I have been asked to stop referring to LinkedIn as "Grindr for Business" --ncl

It's the final work week of the year. There were some exciting LLM releases last week, with impressive benchmark scores - particularly o3's performance on ARC-AGI, FrontierMath, and SWE-bench. 2025 is shaping up to be an interesting year, and I'm planning to spend more time exploring how to put these models to practical use.

Articles

• Frontend
  • CSS text-wrap
  • Declarative shadow DOM enables seamless server-side rendering for the web platform
  • CSS light-dark()
  • BroadcastChannel API
• Python / AI
  • Essential Python web security
  • OpenAI o3 Breakthrough high Score on arc-agi-pub | I honestly didn't expect it to happen so soon. It really changes my expectations of what can be done. Big deal. 🍾
  • Gemini 2.0 Flash “Thinking mode”
  • Building Python tools with a one-shot prompt using uv run and Claude Projects
  • Is AI progress slowing down?
• Judith Butler, philosopher: ‘If you sacrifice a minority like trans people, you are operating within a fascist logic’

Weeknotes

• December in LLMs has been a lot | Simon Willison

Software

• Minimizing Rust Binary Size
• MarkItDown is a utility tool for converting various files to Markdown
• django-js-asset -- script tag with additional attributes for django.forms.Media
• Bodo: High-Performance Python Compute Engine for Data and AI