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Simon Willison

Co-creator of the Django Web framework
Creative Technologist, Djangonaught, Software architect at the Guardian
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http://twitter.com/simonw
http://simonwillison.net/

simonw I'm talking at @media this year! http://j.mp/dc9rYb - "Building crowdsourcing applications" - at the Guardian and for WildlifeNearYou.com
by Simon Willison, Co-creator of the Django Web framework, Django
simonw 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
by Simon Willison, Co-creator of the Django Web framework, Django
simonw (For the record, I totally stole the superb owl pun from @drewm )
by Simon Willison, Co-creator of the Django Web framework, Django
simonw Celebrate #superbowlsunday by finding your nearest Superb Owl! http://owlsnearyou.com/
by Simon Willison, Co-creator of the Django Web framework, Django
simonw 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/
by Simon Willison, Co-creator of the Django Web framework, Django
simonw Two contrasting quotes from Adobe representatives: http://simonwillison.net/2010/Feb/7/
by Simon Willison, Co-creator of the Django Web framework, Django
simonw #bbcrevolution wow, @aleksk is interviewing the Russian kid who hacked Estonia!
by Simon Willison, Co-creator of the Django Web framework, Django
simonw #bbcrevolution Bill Gates explaining public / private key cryptography!
by Simon Willison, Co-creator of the Django Web framework, Django
simonw Watching #bbcrevolution with @aleksk and friends
by Simon Willison, Co-creator of the Django Web framework, Django
simonw Train announcer just said "this is Hove, actually" #brightoninjokes
by Simon Willison, Co-creator of the Django Web framework, Django
simonw Yet another unexpected benefit of adding Flickr machine tags via WildlifeNearYou - free slideshows! e.g slideshow link on http://wlny.eu/p1
by Simon Willison, Co-creator of the Django Web framework, Django
simonw Just re-read "Hey Crackhead", my favourite best of craigslist posting of all time http://www.craigslist.org/about/best/sfo/27499971.html
by Simon Willison, Co-creator of the Django Web framework, Django
simonw Yay - we now have a healthy (and growing) collection of photos of red squirrels http://www.wildlifenearyou.com/animals/red-squirrel/photos/
by Simon Willison, Co-creator of the Django Web framework, Django
simonw Lovely, simple visualisations of Back to the Future trilogy http://vizualize.tumblr.com/post/371134964/back-to-the-future-i-ii-and-iii-via
by Simon Willison, Co-creator of the Django Web framework, Django
simonw 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 :)
by Simon Willison, Co-creator of the Django Web framework, Django
simonw I've got a dozen python processes which ps -aux says are "" - is that bad? Should I do something?
by Simon Willison, Co-creator of the Django Web framework, Django
simonw The magic of machine tags... here are all of WLNY's meerkat photos on Flickr http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/wlny%3Aspecies%3Dsp/
by Simon Willison, Co-creator of the Django Web framework, Django
simonw WildlifeNearYou can now tag/geotag/machinetag your Flickr photos for you http://j.mp/agBdGe - you can now search WLNY using the Flickr API!
by Simon Willison, Co-creator of the Django Web framework, Django
simonw Today's entertainment: start at http://mysql.com/ and try to find a link to download the open source code.
by Simon Willison, Co-creator of the Django Web framework, Django
simonw Released dogproxy, a 50 line Node.js HTTP proxy which avoids dogpile effect by bundling parallel URL requests together http://swtiny.eu/BBTW
by Simon Willison, Co-creator of the Django Web framework, Django
simonw Facebook are serving 400 billion page views a month? That's 150,000+ a second! http://j.mp/d7V7y2
by Simon Willison, Co-creator of the Django Web framework, Django
simonw @phiggins you only lose the event object in IE right? Doesn't affect what I"m using it for, but thanks for the heads up
by Simon Willison, Co-creator of the Django Web framework, Django
simonw Wrote an ultra-simple JavaScript rate limiter for dealing with expensive mousemove callbacks: http://gist.github.com/292562
by Simon Willison, Co-creator of the Django Web framework, Django
simonw Usability observation: been using Google Reader for 4 years now and I only just realised "starred" and "shared" items are not the same thing
by Simon Willison, Co-creator of the Django Web framework, Django
simonw Trying to find a full copy of the Aarne-Thompson classification system online
by Simon Willison, Co-creator of the Django Web framework, Django
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