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there's a lot in flight and planned, but i can share a few things: we have faster/longer video coming, better trending topics, a big notifications update, deeper support for standard.site, and a lot of invisible stuff that will help the app run smoother and boost our team's shipping speed
Big new release of my LLM CLI tool and Python library for talking to hundreds of different LLMs - reasoning traces, OpenAI Responses support, server-side tools, smarter logging and a whole lot more simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/4/n...
New release of LLM adds support for reasoning traces, OpenAI Responses, server-side tools, and smarter logging
I released LLM 0.32 this morning, the most significant new version of LLM since the initial launch of the project. The new version includes support for visible reasoning traces, server-side …
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Thanks. Yes, that's what I was trying to say, but took too long to get there. Our politics community is strong, and I'd love for us to expand into new communities. Science and sports have already taken off. Birding, gardening, K-pop, we're open to all (except nazis and jerks).
bruh I’m not a fan of the verge clearly taking this out of context for engagement
The Verge@theverge.com · 2d agoBluesky's new CEO Toni Schneider on the platform's reputation for being a liberal bubble: "Yes, we definitely want that to change. It is already changing. It certainly wasn’t designed to attract one specific group of people."
got my first 12” vinyl album! a night at the opera - 2015 half speed reissue! excited to pick up a record player at some point…
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CEO Toni Schneider on protocols, community, and control. www.theverge.com/podcast/9743...
Bluesky’s new CEO wants to grow it all
Bluesky is many different things in a trenchcoat.
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same speed even now! I’ll be spending some time offline ig 👀
jack@j4ck.xyz · 2y agoloving this next-gen, super fast wifi!
Still the most annoying part about iOS is this system data thing - why can’t apple fix it? I’ve tired the dodgy workarounds to fix it but it’s never worked for me :/
jack@j4ck.xyz · 4d agofinally updated my iPhone from iOS 27 DB1 to DB4! left it for so long bc I kept forgetting to update ngl 😭 hoping it's more stable! first beta was really good anyways ngl
one interesting thing i’ve noticed with the rise in LLMs becoming genuinely good at code is that a lot more desktop software is written natively for platforms! i’ve played with a Raycast alternative written in SwiftUI the past few days, and it uses FAR less RAM! abue-ammar.github.io/tinycast/
Tinycast — a tiny, native macOS launcher
A free, open-source Raycast alternative for macOS: fuzzy app search, calculator, clipboard history, and global hotkeys in ~3 MB. A lighter take on Raycast, Alfred, and Spotlight. Native, local, no telemetry.
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finally updated my iPhone from iOS 27 DB1 to DB4! left it for so long bc I kept forgetting to update ngl 😭 hoping it's more stable! first beta was really good anyways ngl
The new stateless MCP specification has rekindled my interest in MCP, and inspired some new projects, including mcp-explorer and datasette-mcp simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/31/...
Stateless MCP has recaptured my interest (and inspired mcp-explorer and datasette-mcp)
Tuesday was Stateless MCP day—the rollout of MCP 2.0, or the 2026-07-28 Model Context Protocol specification to use the more formal but less memorable name. This is the most significant …
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If you have been using the atproto mcp server I released earlier this year it just got an overhaul. New embedded model, more accurate searches, background reindexing, and a few other goodies.
GitHub - Ashex/atproto-mcp
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