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Heavybit Podcasts
Ep. #2, Data Journalism Unleashed with Simon Willison
In episode 2 of Data Renegades, CL Kao and Dori Wilson speak with Simon Willison. Together they dive into the origins of Datasette, the evolution of data journalism, and the surprising ways open source tools shape global reporting. Simon also explains how LLM-based agents will redefine data cleaning, enrichment, and analysis. A must-listen for anyone building or scaling data teams.The post appeared first on Heavybit.
2025-11-25
57 min
Tool Use - AI Conversations
Are AI Agents Ready for the Internet? (ft Bobbie Chen)
Join the Tool Use Discord: https://discord.gg/PnEGyXpjaXAre you ready for AI agents to browse the web? We explore the future of AI agent authentication, web security, and API design in this deep dive. As AI agents proliferate, critical questions arise: how do we handle security without giving an agent your password? How can we make websites optimized for agent consumption? We're joined by Bobbie Chen, a product manager at Stytch specializing in bot and AI agent detection, to discuss the risks and opportunities.We cover how...
2025-09-23
46 min
The Real Python Podcast
Large Language Models on the Edge of the Scaling Laws
What’s happening with the latest releases of large language models? Is the industry hitting the edge of the scaling laws, and do the current benchmarks provide reliable performance assessments? This week on the show, Jodie Burchell returns to discuss the current state of LLM releases. The most recent release of GPT-5 has been a wake-up call for the LLM industry. We discuss how the current scaling of these systems is reaching a diminishing edge. Jodie also shares how many AI model assessments and benchmarks are flawed. We also take a sober look at the productivity gains fr...
2025-09-05
1h 28
Talk Python To Me
Celebrating Django's 20th Birthday With Its Creators
Twenty years after a scrappy newsroom team hacked together a framework to ship stories fast, Django remains the Python web framework that ships real apps, responsibly. In this anniversary roundtable with its creators and long-time stewards: Simon Willison, Adrian Holovaty, Will Vincent, Jeff Triplett, and Thibaud Colas, we trace the path from the Lawrence Journal-World to 1.0, DjangoCon, and the DSF; unpack how a BSD license and a culture of docs, tests, and mentorship grew a global community; and revisit lessons from deployments like Instagram. We talk modern Django too: ASGI and async, HTMX-friendly patterns, building APIs with DRF and Django...
2025-08-29
1h 08
Teaching Python
LLMs with Simon WIllison
In this milestone 150th episode, hosts Kelly Schuster-Paredes and Sean Tibor sit down with Simon Willison, co-creator of Django and creator of Datasette and LLM tools, for an in-depth conversation about artificial intelligence in Python education. The discussion covers the current landscape of LLMs in coding education, from the benefits of faster iteration cycles to the risks of students losing that crucial "aha moment" when they solve problems independently. Simon shares insights on prompt injection vulnerabilities, the importance of local models for privacy, and why he believes LLMs are much harder to use effectively than most people...
2025-08-28
1h 36
Talking Postgres with Claire Giordano
Talking Postgres with Claire Giordano – Trailer
Why do Postgres developers, contributors, and users do what they do? In each episode of Talking Postgres, Claire Giordano talks to people from across the Postgres ecosystem—how they got started, what they’ve learned, and what they’re still figuring out. This 3-minute trailer offers a fast-paced glimpse into the fun, surprising, and deeply human stories behind Postgres, including failures, wins, obstacles—and all the messy parts in between. New episodes monthly. Always on Fridays. Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts.Episodes from Talking Postgres with guests featured in the trailer (in order of appearance):
2025-08-15
02 min
Talking Postgres with Claire Giordano
AI for data engineers with Simon Willison
It’s always a good day if you see a pelican. In Episode 30 of Talking Postgres with Claire Giordano, open source developer Simon Willison—creator of Datasette and co-creator of Django—joins to explore how AI is useful for data engineers today. We move past the hype and boosterism to dig into example after example: structured data extraction, alt text and accessibility, safety and security (aka the fiddly bits), and why Postgres’s fine-grained permissions are such a good fit for AI-powered workflows. Also: Pulitzer-worthy data tooling, the science fiction of the 10X engineer, agents, MCP, RAG, the multitude of model...
2025-08-08
1h 15
Screaming in the Cloud
AI's Security Crisis: Why Your Assistant Might Betray You
On this episode of Screaming in the Cloud, Corey Quinn talks with Simon Willison, founder of Datasette and creator of LLM CLI about AI’s realities versus the hype. They dive into Simon’s “lethal trifecta” of AI security risks, his prediction of a major breach within six months, and real-world use cases of his open source tools, from investigative journalism to OSINT sleuthing. Simon shares grounded insights on coding with AI, the real environmental impact, AGI skepticism, and why human expertise still matters. A candid, hype-free take from someone who truly knows the space.Highli...
