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Simon Willison’s Weblog

Introducing Deno Sandbox

January sponsors-only newsletter is out

Quoting Brandon Sanderson

The Pragmatic Engineer

Deepdive: How 10 tech companies choose the next generation of dev tools

Manager.dev

7 Slack hacks for engineers and managers

The Developing Dev

I Quit My Job

Open Source Projects - Latest Discoveries

The open-source tool to convert documentation into Claude AI skills
Zero-trust Opensource Network Management and Observability Platform
A BitTorrent Client in your Terminal
Send and receive WhatsApp messages directly from your terminal session
A minimalist CLI to create and manage custom QR codes anywhere
Control your entire development environment from any messenger app
A minimalist MacOS tool to manage your entire dynamic wallpaper workflow

DEV Community

FluentValidation in ASP.NET Core: Why One Validator per Request Is the Real Best Practice
The Visible Effort
From dataset to deployment: An end-to-end QA checklist for data scientists
My First Steps in a Tough World (SRE/DevOps)
Building OmniSave: A Lightweight Social Media Utility Hub for 2026 🚀
Strangler Fig on IBM Kubernetes: Modernizing a Monolith Without Breaking Production
SQLite is All You Need: The “One-Person Stack” for 2026
DevOps Monitoring & Alerting — Real-World Lab (Prometheus + Grafana)
How I Run 24/7 Automations for FREE Using GitHub Actions (No Servers Needed)
Using a Docker Sandbox for a Coding Agent
Building AI-Powered Applications: Lessons from the Trenches
Skip the Cloud, Not the Control: Running AI Models Locally with Docker Model Runner

Hacker News: Launches

💬 Launch HN: Modelence (YC S25) – App Builder with TypeScript / MongoDB Framework

Hacker News: Best

🔥 Xcode 26.3 – Developers can leverage coding agents directly in Xcode
🔥 Deno Sandbox
🔥 France dumps Zoom and Teams as Europe seeks digital autonomy from the US
💬 X offices raided in France
🔥 Qwen3-Coder-Next
🔥 Agent Skills
🔥 Bunny Database
🔥 What’s up with all those equals signs anyway?
🔥 Floppinux – An Embedded Linux on a Single Floppy, 2025 Edition
🔥 Banning lead in gas worked. The proof is in our hair

Pluralistic: Michael Swanwick’s “The Universe Box” (03 Feb 2026)

Terence Eden’s Blog

The cost of running OpenBenches.org

Wandering Thoughts: Your feed reader is fetching from a limited network area

Your feed reader is fetching from a limited network area

The Old New Thing

Some small stories about the giant satellite dish antenna that was behind Microsoft Building 11

John D. Cook

Polish serenity

Andrew Nesbitt

Incident Report: CVE-2024-YIKES

Entropic Thoughts

Laws of Succession

The Silicon Underground

When Bill Gates claimed to work for $2 an hour

Steve Blank

Making the Wrong Things Go Faster at The Department of War

Experimental History

Underrated ways to change the world, vol. II