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What building Shippy taught us about building agents

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Model Routing Is Simple. Until It Isn’t.

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Welcome Inkling by Thinking Machines

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Introducing Real World VoiceEQ: Measuring the human quality of voice AI

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Quoting GitHub Changelog

<blockquote cite="https://github.blog/changelog/2026-07-14-dependabot-version-updates-introduce-default-package-cooldown/">Dependabot now waits until a new release has been available on its registry for at least three days before opening a version update pull request. This cooldown is now the default and requires no configuration.</blockquote> — <a href="https://github.blog/changelog/2026-07-14-dependabot-version-updates-introduce-default-package-cooldown/">GitHub Changelog</a>, embracing <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/dependency-cooldowns/">dependency coo

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simonw/pedalican

<a href="https://github.com/simonw/pedalican">simonw/pedalican</a> Clearly I wasn't paying attention when these were <a href="https://twitter.com/OpenAIDevs/status/2050301642717950166">first announced</a> back in May, but today I accidentally activated a "pet" in Codex Desktop - a little animated robot, reminiscent of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_Assistant">Clippy</a> - and then learned you can create your own. So I did, and now I have a cute little pelican on a bicycle bouncing around my desktop giving me updates on my Codex tasks. <video

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lobste.rs is now running on SQLite

<a href="https://lobste.rs/s/ko1ji1/lobste_rs_is_now_running_on_sqlite">lobste.rs is now running on SQLite</a> Community site <a href="https://lobste.rs">Lobsters</a> has been planning a migration away from MariaDB <a href="https://github.com/lobsters/lobsters/issues/539#issuecomment-4959857588">since August 2018</a> - originally targeting PostgreSQL, but last year they decided to <a href="https://github.com/lobsters/lobsters/issues/539#issuecomment-2964114295">investigate SQLite</a> instead. This weekend they completed the migration, and now consider it stable e

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Quoting Armin Ronacher

<blockquote cite="https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/7/13/the-tower-keeps-rising/">The shared language of a software project is not English or Python but it is the common understanding of what its concepts mean, where the boundaries are, which invariants matter, who owns what, and why the system has the shape it does. This language is rarely written down in one place. It lives partly in documentation and code, but also in code review, conversations, arguments, and the experience of having to explain a change to somebody else. Before agents, some of this shared understanding was maintained

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datasette 1.0a37

Release: <a href="https://github.com/simonw/datasette/releases/tag/1.0a37">datasette 1.0a37</a> A minor release. Performance and <a href="https://docs.datasette.io/en/latest/authentication.html#authentication-permissions-explained">documentation</a> improvements to the permissions system, plus I reverted a cosmetic API change which caused almost every existing plugin test suite to break. Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/datasette">datasette</a>

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