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Simon Willison’s Weblog

Quoting Tom Dale

Running Pydantic’s Monty Rust sandboxed Python subset in WebAssembly

An Update on Heroku

Open Source Projects - Latest Discoveries

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DEV Community

Aeon: A Zero-Allocation Go Time Library That Treats Time as “Containers” Rather Than “Offsets”
Build a Facebook Ad Spy Tool to Reverse-Engineer Winning Campaigns
Why I Built an Uptime Monitor as a Solo Dev
5 Tools for Your GitHub Profile
AI Hype but NO Result ?
PortSwigger’s Top 10 Web Hacking Techniques of 2025 — A Deep Dive
Heartbeats in OpenClaw: Cheap Checks First, Models Only When You Need Them
Solo Founders Are Beating Enterprises at AI Agents — Here’s How
The AI Agent Gap: Why 85% Want Agents But Only 11% Have Deployed Them
Why I Built an Uptime Monitor as a Solo Dev
I asked Opus 4.6 and Codex 5.2 to build the same thing, and I was surprised with the results
AI News Roundup: Claude Opus 4.6, OpenAI Frontier, and World Models for Driving

Hacker News: Best

💬 OpenCiv3: Open-source, cross-platform reimagining of Civilization III
🔥 The Waymo World Model
💬 Sheldon Brown’s Bicycle Technical Info
🔥 An Update on Heroku
🔥 Microsoft open-sources LiteBox, a security-focused library OS
🔥 Hackers (1995) Animated Experience
🔥 I now assume that all ads on Apple news are scams
🔥 TikTok’s ‘addictive design’ found to be illegal in Europe
🔥 A new bill in New York would require disclaimers on AI-generated news content
🔥 GitHub Actions is slowly killing engineering teams

Jeff Geerling

The first good Raspberry Pi Laptop

iDiallo.com

Open Molten Claw

Pluralistic: Luxury Kafka (06 Feb 2026)

Terence Eden’s Blog

Book Review: Diversifying Open Source - An Open Standards Playbook for Inclusive and Equitable Tech Projects by Paloma Oliveira ★★★★☆

The Old New Thing

How can I prevent the user from changing the widths of ListView columns in version 5 of the common controls?, part 2

John D. Cook

Eigenvalue homework problems are backward

🍵 Giles’ blog

Writing an LLM from scratch, part 32d – Interventions: adding attention bias

matklad

CI In a Box

Andrew Nesbitt

Crates.io’s Freaky Friday

Construction Physics

Reading List 02/06/2026

Susam Pal

Stories From 25 Years of Computing

Ed Zitron’s Where’s Your Ed At

Premium: The Hater’s Guide To Microsoft

The Digital Antiquarian

Ultima IX

Jim Nielsen’s Blog

Study Finds Obvious Truth Everybody Knows

The Silicon Underground

The first computer chip

Fabien Sanglard

Let’s compile Quake like it’s 1997!

Anil Dash

There’s no such thing as “tech” (Ten years later)