Christian Köberl

Hacking washing machines Almost everyone has a household appliance at home, whether it's a washing machine, dishwasher, or dryer. Despite their ubiquity, little i...

Very nice talk from 39c3 (Chaos Communication Congress): media.ccc.de/v/39c3-hacki...

@jeffgeerling.com - guess you can use this to add your dishwasher to home connect

Rage Against The Machine (their initial album). The sounds Tom Morello produces with a guitar were unheard and the whole sound of the band was unique. Still one of the best albums.

Made a site comparing the sizes of living things :)

The great Julius Csotonyi spent 5 months painting over 60 illustrations for the site, no ai used

> neal.fun/size-of-life/

👌Banana for scale 🍌

This is really great - worked on all the pages I've checked so far

Why just talk to your AI agent when you can interact with it?

Now you can, with MCP-UI.
Live in goose 1.3.0

Learn more: block.github.io/goose/blog/2...

Art on a wooden display called a Kilopixel - pixel art by Matt Stauffer

I built a ridiculous 1000 pixel display that takes an hour to draw an image and I'm now asking the internet to draw on it (what could go wrong?)

Please submit some 40×25 pixel art at kilopx.com!

Tech Promised Everything. Did it deliver? | Scott Hanselman | TEDxPortland YouTube video by TEDx Talks

I just wanted to say, I’m probably more proud of this Ted talk than just about anything I’ve ever done so I’m gonna be absolutely useless for the next couple of weeks as I promote the shit out of this because I want you to watch it because it matters in the moment we are in youtu.be/dVG8W-0p6vg

new Date("wtf") How well do you know JavaScript's Date class?

I made a quiz about the JS Date parser is. It's very easy and you will score very high.

jsdate.wtf

9 NEW JavaScript Features in ES2025 YouTube video by Syntax

In my latest video over on @syntax.fm I showcase the 9 new features added to the JavaScript language in this years spec.

Watch 🍿: www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-cj...

The lethal trifecta for AI agents: private data, untrusted content, and external communication If you are a user of LLM systems that use tools (you can call them “AI agents” if you like) it is critically important that you understand the risk of …

If you use "AI agents" (LLMs calling tools in a loop) you need to be aware of the Lethal Trifecta

Combine access to private data, exposure to untrusted content and the ability to externally communicate and an attacker can trick the system into stealing your data simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/16/...

A comic depicts two office workers talking. One, standing next to a cubicle labeled "CUBE-301," says, "Our team treats AI like a junior software engineer." The other, sitting in a chair, responds, "Cool, so — you ignore it for long periods, give it confusing, arbitrary tasks, and then scapegoat it when it fails?" The first replies enthusiastically, "You nailed it!" The background is bright green. The comic is signed "@forrestbrazeal".

presented without comment

Trump warns a strike on Iran 'could very well happen' if no nuclear deal is signed President Trump warned that a "massive" war could break out in the Middle East over Iran's nuclear program, after the U.N. nuclear watchdog said Iran wasn't complying with its nonproliferation duties.

Trump hat gestern vor einem Angriff gewarnt www.npr.org/2025/06/12/n... - ich denke der wusste schon was

The last year six months in LLMs, illustrated by pelicans on bicycles I presented an invited keynote at the AI Engineer World’s Fair in San Francisco this week. This is my third time speaking at the event—here’s my talks from October 2023 …

Here's video, slides and a detailed annotated transcript from my talk at this week's AI Engineer World's Fair conference in San Francisco - "The last year six months in LLMs, illustrated by pelicans on bicycles" simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/6/s...

Is there a preview build for 4? (or should I build from source?)

"our team may crumble due to pronunciation of the word 'GIF'"

this new episode of Web Dev Challenge is ABSOLUTE CHAOS (complementary)

watch it here: codetv.link/wdc/s2e3

Great post if you want to understand sampling in monitoring/logging

I don't get how XHP is comparable to Astro - it feels more like JSX for PHP

Visual Studio App Center Retirement - Visual Studio App Center Visual Studio App Center is scheduled for retirement

BTW Microsoft AppCenter was shut down on March, 31 - that means they are now using something else for distribution learn.microsoft.com/en-us/appcen...

State of Devs 2025 Take the State of Devs survey

The folks behind the “State of …” surveys have a new one, and there are zero questions about coding! Instead, the focus is on us. ✨

The questions are about developer interests, health, work preferences, stuff like that. I’m *super* keen to see the results!

You can take the survey here:

OpenAI just dropped GPT-4.1 & a new Codex CLI. The first State of Web Dev AI survey is in: winning tools, what devs are spending, and what’s a pain. Plus: @nextjs.org 15.3 lands, and "slopsquatting" enters the dev lexicon. 🧠⚡️ You don’t want to miss this.

Show link: front-end-fire.com/episodes/91/

screenshot showing Windows task manager with significant CPU usage of Windows Defender and Antimalware Service

screenshot showing Windows task manager with 76% cpu usage of Antimalware Service and 10% CPU usage of Java

@scott.hanselman.com do you have any guidance for configuring MS Defender for Endpoint on Windows dev machines? We have CPU usage of 10-30% when doing nothing and "Antimalware Service Executable" takes 75% cpu while compiling. We tried excluding folders and DevDrive - nothing seems to work.

Referencing xkcd.com/327/

US agency extends support at last minute for cyber vulnerability database U.S. officials have said at the last minute that they're extending support for a critical database of cyber weaknesses whose funding was due to run out on Wednesday.

Support of the MITRE contract was extended but the near end of CVE triggered a call for alternatives
www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...

@josh.bressers.name created a Discord server to discuss the situation: discord.gg/gSCrXxMuPx

And there are already some alternatives:
euvd.enisa.europa.eu
gcve.eu

CVE program faces swift end after DHS fails to renew contract, leaving security flaw tracking in limbo MITRE’s 25-year-old Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) program will end April 16 after DHS did not renew its funding contract for reasons unspecified. Experts say ending the program, which ser...

Seems like CVE is going to die.

www.csoonline.com/article/3963...

Security - what are the gotchas and pitfalls of RSC regarding security. Here is an example: www.nodejs-security.com/blog/how-to-...

GPT-4.1: Three new million token input models from OpenAI, including their cheapest model yet OpenAI introduced three new models this morning: GPT-4.1, GPT-4.1 mini and GPT-4.1 nano. These are API-only models right now, not available through the ChatGPT interface (though you can try them …

My notes on the GPT-4.1 series so far - 1m tokens (across all three models) and GPT-4.1-nano being their cheapest model yet are particularly notable simonwillison.net/2025/Apr/14/...