I was experimenting with [wasmtime-py](https://github.com/bytecodealliance/wasmtime-py) today and found the [current documentation](https://bytecod...

I've been experimenting with the combination of [Claude](https://claude.ai/) and my [LLM CLI tool](https://llm.datasette.io/) to give me quick summ...

MLC (Machine Learning Compilation) on May 22nd 2023: [Bringing Open Large Language Models to Consumer Devices](https://mlc.ai/blog/2023/05/22/bring...

GitHub Actions workflows fail if any of the steps executes something that returns a non-zero exit code.

Useful for seeing what's available for `if: ` conditions (see [context and expression syntax](https://help.github.com/en/actions/reference/context-...

Thanks to [@glasnt](https://github.com/glasnt) for the tip on this one. If you want a per-service breakdown of pricing on your Google Cloud Run ser...

I wanted to start playing around with [OpenAPI](https://www.openapis.org/). I decided to see if I could get GPT-3 to generate the first version of ...

[Fly](https://fly.io/) offers [fly-log-shipper](https://github.com/superfly/fly-log-shipper) as a container you can run in a Fly application to sen...

When giving a workshop it's often useful to have a URL to the workshop materials visible on screen at all times. I use a bit.ly link for these.

I extracted and enhanced this TIL from [my April 8th 2020 weeknotes](https://simonwillison.net/2020/Apr/8/weeknotes-zeit-now-v2/#git-bisect) to mak...

Here's what I learned about publishing a single file JavaScript package to NPM for my [Prompts.js](https://simonwillison.net/2024/Dec/7/prompts-js/...

For [Datasette.app](https://github.com/simonw/datasette-app) I wanted to ensure that links to external URLs would [open in the system browser](http...

I was playing around with [datanews/amtrak-geojson](https://github.com/datanews/amtrak-geojson), which provides GeoJSON for Amtrak stations and tra...

The SQLite `pragma_function_list()` table-valued function returns a list of functions that have been registered with SQLite, including functions th...

I wanted to construct a string of SQL that would return a blob value:

I have a Fly application that uses their PostgreSQL service. I wanted to run [Django SQL Dashboard]() with a read-only user against that database.

[vivym/midjourney-messages](https://huggingface.co/datasets/vivym/midjourney-messages) on Hugging Face is a large (~8GB) dataset consisting of 55,0...

I've been playing around with [the Mastodon timelines API](https://docs.joinmastodon.org/methods/timelines/). It's pretty fun!

Natural Earth ([website](https://www.naturalearthdata.com/), [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_Earth)) is a a public domain map dat...

[tree-sitter](https://tree-sitter.github.io/tree-sitter/) is a "parser generator tool and an incremental parsing library". It has a very good reput...

The `gcloud run services list` command lists your services running on Google Cloud Run:

Jake Archibald [pointed to](https://twitter.com/jaffathecake/status/1491771402294370306) his `package.json` for `idb-keyval` as a "modernish exampl...

Mastodon has a really neat way of implementing verification, using the [rel=me microformat](https://microformats.org/wiki/rel-me).

Complete guide to Amazon ECS - fully managed container orchestration service for Docker containers with EC2 and Fargate launch types, service discovery, and auto scaling.