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Simon Willison's Weblog Supports Webmention

Text a community college librarian

I take tap dance evening classes at the College of San Mateo community college. A neat bonus of this is that I'm now officially a student of that college, which gives me access to their library... including the ability to send text messages to the librarians asking for help ...

the website of jyn
• jyn

I want a better build executor

I want a way to gradually transition existing builds to be hermetic.

Jeff Geerling
• Jeff Geerling

The RAM Shortage Comes for Us All

The RAM Shortage Comes for Us All

Memory price inflation comes for us all, and if you're not affected yet, just wait.

I was building a new PC last month using some parts I had bought earlier this year. The 64 Gigabyte T-Create DDR5 memory kit I used cost $209 then. Today? The same kit costs $650!

Jeff Geerling

Jeff Geerling
• Jeff Geerling

The RAM Shortage Comes for Us All

Memory price inflation comes for us all, and if you're not affected yet, just wait.

I was building a new PC last month using some parts I had bought earlier this year. The 64 Gigabyte T-Create DDR5 memory kit I used cost $209 then. Today? The same kit costs $650!

Just in the past week, we found out Raspberry Pi's increasing their single board computer prices. Micron's killing the Crucial brand of RAM and storage devices completely, meaning there's gonna be one fewer consumer memory manufacturer. Samsung can't even buy RAM from themselves to build their own Smartphones, and small vendors like Libre Computer and Mono are seeing RAM prices double, triple, or even worse, and they're not even buying the latest RAM tech!

DYNOMIGHT Valid
• dynomight

Why the chicken crossed the road, according to various entities

an uncontrollable need

Troy Hunt Supports Webmention
• Troy Hunt

Why Does Have I Been Pwned Contain "Fake" Email Addresses?

Why Does Have I Been Pwned Contain "Fake" Email Addresses?

Normally, when someone sends feedback like this, I ignore it, but it happens often enough that it deserves an explainer, because the answer is really, really simple. So simple, in fact, that it should be evident to the likes of Bruce, who decided his misunderstanding deserved a 1-star Trustpilot review

the website of jyn
• jyn

I want a better action graph serialization

Makefiles and Ninja files have limitations, separate from the implementing tool. How can we fix them?

Jeff Geerling
• Jeff Geerling

Why doesn't Apple make a standalone Touch ID?

Why doesn't Apple make a standalone Touch ID?

I finally upgraded to a mechanical keyboard. But because Apple's so protective of their Touch ID hardware, there aren't any mechanical keyboards with that feature built in.

Apple Touch ID - external 3D printed sensor

But there is a way to hack it. It's incredibly wasteful, and takes a bit more patience than I think most people have, but you basically take an Apple Magic Keyboard with Touch ID, rip out the Touch ID, and install it in a 3D printed box, along with the keyboard's logic board.

Jeff Geerling

Jeff Geerling
• Jeff Geerling

Why doesn't Apple make a standalone Touch ID?

I finally upgraded to a mechanical keyboard. But because Apple's so protective of their Touch ID hardware, there aren't any mechanical keyboards with that feature built in.

Apple Touch ID - external 3D printed sensor

But there is a way to hack it. It's incredibly wasteful, and takes a bit more patience than I think most people have, but you basically take an Apple Magic Keyboard with Touch ID, rip out the Touch ID, and install it in a 3D printed box, along with the keyboard's logic board.

Simon Willison's Weblog Supports Webmention

Quoting Mitchell Hashimoto

Since the beginning of the project in 2023 and the private beta days of Ghostty, I've repeatedly expressed my intention that Ghostty legally become a non-profit. [...] I want to squelch any possible concerns about a "rug pull". A non-profit structure provides enforceable as...

Mitchell Hashimoto Valid

Ghostty Is Now Non-Profit

Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
• Cory Doctorow

Pluralistic: A year in illustration (2025 edition) (03 Dec 2025)

Today's links A year in illustration (2025 edition): I think I'm getting the hang of this? Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: HADOPI is born; Tea Party wants to disenfranchise renters; How to kill TPP; Mozilla ejects Thunderbird; Rosa Parks was a life...

Herman's blog
• herman

Grow slowly, stay small

A more sustainable way to do business

Simon Willison's Weblog Supports Webmention

TIL: Dependency groups and uv run

TIL: Dependency groups and uv run I wrote up the new pattern I'm using for my various Python project repos to make them as easy to hack on with uv as possible. The trick is to use a PEP 735 dependency group called dev, declared in pyproject.toml like this: [dependency-groups...

Jim Nielsen’s Blog Valid

Grow, Like a Tree Not a Cancer

As ever, Mandy Brown casually drops a blog post that makes you examine the everyday meaning of words: One of the imperatives in contemporary, professional work culture is to “grow.” There is often a sense of height or largeness with that imperative, as if growth must be mea...

the website of jyn
• jyn

negative build dependencies

A build system needs to know not just which files exist, but which shouldn't exist.

Fabien Sanglard

Why WinQuake exists and how it works

Anil Dash Valid

Vibe Coding: Empowering and Imprisoning

In case you haven’t been following the world of software development closely, it’s good to know that vibe coding — using LLM tools to assist with writing code — can help enable many people to create apps or software that they wouldn’t otherwise be able to make. This has...

Simon Willison's Weblog Supports Webmention

Anthropic acquires Bun

Anthropic acquires Bun Anthropic just acquired the company behind the Bun JavaScript runtime, which they adopted for Claude Code just in July. Their announcement includes an impressive revenue update on Claude Code: In November, Claude Code achieved a significant milestone:...

Simon Willison's Weblog Supports Webmention

Introducing Mistral 3

Introducing Mistral 3 Four new models from Mistral today: three in their "Ministral" smaller model series (14B, 8B, and 3B) and a new Mistral Large 3 MoE model with 675B parameters, 41B active. All of the models are vision capable, and they are all released under an Apache 2...