web-edit 0.1a2
- ID
- 36739
- Status
- summarized
- Published
- 17 Oct 2026, 9:16 PM
- Fetched
- 19 Oct 2026, 8:06 AM
- Provider
- Simon Willison
- Category
- developer-ai
- Original URL
- https://simonwillison.net/2026/Oct/17/web-edit/
- Source URL
- https://simonwillison.net/atom/everything/
Summary
- Score
- 2.5
- Created
- 19 Oct 2026, 8:06 AM
- Tags
- Audience
- developersvibe_coders
What happened
Simon Willison released web-edit 0.1a2, a web app for editing files in a folder, adding a 'copy to clipboard' option for both text and image data. He says he added it because he was running pelican prompts on a laptop from his phone (referencing DeepSeek 4.1 Flash 1017) and wanted an easy way to copy the resulting logs into a Gist. It is a small alpha-stage personal project release, not a platform or policy change.
Why it matters
Unless you already drive long-running prompts on a remote machine from your phone and need to move the output into a Gist, nothing in your stack changes here. The one concrete takeaway is the workflow it enables: copy text or image results out of a browser-based file editor on mobile instead of SSHing or emailing yourself logs. That is a niche convenience, so treat this as a pointer to a tool worth trying, not a decision you must act on.
Discussion angle
Is the phone-as-remote-control pattern for running agent prompts on a home machine something people here actually do, and what is still missing (auth, file browsing, pasting results back out) before it replaces a laptop session?