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Hacking the WiFi-enabled color screen GitHub Universe conference badge
Simon Willison
I'm at GitHub Universe this week (thanks to a free ticket from Microsoft). Yesterday I picked up my conference badge... which incorporates a full Raspberry Pi with a battery, color screen, WiFi a…
Today · 11:17 -
Quoting Aaron Boodman
Simon Willison
Claude doesn't make me much faster on the work that I am an expert on. Maybe 15-20% depending on the day. It's the work that I don't know how to do and would have to research. Or the grunge work…
Yesterday · 20:08 -
The PSF has withdrawn a $1.5 million proposal to US government grant program
Simon Willison
The PSF has withdrawn a $1.5 million proposal to US government grant program The Python Software Foundation was recently "recommended for funding" (NSF terminology) for a $1.5m grant from the US…
Yesterday · 14:32 -
The Burger King bathroom
Rob Weychert
It seems like a cliché for a drug dealer to be working his stash out of a Burger King bathroom, but I hadn’t personally encountered it before. Or if I had, the operation was more subtle than thi…
Yesterday · 09:22 -
The Forever Purge
Rob Weychert
Everardo Gout, 2021, ★½ Maybe the best thing you can say for The Forever Purge, which was originally slated for release in July of 2020, is that it cleverly predicts January 6th, at le…
Two Days Ago · 21:59 -
How has FFConf changed since it was known as Full Frontal? [blog]
Remy Sharp
Besides the name, the entire core foundation has changed. This question came up recently by someone who had either attended back in the early days or that knew of our event, but they (understandably)…
Two Days Ago · 18:00 -
GenAI Image Editing Showdown
Simon Willison
GenAI Image Editing Showdown Useful collection of examples by Shaun Pedicini who tested Seedream 4, Gemini 2.5 Flash, Qwen-Image-Edit, FLUX.1 Kontext [dev], FLUX.1 Kontext [max], OmniGen2, and O…
Two Days Ago · 17:59 -
Sora might have a 'pervert' problem on its hands
Simon Willison
Sora might have a 'pervert' problem on its hands Katie Notopoulos turned on the Sora 2 option where anyone can make a video featuring her cameo, and then: I found a stranger had made…
Two Days Ago · 11:03 -
Entries logged without comment for the week ending 10/25
Rob Weychert
Added to the music library:Headhunter/CarouselBig Bite, 2025Charlotte Song / Hand to the EmberBig Bite, 2025TouchTortoise, 2025 Tagged: October 2025 Reply via email…
Three Days Ago · 22:00 -
Setting up a codebase for working with coding agents
Simon Willison
Someone on Hacker News asked for tips on setting up a codebase to be more productive with AI coding tools. Here's my reply: Good automated tests which the coding agent can run. I love pytest for…
Three Days Ago · 12:42 -
Quoting Claude Docs
Simon Willison
If you have an AGENTS.md file, you can source it in your CLAUDE.md using @AGENTS.md to maintain a single source of truth. — Claude Docs, with the official answer to standardizing on AGENTS.md…
Four Days Ago · 22:57 -
The First Purge
Rob Weychert
Gerard McMurray, 2018, ★½ Like the other films in the franchise, The First Purge’s clear polemical ambitions are paved over by commercial ones. But this one’s blaxploitation reviva…
Four Days Ago · 21:59 -
Visual Features Across Modalities: SVG and ASCII Art Reveal Cross-Modal Understanding
Simon Willison
Visual Features Across Modalities: SVG and ASCII Art Reveal Cross-Modal Understanding New model interpretability research from Anthropic, this time focused on SVG and ASCII art generation. We f…
Four Days Ago · 21:08 -
claude_code_docs_map.md
Simon Willison
claude_code_docs_map.md Something I'm enjoying about Claude Code is that any time you ask it questions about itself it runs tool calls like these: In this case I'd asked it about its "hooks" fe…
Four Days Ago · 17:01 -
Gotta print some zines. Off to FedEx I go. The…
Rob Weychert
Gotta print some zines. Off to FedEx I go. The self-service printer/copier takes credit cards. I’m prompted to pre-authorize a payment amount. Look at the sticker on the machine with the printing…
Four Days Ago · 12:55 -
Marriage Is A Long Conversation
Tina Roth Eisenberg
“Marriage as a long conversation. – When marrying you should ask yourself this question: do you believe you are going to enjoy talking with this woman into your old age? Everything else in a m…
Four Days Ago · 10:22 -
annandaniel
Tina Roth Eisenberg
I want to be friends with photographers Anna Devís and Daniel Rueda. I bet it’s fun to walk around with them and see what they notice. Check out their work over on annandaniel.com/…
Four Days Ago · 10:20 -
Live In It
Tina Roth Eisenberg
“I am not telling you to make the world better. I’m just telling you to live in it. Not just to endure it, not just to suffer it, not just to pass through it, but to live in it. To look at…
Four Days Ago · 10:12 -
Quoting Geoffrey Litt
Simon Willison
A lot of people say AI will make us all "managers" or "editors"...but I think this is a dangerously incomplete view! Personally, I'm trying to code like a surgeon. A surgeon isn't a manager, they…
Four Days Ago · 08:07 -
Studio Notes #55
Dan Cederholm
Hello, Amigos. Here's issue #55 of Studio Notes™—quick bits delivered to you each Friday. 🌶️ I like hot sauce. But not if it's too hot. There has to be a good…
Four Days Ago · 06:00
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