Qwen2.5-Coder-32B is an LLM that can code well that runs on my Mac(simonwillison.net)

113 points by pabs3 1 year ago | 27 comments

I ported JustHTML from Python to JavaScript with Codex CLI and GPT-5.2 in hours(simonwillison.net)

249 points by pbowyer 10 months ago | 132 comments

Stateless MCP has recaptured my interest(simonwillison.net)

360 points by tosh 2 months ago | 204 comments

Simon Willison blog post on the stateless MCP 2.0 specification release and the mcp-explorer and datasette-mcp tools it inspired him to build.

An LLM is a lossy encyclopedia(simonwillison.net)

450 points by tosh 1 year ago | 304 comments

Short blog post by Simon Willison proposing the analogy that an LLM is a lossy encyclopedia, and advising users to supply correct examples rather than rely on recall.

The ChatGPT/Codex app bundles a full copy of LibreOffice(simonwillison.net)

441 points by timpera 1 month ago | 206 comments

Short blog note by Simon Willison finding that the ChatGPT/Codex desktop app ships a 1.7GB runtime with Python, Node.js, Poppler, git and LibreOffice for skills.

Serving 200M requests per day with a CGI-bin(simonwillison.net)

298 points by mustache_kimono 1 year ago | 267 comments

How to Draw a Space Invader(muffinman.io)

485 points by abdusco 1 year ago | 50 comments

A blog post explaining how the author built a JavaScript Space Invader Generator for a Creative Coding Amsterdam code challenge.

I built a programming language that LLMs can't use(blog.picheta.me)

244 points by dom96 8 days ago | 179 comments

Blog post by Dominik Picheta introducing KillSwitch, a programming language he designed so that large language models cannot use it.

Programming Isn't Special(blog.glyph.im)

219 points by ingve 17 days ago | 236 comments

Blog post by Glyph arguing that programming is creative work like art and that programmers should resist AI as artists and writers have.

JavaScript Demos in 140 Characters(beta.dwitter.net)

325 points by themanmaran 9 months ago | 59 comments

Dwitter, a community site for sharing and remixing JavaScript canvas demos written in 140 characters or less.

That's not an abstraction, that's a layer of indirection(fhur.me)

546 points by fagnerbrack 1 year ago | 213 comments

A blog post arguing that many so-called abstractions in codebases are merely layers of indirection that add complexity and hurt performance without real value.

Coding My Handwriting(amygoodchild.com)

768 points by tobr 2 years ago | 64 comments

Blog post by artist Amy Goodchild describing how she coded a generative cursive version of her handwriting in JavaScript.