Links tagged “tools”

eclipsefan.org

the moon passes in front of the sun over Greenland, Iceland and northern Spain.

github.com

a major release of the thing quietly holding up every video pipeline you have ever used.

gregoryszorc.com

self-contained, portable Python builds, the brick under uv and pyenv.

github.com

a new release of the fast Python package manager.

github.com

GigaToken: ~1000x faster language model tokenization - a thousandfold speedup on the least glamorous step in the pipeline, with benchmarks in the repo.

astral.sh

Ruff v0.16.0, 413 default rules up from 59 - the Python linter changes what it means by "default". Check your CI before it checks you.

simonwillison.net

Claude Code uses Bun written in Rust now - the tool that compiles its own runtime. Willison unpacks the stack.

jola.dev

How to stop Claude from saying "load-bearing" - why LLM verbal tics take hold and how to steer them away, a practical TIL.

blaizzy.github.io

Nativ: run frontier open models locally on your Mac - open models on Apple Silicon, MIT licensed, built on MLX. No account, no cloud.

lalitm.com

The Git history command deserves more attention - the git log options that change daily work, in one short read.

minimaxir.com

On the unannounced weekly quota resets hitting coding agents since July 2026, and what they do to anyone depending on one.

devblogs.microsoft.com

Announcing TypeScript 7.0 - the native Go port lands for real, roughly 10x.

hmans.dev

Chatto is now open source - self-hostable team chat, one binary that serves its own frontend, data encrypted at rest, AGPL-3.0.

github.com

A terminal coding agent in Rust that reads a codebase, edits files, runs shell commands and manages long tasks.

blog.podman.io

Podman v6.0.0 - rootless containers, still no daemon.

simonwillison.net

LLM cliche highlighter - highlights ten writing tics that give away a language model. Willison had Fable 5 build it after one article too many, so the slop detector was written by the slop machine.

x.com

A post reporting that Grok Build silently uploaded the poster's whole home directory — SSH keys, password manager database, documents, photos — to xAI's servers.

evmar.github.io

Evan's Jujutsu Tutorial - a hands-on intro to jj, the VCS that sits on top of Git.

tikz.dev

TikZ Editor - draw your LaTeX figures with a mouse instead of coordinates.

docs.deno.com

Deno Desktop: native desktop apps on the Deno runtime, an alternative to Electron and Tauri. Open source.