The [EC2 pricing page](https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/on-demand/) shows cost per hour, which is pretty much useless. I want cost per month. The...

Comprehensive guide to implementing Application Detection and Response (ADR) using eBPF for real-time threat detection and prevention in modern web applications.

I have a Fly instance with a 20GB volume, and I wanted to copy files to and from the instance from my computer using `scp`.

Master SIEM correlation rules with this comprehensive guide covering attack detection patterns, custom decoders, real-world examples, and implementation strategies for Wazuh and other SIEM platforms.

I deployed https://metmusem.datasettes.com/ by creating a folder on my computer containing a Dockerfile and then shipping that folder up to Google ...

Today I worked out how to use the Heroku `pg:pull` command and [Postgres.app](https://postgresapp.com/) to pull a Heroku backup to my laptop.

A comprehensive 27-module guide to Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) systems, covering fundamentals, architecture, deployment models, and advanced implementation strategies for modern security operations.

For my [git-history live demos](https://github.com/simonw/git-history/issues/30) I needed to store quite large files (~200MB SQLite databases) in b...

I [decided](https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1166) to adopt [Prettier](https://prettier.io/) as the JavaScript code style for Datasette, ...

For [datasette/issues/1522](https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1522) I wanted to use a Docker build argument in a `Dockerfile` that would t...

Charlie Holtz published [an astonishing demo](https://twitter.com/charliebholtz/status/1724815159590293764) today, where he hooked together GPT-Vis...

I wanted to redirect all traffic to `https://something.vercel.app/` to a different domain - preserving the path and the querystring and serving a 3...

I picked up the recipe for this one from [this video](https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTRaxyxQP/) by [@notjustabartender](https://www.tiktok.com/@notjusta...

Figured this out in https://github.com/simonw/simonwillisonblog/issues/132 - I was running PostgreSQL 9.x and I wanted 11.x in order to use the new...

A complete production-ready deployment guide for Wazuh SIEM on AWS ECS Fargate with full configurations, SSL/TLS setup, load balancing, service discovery, and troubleshooting steps.

[Val Town](https://www.val.town/) is a neat service for hosting short server-side JavaScript programs online - reminiscent of a combination of Glit...

Spotted in [this Cloud Run example](https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/github-actions/blob/20c294aabd5331f9f7b8a26e6075d41c31ce5e0d/example-wor...

[Fly](https://fly.io/) makes it surprisingly easy to configure wildcard DNS, such that `anything.your-new-domain.dev` is served by a single Fly app...

OpenAI [announced new models](https://openai.com/blog/function-calling-and-other-api-updates) today. Of particular interest to me is the new `gpt-3...

Complete guide to AWS IAM Roles - understanding trust policies, permissions, and common use cases for secure AWS resource access management.

I was experimenting with the new [Readwise export API](https://readwise.io/api_deets#export) and it gave me back the following JSON:

The ChatGPT Code Interpreter alpha remains incredibly interesting. I wrote about how I was using it [for Python and SQLite benchmarking](https://si...

In [this Observable notebook](https://observablehq.com/@simonw/mastodon-users-and-statuses-over-time) I'm plotting a line on a chart, but I want to...

I decided to run my CI tests against the Python 3.11 preview, to avoid the problem I had when Python 3.10 came out with [a bug that affected Datase...