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datasette-agent 0.5a0

Release: datasette-agent 0.5a0 This is a significant release of Datasette Agent. The most notable new feature is called the panel - it lets the agent chat open and then sit next to pages from Datasette, for example a…

llm 0.37.1

Release: llm 0.37.1 A bugfix release for LLM, with contributions from Steven Huang, Tao An, Arjan Mossel, and XQ. Tags: llm

Financial Crime Mitigation with MongoDB / Part IV: Agentic AI for Case Management

Welcome back to the last part of our series on Building a Financial Crime Mitigation Platform. We have shown how MongoDB ideally supports the technical capabilities of modern digital financial operations as a unified…

Financial Crime Mitigation with MongoDB / Series Overview

Where money moves, crime evolves. As banking becomes fully digital—with instant payments, open finance APIs, and mobile-first onboarding—it has opened new roads for cyberattacks, forcing financial institutions to…

AI is destroying my CS degree

My comment on AI is destroying my CS degree — Hacker News. I don't envy educators right now. AI clearly means you need to change how you teach and evaluate students. We are only a few years in though, and it's still…

Qwen 3.8 27B on my laptop can interpret model weights, too

Yesterday's hot paper was Sparks of Weight-Space Programming: LLMs can natively read & write neural network weights by Rikiya Takehi, Jayden Teoh, Alex Zhang, and Omar Khattab. The paper (OK, the authors classify is as…

I discovered a sound that leaks your exact location (and it's everywhere) - YouTube

I discovered a sound that leaks your exact location (and it's everywhere) - YouTube Genius piece of OSINT by Colsto, who demonstrates how you can take almost imperceptible background noise of planes from a video…

October sponsors-only newsletter

I sent out the October edition of my sponsors-only monthly newsletter. If you are a sponsor (or start a sponsorship now) you can access it here. This month: The October inflection point for vibe game development The…

How to Add AI Voice to Your Django App

Why Add AI Voice to a Django App? If you’ve ever wanted to turn your Django‑powered web app into something that can talk back to users, you’re not alone. Voice interfaces are moving from novelty to necessity—think…

Keyboard-aware forms in React Native and Expo, with a Save button that rides the keyboard

Every React Native app with a form hits the same wall. You tap a field low on the screen, the keyboard opens, and the field is gone behind it. The Save button too. The usual fixes get you most of the way.…

TestDriven.io: Taking Website Screenshots with Django, Celery, and Playwright

This tutorial looks at how to build a Django app that takes website screenshots using Playwright and Celery.

#568: Cloudflare Python Workers

Where does your Python code actually run? A server in Virginia? A container in Frankfurt? Pyodide put Python into the browser. Cloudflare put the browser into the server. Combine the two and you get Python Workers, now…

django-cachalot: Cache Queries With Automatic Invalidation

Django as a Simple Static Site Builder

What the sites behind the 400 most popular npm packages actually do

Every number below is from the first published run of the corpus (CLI 0.0.54, 2026-11-03) and can be rebuilt from the corpus's README. The live table, refreshed every Monday, is at rankcli.dev/data/npm-sites. Every week…

Django Weblog: Django security releases issued: 6.1.3, 6.0.10, and 5.2.19

In accordance with our security release policy, the Django team is issuing releases for Django 6.1.3, Django 6.0.10, and Django 5.2.19. These releases address the security issues detailed below. We encourage all users…

Pokémon bakeoff reveals best JavaScript frameworks for AI

Sorry React die-hards, Claude prefers lean HTML-first tools over bloated SPAs

I built 59 free browser-based dev tools in vanilla JS — here's what I learned

I've been quietly building Antigravity Tools — a collection of 59 free, browser-based developer utilities — and today I'm sharing everything I built and learned. Why vanilla JS? No React, no build step. The main…

Our production JavaScript ships no source maps, so I identified 1.2 MB of it by its copyright strings

Our FAQ page is static prose. One heading, a definition list of questions and answers, a header, a footer, and a 606 byte logo. Its HTML is 12,550 bytes over the wire. It also references 19 JavaScript files totalling…

PERN stack full form, and why we would learn it before MERN

PERN stands for PostgreSQL, Express, React and Node.js. MERN is the same stack with one letter changed: MongoDB in place of PostgreSQL. So the real question behind "PERN vs MERN" is not about four tools. It is about one…