Simon Willison released web-edit 0.1a0, a Python web app that offers a web UI for viewing and editing files within a folder. The app was built using Codex Remote and GPT‑6 Astra Extra High, and it utilizes CodeMirror 6 for editing, chosen over Monaco for better mobile support. Designed to run over Tailscale, the tool allows the author to edit files directly from his phone without routing credentials through the LLM.
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.
Shot‑scraper 1.12 adds WebP support, allowing users to capture web page screenshots in WebP format with an optional quality setting. The new --quality flag controls compression, while omitting it produces lossless images. WebP screenshots are reported to be significantly smaller than JPEG or PNG equivalents.
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...
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.
Python 3.15.0 has been added to the actions/python-versions repository. The author had been monitoring the repository for the release and used ChatGPT to automate the check. With the new version available, users can now include "3.15" in their GitHub Actions testing matrix to run tests against the latest Python release.