Simon Willison
Please, please, please stop using passkeys for encrypting user data
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Simon Willison
An AI agent coding skeptic tries AI agent coding, in excessive detail
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Tim Bray
Kansas and AI
Block announced that it’s cutting 40% of its workforce. It didn’t say it was replacing those people with GenAI. Not out loud. Jack Dorsey did say “I believe the majority of companies will reach th
Simon Willison
Unicode Explorer using binary search over fetch() HTTP range requests
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Ned Batchelder
Pytest parameter functions
Pytest’s parametrize is a great feature for writing tests without repeating yourself needlessly. (If you haven’t seen it before, read Starting with pytest’s parametrize first). When the data gets comp
swyx (Shawn Wang)
Constance Crozier: Forecasting s-curves is hard
There was a famous Covid era chart that I always struggle to find, showing how hard it is to estimate an S curve while living through it. in the early days it seems that everything is exploding as an
Seth Michael Larson
Deprecate confusing APIs like “os.path.commonprefix()”
The os.path.commonprefix() function has been an API in the Python standard library for at least 35 years (since February 1991) and in that time has been confusing users and creating security issues, e