Latest / October 17, 2026
7 posts from engineering leaders published October 17, 2026, by Simon Willison, Will Larson, Geoffrey Huntley and 3 more.
Inline rendering with document.currentScript Lean Rada describes a neat trick that takes advantage of the document.currentScript property. You can use that to drop in a tiny inline element that replaces itself when the page loads: The year is document.currentScript.replaceWith(…
Release: web-edit 0.1a2 web-edit ( previously ) is my tiny web app for browsing and editing files in a folder. I mainly built it for editing files on different machines via Tailscale. I added a "copy to clipboard" option for both text and image data. I needed this because I was…
Imprint’s average engineer is merging 4x more PRs than 2 years ago. Yay. Aggregated behind the average is something even more interesting: we have two teams that are merging 10x their PRs over that period. One engineer is merging 25x the PRs per week of our average engineer two…
by now, most people should be aware that we're in a cost of compute crisis. The cost of CPU and memory is through the roof. There just isn't enough. Meanwhile, there definitely aren't enough GPUs in the world. If you've been using
I had the pleasure of being interviewed by Yacine of Deep Learning with Yacine . He posed a lot of very thoughtful questions and I had a great time. Please check it out! The lightly edited transcript follows, auto-transcribed with faster-whisper and then reviewed by me for…
For the first time in my career we _completed_ a design system migration. The new math on big rewrites tickles my soul.
Most collaboration problems between teams are interface problems, not relationship problems. Clear ownership, inspectable priorities, and a clear process for new work fix them.