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Simon Willison

datasette-agent-edit 0.1a0

Release: datasette-agent-edit 0.1a0 I'm planning several plugins for Datasette Agent which can make edits to existing pieces of text - things like collaborative Markdown editing, updating large SQL queries, and editing SVG files. Agentic editing of text is a little ...

Baty.net

Yep, I'm back to using Ghost

I'm not even going to apologize. I was experiencing SSG fatigue and thought I'd see what it would take to migrate all of Eleventy's Markdown posts to Ghost. Claude made it surprisingly easy. So easy that I just went for ...

Jim Nielsen

Coding Is Designing

Code isn’t just a way to implement a design, it’s a way to find one. With an interface, you have to use it, feel it, interact with it, and poke at it to see the relationships between things. Change X, ...

Rock Paper Shotgun Features

The Sunday Papers

Sundays are for recovering after a late night of trailerblogging and oop, no, wait, there’s another two full-length showcases just this evening. It’s too late for me, readers, but you can save yourselves with some more thoughtful, maybe even calming ...

David Bushell Notes

I’ve always liked the ideas behind HTMX. Namely, keep templates and rendering on the server, ship HTML to the browser. I rolled my own HTMX for a side project I still use today. “Streaming HTML” by Ollie Williams demonstrates how ...

Maurycyz

Arp 297:

North is left. (mirrored). 13.5x8.5 arcmin (0.35 arcsec/pixel) dt {color: var(--em-color)} Total exposure time:410 * 30 seconds = 3.4 hours. (across 2 nights) Exposure used in stack: 329 * 30 seconds = 2.7 hours. Telescope: C9.25 (230mm, f/10, fl=2300mm) Camera: ...

Daniel Miessler

Finding the Middle in AI Narratives

A pendulum swung from a collapsing clock tower to an immovable monolith, its heavy bob now resting at center/images/finding-the-middle-in-ai-narratives.webp/images/finding-the-middle-in-ai-narratives.webp Another major AI vibe shift is happening. The tech is moving so fast that our collective rea...

Baty.net

Saturday, June 6, 2026

I have spent so much time futzing with Emacs this week that I need a break from it. For a minute, anyway.Finally got around to doing a water change in the fish tank. It's been nearly 3 weeks. I'm losing ...

Simon Willison

micropython-wasm 0.1a2

Release: micropython-wasm 0.1a2 I added a CLI to micropython-wasm (issue #7), inspired by the first draft of the blog entry when I realized it would be a great way to illustrate the Try it yourself section. Tags: python, sandboxing, webassembly, ...

Armin Ronacher

Communities of Not

There is a strange thing that happens in communities that gather around abstinence from something: identity from opposition. At their best these communities are not just negative: childfree spaces can be about autonomy, choice and acceptance, anti-car spaces about safer ...

Simon Willison

OpenAI Help: Lockdown Mode

OpenAI Help: Lockdown Mode OpenAI first teased this in February, but now it's live and "rolling out to eligible personal accounts, including Free, Go, Plus, and Pro, and self-serve ChatGPT Business accounts": Lockdown Mode is designed to help prevent the ...

David Bushell

Are you standard.site?

Standard.site provides shared AT Protocol lexicons. Atproto is just spicy JSON and asymmetric cryptography. I’ve tried to explain atproto in more detail before. Bluesky has always supported a few open graph meta tags which I use to generate images for ...