Simon Willison
Co-creator of the Django Web framework
Creative Technologist, Djangonaught, Software architect at the Guardian
Django
http://twitter.com/simonw
http://simonwillison.net/
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3803 tweets
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Just pushed Nat's snazzy new @lanyrd profile page design - related speakers are really fun to browse http://lanyrd.com/people/zeldman/
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Asked a very simple question about Ubuntu firewalling on Quora http://j.mp/9uxfS1 - I just want "only accept cons to port 11211 from IP X"
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Back online after 3 hour internet outage... I guess that's always a risk when launching a webapp from a rented apartment in Casablanca
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Posted @lanyrd to Hacker News for a startup review http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1649260
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Lanyrd's back up and be humming along nicely - moved the database to a separate server and optimised a few queries, nothing too fancy though
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Network and CPU graphs for @lanyrd this morning... I've got a bit of tuning work to do! http://twitpic.com/2jxp29
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Right... this clearly isn't sustainable. Going to have to switch the site in to read only mode for a few hours, sorry everyone!
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We launched http://lanyrd.com/ ! Go easy on it, the log files are going a bit nuts, who knew Twitter was viral?
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Is it just me, or is making a simple HTTP request from within a web application a complete minefield that no one ever seems to talk about?
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Spent basically the whole day implementing faceted search. Totally worth it.
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Idly discussing if Sir Patrick Moore is actually Doctor Who.... or maybe he's the Master?
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OH: "Microformats are one of those things that if you don't do them, everyone bitches but if you do do them, no one cares"
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"Middle school segregates class elections by race" + "1,417 people like this" - the semantic perils of the "like" button http://j.mp/aFAc0G
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One of the most interesting things about Quora is that questions do not belong to the questioner - the community can edit to improve them
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Just signed up for quora.com - the quality of questions / answers is really high (even more than stackoverflow), I wonder why?
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If anyone needs a Webdev/GIS/Django freelancer in London, @andrewgodwin is awesome and available http://codingponies.com/
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Sigh, deletionists killed the Wikipedia article on bluesnews.com back in 2008 - the oldest gaming news site on the web isn't "notable"
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In Rick's Café in Casablanca, Morocco - it's only 6 years old, but a pretty great reconstruction http://yfrog.com/nbx0tj
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Playing with the http://polymaps.org/ demos - SVG maps in your browser, using both GeoJSON and image-based tiles. Absurdly hot.
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@reybango @shaver found them, turns out I published those slides on Flickr http://www.flickr.com/photos/simon/sets/72057594077197868/
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Wow, @adactio 's write-up of the @media panel I was on is really thorough - wish these were more common http://adactio.com/articles/1685/
