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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Knut the polar bear in incest scandal! http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/gallery/2010/mar/05/week-in-wildlife?picture=360057321
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The OK Go Heath Robinson / Rube Goldberg contraption video was WAY better than I expected, and I had v. high expectations http://j.mp/bHEoaY
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Trying to convince someone on Hacker News to Just Use HTTP http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1166095
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Reading up on Tangerinegate: awesome http://www.boingboing.net/2010/03/01/robert-poppers-great.html
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The Apple patent crap has completely killed my interest in learning iPad development
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And the office choirs going through to the final are... The Willis choir and Deloitte! The judges did praise our choreography #therealglee
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Eagerly awaiting the results of our heat in office choir of the year with the rest of the Guardian Angels #therealglee
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Good discussion about user understanding of URLs and web security on my blog http://swtiny.eu/BBUU - really like the last comment by @blaine
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One of my otter photos is on the Daily Otter today! http://dailyotter.org/post/422141839/via
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Mucking around with the App Engine datastore - it really should be easier to retrieve an entity by its key name, or am I missing something?
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Hot damn, a Portal ARG... http://www.argn.com/2010/03/valve_fans_triumphant_glimmerings_of_a_portal_arg/
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Users don't understand URLs - here's why that terrifies me: http://swtiny.eu/BBUU
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Wrote my first Chrome extension today, very impressed with how easy it was - for development you just create a directory and a few files
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The Guardian's politics API is now live: http://bit.ly/ctQo0a - JSON/HTTP access to UK parties, MPs, constituencies and election results
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Eek, a lynx! http://www.wildlifenearyou.com/simon/photos/9759/
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Posted a trip report and photos from the New Forest Owl and Otter wildlife park http://www.wildlifenearyou.com/simon/trip/748/
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Posted some longer-than-normal link commentary today: http://simonwillison.net/2010/Feb/28/ - Django ORM caching and Node.js+redis proxies
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Heading to the Owl and Otter wildlife park for some serious owling and ottering
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Obscure IE/cache-busting/cookie/database-replication problem - any suggestions? http://simonwillison.net/2010/Feb/26/cachebusting/
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IE doesn't support max-age on cookies, which makes implementing the "10 seconds of cache skipping for users who post stuff" pattern hard :/
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Infuriated by the terrible design of this departure board page http://realtime.nationalrail.co.uk/ldb/station.aspx?T=BTN
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Stack overflow thread on editors with mini-maps http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1344566/editors-with-minimap-like-sublime-text/1465352
