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Release 0.105.0 · openai/codex New Features The TUI now syntax-highlights fenced code blocks and diffs, adds a /theme picker with live preview, and uses better theme-aware diff colors for light and dark terminals. (#11447, #125...

ICYMI: Codex added a voice transcription option.

28.02.2026 17:04 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A screenshot showing Codex running in a terminal window. The user input says “Remember tomorrow at noon, Rangers Celtic, full commentary”

A screenshot showing Codex running in a terminal window. The user input says “Remember tomorrow at noon, Rangers Celtic, full commentary”

Playing with Codex’s voice transcription feature, but 5 Live was on in the background.

28.02.2026 17:03 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Fixed it for you

28.02.2026 10:23 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I love 1Password, but increasingly wondering what the advantages are over the Passwords app on macOS/iOS.

26.02.2026 08:27 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Scunthorpe Sans 🗯🚫 profanity-blocking font A s*** font that f***ing censors swearing automatically

Scunthorpe Sans 🗯🚫 profanity-blocking font
vole.wtf/scunthorpe-s...

24.02.2026 20:35 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A chart showing my PR activity in a Github repo, showing changes I wrote myself vs. changes Claude Code co-authored.

A chart showing my PR activity in a Github repo, showing changes I wrote myself vs. changes Claude Code co-authored.

The Opus effect. My adoption of #claude at work has skyrocketed in the last few weeks.

24.02.2026 13:36 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Fix GitHub owner and author references to simonwhitaker · simonwhitaker/zed-claude-config@5c25bdb Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>

@simonwillison.net I had Claude write me a quick project from scratch. It knows I’m “Simon W”, so it guessed my name and email. (No need to click the link, you can guess.) 😂 github.com/simonwhitaker/…

22.02.2026 10:29 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Going out on a limb to say 'ideally yes'

11.02.2026 17:50 👍 1445 🔁 181 💬 22 📌 1

Nice way to share a #moltbot conversation: teach it a gist skill.
“Let’s learn a new skill. If I ask you to gist a conversation, grab the transcript, format it in markdown and use the gh tool to create a private gist. Then send me the gist.io link for it.”

gist.io/@simonwhitaker…

29.01.2026 06:13 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

This reminded me randomly of how much I loved Glorious Exploits. One of my favourites of the books I read in 2025.

20.01.2026 20:35 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I hear people raving about Gemini on Android. Whatever regular people want as an AI assistant on their phones, Gemini seems to be delivering exactly that. So why NOT make that the underpinning of Siri?

06.11.2025 17:50 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

@gruber.foo Enjoying your thoughts on Apple and Gemini. I wonder if another reason Apple have gone with Gemini is that it brings them to exact parity with leading Android phones. No endless arguments about whether e.g. iPhone (Anthropic) is better or worse than Android (Gemini).

06.11.2025 17:50 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
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20.08.2025 18:42 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Guess his kid's not getting a Tesla

25.04.2025 17:51 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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"Piper, NO!"

24.04.2025 20:01 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Pope Francis dying a day after meeting JD Vance reminds me of when the Queen met Liz Truss and went "nah, fuck this" and off she popped. Everyone has their breaking point.

21.04.2025 08:28 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I love the typo in the first paragraph. ("Prompted" instead of "promoted".) Sign of a strong mind.

18.04.2025 17:56 👍 9 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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An underappreciated aspect of British cryptic crosswords is just how smutty they can be. Here’s a gem from today’s Guardian prize.

25.01.2025 10:28 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Pretty sure this is the default system prompt on most LLMs.

22.11.2024 11:43 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Deus in machina: Swiss church installs AI-powered Jesus Peter’s chapel in Lucerne swaps out its priest to set up a computer and cables in confessional booth

"You are a senior miracle expert..."

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

21.11.2024 18:14 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0