simonw/simonwillisonblog
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The source code behind my blog
14 mentions on Hacker News by 3 people: 0 stories, 14 comments · first 2017-12-02 · latest 2026-05-29
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…of the work, and worth recording. I've taken to linking to mine in commit messages, e.g. this one: https://github.com/simonw/simonwillisonblog/commit/e781e4eef... (My favourite feature of the new Codex desktop app is that it has a…
comment by simonw · 2026-05-29 · in Is this sustainable? -
…added disclosures links to the footer to make them easier to find - thanks for the prod on that: https://github.com/simonw/simonwillisonblog/commit/95291fd26...
comment by simonw · 2026-02-07 · in Software factories and the agentic moment -
It's current. I last modified it in October: https://github.com/simonw/simonwillisonblog/commits/main/tem...
comment by simonw · 2026-02-07 · in Software factories and the agentic moment -
…Did you get caught out by the em-dash? That's thanks to this 10+ year old string replacement: https://github.com/simonw/simonwillisonblog/blob/b8066f870a9... The only LLM writing on my blog is from when VS Code or Apple Notes occasionally…
comment by simonw · 2026-01-12 · in Don't fall into the anti-AI hype -
…any VS Code completed sentences It has emdashes because my blog turns " - " into an emdash here: https://github.com/simonw/simonwillisonblog/blob/06e931b397f...
comment by simonw · 2025-12-18 · in Your job is to deliver code you have proven to work -
They're a neat design. I started using them on my blog the other day as part of trying out Django 6: https://github.com/simonw/simonwillisonblog/blob/faec3532183...
comment by simonw · 2025-12-09 · in Django: what’s new in 6.0 -
…out of it: Feedly/1.0 (+https://feedly.com/poller.html; 694 subscribers; ) Here's my code for that: https://github.com/simonw/simonwillisonblog/blob/main/feedst...
comment by simonw · 2025-11-22 · in Personal blogs are back, should niche blogs be next? -
I just shipped this change from my phone: https://github.com/simonw/simonwillisonblog/commit/a0f731ecb...
comment by simonw · 2025-01-25 · in The past, present, and future of UI at GitHub -
Simon's site runs on Django: https://github.com/simonw/simonwillisonblog , which is unsurprising as he is one of Django's co-creators. But I agree with you, a great use case for a Next.js-esque static site.
comment by hailpixel · 2025-01-06 · in My approach to running a link blog -
…Django setup without many other dependencies, so it's a lot less of an attack surface: https://github.com/simonw/simonwillisonblog
comment by simonw · 2023-09-12 · in Notes from building a blog in Django -
…scroll all the way to the bottom of the page. I should fix that, it annoys me too. UPDATE: Fixed. https://github.com/simonw/simonwillisonblog/commit/6db7db174...
comment by simonw · 2023-08-04 · in Catching up on the weird world of LLMs -
…example: https://simonwillison.net/search/?q=%22nosql+database%22 I'm using search_type=websearch https://github.com/simonw/simonwillisonblog/blob/a5b53a24b00... That's using websearch_to_tsquery() which was added in PostgreSQL 11:…
comment by simonw · 2021-07-27 · in Postgres Full-Text Search: A search engine in a database -
I really like your blog and I noticed you have the source code here - https://github.com/simonw/simonwillisonblog But I noticed it doesn't have a license. Are you okay with people adopting the backend for their own blog?
comment by dqv · 2018-01-26 · in I miss blogrolls -
…though one that's been around for a long time and survived a lot of different Django versions): https://github.com/simonw/simonwillisonblog/pull/10
comment by simonw · 2017-12-02 · in Django 2.0 released