Simon Willison
Co-creator of the Django Web framework
Creative Technologist, Djangonaught, Software architect at the Guardian
Django
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http://simonwillison.net/
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I'm talking at @media this year! http://j.mp/dc9rYb - "Building crowdsourcing applications" - at the Guardian and for WildlifeNearYou.com
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I have not yet watched "Around the world by Zeppelin" but I'm counting the hours until this evening http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00qpjpr
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Celebrate #superbowlsunday by finding your nearest Superb Owl! http://owlsnearyou.com/
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I hate it when sites don't offer permalinks - can't figure out how to link to this blog entry about sketchpad http://www.colorjack.com/blog/
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Two contrasting quotes from Adobe representatives: http://simonwillison.net/2010/Feb/7/
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#bbcrevolution Bill Gates explaining public / private key cryptography!
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Train announcer just said "this is Hove, actually" #brightoninjokes
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Yet another unexpected benefit of adding Flickr machine tags via WildlifeNearYou - free slideshows! e.g slideshow link on http://wlny.eu/p1
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Just re-read "Hey Crackhead", my favourite best of craigslist posting of all time http://www.craigslist.org/about/best/sfo/27499971.html
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Yay - we now have a healthy (and growing) collection of photos of red squirrels http://www.wildlifenearyou.com/animals/red-squirrel/photos/
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Lovely, simple visualisations of Back to the Future trilogy http://vizualize.tumblr.com/post/371134964/back-to-the-future-i-ii-and-iii-via
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Got rid of my defunct processes by restarting the parent (I think), set cron to restart it at 4am every day, pretending it never happened :)
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I've got a dozen python processes which ps -aux says are "" - is that bad? Should I do something?
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The magic of machine tags... here are all of WLNY's meerkat photos on Flickr http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/wlny%3Aspecies%3Dsp/
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WildlifeNearYou can now tag/geotag/machinetag your Flickr photos for you http://j.mp/agBdGe - you can now search WLNY using the Flickr API!
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Today's entertainment: start at http://mysql.com/ and try to find a link to download the open source code.
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Released dogproxy, a 50 line Node.js HTTP proxy which avoids dogpile effect by bundling parallel URL requests together http://swtiny.eu/BBTW
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Facebook are serving 400 billion page views a month? That's 150,000+ a second! http://j.mp/d7V7y2
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Wrote an ultra-simple JavaScript rate limiter for dealing with expensive mousemove callbacks: http://gist.github.com/292562
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Usability observation: been using Google Reader for 4 years now and I only just realised "starred" and "shared" items are not the same thing
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Trying to find a full copy of the Aarne-Thompson classification system online
