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Simon Willison’s Weblog

I ported JustHTML from Python to JavaScript with Codex CLI and GPT-5.2 in 4.5 hours

2025 Word of the Year: Slop

Engineering Leadership

OpenAI’s Report: The State of Enterprise AI

The Developing Dev

Boris Cherny (Creator of Claude Code) On How His Career Grew

Open Source Projects - Latest Discoveries

A simple cross-platform tool to hide files inside PNG images
Cloudflare error page generator
A highly opinionated, zero-configuration linter and formatter
Run interactive PHP code in a standalone REPL shell
GUI for managing BibTeX and BibLaTeX (.bib) databases
Automate complex workflows on Kubernetes
Build AI-powered slides from a single sentence or outline with nano banana 🍌

Hacker News: Best

🔥 Upcoming Changes to Let’s Encrypt Certificates
🔥 “Super secure” messaging app leaks everyone’s phone number
🔥 Problems with D-Bus on the Linux desktop
🔥 Pro-democracy HK tycoon Jimmy Lai convicted in national security trial
🔥 Thousands of U.S. farmers have Parkinson’s. They blame a deadly pesticide
🔥 Carrier Landing in Top Gun for the NES
💬 It seems that OpenAI is scraping [certificate transparency] logs
🔥 I’m Kenyan. I don’t write like ChatGPT, ChatGPT writes like me
🔥 Avoid UUID Version 4 Primary Keys in Postgres
💬 Arborium: Tree-sitter code highlighting with Native and WASM targets

DEV Community

I Built 24 Free Developer Tools - No Signup, No Ads, No BS
AWS S3 Vectors: Finally, Cloud Scalable Vector Storage 🚀
Beyond the Wire: Encrypting Messages Where the Message Never Exists
Edge ML Has a Size Obsession
Vibe Coding: From Hell to Heaven in One Insight
Readable, Leakproof API with zero cost abstraction.
Title: Lightspeed Ventures Secures Record-Breaking $9 Billion in Fresh Capital to Fuel AI Innovation
274. H-Index | LeetCode | Top Interview 150 | Coding Questions
Awesome Robots Digest - Issue #14 - December 12, 2025
What I’m trying to understand
Awesome Robots Digest - Issue #13 - December 5, 2025
Day 1286 : Swimming