I built a Command & Conquer style RTS called Battle Drones, mainly using Claude Opus 5.5, which runs in the browser and includes device-to-device multiplayer over an audio link simonwillison.net/2026/Oct/20/...

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yaml12 0.2.0 is out for R and Python! The packages now write YAML that is much more human-readable: - automatic line wrapping for folded string blocks - fewer unnecessary quotes - literal blocks gracefully handle indentation R: posit-dev.github.io/r-yaml12/ Python: posit-dev.github.io/py-yaml12/

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Audacity 4.0 is now available with a completely rebuilt Qt interface, a new clip-editing workflow, Workspaces, HiDPI support, and the new AUP4 project format. linuxiac.com/audacity-4-0... #Audacity #OpenSource

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A few notes on Anthropic's new Claude Fable 5.1 - with Max thinking level I got the best SVG pelican I've had from any Anthropic model (at a hefty cost of $3.30!), which I then had it animate simonwillison.net/2026/Sep/1/c...

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🚀 Zed v1.17 is out! Zed now previews CSV, TSV, PSV, and SSV files as interactive tables. You can sort and resize columns, then filter rows by selected values. Thanks HalavicH!

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