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Incidents are boring. Most of what you actually do during an incident is wait: for some other team to investigate, or for a deploy to finish, or for the result of some change to become apparent, or for someone else who’s been paged to come online. It’s stressful, but there’s...

I really, really want local models to work. I want them to work in the very practical sense that I can open my coding agent, pick a local model, and get something that feels competitive enough that I do not immediately switch back to a hosted API after five minutes. There a...

Wander Console 0.6.0 is now available. This is the sixth release of Wander, a small, decentralised, self-hosted web console that lets visitors to your website discover interesting websites and pages recommended by a community of independent website owners. To try ...

Cruise ships are bad for the world.

Oh boy yet more linux kernel vulns

Release: llm-gemini 0.31

• gemini-3.1-flash-lite is no longer a preview.

Here's my write-up of the Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite Preview model back in March. I don't believe this new non-preview model has changed since then.

Tags: llm-release, gemini, llm, google, generative-ai, ai, llms

Tool: Big Words

I'm using my vibe coded macOS presentations tool to put together a talk, and I wanted to add a slide with some text on it. The tool only accepts URLs, so I put together a quick page that accepts query string arguments and turns them into a simple slide.

Here's an example: https://tools.simonwillison.net/big-words?text=simonwillison.net&gradient=1&size=9.5

Double click or double tap the page to access a form for modifying the different options.

Tags: vibe-coding, tools

Tool: GitHub Repo Stats

One of the things I always look for when evaluating a new GitHub repository is the number of commits it has... but that number isn't visible on GitHub's mobile site layout. I built this tool to fix that, using this prompt:

Given a GitHub repo URL or foo/bar repo ID show information about that repo absorbed via wither REST or graphql CORS fetch() including the number of commits in the repo and other useful stats

Example output for simonw/datasette and simonw/llm.

Tags: github

Behind the Scenes Hardening Firefox with Claude Mythos Preview Fascinating, in-depth details on how Mozilla used their access to the Claude Mythos preview to locate and then fix hundreds of vulnerabilities in Firefox: Suddenly, the bugs are very good Just a few months ago, ...

There weren't a lot of big new announcements from Anthropic at yesterday's Code w/ Claude event, but the biggest by far was the deal they've struck with SpaceX/xAI to use "all of the capacity of their Colossus data center". As I mentioned in my live blog of the keynote, that...

Mostly not very long

LibreNMS has been a faithful companion for years now. It quietly handles the monitoring of my servers, devices, and services without demanding much in return - exactly what you want from a tool whose job is to watch over everything else. It's a solid alternative to heavier ...

The next metaphor after free-as-in-puppy

Today's links Bubbles are REALLY evil: Bernie Ebbers got what was coming to him. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Mozilla v DHS wiretaps; Judge v FCC's internet wiretaps; Foxconn workers must promise not to kill themselves; "Shannon's Law"; How to p...

Dwarkesh Patel1 recently posted an award for the best answers to four key questions about AI. It’s partly a challenge and partly a job interview, since some of the winners will get offered a role as a “research collaborator”. I don’t want the job, but I do want to write down...

Since about three years past time immemorial, the RSS feed for this site has been very anaemic. It had article titles and dates, and that was it. Many readers have requested that I include the full article in the feed, or at least a preview, but I’ve always put it off because it has sounded difficult to accomplish technically.

The way the RSS feed for this site is generated is in two steps:

1. First a little loop in Emacs Lisp runs through the first few items of a sorted and filtered list of files belonging to this project. This loop constructs an org-element syntax tree for the RSS feed, and renders it out to a temporary file as an Org mode file.
2. Then the regular Org exporting framework takes over and exports that file as an RSS file using the ox-rss backend.

(Continue reading the full article on the web.)

This is the seventh chapter of my SQLAlchemy 2 in Practice book. If you'd like to support my work, I encourage you to buy this book, either directly from my store or on Amazon. Thank you!

Starting with release 1.4, SQLAlchemy includes support for asynchronous programming with the asyncio package, for both the Core and ORM modules. This is an exciting improvement that brings the power of SQLAlchemy to modern applications such as those written with the FastAPI web framework.

I'm at Anthropic's Code w/ Claude event in 2026, and I'll be live blogging the keynote and a few other notes throughout the day.

Tags: ai, generative-ai, llms, anthropic, claude, live-blog