webframe is a Go‑based tool that runs a web page in a hidden headless browser and streams console output and errors to the terminal. It uses the glaze library to access native browser engines (WKWebView, WebKitGTK, WebView2) without bundling its own engine, making it lightweight compared to tools like Playwright. The author evaluated it as both a sandboxing solution and a web‑scraping utility, comparing it to his own shot‑scraper JavaScript tool.
I started building my markdown-svg-renderer tool in May , but I've since added enough features to it that it's worth talking about here again. It's evolved into my ideal tool for sharing Markdown transcripts that include SVG documents.
Simon Willison released version 0.1a2 of his web-edit app, a lightweight web interface for browsing and editing files within a folder. The update adds a copy-to-clipboard feature for both text and image data, aimed at simplifying the transfer of logs and other outputs. The tool was primarily developed to enable file editing across devices via Tailscale, and the new feature was motivated by the author’s need to copy logs from a laptop to a Gist while using DeepSeek 4.1 Flash 1017 on a phone.
Posted by Yang Zhao, Senior Software Engineer, and Tingbo Hou, Senior Staff Software Engineer, Core ML Text-to-image diffusion models have shown exceptional capabilities in generating high-quality images from text prompts. However, leading models feature billions of parameters and are consequently expensive to run, requiring powerful desktops or servers (e.
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Simon Willison created a video compressor tool that uses the WebAssembly build of FFMPEG to optimize a demo video of his Equal Earth animation recorded on his phone. He employed Claude Fable 5.1 in Claude Code for web to generate the tool, enabling him to publish the optimized video on his blog. The project showcases how modern web technologies can streamline video processing workflows.
Simon Willison presented a closing keynote at the WeAreDevelopers World Congress North America, where he showcased a pixel‑art animation of kakapo parrots celebrating a record‑breaking breeding season in 2026. He used Claude Opus 5.5 to generate the animation from Google‑searched kakapo photos, then employed Claude Code with Playwright to record a 15‑second video of the animated HTML5 canvas, which he embedded in his Keynote slide.
Tool: LaTeX renderer
Inspired by Paul Ford and Aboard Foundary's new web app Tiny Little Office, which provides a suite of web app content editors (a Word Processor, Outliner, Presentation Bui...
Tool: Seam Cutter
I built this weird and very specific cropping tool - it lets you create a horizontal or vertical cut across an image, then slide the two sides relative to each other. Effecti...
The article describes a test of the new Python 3.15 profiler using GPT-6 Astra Extra High in Codex to run it against a web-edit application from PyPI. It includes a flame graph and source heatmap generated from this profiling effort. The author emphasizes the use of these visual tools to analyze the performance of the web-edit app.
Quick Study is a tool that lets users open a photo and quickly generate a painted version of it using a canvas element and a simulated paintbrush. The process relies on Sobel edge detection and requires no external libraries beyond Google Fonts. It builds on previous experiments that used Claude Fable to create watercolor illustrations with P5.js.
Tool: Photo Scrubber — local face blur & metadata removal
I took a photograph of some protesters, then thought about how I don't like sharing photographs of strangers with identifiable fac...