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llm-anthropic 0.22

llm-anthropic 0.22

New release of my llm-anthropic plugin:

The plugin previously powered LLM schemas using this tool-call based workaround. That code is still used for Anthropic's older models.

I also figured out uv recipes for running the plugin's test suite in an isolated environment, which are now baked into the new Justfile.

Tags: projects, python, ai, generative-ai, llms, llm, anthropic, claude, uv

Global News Podcast

The Happy Pod: Saving a drowning man changed me

26:42
We speak to a woman who saved the life of a kayaker, after spotting him floating face down in Idaho's Snake River. Rachelle Ruffing says knowing CPR allowed her to 'make a miracle' which has changed her, and everyone should learn how to do it. She says she still finds it har...

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• John Gruber

The Information: Second-Gen iPhone Air Postponed Until Spring 2027, but Might Gain Second Camera

theinformation.com/briefings/apple-explores-adding-second-camera-next-iphone-air-boost-sales

Wayne Ma and Qianer Liu, reporting for The Information on Tuesday (paywalled, alas, but summarized by 9to5Mac here and here): Apple has since sharply scaled back production of the first iPhone Air and delayed the release of an updated version that was meant to launch in ...

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• Superposition, Palestine, Quantum mechanics, Schrodinger’s cat, Gaza, Physics

Quantum Refuge

48:17
Qasem Waleed is a 28-year-old physicist who has lived in Gaza his whole life. In 2024, he joined a chorus of Palestinians sharing videos and pictures and writing about the chaos and violence they were living through, as Israel’s military bombardment devastated their lives. B...

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Beam Dump

We're adding some industrial flypaper to minimize reflection or scattering of customers who might complain.

Simon Willison's Weblog Supports Webmention

parakeet-mlx

parakeet-mlx

Neat MLX project by Senstella bringing NVIDIA's Parakeet ASR (Automatic Speech Recognition, like Whisper) model to to Apple's MLX framework.

It's packaged as a Python CLI tool, so you can run it like this:

uvx parakeet-mlx default_tc.mp3

The first time I ran this it downloaded a 2.5GB model file.

Once that was fetched it took 53 seconds to transcribe a 65MB 1hr 1m 28s podcast episode (this one) and produced this default_tc.srt file with a timestamped transcript of the audio I fed into it. The quality appears to be very high.

Tags: python, ai, nvidia, uv, mlx, speech-to-text

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• Jason Kottke

“A Personal Business is run by people who are truly into what...

“A Personal Business is run by people who are truly into what they are doing, and invested enough to offer products, services, and/or experiences that are both high-quality and idiosyncratic.”

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Jett Brunet carves incredibly realistic duck decoys....

Jett Brunet carves incredibly realistic duck decoys.

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This Black Fungus Might Be Healing Chernobyl By Drinking Radiation. The fungi...

This Black Fungus Might Be Healing Chernobyl By Drinking Radiation. The fungi contain melanin, which “absorbs radiation, which is then converted into usable energy, allowing it to grow in areas with intense radioactive exposure.”

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• John Gruber

iPhone Pockets Sold Out Within Hours

macrumors.com/2025/11/14/iphone-pocket-already-selling-out/

We have no idea how many of them they made, but seemingly, the price was not a problem for this product.

Link: macrumors.com/2025/11/14/iphone-pocket-already-selling-out/

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• Jason Kottke

The Farmers’ Almanac, citing a “chaotic media environment”, will cease publication after...

The Farmers’ Almanac, citing a “chaotic media environment”, will cease publication after their 2026 edition. The almanac dates back to 1818. (The Old Farmer’s Almanac, started in 1792, is still going.)

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• Jason Kottke

This seems promising: researchers have demonstrated that a “nanoparticle-based vaccine can effectively...

This seems promising: researchers have demonstrated that a “nanoparticle-based vaccine can effectively prevent melanoma, pancreatic and triple-negative breast cancer in mice”.

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Simon Willison's Weblog Supports Webmention

GPT-5.1 Instant and GPT-5.1 Thinking System Card Addendum

GPT-5.1 Instant and GPT-5.1 Thinking System Card Addendum I was confused about whether the new "adaptive thinking" feature of GPT-5.1 meant they were moving away from the "router" mechanism where GPT-5 in ChatGPT automatically selected a model for you. This page addresses th...

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• John Gruber

WSJ Report on the iPhone Air Pegs It as a ‘Flop’

wsj.com/tech/apple-iphone-air-sales-response-7f0c01f1?st=JEotAi&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

Rolfe Winkler and Yang Jie, reporting for The Wall Street Journal (gift link, News+ link) under the headline “Apple’s iPhone Air Is a Marketing Win and a Sales Flop” (which headline, going from the web page <title> element, was originally the less sensational “Apple’s ...

Accidental Tech Podcast

665: My Basement Is Beautiful

02:00:27
Follow-up: John has some new Vision Pro treats Flight Ready In the defense of the CD-R (via Jonathan Goforth) ATP Tier List: Storage Media Auto-generated chapters in Apple podcasts We’re dummies: ATP has a [chapter-free] bootleg Some more technical details (via ...

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• John Gruber

Tesla Is Working on CarPlay Support

bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-13/tesla-is-working-to-add-apple-carplay-in-bid-to-boost-vehicle-sales

Mark Gurman and Edward Ludlow, reporting for Bloomberg (paywalled, alas, but summarized by The Verge and Ars Technica) Tesla Inc. is developing support for Apple Inc.’s CarPlay system in its vehicles, according to people with knowledge of the matter, working to add one o...

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Introducing GPT-5.1 for developers

Introducing GPT-5.1 for developers OpenAI announced GPT-5.1 yesterday, calling it A smarter, more conversational ChatGPT. Today they've added it to their API. We actually got four new models today: gpt-5.1 gpt-5.1-chat-latest gpt-5.1-codex gpt-5.1-codex-mini There are a lo...

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Datasette 1.0a22

Datasette 1.0a22

New Datasette 1.0 alpha, adding some small features we needed to properly integrate the new permissions system with Datasette Cloud:

Plus a developer experience improvement for plugin authors:

Tags: projects, datasette, datasette-cloud, annotated-release-notes

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Nano Banana can be prompt engineered for extremely nuanced AI image generation

Nano Banana can be prompt engineered for extremely nuanced AI image generation Max Woolf provides an exceptional deep dive into Google's Nano Banana aka Gemini 2.5 Flash Image model, still the best available image manipulation LLM tool three months after its initial release....

Simon Willison's Weblog Supports Webmention

Quoting Nov 12th letter from OpenAI to Judge Ona T. Wang

On Monday, this Court entered an order requiring OpenAI to hand over to the New York Times and its co-plaintiffs 20 million ChatGPT user conversations [...] OpenAI is unaware of any court ordering wholesale production of personal information at this scale. This sets a dange...