A selfish personal argument for releasing code as Open Source

Gemini 2.0 is now available to everyone Big new Gemini 2.0 releases today: Gemini 2.0 Pro (Experimental) is Google's "best model yet for coding performance and complex prompts" - currently available as a free preview. Gemini 2.0 Flash is now generally available. Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite looks particularly interesting: We’ve gotten a lot of positive...

o3-mini is really good at writing internal documentation I wanted to refresh my knowledge of how the Datasette permissions system works today. I already have extensive hand-written documentation for that, but I thought it would be interesting to see if I could derive any insights from running an LLM against the codebase. o3-mini has an input...

Ambsheets: Spreadsheets for exploring scenarios Delightful UI experiment by Alex Warth and Geoffrey Litt at Ink & Switch, exploring the idea of a spreadsheet with cells that can handle multiple values at once, which they call "amb" (for "ambiguous") values. A single sheet can then be used to model multiple scenarios. Here the cell for "Car"...

AI-Generated Slop Is Already In Your Public Library US libraries that use the Hoopla system to offer ebooks to their patrons sign agreements where they pay a license fee for anything selected by one of their members that's in the Hoopla catalog. The Hoopla catalog is increasingly filling up with junk AI slop ebooks like "Fatty Liver Diet...

Animating Rick and Morty One Pixel at a Time Daniel Hooper says he spent 8 months working on the post, the culmination of which is an animation of Rick from Rick and Morty, implemented in 240 lines of GLSL - the OpenGL Shading Language which apparently has been directly supported by browsers for many years. The result is a comprehensive GLSL...