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John Allsopp
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Great grand father of responsive web design. Web Daoist. Organiser of the Web Directions conferences webdirections.org

Built the streaming service for conferences conffab.com

post clips to Bluesky from any webpage webdirections.org/bluesky-poster
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so Nemotron Nano 3 is a shockingly good model for local inference

getting roughly 90tok/s on M4 Max, with output that’s at least superficially as sharp as anything you see from Claude, seemingly quite flexible for different kinds of tasks

nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/nvidia-...
NVIDIA Debuts Nemotron 3 Family of Open Models
The Nemotron 3 family of open models — in Nano, Super and Ultra sizes — introduces the most efficient family of open models with leading accuracy for building agentic AI applications.
nvidianews.nvidia.com
December 27, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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"In Australia, we subsidise the fossil fuel industry. We give more than half of the gas we export away for free, and we charge our kids a fortune to go to uni."

See more of Richard Denniss on Q&A here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAYxzRNfC6k
December 27, 2025 at 10:25 PM
For the 30th anniversary I was privileged to be involved in this
Project at CERN to help resurrect the original browser

www.zdnet.com/article/cern...
December 25, 2025 at 11:40 PM
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it's Christmas Eve but it's also the 16 year anniversary of the time an art historian for the Hungarian National Gallery spotted a long lost painting while watching Stuart Little with his 3-year-old daughter, recognizing it in the movie set
December 24, 2025 at 11:40 AM
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A personal recap of 2025. It was a year of a new style of engineering. Left some ideas for what might come next. lucumr.pocoo.org/2025/12/22/a...
A Year Of Vibes
A personal recap of 2025 and a year of a new style of engineering.
lucumr.pocoo.org
December 22, 2025 at 10:08 AM
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Some other teaser predictions:

- HR will be sitting in the hotseat during board meetings
- Disposable Software arrives that business users will love and IT will hate.
- The China manufacturing shock continues but this time with autonomous robots.

#hr #ai #work #strategy #business #china #robotics
December 22, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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As we come into 2026, my hot take is that Replit, Cursor etc get acquired, crushed or sold for parts.

Bundling will make a comeback as MS just make "Agentic Edit" part of a standard M365 or Github license.

This and more ajfisher.me/2025/12/22/a...

#ai #predictions #blog #business
AI, incentives and power in 2026
The AI hype is over, and the industrial reality has begun. Here are some predictions for 2026, from the rise of disposable software to potential clashes over worker rights.
ajfisher.me
December 22, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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ignore the title about caching, this is the best explanation of how LLMs work, period
Prompt caching: 10x cheaper LLM tokens, but how? | ngrok blog
A far more detailed explanation of prompt caching than anyone asked for.
ngrok.com
December 21, 2025 at 3:23 AM
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December 19, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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December 19, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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December 19, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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December 19, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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BTW, the amazing team at @oddbird.dev have their annual CSS event today. Got my ☕️ ready, it starts shortly, at 1pm EST:
@stacykvernmo.com @chriscoyier.net @davatron5000.bsky.social @castastrophe.bsky.social @nerdy.dev on deck. Should be a blast.
📺 Tune in:
www.youtube.com/live/xcEnjGP...
December 18, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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fantastic article

“two kinds of vibe coding”

the part on testing is particularly insightful

davidbau.com/archives/202...
December 18, 2025 at 11:55 PM
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GPT-5.2 Codex is the first model to decide that pelicans should ride their bicycles in the desert simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/19/...
Introducing GPT-5.2-Codex
The latest in OpenAI's Codex family of models (not the same thing as their Codex CLI or Codex Cloud coding agent tools). GPT‑5.2-Codex is a version of GPT‑5.2⁠ further optimized …
simonwillison.net
December 19, 2025 at 5:23 AM
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An enjoyable look at how LLMs work under the hood from @samwho.dev. The whole chain of tokenizers (text chunks), embeddings (vectorized text chunks), transformers (the "T" in ChatGPT), caching (reused chunks), and all the math that goes into returning a response.

ngrok.com/blog/prompt-...
Prompt caching: 10x cheaper LLM tokens, but how? | ngrok blog
A far more detailed explanation of prompt caching than anyone asked for.
ngrok.com
December 18, 2025 at 11:13 PM
This is really cool.
Hmmm. #ATmosphereConf wrapped, is this anything?

@olof-loves-ai.bsky.social will you join us in Vancouver in March? Would love to have you submit to the CFP: news.atmosphereconf.org/3m6z2b7ovyk2i
December 17, 2025 at 4:12 AM
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Blogged some notes on the new ChatGPT Images model that launched today simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/16/...
The new ChatGPT Images is here
OpenAI shipped an update to their ChatGPT Images feature - the feature that gained them 100 million new users in a week when they first launched it back in March, …
simonwillison.net
December 17, 2025 at 12:07 AM
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Wondering what’s coming next in Safari 26.3? Well, check out the beta release notes: developer.apple.com/documentatio...
Safari 26.3 Beta Release Notes | Apple Developer Documentation
Released December 15, 2025 — 26.3 (20623.2.2)
developer.apple.com
December 16, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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I ported a Python library implementing a full HTML5 parser to JavaScript using GPT-5.2 and Codex CLI in 4.5 hours, and decorated for Christmas and watched Knives Out while I was doing it simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/15/...
I ported JustHTML from Python to JavaScript with Codex CLI and GPT-5.2 in 4.5 hours
I wrote about JustHTML yesterday—Emil Stenström’s project to build a new standards compliant HTML5 parser in pure Python code using coding agents running against the comprehensive html5lib-tests testi...
simonwillison.net
December 16, 2025 at 12:37 AM
TIL (via @petewarden.bsky.social) that there was a version of The equalizer (a obsession TV show originally featuring Edward Woodwood the inspiration for the Denzel Washington movies) starting Queen Latifa (whom I’ve loved since her days as a rapper).

5 seasons!

Where can I find this?
December 15, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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This is fucking grim. Somebody invented a white guy, an "IT professional" named Edward Crabtree, who stopped the Bondi shooting and spread it all over the internet, which was picked up by AI agents and slop aggregation sites.

The real hero is a fruit stand owner named Ahmed el Ahmed.
December 14, 2025 at 8:02 PM