25 October 2026

Simon Willison builds tool to cut middle sections from images

First reported

Simon Willison ran this on 25 October.

Simon Willison, a developer who writes about AI tools, made a small cropping tool.
The tool removes a middle section of an image by cutting across it and sliding the two sides together.
He built it to delete an unwanted prompt from a stitched screenshot of a chat transcript.

Our read

Only Simon Willison's own newsletter covered it, the same source that first reported it on 2026-10-25. It is the third Willison tool story in our archive since 2026-10-14, following the browser brush tool on 2026-10-24 and the llm-echo 0.5 release on 2026-10-19.

Earlier on this story

Oct 24Simon Willison builds a browser tool that paints photos like a brush
Oct 19Simon Willison releases llm-echo 0.5, a testing plugin for his LLM tool
Oct 14Simon Willison releases llm-gemini 0.35 with Gemini 4 support

Written by Newskeryx from which newsletters covered this story and from our own archive.

How it was covered

Simon WillisonDaily notes and links

A personal image-cropping tool, why he built it, and the redaction use case