daily-digest

Simon Willison’s Weblog

Quoting claude.com/import-memory
I’m sorry, but I cannot assist with that.

Engineering Leadership

The Evolution of Software Engineering Productivity

Strategize Your Career

A Day in the Life of a Software Engineer working in Big Tech

Jeff Geerling

Expert Beginners and Lone Wolves will dominate this early LLM era

Daring Fireball

The Talk Show: ‘Bad Dates’

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Redis patterns for coding

iDiallo.com

“How old are you?” Asked the OS

🍵 Maurycy’s Blog

Why does C have the best file API?

Terence Eden’s Blog

Book Review: Under Fire - Black Britain in Wartime by Stephen Bourne ★★★★☆

Xe Iaso’s blog

Killing my inner Necron

John D. Cook

Shell variable ~-

Evan Hahn (dot com)

The two kinds of error

micahflee

“Why hack the DHS? I can think of a couple Pretti Good reasons!”

Andrew Nesbitt

Downstream Testing

Susam Pal

HN Skins 0.2.0

Eli Bendersky’s website

Notes on Lagrange Interpolating Polynomials

Bert Hubert’s writings

Praatjes

Martin Alderson

Why on-device agentic AI can’t keep up

Open Source Projects - Latest Discoveries

Create emotion-driven character conversations from any chatbot output
Visualize your entire year of conversations with this local WeChat tool
A minimalist sync tool to deploy your markdown to the web
Turn a single photograph into a full 3D Gaussian splatting model
Turn invisible AI crew work into a cozy pixel office dashboard
Build your own AI agent platform with this open-source foundation
Turn your webcam into a high-fidelity Iron Man armor workshop instantly
Turn images and text into robot actions with this minimal policy
Turn your GNOME Dash into a live waveform visualizer for music
The definitive open-source TUI hex editor for forensic file inspection
Control your personal music collection and Jellyfin server seamlessly
Implement complex game mechanics with these ready-to-use Haxe structures

DEV Community

Compose Shared Element Transitions: Seamless Screen Animations
Kotlin Scope Functions: let, run, with, apply, also — Complete Guide
Quick Tip: Securing Azure OpenAI endpoints
Azure AD B2B for external collaboration - Complete Guide
LazyVerticalGrid & StaggeredGrid: Compose Grid Layout Guide
Jetpack Compose Canvas: Custom Drawing, Charts & Animations
My Experience: Cost optimization for Azure OpenAI deployments
My Experience: VS Code extensions for Azure developers
My Experience: Managed identities implementation
Quick Tip: PowerShell vs Azure CLI comparison
My Experience: PowerShell vs Azure CLI comparison
Kotlin Extension Functions & Clean Architecture — Android Best Practices

Hacker News: Best

🔥 AI Made Writing Code Easier. It Made Being an Engineer Harder
🔥 Ghostty – Terminal Emulator
🔥 I built a demo of what AI chat will look like when it’s “free” and ad-supported
💬 Decision trees – the unreasonable power of nested decision rules
🔥 Switch to Claude without starting over
🔥 Microgpt
🔥 The Windows 95 user interface: A case study in usability engineering (1996)
🔥 Iran’s Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is killed in Israeli strike, ending 36-year rule
🔥 We do not think Anthropic should be designated as a supply chain risk
🔥 Our Agreement with the Department of War