If like me you have a mental model that SQLite doesn't accept outside contributions you should update it, I just got called out by D. Richard Hipp for spreading that misinformation in a comment on Hacker News simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/29/...

Final vibe coding experiment of the year (I guess 🤔): Let Kimi K2 build a little agent that interacts with an API based on OpenAPI specs ❤️. Let's finally kill Postman! Checkout the session: opncd.ai/share/UQ2YnSSM

Alternative path: 1. Download OpenCode 2. Sign-up to their Zen service with $ 20 and autoreload 3. Pick a cheap model like Kimi K2 This should be way cheaper, but yes, really try it.

the abstractions being developed right now around agents are going to sit low in the stack i don't feel very good about them, it's been such little time and there have already been so many avoidable mistakes there's even a pride around the lack of effort "we just prompted it"

I really hope that we will see more AI conferences outside of the US, now that so many people are refused visas :(

A personal recap of 2025. It was a year of a new style of engineering. Left some ideas for what might come next. lucumr.pocoo.org/2025/12/22/a...

We’ve pushed out the Pareto frontier of efficiency vs. intelligence again. With Gemini 3 Flash ⚡️, we are seeing reasoning capabilities previously reserved for our largest models. This opens up entirely new categories of near real-time applications that require complex thought. More in thread ⬇️

Put together a bsky feed for posts related to running AI locally: bsky.app/profile/did:...

The book 'Frictionless' by Nicole Forsgren and Abi Noda is out - read two full chapters and the story behind (re)writing this book in today"s issue: newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/frictionle...

aiden has been working through interleaved reasoning for the past week - he's found a ton of issues in the providers hosting these models on one hand it's kind of surprising no one else has come across this before us but i guess we see more volume than anyone fixes coming soon

Actually, some important foundational work is done here to make Pyodide (Python on WASM) work to offer lightweight serverless Python. I have to check out the pywrangler.

Put together some notes on Mistral Vibe, Mistral's new CLI coding agent (think Claude Code / OpenAI Codex) which is Apache 2 licensed, written in Python+Pydantic+Textual and has a neat set of system and tool definition prompts that are fun to read simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/9/m...

Today, we're opening up Seams Alpha (seams.so), a social web annotation built in the Atmosphere. We're hoping it helps with collective sense-making. This is just the start, there's still lots to do! We'd love if you tried it with us.

Rust, CBOR, DASL/ATProtocol, iroh, quic/webtransport, and webrtc are all at the top of my list of production tech these days. They are the starting points.

Sadly I’m inclined to agree — Europe needs to get its act together, strongly support Ukraine and become able to defend itself, as America is not going to come and help this time www.noahpinion.blog/p/europe-is-...

You should sign it too!

💯 Elixir and Python have both excellent Rust integration, which makes it a really nice complementary language.

Let's build hyper-personalized AI-powered software that avoids the attention hijacking anti-patterns that defined so much of the last decade of software design - here's our manifesto with principles on how we can do that - more thoughts on my blog: simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/5/r...

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I highly recommend @bunny.net over Cloudflare, but I didn't know @bsky.app is using it.

This is so great! Sponsoring my favorite Linux instead of Omarchy makes me an even more satisfied customer 💚

Oh no, CTO of Amazon has an invalid handle 🤯 DNS is hard!

In the last 2 years, I have adopted plenty of innovative tools for development with jujutsu and niri being the latest. Surprisingly many of them are written in Rust. So Rust unlocks a lot of innovation 🦀♥️

I love these case studies, it's so cool to learn about how companies are using Gleam. Hopefully more to come soon!

Niri by @yalter.bxt.rs looks really nice. I can simply select it as a desktop environment in @cachyos.org and it comes preconfigured 💚 Time to give it a try! youtu.be/DeYx2exm04M

Interesting approach 🤔

Always the first thing I activate in LazyVim. Wonderful that @zed.dev has it as well ♥️

Hey folks! Apologies for the last minute change but we have a few of our usual presenters folks out not feeling well today and we've decided to push the call by a week so that we can get their presentations in this month. We'll see you all next week (Dec 10) at the same time luma.com/zdu7snta

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talked to a bunch of opencode sdk users and realized how much it gets used going to spend some time polishing it - have had a really nice upgrade on deck for a while and we're going to ship some brand new dedicated docs

the bun outcome is a great example of why the whole armchair founder thing of saying "but what is the business model" makes little sense build something good that a lot of people can use and there will always be opportunity anthropic didn't even exist when bun was created

Four new models from Mistral today - all Apache 2 licensed, all vision-capable, and one of them is a 3GB model that can run in a web browser and answer questions about things it can see through the webcam! simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/2/i...

I really like how different this strategic approach is. Small and efficient models will replace the big ones in many places. I strongly believe in that.

Oh, I didn't expect this 😯

Kenya is one of Africa's clean energy leaders: In 2000 60% of electricity came from fossil fuels. Today: - 8% is from fossil fuels - 43% is from geothermal - 28% from hydro - 14% from wind and - 4% from solar.

I missed Zig's move to Codeberg. I wish it was @tangled.org. It is great for open source tool diversification ♥️

DSA: DeepSeek Sparse Attention DeepSeek 3.2 & 3.2-Speciale are ridiculously cheap because of DSA LLMs aren’t quadratic anymore They trained an additional “model” that does acts as a “pre-attention”, selecting only the portions that are probably relevant

Bought one as well. See you all at CASE Conf in January ✨

Hamburg's agentic coding meetup looks really nice. Is there anything like this in Berlin? #AI

Why you should buy an AMD machine for local LLM inference in 2025.This is the hardware I chose for my home LLM inference server. Here's why. www.stefanmunz.com/posts/2025/w...

🎉 TinyBase v7.0 beta - long-awaited "The One With Null" 🎉 If you didn't take TinyBase seriously because we didn't take nulls seriously, then... welcome back! Please kick the tires on the beta - up now on NPM. The general release is coming very soon...

While there are plenty of agent frameworks in Python and Typescript, you don't need one in #ElixirLang. Nice summary of how language features can make frameworks obsolete 💜 goto-code.com/why-elixir-o...

#ElixirLang is a particularly great choice for this type of problem.

this should be obvious but if you're building a consumer app you shouldn't have a landing page tbh if you're building any kind of app try not to have one if possible

DeepSeek 3.2 2 new models: * 3.2: a open weights GPT-5-High competitor that’s fully agentic * 3.2-Speciale: a maxxed-out version of 3.2 that achieves IMO Gold. Currently API-only with no tools so that’s 2 DeepSeek models that achieve IMO Gold huggingface.co/deepseek-ai/...

I'm looking for a remote Rust/Elixir role (EU-friendly timezones, US East is ok). I have 7 years of #rustlang, 9 years of #elixirlang, 20+ years of #linux. I have over 20 years of experience as a professional developer, and I've been working remotely for 12 years.

Oh, that one looks nice.

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new release is now available! Check out the changelogs in our blog: cachyos.org/blog/2511-no... We are also sorry for the delay, since we have waited that NVIDIA releases the 590 driver, but it did not happen. This was important to properly split old hardware out.

Do people still use this browser or is the hype over? Nice feature btw. 👇🏻