[Pyodide](https://github.com/pyodide/pyodide) provides "Python with the scientific stack, compiled to WebAssembly" - it's an incredible project whi...

I had to figure this out for [Datasette Desktop](https://github.com/simonw/datasette-app).

[markdown-toc](https://github.com/jonschlinkert/markdown-toc) is a Node script that parses a Markdown file and generates a table of contents for it...

Microsoft recently [released Edit](https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/edit-is-now-open-source/), a new terminal text editor written in Rust...

> :warning: The OOB flow described in this document has been [scheduled for deprecation](https://developers.googleblog.com/2022/02/making-oauth-flo...

I wanted to add the new tutorials on https://datasette.io/tutorials to the search index that is used by the https://datasette.io/-/beta search engine.

I've been working on a tool called [dclient](https://github.com/simonw/dclient) which is a CLI client tool for talking to Datasette instances.

I wanted to convert some `.webp` images to `.png` on my Mac. I asked ChatGPT:

I always forget how to set this up. It's hidden in Preferences -> Profiles -> Basic -> Shell:

I upgraded my [Niche Museums](https://www.niche-museums.com/) site to use [PhotoSwipe](https://photoswipe.com/) for its photo galleries today. Here...

I noticed that a lot of my boto3 code in [s3-credentials](https://github.com/simonw/s3-credentials) looked like this:

I got [a report](https://twitter.com/peterjanes/status/1552407491819884544) of a bug with my [s3-ocr tool](https://simonwillison.net/2022/Jun/30/s3...

I spoke [at WordCamp US 2023](), and wanted to grab a copy of the video of my talk. I always try to keep my own copies of these because I've seen s...

I've implemented this pattern a bunch of times now - here's the version I've settled on for my [datasette-auth0 plugin](https://github.com/simonw/d...

A practical guide to seamlessly integrating Podman with Kubernetes workflows, including generating Kubernetes manifests, development practices, and migration strategies.

[pickapic.io](https://pickapic.io/) is a new tool funded by [stability.ai](https://stability.ai/) which asks people to generate and then vote on im...

I was seeing this warning in a Django project when I thought I was correctly using timezone-aware dates everywhere:

Alex Garcia has been building some really cool new custom extensions for SQLite, working in C and Go. So far he's released two:

If you copy and paste from a web page - including a full table - into a GitHub issue comment GitHub converts it to the corresponding Markdown for y...

An in-depth look at invinservicedemon, a Rust application designed for monitoring and managing system services, developed by Anubhav Gain.

I added a new [llms](https://simonwillison.net/tags/llms/) tag to my blog, for my content about Large Language Models.

I made some changes to my https://til.simonwillison.net/ site that resulted in cleaner URL designs, so I needed to setup some redirects. I configur...

*TLDR: Use `platform: linux/amd64` in `docker-compose.yml` and your containers will probably work!*

When building database-backed applications you'll often find yourself wanting to return a row from the database along with its related rows.