daily-digest

Simon Willison’s Weblog

Introducing GPT‑5.4

Can coding agents relicense open source through a “clean room” implementation of code?

Yegor Bugayenko

Fast Software: More Programmers, Not Fewer

Engineering Leadership

Inside OpenAI’s Engineering Culture: How the Teams Behind ChatGPT Work

The Pragmatic Engineer

The Pulse: AWS region knocked offline by drone attack in historic first

Martin Fowler

Ideological Resistance to Patents, Followed by Reluctant Pragmatism

Daring Fireball

Steve Jobs in 2007, on Apple’s Pursuit of PC Market Share: ‘We Just Can’t Ship Junk’

Pluralistic: Blowtorching the frog (05 Mar 2026) executive-dysfunction

Terence Eden’s Blog

Book Review: Katabasis by R. F. Kuang ★★★★⯪

The Old New Thing

The mystery of the posted message that was dispatched before reaching the main message loop

Armin Ronacher’s Thoughts and Writings

AI And The Ship of Theseus

matklad

JJ LSP Follow Up

Andrew Nesbitt

Package Manager Magic Files

Susam Pal

Feb ‘26 Notes

Jan ‘26 Notes

The Silicon Underground

Remembering the Michelangelo virus

Open Source Projects - Latest Discoveries

A Go-based monitoring agent that finds anomalies and explains them through interactive chat
Build self-updating knowledge graphs that your AI agents can query live
Create native desktop apps with the simplicity of Go and JavaScript
Unlock hidden features in your Android apps with this open-source patcher
A minimalist tiling compositor that gives you complete control over your workflow

DEV Community

Full Auto — What It Feels Like When No One’s Watching
Updated Test Article
Scaling AI/ML Workloads: 3 Architecture Lessons from HashiConf 2023
Introducing ACP: An Open Protocol for Agent-to-Agent Commerce
I built a free browser-based image toolkit with JavaScript
From Black Box to Traceable Swarm: OpenTelemetry Patterns for AI Agents
Cost Tracking, Auth & Production Hardening
Boosting Lightweight ETL on AWS Lambda & Glue Python Shell with DuckDB and Apache Arrow Dataset
Build Your First Paid Agent Service in 10 Minutes
Simple Python Login System
The SaaS Architecture Guide: How to Handle Multitenancy in Rails Routing
How to Audit What Your AI Agents Actually Did — Visual Behavioral Proof with PageBolt

Hacker News: Launches

💬 Launch HN: Vela (YC W26) – AI for complex scheduling

Hacker News: Best

🔥 Pentagon formally labels Anthropic supply-chain risk
🔥 GPT-5.4
💬 The government uses targeted advertising to track your location
💬 A GitHub Issue Title Compromised 4k Developer Machines
🔥 Wikipedia was in read-only mode following mass admin account compromise
💬 Google Safe Browsing missed 84% of confirmed phishing sites
🔥 Judge orders government to begin refunding more than $130B in tariffs
🔥 Good software knows when to stop
🔥 No right to relicense this project
🔥 Nvidia PersonaPlex 7B on Apple Silicon: Full-Duplex Speech-to-Speech in Swift