datasette 1.0a30
Datasette 1.0a30 introduces a new customizable 'Jump to...' menu feature. This menu allows users to quickly navigate to specific items within the application. The update includes a new plugin hook, jump_items_sql(), enabling plugins to contribute their own items to the search set.
- ▪The new 'Jump to...' menu is a significant feature in Datasette 1.0a30.
- ▪Users can access the feature by visiting latest.datasette.io and hitting '/'.
- ▪The jump_items_sql() plugin hook allows for enhanced customization by plugins.
Simon Willison files mainly under blogs. We currently carry 73 of its stories.
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Attribution is not the same as permission. This drawer separates discovery metadata, excerpts, WeSearch-generated summaries, reuse status, and whether the publisher receives the visit. Nothing here claims a legal grant the publisher has not made.
Record
| Original publisher | Simon Willison |
| Canonical URL | https://simonwillison.net/2026/May/24/datasette/#atom-everything |
| Publication time | 2026-05-24T23:52:37+00:00 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-05-25T00:07:34.943Z |
| Last seen | 2026-05-25T00:07:34.943Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | None |
| Cluster logic | Not yet clustered, or no peer story found in the clustering window. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
Rights status (four layers)
WeSearch handling by dimension
| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
Opening excerpt (first ~120 words) tap to expand
The big new feature in this alpha is a new customizable "Jump to..." menu, described in detail in The extensible "Jump to" menu in Datasette 1.0a30 on the Datasette blog. You can try it out by hitting / on latest.datasette.io - it looks like this: The new jump_items_sql() plugin hook allows plugins to add their own items to the set that's searched by the plugin.
Excerpt limited to ~120 words for fair-use compliance. The full article is at Simon Willison.
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