3 days ago · I never enjoyed hitting keys, writing minimal repro cases with little insight, digging through debug logs, or trying to decipher some obscure AWS IAM permission error.

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Creator of @datasetteproj, co-creator Django. Fellow at @JSKstanford. Collector of @nichemuseums. Usually hanging out with @natbat and @cleopaws. He/Him.

Since this is my first time building a blog from scratch in quite a while, I also put together a new TIL on Building a blog in Django (https://til.simonwillison.net/django/building-a-blog-in-django).

Simon Willison’s WeblogSubscribe Here's my most recent conference bio: Simon Willison is the creator of Datasette, an open source tool for exploring and publishing data.

Some background reading. I was planning to fill in answers as they arrive, but I screwed up the moderation of the comments and got flooded with detailed responses - I strongly recommend reading …

Wrote up some thoughts on the most interesting pieces of the Apple Intelligence announcements: - On-device models that can outsource to Apple’s servers with cryptographic guarantees of privacy ...

Simon Willison's Weblog. I joined a recording of the Oxide and Friends podcast on Tuesday to talk about 1, 3 and 6 year predictions for the tech industry. This is my second appearance on their annual …

Jun 12, 2003 · My posts following the launch of OpenAI's GPT-5 model. Posts about this blog and how I approach writing online. Interviews with people who are building cool things. Any time I introduce a …

Then it made some solid recommendations for potential alternatives. I added a couple of follow-up questions (using llm -c) which resulted in a full working prototype of an alternative threadpool …