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01 Sep 2026 edition

16 articles · 6 sources ·

Top topics: Python · Django · AI

Python AI Django

Claude Fable 5.1 made me a really nice animated pelican

Today is Claude Fable (and Mythos) 5.1 day. Anthropic say that Fable 5.1 "sets a new standard for coding, knowledge work, and long-running problem-solving tasks". Their announcement spends a notable amount of time on…

Source: Simon Willison's Weblog
Python AI Django

Codex bundles LibreOffice

I was poking around in my ~/.cache/ folder using OmniDiskSweeper when I spotted something interesting. The OpenAI Codex desktop app (since rebranded to just ChatGPT) has 1.7GB of stuff in there in a folder called…

Source: Simon Willison's Weblog
Python AI Django

GeoJSON Map Viewer

Tool: GeoJSON Map Viewer I was helping Natalie gather some maps of local political boundaries (for the Granada Community Services District and the Midcoast Community Council) and found a need to display some GeoJSON…

Source: Simon Willison's Weblog
Python AI Django

Quoting Tarn Adams

They took the letters from me! I have to talk about dwarf behavior now. I can't even talk about dwarf AI. It doesn't exist. It's dwarf behavior, and they misbehave sometimes — Tarn Adams, co-creator of Dwarf Fortress…

Source: Simon Willison's Weblog
Python AI Django

datasette-mcp 0.2

Release: datasette-mcp 0.2 "rows" from execute_sql is now an array of objects. Previously it was an array of arrays. This should help weaker models avoid losing track of which positional array element maps to which…

Source: Simon Willison's Weblog
Python AI Django

Python 3.15.0 candidate 2 is here!

Python 3.15.0 candidate 2 is here! Hugo van Kemenade (release manager for Python 3.14 and 3.15) announces the final release candidate for Python 3.15, scheduled for release in October: Entering the release candidate…

Source: Simon Willison's Weblog
Python AI FastAPI

#494 Python Wrapture

Topics covered in this episode: OpenAI's Python SDK has migrated to HTTPX2 TMOG - Native Task Manager for macOS, Windows, and Linux wrapture - one wrapper for mocking, tracing, and observability linkedin2md: turn your…

Source: Python Bytes Michael Kennedy and Calvin Hendryx-Parker
Open Source FastAPI Python

Security updates for Tuesday

Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (gzip, iperf3, libxml2, mingw-sqlite, mysql:8.4, nginx:1.26, nodejs:24, php, and tar), Debian (expat and libdbd-csv-perl), Fedora (apache-ivy, bind, bluez, bubblewrap,…

Source: LWN.net jzb
JavaScript React

How to fit Minesweeper into 247 bytes

#​800 — September 1, 2026 Read on the Web Issue 800! I'm not doing anything to celebrate, but I know many of you have been here for years, so thanks for your continued support. Maybe I'll do something for issue 1000,…

Source: JavaScript Weekly