - v1.0a26 Databases: data Plugins: datasette-enrichments, datasette-enrichments-llm, datasette-llm, datasette-secrets http://127.0.0.1:8001/ - v1.0a26 Databases: creatures Plugins: datasette-extract, datasette-llm, datasette-secrets http://127.0.0.1:8900/ - v0.65.2 Databases: logs Posted 6th April 2026 at 12:23 am Recent articles The Axios supply chain attack used individually targeted social engineering - 3rd April 2026 Highlights from my conversation about agentic engineering on Lenny's Podcast - 2nd April 2026 Mr. Chatterbox is a (weak) Victorian-era ethically trained model you can run on your own computer - 30th March 2026 This is a beat by Simon Willison, posted on 6th April 2026. datasette 1471 Monthly briefing Sponsor me for $10/month and get a curated email digest of the month's most important LLM developments. Pay me to send you less! Sponsor & subscribe Disclosures Colophon © 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 2026