[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...

Xeophon [suggested](https://twitter.com/TheXeophon/status/1700203810545680542) that [E5-large-v2](https://huggingface.co/intfloat/e5-large-v2) as a...

I found a killer application for ChatGPT today: writing AppleScript!

I [started exploring](https://twitter.com/simonw/status/1476249939516616704) **[WebAuthn](https://webauthn.guide/)** today - a set of browser stand...

OpenAI [released an API for ChatGPT](https://openai.com/blog/introducing-chatgpt-and-whisper-apis) yesterday. It's 1/10th of the price of the `text...

I have a private Discord channel and a private GitHub repository.

I figured out a minimal pattern for building a completely custom website using GitHub Actions and deploying the result to GitHub Pages.

For an (ethical) [scraping project](https://github.com/simonw/scrape-doge-gov) I found that my low-volume scraper was working from my laptop but wa...

The goal: run [Varnish](https://varnish-cache.org/) in a [Fly](https://fly.io/) container as a caching proxy in front of another Fly application.

I got an unexpected traffic spike to https://russian-ira-facebook-ads.datasettes.com/ - which runs on Cloud Run - and decided to use `robots.txt` t...

A comprehensive guide to the Domain Name System (DNS), including its purpose, how it works, and a visual representation of the DNS resolution process.

A comprehensive guide to Kubernetes storage concepts, including PersistentVolumes, PersistentVolumeClaims, and StorageClasses, with practical examples demonstrating their implementation and usage.