Six release notes from the llm CLI worth a closer look
Simon Willison’s llm is one of the few command-line tools that survived my first month of using a local model and has been on my dock ever since. The 0.33 release, dated…
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OpenAltFinder matches proprietary apps to free open-source ones
You need to do a job on a computer, and the only tool you know for it costs money, or worse, phones home with everything you do. You have heard there is…
Eyeballing every diff is not how you verify what an agent changed
Simon Willison posted a short note on 22 August 2026 that, in three sentences, named the skill everyone who uses a coding agent is supposed to be learning. The skill is twofold.…
nc, nmap, ss, and bash are the four port-test tools you actually need
You SSH into a fresh server, type telnet 443 out of muscle memory, and the shell replies that the command is not installed. There is a moment where you almost install telnet…
vllm gives a small agent stack real concurrency without rewrites
Inference is where most agent projects hit a wall, and the wall is not a model problem. It is a serving problem. The freeCodeCamp walkthrough by Darsh Shah on scaling LLM (large…
A practical guide to subqueries in SQL for real workloads
Most SQL tutorials treat subqueries (a query nested inside another query) like a topic you learn once and never come back to. In real work, they are the second tool you reach…
zsh’s numeric glob operator beats bash for disk-rotation backups
If your disk is constantly near full and you back files up in batches as new ones land, the shell glob you reach for is usually the wrong shape. Bash’s ? (single…
observability is the nervous system your stack already has
If you have ever paged someone at 2 a.m. because a checkout flow looked slow but every dashboard said “green,” you already know the cost of running infrastructure you cannot actually see.…
Research note: a paper showed reasoning traces were reusable, briefly
There is a paper that landed on a vanity domain this week, and the finding is the kind of thing that makes you stop what you are doing. Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google…
heymaikol/network-doctor runs your whole network runbook in one pass
The difference between a network problem that takes five minutes to diagnose and one that takes an hour is usually whether you remember to check DNS, MTU, and the proxy in the…