makerskills runs fine on Linux once you swap three macOS-only pieces
Claude Code is an AI coding assistant that lives in your terminal. makerskills is a plugin for it: a bundle of Markdown files that tell Claude how to handle different types of…
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What I learned writing CLAUDE.md files for my Python projects
I burned about three hours one Saturday trying to get Claude Code to stop making the same AWS Bedrock mistake. Every session, it would prefix my model ID with the local region…
simplex chat asks its own users to fund the next year
Privacy-focused messaging apps have a recurring problem. The people who care about privacy are not the same people who pay for software. Most users expect the app to be free, the server…
shadow ai lives in the browser tab, not the perimeter
The loudest threat actors in 2026 are not the ones you read about on a Friday night. They are the ones already inside your building, sitting at a desk, doing their job.…
Why the Pixel 10 is the smarter buy compared to the Pixel 11
Look, the Pixel 11 leaks are everywhere right now and everyone is acting like the world is ending if you don’t preorder one. Put the phone down. The Pixel 10 is sitting…
Self-hosted Datasette: a 0.5a0 release that fits CI
If you self-host Datasette (a Python tool that publishes SQLite databases as a queryable web service) and you have ever wanted to push a freshly built database to a production instance without…
Simon Willison’s Codex raccoon game has a real bug to fix
Simon Willison ran the same one-shot prompt (a single instruction with no follow-up clarifications) against two different coding agents and got two different games. The first was Claude Fable 5 building a…
Why every AI rewrite of your docs loses something you meant to keep
Simon Willison linked this week to a short post by Sophie Alpert on what she calls her internal policy on acceptable use of AI writing by engineers. The post makes one claim,…
ChatGPT Free now has no text chat cap. Here is what still costs you
OpenAI has quietly removed the rate limit that defined the ChatGPT Free experience for the past two years. Free and Go tier users used to hit a wall after ten to forty…
Anthropic’s free Claude for OSS program is an audition
Anthropic quietly started handing out six-month subscriptions to Claude Max 20x (a paid tier of Anthropic’s Claude AI assistant) to qualifying open-source maintainers earlier this year, and most of the developer press…