On the @oxide.computer and friends podcast last month we (primary credit @ahl.bsky.social) coined the term "Deep Blue" for the sense of psychological ennui leading into existential dread that many software developers are feeling thanks to LLMs right now simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/15/...
Live from the unveiling…
Wrote up my first impressions of Claude Cowork, Anthropic's new general purpose agent released today for $100+/month subscribers as part of their macOS desktop app simonwillison.net/2026/Jan/12/...
The underlying data for this is available as CSV files with open CORS headers, so I had some fun loading it into Datasette Lite and querying it with WebAssembly SQLite simonwillison.net/2026/Jan/2/m...
Elon should go back to the MechaHitler version of Grok. It was safer!
If you've been wanting to speak securely to your garage door or whatever MQTTS capable devices you want to control with your #curl command lines, look no further:
(this is planned to merge in time for the March 2026 release)
https://github.com/curl/curl/pull/19418
Alrighty. The Toad is out of the bag. 👜🐸
Install toad to work with a variety of #AI coding agents with one beautiful terminal interface.
I've been told I'm very authentic on camera. You just can't fake that kind of awkwardness.
#AI #Python #Toad
www.youtube.com/shorts/ZLhct...
I ported a Python library implementing a full HTML5 parser to JavaScript using GPT-5.2 and Codex CLI in 4.5 hours, and decorated for Christmas and watched Knives Out while I was doing it simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/15/...
I heard someone describe Azure as “the Boomer cloud”
Crude but also accurate
Cannot recall any startup that is not on AWS or GCP
a spam DM on here: Then: “Nice to meet you, l'm from USA state, what country are you from” Me: “i am also from usa state, in oregon state. what state of usa state are you stated”
off to a good start
9000 layoffs today from microsoft.
Still waiting for AI to "make new jobs"
still waiting for the trickle down effect.
still waiting for their 75 billion dollar activision merger to benefit people other than the execs already making millions.
This nonsense is why regulations are always necessary.
the only way forward for video games is self-published games made by properly-organised studios
corporate ownership will fire all of you in the end.
Much serious thought and consideration, from very smart people in Mountain View and Cupertino, went into determining how to respond to a profoundly silly and thoughtless executive order. Yet that response is disturbing.
Arco is 30% off now on Steam 💫 if you want to try the game first, you can try our free demo at Steam and if you buy it later you can keep your save ✨
store.steampowered.com/app/2366970/...
Do you want to learn how to be a better public speaker? Join @markrussinovich.bsky.social and I in this episode of "Scott and Mark Learn To" www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2jr...
Wes Anderson’s next movie is called The Phoenician Scheme, an “espionage comedy-drama thriller” that will be released in US theaters in May 2025. Stars Benicio del Toro, Michael Cera, Riz Ahmed, ScarJo, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Willen Dafoe, etc. [en.wikipedia.org]
Allegra Goodman writes about the “life-saving power” of listing to audiobooks (Austen, Caro, Dumas, Voltaire) with her son. “We spent hundreds of hours together and had a respite from each other too.” I *love* listening to audiobooks w/ my kids. [lithub.com]
I found a crazy bug in Avowed guys
History buffs will know that every authoritarian leader eventually converges on some version of: "I *am* the state. I can not break the law, I am the law, the law is instantiated in me."
Our march to authoritarianism so far has been excruciatingly by-the-book. Hitting every beat. No surprises.
worth saying again these these unilateral cuts are illegal. neither trump nor musk has the authority to unilaterally slash appropriated funds.
if journalism is supposed to be one of the institutions that safeguards a free society then journalists should be opponents of autocratic takeovers, brian.
🐍🎧 Charlie Marsh: Accelerating Python Tooling With Ruff and uv
How is the Rust programming language being used to speed up Python tools? This week on the show, we speak with @crmarsh.com about his company, Astral, and their tools, uv and Ruff.
https://realpython.com/podcasts/rpp/238/
How to create a Python CLI that's globally available in your system in 5 easy steps.
1. Install uv
2. Init project with `uv init --app --package mycli`
3. Write code
4. Install with `uv tool install . -e`
5. Use `mycli` anywhere in your computer
uv is one year old today. Hard to believe its only been a year. The growth, adoption, and impact surpassed my wildest expectations.
Happy birthday, uv! 🥳
Silent Hill.
Someone did have a sign that said he cheats at Diablo lol
Great episode! I enjoyed every minute of it ❤️
