OpenAI are quietly adopting skills now available in ChatGPT and Codex CLI

OpenAI are quietly adopting skills now available in ChatGPT and Codex CLI

https://simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/12/openai-skills/#atom-entries · December 12, 2025

CM0 - a new Raspberry Pi you cant buy

CM0 - a new Raspberry Pi you cant buy This little postage stamp is actually a full Raspberry Pi Zero 2, complete with eMMC storage and WiFi. But you can’t get one. Well, not unless you buy the CM0NANO development board from EDAtec, or you live in China. This little guy doesn’t have an HDMI port, Ethernet, or even USB. It’s

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2025/cm0-new-raspberry-pi-you-cant-buy/ · December 12, 2025

GPT-52

GPT-52

https://simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/11/gpt-52/#atom-entries · December 11, 2025

Benchmarking NVENC video transcoding on the Pi

Benchmarking NVENC video transcoding on the Pi Now that Nvidia GPUs run on the Raspberry Pi, I’ve been putting all the ones I own through their paces. Many people have an older Nvidia card (like a 3060) laying around from an upgrade. So could a Pi be suitable for GPU-accelerated video transcoding, either standalone for conversion, or running

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2025/benchmarking-nvenc-video-transcoding-on-pi/ · December 11, 2025

Understanding vs impact the paradox of how to spend my time

Understanding vs impact the paradox of how to spend my time Not long ago William MacAskill, the founder of the Effective Altruist movement, visited Austin, where I got to talk with him in person for the first time. I was a fan of his book What We Owe the Future, and found him as thoughtful and eloquent face-to-face as I did

https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=9375 · December 11, 2025

Useful patterns for building HTML tools

Useful patterns for building HTML tools

https://simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/10/html-tools/#atom-entries · December 10, 2025

Revisiting Lets Build a Compiler

Revisiting Lets Build a Compiler

https://eli.thegreenplace.net/2025/revisiting-lets-build-a-compiler/ · December 9, 2025

Under the hood of Canada Spends with Brendan Samek

Under the hood of Canada Spends with Brendan Samek

https://simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/9/canada-spends/#atom-entries · December 9, 2025

Blue Current

Blue Current I am excited to join the Blue Current Board of Directors as Amazon anchors their Series D round. Blue Current has taken a practical approach to safe solid-state batteries and their technology addresses critical needs in both stationary storage and electric vehicles. What sets them apart is their ability to

https://perspectives.mvdirona.com/2025/12/blue-current/ · December 9, 2025

The DC-ROMA II is the fastest RISC-V laptop and is odd

The DC-ROMA II is the fastest RISC-V laptop and is odd Inside this Framework 13 laptop is a special mainboard developed by DeepComputing in collaboration with Framework. It has an 8-core RISC-V processor, the ESWIN 7702X—not your typical AMD, Intel, or even Arm SoC. The full laptop version I tested costs $1119 and gets you about the performance of a Raspberry

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2025/dc-roma-ii-fastest-risc-v-laptop-and-odd/ · December 8, 2025