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Simon Willison’s Weblog

Quoting Robin Sloan

A field guide to sandboxes for AI

The Pragmatic Engineer

When AI writes almost all code, what happens to software engineering?

Open Source Projects - Latest Discoveries

See exactly how every website tracks you using browser fingerprinting.
Turn any video into an AI-powered summary and transcript instantly.
A command-line tool to download photos from iCloud
Build high-performance time-series databases for Industrial IoT
Automate your music discovery and playlist management
A Spell Checker for Code!
Simplify UI development with a comprehensive component library
Build and automate LLM evaluations with Python
Deploy a fast email client across Mac Windows and Linux
Add persistent memory to your Claude Code agent
Build real-time event streaming pipelines with SQL
Automate subtitle downloads for your Sonarr and Radarr libraries

Hacker News: Launches

💬 Launch HN: Tamarind Bio (YC W24) – AI Inference Provider for Drug Discovery

Hacker News: Best

🔥 Opus 4.5 is not the normal AI agent experience that I have had thus far
💬 Volkswagen Brings Back Physical Buttons
🔥 Why is the Gmail app 700 MB?
🔥 Vietnam bans unskippable ads
🔥 65% of Hacker News posts have negative sentiment, and they outperform
🔥 C Is Best (2025)
💬 Show HN: Prism.Tools – Free and privacy-focused developer utilities
🔥 AWS raises GPU prices 15% on a Saturday, hopes you weren’t paying attention
🔥 enclose.horse
🔥 The Post-American Internet

DEV Community

Dependency Tracking Fundamentals (I)
AI Trading: Lesson Learned #105: Post-Trade RAG Sync Was Missing
SRDD pitches
SRDD Is the Best AI Coding Methodology - entry
The journey of scaling a personal project into a community resource for 3D Pokémon assets.
AI Trading: Lesson Learned #093: Google Recommender CAV Not Useful for Trading
Apache Gravitino — 2025 Summary
Production Canary Architecture (what actually guarantees zero downtime)
Runtime 0.3.0: The Unified Serverless Framework for TypeScript
TDD for dbt: unit testing the way it should be
About This Documentation Infrastructure
SRDD (Part 4 of 4) - Scaling Up - SSRDD, Principles, and Implementation