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Simon Willison’s Weblog

Vouch

Claude: Speed up responses with fast mode

Quoting David Crawshaw

How StrongDM’s AI team build serious software without even looking at the code

Open Source Projects - Latest Discoveries

The Ultra-Lightweight Clawdbot
Open Speech-to-Text recording tool with real-time volume metering and transcription.
Find vulnerabilities and generate SBOMs across your entire software supply chain
A secure Python interpreter for AI written in minimalist Rust
Run your entire encrypted networking stack from a simple command line
Manage your entire budget with a tool that never sends data to the cloud

DEV Community

Fastfood: Approximate Kernel Expansions in Loglinear Time
The first real AI platform war is about ads (and that should worry builders)
Measuring Model Hallucinations: When AI Invents Facts
What is the DIETClassifier?
My First Week With OpenClaw: An AI That Actually Runs Your PC
How I Built a $29/mo Managed AI Agent Service on Open Source
Testing Antrieb: Deploying MongoDB with Authentication for a Flask + React App
My take on transforming data
Reconstruction of the conditions of control over superintelligence
The world of AWS Cloud
From Messy Wearables to Insights: Building a Personal Health Data Warehouse with DuckDB & Evidence
Stop Guessing Your Health! Build a “Personal Health Oracle” using RAG, Pinecone, and PubMed

Hacker News: Best

🔥 We mourn our craft
💬 SectorC: A C Compiler in 512 bytes
🔥 U.S. jobs disappear at fastest January pace since great recession
🔥 British drivers over 70 to face eye tests every three years
🔥 France’s homegrown open source online office suite
🔥 Coding agents have replaced every framework I used
💬 Hoot: Scheme on WebAssembly
🔥 The AI boom is causing shortages everywhere else
💬 Vocal Guide – belt sing without killing yourself
🔥 Why I Joined OpenAI

Jeff Geerling

Exploring a Modern SMTPE 2110 Broadcast Truck With My Dad

Pluralistic: End of the line for video essays (07 Feb 2026)

Terence Eden’s Blog

Reputation Scores for GitHub Accounts

Xe Iaso’s blog

Zendesk, get your shit together please

John D. Cook

Minimum of cosine sum

Andrew Nesbitt

Dependency Resolution Methods

Tedium: The Dull Side of the Internet.

A Quiet Townhouse, A Great Gift

Bert Hubert’s writings

Updates 7 februari: Tweede Kamer, TV Bureau Buitenland