I needed a name for my new Python CLI tool.

A comprehensive guide to managing Git identities and rewriting commit history, including changing author information, handling multiple identities, and best practices for safe history manipulation.

A comprehensive guide for installing and configuring Ansible and Java 8 on Ubuntu 20.04, including setup for managed nodes, security best practices, and testing procedures.

I just watched a talk by [Pamela Fox](https://www.pamelafox.org/) at [North Bay Python](https://2023.northbaypython.org/) on Automated accessibilit...

Today while running `datasette publish cloudrun ...` I noticed the following:

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I continue to seek a solution to the Python sandbox problem. I want to run an untrusted piece of Python code in a sandbox, with limits on memory an...

I've been puzzling over this one for a couple of years now, and I finally figured out the solution.

I needed to write a relatively repetitive collection of tests, for a number of different possible error states.

I decided to create a new desktop background for my Mac using [Midjourney](https://midjourney.com/). My laptop has a 16:10 aspect ratio and a retin...

My [TIL website](https://til.simonwillison.net/) has social media card images to make links shared from it look slightly more interesting when shar...

[Via Brian LeRoux](https://twitter.com/brianleroux/status/1453472609518034944) I found [single-file-web-component.html](https://gist.github.com/kri...

I decide to upgrade the related articles feature on my TILs site. Previously I calculated these [using full-text search](https://til.simonwillison....

My [tools.simonwillison.net](https://tools.simonwillison.net/) site is a growing collection of small HTML and JavaScript applications hosted as sta...

I was exploring the original BERT model from 2018, which is mainly useful if you fine-tune a model on top of it for a specific task.

I wanted to stream the results from the ChatGPT API as they were generated, rather than waiting for the entire thing to complete before displaying ...

In the README for [monolith](https://github.com/Y2Z/monolith) (a new Rust CLI tool for archiving HTML pages along with their images and assets) I s...

Facebook's [musicgen](https://huggingface.co/facebook/musicgen-small) is a model that generates snippets of audio from a text description - it's ef...

[Natalie](https://www.instagram.com/natbat.art/) has been experimenting with using a microwave as a kiln for pottery, specifically for [Raku](https...

Inspired [by Armin](https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/29/agentic-coding/), I decided to figure out how to use the official [microsoft/playwright-m...

I wanted to ensure `https://niche-museums.com/` would redirect to `https://www.niche-museums.com/` - including any path - using Cloudflare.

OpenAI's [gpt-oss models](https://github.com/openai/gpt-oss/) come with an eval suite, which is described in their [Verifying gpt-oss implementatio...

I like [jq](https://stedolan.github.io/jq/), but I always have to think pretty hard about how to construct the right syntax for it.

I'm still working towards adding multi-modal support to my [LLM](https://llm.datasette.io/) tool. In the meantime, here are notes on running prompt...