datasette-acl 0.6a0: Expanding to a General Resource-Sharing Permission System
Simon Willison's Weblog39 days agoReleasedatasette-acl 0.6a0 is an alpha release that broadens the plugin's scope from table-level access control to a general resource-sharing system for Datasette. Alex Garcia led most of the development, enabling multi-user Datasette instances to apply fine-grained permissions across a wider range of platform resources. As an alpha, it signals architectural direction rather than a stable feature set, but matters for teams building access-controlled, collaborative Datasette deployments.
datasette-tailscale 0.1a0
Simon Willison's Weblog41 days agoReleaseSimon Willison released datasette-tailscale 0.1a0, an experimental alpha plugin that connects a local Datasette server to a Tailscale private network (Tailnet) via a single CLI command. Using a Tailscale auth key and a hostname flag, it starts a localhost server alongside a Tailscale sidecar, making the database reachable at a friendly Tailnet URL. The plugin relies on Python bindings for the experimental tailscale-rs Rust library; Willison has filed an upstream issue about the proxy mechanism, indicating the implementation may change.
datasette-apps 0.1a3: Permission Bug Fixes for App Creation and Edit Access
Simon Willison's Weblog42 days agoReleaseThe 0.1a3 alpha release of datasette-apps patches two access-control bugs in the Datasette plugin ecosystem. First, a bypass that let users lacking the create-app permission create apps anyway has been closed. Second, it was previously impossible to grant edit or delete rights to non-owner users; the fix aligns those permissions with the existing view model — private apps remain owner-only, while non-private apps follow Datasette's standard permission system.
Vercel Plugin Is Now Available in Grok Build
Vercel Changelog47 days agoReleaseVercel announced that its plugin is now available in Grok Build. The changelog title suggests an integration between Vercel and xAI’s Grok Build environment, likely aimed at making it easier to use Vercel-related functionality from within that workflow. No article body was provided, so details such as supported commands, setup steps, pricing, limitations, or availability scope are not confirmed.