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Simon Willison’s Weblog

Anthropic invests $1.5 million in the Python Software Foundation and open source security

The Pragmatic Engineer

Design Systems for Software Engineers

Martin Fowler

Stop Picking Sides: Manage the Tension Between Adaptation and Optimization

Open Source Projects - Latest Discoveries

Docker image & resource cleanup helper, on a schedule.
A collection of learning resources for curious software engineers
A curated list of tutorials to learn programming through projects.
An open-source plugin to unify your entire game library on Steam Deck.

Hacker News: Best

🔥 We can’t have nice things because of AI scrapers
💬 Signal leaders warn agentic AI is an insecure, unreliable surveillance risk
🔥 AI Generated Music Barred from Bandcamp
🔥 90M people. 118 hours of silence. One nation erased from the internet
🔥 Influencers and OnlyFans models are dominating U.S. O-1 visa requests
💬 Scott Adams has died
🔥 What a year of solar and batteries saved us in 2025
🔥 Scott Adams has died
🔥 Anthropic invests $1.5M in the Python Software Foundation
🔥 Apple Creator Studio

DEV Community

Claude Code Experiment: More Tokens Doesn’t Mean Better Code
Troubleshooting EFS Mount Failures in EKS: The IAM Mount Option Mystery
Starting From Zero: My First Real Win Learning Cloud & DevOps on Windows
From Raw DNA to Deep Insights: Building a Personal Genomics RAG with LangChain and PubMed
Rise of the Agentic “Strangler Fig” Strategy
Building a Forensic Image Analyser: Bridging the Gap in OSINT Investigations
Simple Leave Management with AWS Lambda Durable Functions
Scetion 4 completeted!! 🥳
I Built an AI Research Agent to Cure My “Doomscrolling” Addiction
Building a Biometric Crypto Wallet (That Actually Works!)
Automating Developer Documentation: Why I built an AI Readme Generator
Stop sending Word docs. Use this JSON proposal standard.