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simonw

120,805 karma · joined October 29, 2007

JSK Fellow 2020. Creator of Datasette, co-creator of Django. Co-founder of Lanyrd, YC Winter 2011.

https://simonwillison.net/ and https://til.simonwillison.net/

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Help scraping: track changes to CLI tools by recording their –help using Git

simonwillison.net·8 pts·simonw·
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Show HN: S3-credentials, a tool for creating restricted S3 bucket credentials

github.com·1 pts·simonw·
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My process for building a feature

simonwillison.net·100 pts·simonw·
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CSS in the Terminal with Python and Textual

willmcgugan.com·19 pts·simonw·
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Show HN: git-history, for analyzing scraped data collected using Git and SQLite

simonwillison.net·108 pts·simonw·
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Show HN: Datasette Desktop, macOS App for SQLite and CSVs

datasette.io·22 pts·simonw·
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Dynamic content for GitHub repo templates using cookiecutter and GitHub Actions

simonwillison.net·14 pts·simonw·
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Exploring the SameSite cookie attribute for preventing CSRF

simonwillison.net·38 pts·simonw·
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The Baked Data architectural pattern

simonwillison.net·21 pts·simonw·
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It doesn't take much public creativity to stand out as a job candidate

simonwillison.net·386 pts·simonw·
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Organize and Index Your Screenshots (OCR) on macOS

alexn.org·3 pts·simonw·
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It doesn’t take much public creativity to stand out as a candidate

simonwillison.net·5 pts·simonw·
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Ask HN: GitHub Actions that deploy AWS lambdas?

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PAGNIs: Probably Are Gonna Need Its

simonwillison.net·41 pts·simonw·
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Notes on streaming large API responses

simonwillison.net·131 pts·simonw·
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Show HN: Django SQL Dashboard

django-sql-dashboard.datasette.io·204 pts·simonw·
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Open source projects should run office hours

simonwillison.net·3 pts·simonw·
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Serving map tiles from SQLite with MBTiles and datasette-tiles

simonwillison.net·4 pts·simonw·
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Datasette 0.54, the annotated release notes

simonwillison.net·2 pts·simonw·
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Drawing shapes on a map to query a SpatiaLite database

simonwillison.net·1 pts·simonw·
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APIs from CSS without JavaScript: the datasette-CSS-properties plugin

simonwillison.net·3 pts·simonw·
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Uber's almost disastrous Obj-C to Swift rewrite

twitter.com·2 pts·simonw·
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Personal Data Warehouses: Reclaiming Your Data

simonwillison.net·436 pts·simonw·
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Building an Evernote to SQLite Exporter

simonwillison.net·1 pts·simonw·
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Git scraping: track changes over time by scraping to a Git repository

simonwillison.net·471 pts·simonw·
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Ask HN: Sold any support contracts for open source?

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GraphQL in Datasette with the new datasette-GraphQL plugin

simonwillison.net·2 pts·simonw·
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15 years ago today: Introducing Django

simonwillison.net·8 pts·simonw·
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Building a self-updating profile README for GitHub

simonwillison.net·3 pts·simonw·
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Reverse engineering Apple Photos - ML labels, quality scores and more

simonwillison.net·3 pts·simonw·
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