2025-08-07
1h 05
Generationship
Ep. #39, Simon Willison: I Coined Prompt Injection
In episode 39 of Generationship, Rachel speaks with Simon Willison, founder of Datasette and co-creator of Django. Simon discusses the surprising resurgence of blogging, his coining of the term “prompt injection,” the power of learning in public, and how he uses GitHub issues as an external brain to manage hundreds of projects. This quick-witted and humorous conversation offers a pragmatic look at leveraging today's tools for maximum productivity and impact.The post appeared first on Heavybit.
2025-07-10
52 min
Heavybit Podcasts
Ep. #39, Simon Willison: I Coined Prompt Injection
In episode 39 of Generationship, Rachel speaks with Simon Willison, founder of Datasette and co-creator of Django. Simon discusses the surprising resurgence of blogging, his coining of the term “prompt injection,” the power of learning in public, and how he uses GitHub issues as an external brain to manage hundreds of projects. This quick-witted and humorous conversation offers a pragmatic look at leveraging today's tools for maximum productivity and impact.The post appeared first on Heavybit.
2025-07-10
52 min
Brain Farts
The Vibe Coding Paradox
Episode Title: The Vibe Coding ParadoxShow Notes:In this episode, we explore “vibe coding”—the fast-moving, AI-powered trend reshaping how software is written in 2025. What happens when developers can build fully functional apps without understanding the code?🔹 Executive Summary:Vibe coding accelerates software creation by using AI tools to generate working code—often without the developer fully reviewing or comprehending it. This episode examines the benefits, risks, and ethical questions behind this shift.🔹 Topics Covered:1. **The Separation of Competence and Comprehension** - Developers can now produce complex apps wit...
2025-06-15
05 min
The Truth of the Matter with Natasha Zouves
AI Is Coming for Your Job. Here’s What To Do Now, With Simon Willison.
He's one of the most thoughtful voices in the world of Artificial Intelligence. In this episode, “Truth of the Matter” host Natasha Zouves sits down with the pioneering technologist and co-creator of Django, Simon Willison. As AI accelerates at breakneck speed, Willison helps us cut through the hype to confront the real stakes: Which jobs are most at risk in this new era, and which might actually thrive? How do we “AI-proof” our own lives and careers when the ground is shifting under our feet? In this wide-ranging conversation, Willison pulls back the curtain on the futu...
2025-05-22
1h 00
Colaberry AI Podcast
AI-Assisted Search: A Turning Point in Research Capabilities | 23rd Apr 2025
Send us a textIs AI finally ready to become your go-to research assistant?In this episode, we explore how the latest AI models like OpenAI’s o3/o4-mini and Google’s Gemini 2.5 Pro are transforming the way we search and synthesize information online. With improved accuracy, integration of real-time search into reasoning, and fewer hallucinations—AI is now crossing the threshold from novelty to necessity in research.We cover: 🔍 How AI-assisted search has evolved to become actually useful 🧠 Why integrated reasoning + search is a game-changer 💡 Real-wo...
2025-04-23
13 min
Half Stack Data Science
S04E02 - Programming with AI - with Simon Willison
In this episode we talked to Simon Willison. Simon is the creator of Datasette, an open source tool for exploring and publishing data. He currently works full-time building open source tools for data journalism, built around Datasette and SQLite.Prior to becoming an independent open source developer, Simon was an engineering director at Eventbrite. Simon joined Eventbrite through their acquisition of Lanyrd, a Y Combinator funded company he co-founded in 2010.He is a co-creator of the Django Web Framework, and has been blogging about web development and programming since 2002 at simonwillison.net
2025-03-31
50 min
The PublishPress Podcast
Blogging is Still Very Big Business, With Colin Devroe
Colin Devroe has been a blogger since the 1990's. He currently runs Hubbub, a social sharing and website growth plugin for WordPress. He is passionate about helping bloggers succeed. And in 2025, that means owning your audience.On this episode of the PublishPress Podcast, Colin shares his vast experience in the blogging industry. He talks about how social networks are swinging back towards with human curation with bloggers seeing a lot of success on platforms like Flipboard. And to really own your audience, you need them to follow you on a platform you control. That can be a...
2025-03-24
47 min
Talking Postgres with Claire Giordano
Why Python developers just use Postgres with Dawn Wages
When I found out that Django developer and Python Software Foundation chair Dawn Wages has a chapter in her upcoming Domain-Driven Django book called “Just Use Postgres”, I knew we had to get her on the show. In this episode of Talking Postgres with Claire Giordano, Dawn breaks down why so many Python and Django developers have such an affinity for Postgres. And we dive into the Djangonaut Space mentoring program (where contributors launch), learn why “free as in puppies” beats “free as in cake” for open source vibes, and dig into why Python is the second-best language for everything.
