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Simon Willison’s Weblog

Quoting Jeremy Daer

Open Source Projects - Latest Discoveries

The open-source tool to scrape any website with AI intelligence

The open-source downloader that prepares videos for your home media server

Reverse engineer any WhatsApp number for privacy and device analysis

Unlimited cloud storage using your existing Telegram account as backend

Turn your research questions into structured AI experiments and analysis

Turn your Linux terminal into an AI-powered command line assistant

Learn how to design large-scale systems.

A minimalist Rust CLI to manage your entire terminal file workflow

The open-source visual editor for React components and pages

Stop using app stores for updates get them from the source instead

An open-source alternative to CleanShot

Hacker News: Best

🔥 2025 was the third hottest year on record
🔥 The recurring dream of replacing developers

💬 ASCII characters are not pixels: a deep dive into ASCII rendering

🔥 PCs refuse to shut down after Microsoft patch
🔥 After 25 years, Wikipedia has proved that news doesn’t need to look like news

🔥 US electricity demand surged in 2025 – solar handled 61% of it

💬 Map To Poster – Create Art of your favourite city

💬 ClickHouse acquires Langfuse

💬 FLUX.2 [Klein]: Towards Interactive Visual Intelligence

🔥 LWN is currently under the heaviest scraper attack seen yet

DEV Community

How I Built a Donation Website in 8 Hours (And Why)

Title: LA Clippers Owner Steve Ballmer Faces Fraud Allegations Over Kawhi Leonard’s Compensation

当 AI 变成我的”超强员工

Redacting Sensitive Data in Go’s slog: A Practical Guide with masq

The Simple Trick That Makes a List of 50,000 Render Smoothly

Stop Feeding “Junk” Tokens to Your LLM. (I Built a Proxy to Fix It)

New Year, New You Portfolio Challenge: THE OTHER SIDE

Why I Make Claude Argue With Itself Before Writing Code

Arch Linux Running Slow? Here’s How to Actually Fix It

EIOC Guard™ Runbook: SOC‑Style Emotional Incident Response

Why Most Developers Get Bad AI Output (And How I Fixed It in VS Code)

Why Service Mesh Never Took Off (Despite Being Incredibly Powerful)