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web-edit 0.1a2

Simon Willison released web-edit 0.1a2 on 17th October 2026, adding a "copy to clipboard" option for both text and image data. Willison said he needed the feature because he was running Pelican prompts on a laptop from his phone via DeepSeek 4.1 Flash 1017 and wanted an easy way to copy the resulting logs into a Gist.

read1 min views1 publishedOct 17, 2026

17th October 2026

I added a "copy to clipboard" option for both text and image data. I needed this because it was running pelican prompts on a laptop from my phone (here's DeepSeek 4.1 Flash 1017) and I wanted an easy way to copy the resulting logs into a Gist.

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