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Simon Willison converts browser compatibility data to SQLite using AI tools

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Simon Willison has created a SQLite database from Mozilla's browser compatibility data, inspired by their new MDN MCP service. He utilized Claude Code (Opus 4.8) to generate a script for this conversion and employed Codex Desktop (GPT-5.5) to set up a GitHub Actions workflow. This workflow automatically builds the database and pushes it to an orphan branch on GitHub, making the ~66MB file accessible via the GitHub CDN with open CORS headers for use with tools like Datasette Lite. AI

IMPACT Demonstrates AI's utility in data management and workflow automation for developers.

RANK_REASON The item describes the use of AI models to create a tool and a workflow for managing data, rather than a new AI model release or significant research.

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Simon Willison converts browser compatibility data to SQLite using AI tools

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    simonw/browser-compat-db

    <p><strong><a href="https://github.com/simonw/browser-compat-db">simonw/browser-compat-db</a></strong></p> Inspired by Mozilla's <a href="https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/blog/introducing-mdn-mcp-server/">new MDN MCP service</a> - <a href="https://github.com/mdn/mcp">source co…

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