Latest / October 15, 2026
10 posts from engineering leaders published October 15, 2026, by Simon Willison, Avdi Grimm, Daniel Stenberg and 5 more.
Tool: Chirp Pong Another game experiment - I wanted to see if it was feasible to have a two player game on two separate phones running in static HTML where the networking code uses chirps sent via the microphone. It seems to work! Build a two player competitive pong like game…
The social-proof machine for AI techniques and tools is circular, and it's getting absurd. A rant.
curl started out GPL licensed, as direct inheritance from its httpget days, but in October 1998 we switched to the Mozilla Public License (MPL). In 2001, we added the MIT license as an additional license to optionally use in addition to MPL. We made curl dual licensed because…
Ramp and Stripe built platforms for non-engineers to build internal websites and tools with, and both are taking off in those workplaces. I expect more companies to do the same.
When software meets hardware, engineering principles remain largely the same, but the sensible defaults often change. Kuldeep Singh describes our experience modernizing a large IoT fleet of battery-powered sensors. Our familiar principles remained important; what changed was how…
Anthropic tells investors quarterly revenue up nearly 50% to $16.8bn ahead of IPO The phrase "told investors" appears four times in this FT article, which reports on Anthropic's day of hosting investors on Wednesday. Lots of details in here from " people with knowledge of the…
Table of Contents 2026 2025 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2013 This page gives an overview over some talks I have done over the last years. I have spoken at large conferences such as QCon San Francisco, Devoxx and JavaOne, local meet-ups as well as…
Tool: LaTeX renderer Inspired by Paul Ford and Aboard Foundary's new web app Tiny Little Office , which provides a suite of web app content editors (a Word Processor, Outliner, Presentation Builder, Spreadsheet, Calculator, Drawing Tool, Diagram Maker, Animator, Calendar, and…
JPEG XL has landed, but how does it compare?
I decided to host my newsletter archive myself on this website!