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Release: llm 0.31.1 Fix for a bug with OpenAI Chat Completion endpoints where a tool call with empty arguments could result in a JSON error from some providers. #1521 This bug came up when I was testing llm-meta-ai. Tags: llm
Today's links Post-political: What a "leftist" is. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: MSFT x OSCON; Parental spyware; "Resurrection Man"; Brexit do-over petition; Workplace email spying; Record label internet death penalty; News should be cheap, free and ...
Hear me out: While Rust, the language, gives you all you need to build libraries and programs that can scale from microcontrollers to big servers and everything in between, in
App icons in MacOS are not mere buttons. You can drag them, move them, and drop things on them. You click them to select, and double-click to launch. They are richer objects that deserve a richer visual vocabulary.
North is up (exact, mirrored). 0.53 "/pixel [18.8' x 7.4'] FWHM = 4.2" This galaxy has a massive (and rather bright) tidal tail, but I can't see an obvious companion galaxy. The general consensus is that there's a second galaxy ...
Rewriting Bun in Rust Jarred Sumner has been promising this blog post (since May 9th) about his Zig to Rust rewrite of Bun for significantly longer than it took him to finish the rewrite. Honestly, it was worth the wait. ...
Introducing GPT‑Live OpenAI finally upgraded the model used by ChatGPT voice mode! I've had preview access for a few weeks in the iPhone app, and the new model is very impressive. It also has the ability to spin off harder ...
I just declared a moratorium against AI-written change descriptions (e.g. PR and commit messages, also issues/tickets) from my team. AI was writing change descriptions that were worse than useless to me as I tried to review PRs: outlining details of ...
“We asked 100 people: What are the top three companies on earth best positioned to make a world-class Mac-assed Mac app?” Buzz! “Apple!” Survey says: Yes! Apple at the number one spot. Makes sense. Who better to make the very ...
Greetings, owners of hardware who are also partial to reasonably well-made pirate game remakes. I’m trying something new and fresh and debatably sexy for Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced, extending the semi-usual Steam Deck performance and settings investigation with one ...
At the risk of pissing on people’s chips I figured it’d be helpful to illustrate the three classes of AI user I’ve identified in the slopageddon. You might be thinking: “Hey, those personas are all negative!” — and you’re absolutely ...
This article is a mirror of the original announcement Today, SIG etcd is releasing etcd v3.7.0, the latest minor release of the popular distributed key-value store and core Kubernetes component. v3.7 ships the long-requested RangeStream feature, delivers several other performance ...
I code websites for WordPress (PHP), static HTML, or my own scuffed build scripts. I have a particular project for which I decided to try one of those fancy static site generators. I asked the socials “11ty or Astro?” Both ...
How to use AI for coding well? Practical tips for using AI coding tools, including context management, AGENTS.md files, planning, reviews, tests, and MCPs.
How I added Sveltia CMS to my Astro markdown blog. Setup, image optimization, mobile editing fixes, and solving frontmatter issues.
Grammars for languages or any other field are a beautiful thing. They compress complex systems into a language with a couple of rules. For the spoken language example, we know when to capitalize a letter or how to start a ...
Now that I have your attention, let's be clear, RustCrypto packages are not "slow", they are most probably "fast enough" for your use case. Yet, I couldn't unsee how faster
TL;DR - In 2026.H1, I started feeling like a real dad, took parental leave, went to a programming retreat, shipped CloudSeed Rust + QuietCut, reached 130k views, got back to building for fun, and star...
North is up (mirrored, exact). 0.53"/px [15' x 9.2' field]. FWHM = 3.9" Arp 90 is the two interacting galaxies in the east. The west of the image has a wierd distorted galaxy (?), with a similar redshift to the ...
A global DNS propagation checker for your terminal.
There have been several security incidents lately that involved compromising GitHub Actions workflows. This has led some to say "GitHub Actions is the weakest link" in publishing and to GitHub publishing a GitHub Actions security roadmap update. But saying it's ...
This morning I released sqlite-utils 4.0, the 124th release of that project and the first major version bump since 3.0 in November 2020. In addition to some small but significant breaking changes (described in this upgrade guide), this version introduces ...
With ever-changing models, new and better ones coming out every few months, it’s great if we don’t have to rely on them too heavily. The better your tooling, the less dependent you become on any single model. That’s also why ...
Release: sqlite-migrate 0.2 The version that retires the library, instead implementing a compatibility shim against the new sqlite-utils 4.0 dependency. Tags: sqlite-utils
Tool: github-code Web Component An experimental Web Component built using GPT-5.5 and the following prompt: let's build a Web Component for embedding code from GitHub It takes URLs like that, converts them to https://raw.githubusercontent.com/simonw/sqlite-ast/437c759129154f05296324a7f82aa1246340dd14/sqlite_ast/parser.py, then uses fetch() to fetch them ...
Release: sqlite-utils 4.0 See sqlite-utils 4.0, now with database schema migrations for details. Tags: sqlite-utils
We recently got the shape() function and corner-shape property. What else could we possibly need as far as making shapes in CSS? Let me tell you: the border-shape property! Get Ready For the Powerful CSS border-shape Property! originally handwritten and ...
