Tag: Simon Willison

  • My appearance on The PublishPress Podcast

    My thanks to Steve Burge for inviting me on to The PublishPress Podcast. In this episode we chat about NerdPress, blogging, Hubbub, Hubbub’s Save This feature, social media, and the importance for publishers to own their own audience. Honorable mentions are Flipboard and Mastodon. At the end of the episode Steve always asks his guests…

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  • The vibe coding litmus test

    Unsure of what vibe coding is? See Simon Willison’s explanation of a term recently coined by Andrej Karpathy on X. It is a buzzword that is lighting the world in fire it seems. But I just want to quickly recommend; do not hire anyone (a person or an agency) that thinks vibe coding is a…

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  • Diversions #9: The garlic of March

    The sun has returned! I mean, it has always been there. Relatively speaking in the same place it was over the last few months. But the Earth’s tilt is such that as it revolves around the nearest star the portion on which I live (the northern hemisphere) is getting ever so slightly closer and faces…

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  • Simon Willison: Use AI as an accelerant

    Simon Willison, from a clip I created of an episode of Around the Prompt: I love AI as an accelerant of personal productivity improvement. I plan on writing an update to my post from April 2023 about using ChatGPT as an accelerator where I’ll say something similar. Here is the clip:

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  • Using static websites as personal archives

    Over coffee this morning, browsing my unreads in NetNewsWire, I stumbled on Simon Willison’s mention of Alex Chan’s “Using static websites as tiny archives” post. And then I saw Jeremy Keith also mention it. So I thought I’d mention it to! There’s no web server, no build system, no dependencies, and no JavaScript frameworks. I’m…

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  • Diversions #4: Tree branches and LLMs

    Diversions is the central hub for news about the membership, behind-the-scenes details of my personal projects, as well as a wide variety of links to people, places, and things that inspire me. A bit of housekeeping: I’m turning Diversions public. While a fair number of people have signed up for both free and paid memberships…

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