Quoting Chris Lloyd
Most people's mental model of Claude Code is that "it's just a TUI" but it should really be closer to "a small game engine". For each frame our pipeline constructs a scene graph with React then: ->
Simon Willison's Weblog
Qwen3-TTS Family is Now Open Sourced: Voice Design, Clone, and Generation
Qwen3-TTS Family is Now Open Sourced: Voice Design, Clone, and Generation (https://qwen.ai/blog?id=qwen3tts-0115) I haven't been paying much attention to the state-of-the-art in speech generation
SSH has no Host header
SSH has no Host header (https://blog.exe.dev/ssh-host-header) exe.dev (https://exe.dev/) is a new hosting service that, for $20/month, gives you up to 25 VMs "that share 2 CPUs and 8GB RAM".
Quoting Theia Vogel
[...] i was too busy with work to read anything, so i asked chatgpt to summarize some books on state formation, and it suggested circumscription theory. there was already the natural boundary of my
Wilson Lin on FastRender: a browser built by thousands of parallel agents
Last week Cursor published Scaling long-running autonomous coding (https://cursor.com/blog/scaling-agents), an article describing their research efforts into coordinating large numbers of autonomous
Quoting Jasmine Sun
If you tell a friend they can now instantly create any app, they’ll probably say “Cool! Now I need to think of an idea.” Then they will forget about it, and never build a thing. The problem is
Don't "Trust the Process"
Don't "Trust the Process" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4u94juYwLLM) Jenny Wen, Design Lead at Anthropic (and previously Director of Design at Figma) gave a provocative keynote at Hatch
Kākāpō Cam: Rakiura live stream
Kākāpō Cam: Rakiura live stream (https://www.doc.govt.nz/our-work/kakapo-recovery/what-we-do/kakapo-cam-rakiura-live-stream/) Critical update for this year's Kākāpō breeding season
the browser is the sandbox
the browser is the sandbox (https://aifoc.us/the-browser-is-the-sandbox/) Paul Kinlan is a web platform developer advocate at Google and recently turned his attention to coding agents. He quickly
ChatGPT Containers can now run bash, pip/npm install packages, and download files
One of my favourite features of ChatGPT is its ability to write and execute code in a container. This feature launched as ChatGPT Code Interpreter nearly three years ago
Tips for getting coding agents to write good Python tests
Someone asked (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46765460#46765823) on Hacker News if I had any tips for getting coding agents to write decent quality tests. Here's what I said: I work in Python
Kimi K2.5: Visual Agentic Intelligence
Kimi K2.5: Visual Agentic Intelligence (https://www.kimi.com/blog/kimi-k2-5.html) Kimi K2 landed in July (https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/11/kimi-k2/) as a 1 trillion parameter open weight LLM.
One Human + One Agent = One Browser From Scratch
One Human + One Agent = One Browser From Scratch (https://emsh.cat/one-human-one-agent-one-browser/) embedding-shapes was so infuriated (https://emsh.cat/cursor-implied-success-without-evidence/) by
The Five Levels: from Spicy Autocomplete to the Dark Factory
The Five Levels: from Spicy Autocomplete to the Dark Factory (https://www.danshapiro.com/blog/2026/01/the-five-levels-from-spicy-autocomplete-to-the-software-factory/) Dan Shapiro proposes a five
Adding dynamic features to an aggressively cached website
My blog uses aggressive caching: it sits behind Cloudflare with a 15 minute cache header, which guarantees it can survive even the largest traffic spike to any given page. I've recently added a
Datasette 1.0a24
Datasette 1.0a24 (https://docs.datasette.io/en/latest/changelog.html#a24-2026-01-29) New Datasette alpha this morning. Key new features: • Datasette's Request object can now handle
We gotta talk about AI as a programming tool for the arts
We gotta talk about AI as a programming tool for the arts (https://www.tiktok.com/@chris_ashworth/video/7600801037292768525) Chris Ashworth is the creator and CEO of QLab
Moltbook is the most interesting place on the internet right now
The hottest project in AI right now is Clawdbot, renamed to Moltbot (https://x.com/openclaw/status/2016058924403753024), renamed to OpenClaw (https://openclaw.ai/blog/introducing-openclaw). It's an
Singing the gospel of collective efficacy
Singing the gospel of collective efficacy (https://interconnected.org/home/2026/01/30/efficacy) Lovely piece from Matt Webb about how you can "just do things" to help make your community better for
TIL: Running OpenClaw in Docker
TIL: Running OpenClaw in Docker (https://til.simonwillison.net/llms/openclaw-docker) I've been running OpenClaw (https://openclaw.ai/) using Docker on my Mac. Here are the first in my ongoing notes