A neat thing about having your own blog is there's no rule saying you can't backfill the archives... yesterday I added this page for a talk I gave back in 2017, just to have it show up in the archives in the right place https://simonwillison.net/2017/Aug/16/denormalized-query-engine/

This is the 22nd talk I've published in the annotated format - here's my full collection https://simonwillison.net/tags/annotated-talks/ I wrote about the tools I use to put these together here: https://simonwillison.net/2023/Aug/6/annotated-presentations/

If I were England I would simply score more goals than Spain.

jfc, is there some kind of football going on today? There are roars coming from the English outside like they've cornered an immigrant or something.

Welcome to the first issue in a several-part series on building a command-line interface (CLI) tool for an internal platform. This is something I've been...

Test query is a command line tool to query test results with a SQL interface - danicat/testquery

“Violence has no place in politics,” says commander-in-chief

imagine the scolding we would get for the absolute rager of a party we would be in right now

the whole country's gonna get soooo many lectures about "political violence" from the people who think all of society will crumble if the cops don't beat the shit out of black teens and homeless people every day of the week

It's all "yeah, punch nazis!" until one gets shot in the ear. Then I have to hear about how we need to come together? No thanks.

If ur any way a target for conservatives id be getting the fuck out of the US right about now

These days we’re dealing with a job burnout epidemic. Everybody speaks about it, there’s a lot of awareness, and yet things have been getting worse and worse every year. So what have we been missing?

Good news for rationality! https://humanists.uk/2024/07/11/highest-number-of-mps-ever-take-secular-affirmation/ #ukpolitics #GE2024

Why are so many American FOSS and Linux people right wing loons? (this is a rhetorical question)

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Today on a call someone said "It's ok {that the dev env doesn't work}, we should be fine to test in prod, we're developers" and friends I do have to report I was unmuted when I guffawed so fucking loud

Announcing Geomys, a small firm of professional maintainers with a portfolio of critical Go projects.

Attached: 1 image Petition for this to say “nice” instead of “enjoy” when it takes 69 minutes

A programming font focused on source code legibility - 0xType/0xProto

For the last four months I’ve been developing a custom container image builder, collaborating with Outerbounds1. The technical details of the builder itself might be the topic of a future article, but there’s something surprising I wanted to share already: you can use S3 as a container registry! You heard it right. All it takes is to expose an S3 bucket through HTTP and to upload the image’s files to specific paths.

Let's look at the numbers behind Xata's free tier. How much does a database cost us and why are we offering them for free.