Simon Willison released LLM 0.32.1 on Aug. 21, pinning the OpenAI Python dependency below version 3.0.0 to ensure fresh installations work without a separate httpx install. The maintenance update addr…
LLM 0.32.1, a dot-release of the command-line tool for running AI models, fixes broken fresh installs caused by the OpenAI Python library dropping its usage of httpx, which LLM depended on transitivel…
A developer built Argentic, a Go-based reverse proxy that charges AI scrapers per request using Lightning Network payments via L402 credentials, returning a 402 Payment Required with a Bitcoin Lightni…
A developer building a distributed AI workflow with Groq, Streamlit Cloud, and Supabase reports that connection drops, such as httpx.ConnectError, caused a 'Red Screen of Death' in their admin dashboa…
A 16-year-old developer building Lawyie, a legal tech platform under Sunverse AI, encountered an httpx.ConnectError in the admin dashboard, prompting a defensive coding approach to handle distributed …
A developer built an enterprise-grade Web Metadata, OpenGraph & Contact Extractor API, with 100% of the code, architecture, and optimizations engineered in partnership with Gemini AI (Antigravity). Th…
A developer built DevPub, an open-source CLI tool for Dev.to that leverages over 40 API endpoints, including semantic search, analytics, and trend discovery, which existing tools ignore. The tool, bui…
A developer released smol-llm-proxy, a minimalist API proxy for self-hosted llama.cpp setups that routes across multiple llama-server instances with per-user API keys and token usage tracking, in appr…
A developer's practical guide to Python web scraping in 2026 warns that basic techniques like `time.sleep()` lead to blocks, recommending `httpx` with `selectolax` for static pages, Playwright for cli…
A new study from arXiv finds that query-aware prompt compression, which invalidates prefix caches on every call, can be more expensive than naive caching under realistic hit rates on Anthropic's Sonne…
A developer built an OpenAI-compatible prompt encryption proxy in ~300 lines of Python using FastAPI and httpx, after their GPT prompts were stolen and resold. The proxy keeps the system prompt on the…
LLM-mock v1.0, a pytest plugin that records and replays OpenAI and Anthropic API calls, has been released. The tool intercepts HTTP calls at the transport layer to capture real API responses once and …
A developer built a production-ready AI weather agent using PydanticAI, Pydantic, and tool injection. The agent orchestrates external API calls to Open-Meteo for geocoding and weather data, validating…
A developer outlines the evolution of web scraping techniques from 2020 to 2026, highlighting modern solutions such as fingerprint randomization, residential proxies, and Playwright for JavaScript ren…
A developer compared DeepSeek V4 Pro and MiMo V2.5 Pro on a real race condition bug from the httpcore library. MiMo found three bugs and proposed a three-phase separation fix, while DeepSeek found one…
A developer created mcpgen, a tool that converts any OpenAPI specification into a ready-to-run MCP server in seconds. The generated server runs over stdio and can be plugged into Claude Desktop or any…
A developer building Halo, an autonomous pentesting agent powered by a local LLM, discovered a critical bug in its failure cache that caused the agent to permanently blacklist tools across unrelated e…
A developer created apte, an async-first test framework for Python that unifies unit tests and LLM evals in the same engine with shared fixtures. The framework uses typed dependencies with Annotated a…
PageToMD, a new CLI tool, converts web pages into clean Markdown optimized for AI agents, featuring NFC-normalized UTF-8 output, YAML frontmatter with metadata, and optional JavaScript rendering for S…
A developer built a Python MCP server from scratch that integrates with the GitHub API, demonstrating how to define tools, resources, and prompts using the Model Context Protocol. The server, which ca…