Deno is being acquired by Cloudflare, with the plan to build on the open‑source celld implementation of Durable Objects to make workerd a first‑class, self‑hosting platform for Workers. Cloudflare will maintain the Deno runtime for one more year, after which it will cease development but keep it open source. The acquisition reflects a shift away from Deno’s focus on Node compatibility toward new abstractions like celld and a robust permissions system.
Cloudflare Python Workers are now generally available After a two year preview, Cloudflare's support for running Python code in their server-side Workers platform is now stable: "Python is now a first-class, fully supported language on the Cloudflare Developer Platform". A neat thing about this is how it works.
Research: A shot-scraper-style JSON API on Bun 1. 4's new Bun.
EVE Online is beginning its transition to Python 3, a move that will involve using the futurize script on 2.4 million lines of code and a manual review of about 20,000 differences between Python 2 and Python 3. The company has historically run on Stackless Python since 2003, with the last major upgrade in 2010 to Stackless Python 2.7. While the announcement does not detail how Stackless will be replaced, the team previously showcased a shift away from Stackless in their Carbon engine for EVE Frontier, leveraging the open‑source carbonengine/scheduler library.
Simon Willison reflects on the emotional impact of AI tools that can produce code quickly, noting that many developers experience an initial sense of disheartenment. He argues that recognizing the shift from coding to higher‑level problem solving allows experienced engineers to leverage new tools and add greater value. Willison emphasizes that software engineering has always faced rapid change, so adapting to AI is part of the profession’s ongoing evolution.
Shopify has decided to move away from React Native and return to separate Swift and Kotlin codebases for its native mobile apps. The company originally adopted React Native in 2020 to avoid duplicating work, enable cross‑stack development, and reduce feature parity overhead, but has since found that modern coding agents can handle much of the implementation, translation, testing, and review work, making native development less of a bottleneck. Shopify also maintains several React Native libraries—react‑native‑skia, flash‑list, and restyle—though the latter will be archived by the end of 2026.
GitHub Models is now retired I missed this news until today, when the GitHub Actions run for my simonw/research repository failed with this error message: GitHub Models is temporarily unavailable as part of a scheduled retirement brownout. That message is already stale, because the retirement has been completed.
The article discusses how AI is enabling large-scale decompilation of games, allowing developers to create mashups and preserve old titles by porting them to modern platforms like WebAssembly. It highlights both the exciting possibilities for game preservation and the frightening implications for intellectual property, as anyone could decompile and repurpose software without permission. The piece underscores the dual nature of this technology—boosting accessibility and preservation while threatening the security of proprietary software.
The article recounts a challenging debug session that was significantly aided by an AI assistant. Despite the AI initially claiming the problem was unsolvable and suggesting a report be written instead, it persisted, adding debug code and analyzing it as the author pushed forward. Ultimately, the author credits the AI with writing the commit message for the fix.
Release: pwasm 0.2a0 pwasm is one of my folly projects - an entirely vibe-coded pure Python WebAssembly engine that I built in January during my first bout of AI mania. I hadn't touched it sin...
Research: sparqlite: SPARQL 1.1 inside SQLite, written in Rust This research task is really an experiment in running Claude Code for web in "Ultracode" mode, as described in Orchestrate subage...
My hypothesis is that there is a new opportunity for Extensible Software on the web . LLMs radically lower the cost of authoring extensions, and modern sandbox primitives lower the deployment cost and provide good security boundaries.
Claude Cowork and the standard chat interface are merging into a single Claude experience, allowing users to hand over tasks or ask quick questions that the system will continue to handle even after the laptop is closed. The rollout will begin with Pro and Max plan users across web, desktop, and mobile, and will extend to new users on these plans over the coming weeks. This integration suggests Claude is evolving into a general agent, simplifying the distinction between Cowork and regular Claude usage.