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Open Source
3 posts tagged Open Source.
Vibecoding & AI-Assisted Development4 min read
Why exe.dev Says Devtools Must Be Open Source — and Willison Agrees
A Hacker News debate over exe.dev's 'devtools must be open source' argument turned into something sharper: LLMs have made reading and modifying other people's code cheap enough that the old open-source promise finally works as advertised.
- vibecoding
- open-source
- ai-coding-agents
- devtools
- agentic-development
Dev Tooling & Vibecoding3 min read
Simon Willison's HTML Table Extractor Converts Any Web Table to CSV, JSON, or Markdown
A new browser paste-tool from the co-creator of Django turns rich-text clipboard data into five structured formats — no scraping script required.
- dev tooling
- data extraction
- vibecoding
- llm workflows
- open source
Vibecoding & Dev Tooling3 min read
One Character That Broke Everything: The Dependency Pin Trap in Python Plugins
Simon Willison's datasette-export-database 0.3a2 fixed a classic Python packaging mistake — a strict `==` pin that silently locked out most users.
- python
- packaging
- datasette
- vibecoding
- open-source