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6 posts from engineering leaders published September 13, 2026, by Simon Willison, Lou Franco, Jamie Tanna and 3 more.
Release: shot-scraper 1.12 I've added WebP support to my shot-scraper screenshot automation tool. You can now take a WebP screenshot of a web page like this: shot-scraper https://simonwillison.net -o screenshot.webp --quality 80 The --quality option sets the quality - without…
Late last year, I completely changed my dev stack to Python on Linux with some other things. I wrote a series about it at the time: In Part XI, I described using KVM (a full virtualized VM) and specifically not Docker. At the time, I wrote: Docker: I am not that comfortable with…
A busy week getting the house ready for my family over the weekend Was nice to see everyone, and little nephew D Had a nice time with my parents, with a nice walk around Newstead Abbey (seeing much more of the gardens than I have previously) We went to Little John Inn for dinner…
A consistent by-product of periods of intense building (software, a book, a team) — really anything where I am heads-down focusing on the craft — is that all the utilities and habits surrounding building said craft get scrutiny. Why? Because small imperfections or inefficiencies…
A 90-minute LinkedIn Learning course on how reasoning models relate to conventional LLMs and how they are developed.
AI removed the effort that used to make them ask first.