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• John Gruber

Business Insider Profiles Fidji Simo, OpenAI’s ‘CEO of Applications’

businessinsider.com/fidji-simo-openai-product-research-profitability-profile-2026-3

Grace Kay, Ashley Stewart, and Pranav Dixit, writing for Business Insider (News+): “Part of bringing me on, and giving me the responsibilities of a CEO, was to make sure that I could really run that part of the company with autonomy,” Simo, whose title is CEO of applicat...

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datasette-llm 0.1a4

Release: datasette-llm 0.1a4

I released llm-echo 0.3 to provide an API key testing utility I needed for the tests for this new feature.

Tags: llm, datasette

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llm-all-models-async 0.1

Release: llm-all-models-async 0.1

LLM plugins can define new models in both sync and async varieties. The async variants are most common for API-backed models - sync variants tend to be things that run the model directly within the plugin.

My llm-mrchatterbox plugin is sync only. I wanted to try it out with various Datasette LLM features (specifically datasette-enrichments-llm) but Datasette can only use async models.

So... I had Claude spin up this plugin that turns sync models into async models using a thread pool. This ended up needing an extra plugin hook mechanism in LLM itself, which I shipped just now in LLM 0.30.

Tags: llm, async, python

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llm 0.30

Release: llm 0.30

  • The register_models() plugin hook now takes an optional model_aliases parameter listing all of the models, async models and aliases that have been registered so far by other plugins. A plugin with @hookimpl(trylast=True) can use this to take previously registered models into account. #1389
  • Added docstrings to public classes and methods and included those directly in the documentation.

Tags: llm

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llm-echo 0.4

Release: llm-echo 0.4

  • Prompts now have the input_tokens and output_tokens fields populated on the response.

Tags: llm

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llm-echo 0.3

Release: llm-echo 0.3

Tags: llm

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• John Gruber

RAM Is the New Bearer Bond

theatlantic.com/technology/2026/03/laptop-electronics-ram-ai-tax/686628/

Hana Kiros, writing for The Atlantic: Recently, a Costco in Florida instituted a new store policy. An employee told me that he was asked to open up every desktop computer displayed in the electronics section and remove the memory chips. Otherwise, the RAM harvesters woul...

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Jason Kottke

Mark Simonson reminisces about when he discovered type...

Mark Simonson reminisces about when he discovered type design. “The idea of coming up with an original alphabet design fired my imagination. And learning that it was possible to design type professionally was a revelation.”

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“By focusing its narrative on the tech industry...

“By focusing its narrative on the tech industry itself, Halt and Catch Fire’s staying power has only increased. The story it tells still has something to say about our present-day reality.”

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For the latest episode of Design Matters, Debbie Millman...

For the latest episode of Design Matters, Debbie Millman interviews Timothy Snyder about “how we misunderstand freedom, why truth and empathy are under threat, and what this political moment asks of us”. Millman is an *excellent* interviewer.

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• Molly White

Issue 103 – The President’s Council of Podcasters

Issue 103 – The President’s Council of Podcasters

Coinbase is accused of holding the cryptocurrency industry hostage over stablecoin rewards, prediction markets face an onslaught of opposition, and a Stand With Crypto poll can’t even get enthusiasm from its own activists

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Jason Kottke

Endgame for the Open Web , brought on by LLM bots,...

Endgame for the Open Web, brought on by LLM bots, content summarizing while driving no traffic, increasing paywalls for information of all kinds, locking down APIs (due to AI abuse), attacks on Wikipedia, disruption of open source communities, etc.

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• John Gruber

Jensen Huang Doesn’t Smell Anything

bsky.app/profile/carnage4life.bsky.social/post/3mhnqozt7fs2n

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, during an on-stage interview at The Hill & Valley Forum last week, was asked “What do you see as America’s unique advantages that other countries don’t have?”

His answer, after taking a moment to think, “America’s unique advantage that no country could possibly have is President Trump.”

Huang, newly appointed to the aforelinked President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, seemingly doesn’t smell the growing stink.

Link: bsky.app/profile/carnage4life.bsky.social/post…

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• John Gruber

Appointees to Trump’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology

whitehouse.gov/releases/2026/03/president-trump-announces-appointments-to-presidents-council-of-advisors-on-science-and-technology/

The White House: The Council will be co-chaired by David Sacks and Michael Kratsios. The following individuals have been appointed: Marc Andreessen Sergey Brin Safra Catz Michael Dell Jacob DeWitte Fred Ehrsam Larry Ellison David Friedberg Jensen Huang John Mar...

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Jason Kottke

NASA’s LRO found a new crater on the Moon...

NASA’s LRO found a new crater on the Moon…it’s 225 meters across and 43 meters deep. “According to predictions based on other lunar landmarks, a crater that big should form only once in 139 years.”

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• John Gruber

Technical Analysis of the Android Version of the White House’s New App

blog.thereallo.dev/blog/decompiling-the-white-house-app

Thereallo, after spelunking inside the APK bundle for the Android version: Has a full GPS tracking pipeline compiled in that polls every 4.5 minutes in the foreground and 9.5 minutes in the background, syncing lat/lng/accuracy/timestamp to OneSignal’s servers. Loads Jav...

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Hegseth: US 'closer than ever' to defeating Iran

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US Defence Secretary says President Trump is willing to make a deal to end the fighting, but if Iran doesn't accept the terms, the war will continue. Also: Israel's defence minister says his country's forces will destroy all homes in Lebanese villages adjacent to the Israeli...

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Jason Kottke

The US Is the Last Big Petrostate

In a conversation with economist Paul Krugman, climate journalist David Roberts asserts that the United States and China are going in different directions in energy, one forwards and one back. One of the grand international stories right now — though it’s very hard when yo...

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Jason Kottke

Help! My Favorite Athlete Is an Idiot (Alt headline:...

Help! My Favorite Athlete Is an Idiot (Alt headline: When Sports Heroes Have Terrible Opinions). “Just root for the jersey and not necessarily the nitwit wearing it?”