Simon Willison Open-Sources web-edit Web File Editing Tool, Updated to 0.1a1
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On October 12, 2026, Simon Willison released the open-source Python web app web-edit 0.1a0, allowing users to edit files directly through a web UI. According to him, the motivation for developing it was that while using Codex Remote on his phone, he wanted to edit credentials files directly without going through an LLM. On October 13, Willison also released web-edit 0.1a1; however, that report was extremely brief, only mentioning the author's monthly LLM newsletter (a monthly roundup of the most important large language model developments, sponsored at $10/month), providing no specific feature details for version 0.1a1 and no explanation of what changed in that release.
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- 10/13 09:40 · 1 reportsSimon Willison Releases web-edit 0.1a1Simon Willison：web-edit 0.1a1
- 10/12 23:54 · 1 reportsSimon Willison Releases web-edit 0.1a0 File Editing ToolSimon Willison：web-edit 0.1a0
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- Simon Willisonweb-edit 0.1a1
Simon Willison released web-edit 0.1a1 on October 13. The original post is extremely brief, only mentioning his monthly LLM news email newsletter (curating the most important large language model developments each month, sponsored at $10/month), and offers no specific details about web-edit's functionality.
- Simon Willisonweb-edit 0.1a0
Simon Willison released web-edit 0.1a0, a Python web app built because he wanted to edit credentials files directly from his phone when using Codex Remote, without going through an LLM.
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