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Simon Willison's Weblog Supports Webmention

LLM 0.28

LLM 0.28 I released a new version of my LLM Python library and CLI tool for interacting with Large Language Models. Highlights from the release notes: New OpenAI models: gpt-5.1, gpt-5.1-chat-latest, gpt-5.2 and gpt-5.2-chat-latest. #1300, #1317 When fetching URLs as frag...

Mahad Kalam

Getting Rails' ActiveStorage blob IDs from file URLs

Learn how to extract ActiveStorage blob IDs from expiring ActiveStorage URLs.

Jeff Geerling
• Jeff Geerling

CM0 - a new Raspberry Pi you can't buy

CM0 - a new Raspberry Pi you can't buy

Raspberry Pi CM0

This little postage stamp is actually a full Raspberry Pi Zero 2, complete with eMMC storage and WiFi.

But you can't get one. Well, not unless you buy the CM0NANO development board from EDAtec, or you live in China.

This little guy doesn't have an HDMI port, Ethernet, or even USB. It's a special version of the 'Compute Module' line of boards. Little Raspberry Pi 'System on Modules' (SoMs), they're called.

Compute Modules are entire Linux computers about the size of a regular desktop CPU that you 'plug in' to another board, to give it life.

Jeff Geerling

Jeff Geerling
• Jeff Geerling

CM0 - a new Raspberry Pi you can't buy

Raspberry Pi CM0

This little postage stamp is actually a full Raspberry Pi Zero 2, complete with eMMC storage and WiFi.

But you can't get one. Well, not unless you buy the CM0NANO development board from EDAtec, or you live in China.

This little guy doesn't have an HDMI port, Ethernet, or even USB. It's a special version of the 'Compute Module' line of boards. Little Raspberry Pi 'System on Modules' (SoMs), they're called.

Matt Godbolt’s blog

Unswitching loops for fun and profit

Duplicating loops around can yield some decent optimisations

Krebs on Security
• BrianKrebs

Microsoft Patch Tuesday, December 2025 Edition

Microsoft today pushed updates to fix at least 56 security flaws in its Windows operating systems and supported software. This final Patch Tuesday of 2025 tackles one zero-day bug that is already being exploited, as well as two publicly disclosed vulnerabilities.

Simon Willison's Weblog Supports Webmention

GPT-5.2

OpenAI reportedly declared a "code red" on the 1st of December in response to increasingly credible competition from the likes of Google's Gemini 3. It's less than two weeks later and they just announced GPT-5.2, calling it "the most capable model series yet for professional...

the website of jyn
• jyn

what is a build system, anyway?

Some definitions and an overview of the world of build systems

Jeff Geerling
• Jeff Geerling

Benchmarking NVENC video transcoding on the Pi

Benchmarking NVENC video transcoding on the Pi

ASUS ProArt 4070 Ti in eGPU dock on Raspberry Pi CM5

Now that Nvidia GPUs run on the Raspberry Pi, I've been putting all the ones I own through their paces.

Many people have an older Nvidia card (like a 3060) laying around from an upgrade. So could a Pi be suitable for GPU-accelerated video transcoding, either standalone for conversion, or running something like Jellyfin for video library management and streaming?

That's what I set out to do, and the first step, besides getting the drivers and CUDA going (see blog post linked above), was to find a way to get a repeatable benchmark going.

Jeff Geerling

Jeff Geerling
• Jeff Geerling

Benchmarking NVENC video transcoding on the Pi

ASUS ProArt 4070 Ti in eGPU dock on Raspberry Pi CM5

Now that Nvidia GPUs run on the Raspberry Pi, I've been putting all the ones I own through their paces.

Many people have an older Nvidia card (like a 3060) laying around from an upgrade. So could a Pi be suitable for GPU-accelerated video transcoding, either standalone for conversion, or running something like Jellyfin for video library management and streaming?

That's what I set out to do, and the first step, besides getting the drivers and CUDA going (see blog post linked above), was to find a way to get a repeatable benchmark going.

Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
• Cory Doctorow

Pluralistic: Instacart reaches into your pocket and lops a third off your dollars (11 Dec 2025)

Today's links Instacart reaches into your pocket and lops a third off your dollars: A/B splitting your way into doing a total fucking racism. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Predicting the present; Caller eye-deer; RIP Robert Sheckley; Student prot...

Matt Godbolt’s blog

Pop goes the...population count?

Compilers can take advantage of some very specific instructions

Keygen Blog

Reconsider

On the discipline of thinking, debating, and reconsidering before committing.

Simon Willison's Weblog Supports Webmention

Useful patterns for building HTML tools

I've started using the term HTML tools to refer to HTML applications that I've been building which combine HTML, JavaScript, and CSS in a single file and use them to provide useful functionality. I have built over 150 of these in the past year, almost all of them written by ...

Simon Willison's Weblog Supports Webmention

The Normalization of Deviance in AI

The Normalization of Deviance in AI This thought-provoking essay from Johann Rehberger directly addresses something that I’ve been worrying about for quite a while: in the absence of any headline-grabbing examples of prompt injection vulnerabilities causing real economic har...

Computer Things Supports Webmention

Some Fun Software Facts

Simon Willison's Weblog Supports Webmention

Dark mode

I've never been particularly invested dark v.s. light mode but I get enough people complaining that this site is "blinding" that I decided to see if Claude Code for web could produce a useful dark mode from my existing CSS. It did a decent job, using CSS properties, @media (...

Matt Godbolt’s blog

Unrolling loops

Learning when the compiler decides to unroll loops for performance

Keygen Blog

Why fair source matters

On the meaning of "open source" and a path forward.

Simon Willison's Weblog Supports Webmention

10 Years of Let's Encrypt

10 Years of Let's Encrypt Internet Security Research Group co-founder and Executive Director Josh Aas: On September 14, 2015, our first publicly-trusted certificate went live. [...] Today, Let’s Encrypt is the largest certificate authority in the world in terms of certifica...