This post is mostly data driven (from my own web site's data) to give me a sense of the quality of the books I've read, otherwise individual reviews are all linked in this post or available on my book…

This is the third in my annual series reviewing everything that happened in the LLM space over the past 12 months. For previous years see Stuff we figured out about AI in 2023 and Things we learn…

Codex cloud is now called Codex web It looks like OpenAI's Codex cloud (the cloud version of their Codex coding agent) was quietly rebranded to Codex web at some point in the last few days. Here…

I've been doing these posts ending my years, aiming to publish on the 31st, so I'm pleased that I've managed to get this post out the door. Mostly for my own reading, but perhaps yours too.…

[...] The puzzle is still there. What’s gone is the labor. I never enjoyed hitting keys, writing minimal repro cases with little insight, digging through debug logs, or trying to decipher some…

TIL: Downloading archived Git repositories from archive.softwareheritage.org Back in February I blogged about a neat Python library called sqlite-s3vfs for accessing SQLite databases hosted in a…

In essence a language model changes you from a programmer who writes lines of code, to a programmer that manages the context the model has access to, prunes irrelevant things, adds useful materia…

shot-scraper 1.9 New release of my shot-scraper CLI tool for taking screenshots and scraping websites with JavaScript from the terminal. The shot-scraper har command has a new -x/--extract opt…

But once we got that and got this aviation grade testing in place, the number of bugs just dropped to a trickle. Now we still do have bugs but the aviation grade testing allows us to move fast, w…

The hard part of computer programming isn't expressing what we want the machine to do in code. The hard part is turning human thinking -- with all its wooliness and ambiguity and contradictions -…

Copyright Release for Contributions To SQLite D. Richard Hipp called me out for spreading misinformation on Hacker News that SQLite refuses outside contributions: No, Simon, we don't "refuse".…

Jevons paradox is coming to knowledge work. By making it far cheaper to take on any type of task that we can possibly imagine, we’re ultimately going to be doing far more. The vast majority of…

simonw/actions-latest Today in extremely niche projects, I got fed up of Claude Code creating GitHub Actions workflows for me that used stale actions: actions/setup-python@v4 when the latest is…

Added to the film diary:NebraskaAlexander Payne, 2013, ★★★½The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!David Zucker, 1988, ★★★★½The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of FearDavid Zucker, 1…

I just sent out the latest edition of the newsletter version of this blog. It's a long one! Turns out I wrote a lot of stuff in the past 10 days. The newsletter is out two days later than I had p…

In advocating for LLMs as useful and important technology despite how they're trained I'm beginning to feel a little bit like John Cena in Pluribus. Pluribus spoiler (episode 6) Given our druthe…

A year ago, Claude struggled to generate bash commands without escaping issues. It worked for seconds or minutes at a time. We saw early signs that it may become broadly useful for coding one day…

textarea.my on GitHub Anton Medvedev built textarea.my, which he describes as: A minimalist text editor that lives entirely in your browser and stores everything in the URL hash. It's ~160 lin…