Simon Willison introduced two new tools: Showboat and Rodney to allow AI agents to demonstrate what they’ve built.
Showboat helps construct Markdown documents demonstrating commands being run and the output from them. Rodney provides a CLI for interacting with Chrome using the devtools protocol. It builds on the Rod Go library.
DigitalOcean now offers 1-click deployment for OpenClaw.
andurel is a web “framework” for Go which takes a collection of well-tested projects (sqlc, templ, echo, datastar, river) and glues them together into a whole with a CLI for generating code for your app. 20+ years ago, I did something similar for Python, so I appreciate this approach to building a framework.
Oat is an incredibly tiny UI Component collection. 6KB CSS, 2.2KB JS (minified+gzip). It’s got most of the common controls, looks good, and is blazingly fast.
tabctl is a CLI tool to work with browser tabs, specifically designed to help agents work with browser tabs in a way that’s not destructive.
The Story of Wall Street Raider was surprisingly enjoyable. I don’t get into “software archaeology” tales in general, but this was nicely written and an interesting tale.
/dev/push is a self-hostable, open source system allowing you to deploy with git pushes to simple VPS, etc. I’d be curious to see how well it works in practice, given that I’m currently using Fly for Peaklet.
Former GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke has a new startup: Entire. In the announcement post, he lays out the vision and talks about their initial offering: Entire CLI is an open source tool to store all context around an agent session in git. One to watch.
Chidanand Tripathi has tips for reducing the data you have stored at Google. I don’t personally have much stored there, but I know people who do.