2025-03-14
1h 00
What A Lot Of Things: Tech talk from a human perspective
Is Testing Dead? and The Younger Generation (of open source maintainers) These Days!
In Episode 28, Ian and Ash wade into the treacherous waters of AI-generated testing strategies, with Ian demonstrating how LLMs can now create comprehensive (but perhaps suspiciously mundane) test documentation with just a few commands. The pair debate whether testers should fear for their jobs or simply laugh at AI's confident yet risk-blind approach to testing. Meanwhile, Ash ponders the BBC's hand-wringing over the future of open source software, questioning whether the current gatekeepers might need to stop finger-wagging at younger developers and instead create more welcoming environments for volunteers.Between discussions of 960Mbps internet connections, mind flayers...
2025-02-25
1h 11
Accessibility and Gen AI Podcast
Simon Willison - Creator, Datasette
OUTLINE:00:00 Opening Teaser00:36 Introduction01:35 Working On Django04:35 Future of Generative AI & Accessibility07:23 Latest Tools & Models (Google Gemini Flash 2.0, Open AI, Video Streaming APIs, Amazon Nova)11:39 Frontrunners of AI?14:48 Daily Tools19:14 LLM Command Line Tool22:10 Using LLM For Alt Text For Images24:58 Making LLM More Accessible32:36 Will AI Replace Jobs?39:50 The Dangers of AI43:13 Launching Django46:52 Datasette Open Source Tool51:29 Developers Working With The Accessibility Community57:34 Using NotebookLM To Prepare For This Podcast1:00:43 Wrap Up--EPISODE LINKS:
2025-02-24
1h 01
L'IA aujourd'hui !
L'IA aujourd'hui épisode du 2025-02-18
Bonjour et bienvenue dans le podcast de l'IA par l’IA qui vous permet de rester à la page ! Aujourd’hui : OpenAI dévoile ses nouveaux modèles, les défis de l'IA prédictive, et les innovations dans les modèles de langage. C’est parti !Commençons par OpenAI, qui a récemment annoncé les modèles GPT-4.5 et GPT-5. Sam Altman, PDG d'OpenAI, a révélé que GPT-4.5, surnommé Orion, sera le dernier modèle sans "chaîne de pensée". GPT-5 intégrera des technologies avancées, y compris le modèle o3, pour offrir une expérience unifiée. Les ut...
2025-02-18
03 min
mbanerjeepalmer+listennotes 's Listen Later
Simon Willison: Using LLMs for Python Development
Podcast: The Real Python Podcast (LS 47 · TOP 1% what is this?)Episode: Simon Willison: Using LLMs for Python DevelopmentPub date: 2025-01-24Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationWhat are the current large language model (LLM) tools you can use to develop Python? What prompting techniques and strategies produce better results? This week on the show, we speak with Simon Willison about his LLM research and his exploration of writing Python code with these rapidly evolving tools. Simon has been researching LLMs over the...
2025-02-14
1h 22
Feedforward Member Podcast
Navigating AI Risks: Simon Willison's Take on Security
Adam Davidson welcomes listeners to a thought-provoking conversation with Simon Willison, a feedforward expert, as they delve into the intricate relationship between AI and security. Their discussion opens with a humorous yet intriguing benchmark—Simon’s whimsical challenge of generating an SVG of a pelican riding a bicycle, which serves as a metaphor for evaluating AI models. This playful examination leads to deeper concerns around the safety and reliability of AI usage, especially within enterprise contexts. Simon articulates the anxieties many organizations face regarding data privacy and the potential risks associated with feeding sensitive information into AI chatbots. A cent...
2025-01-28
45 min
L'IA aujourd'hui !
L'IA aujourd'hui épisode du 2025-01-28
Bonjour et bienvenue dans L'IA Aujourd’hui, le podcast de l'IA par l’IA qui vous permet de rester à la page ! Aujourd’hui : nous aborderons l'importance de l'open source selon Simon Willison, les astuces anti-bots de la YouTubeuse f4mi, les révélations sur le fonctionnement de ChatGPT, les défis pour évaluer les nouveaux modèles d'IA, l'ingénierie des invites pour les développeurs, les préoccupations de sécurité soulevées par Microsoft, et les améliorations apportées à Canvas par OpenAI. C’est parti !Commençons avec Simon Willison, qui a partagé son point de vue sur l'importance de p...
2025-01-28
07 min
The Real Python Podcast
Simon Willison: Using LLMs for Python Development
What are the current large language model (LLM) tools you can use to develop Python? What prompting techniques and strategies produce better results? This week on the show, we speak with Simon Willison about his LLM research and his exploration of writing Python code with these rapidly evolving tools. Simon has been researching LLMs over the past two and a half years and documenting the results on his blog. He shares which models work best for writing Python versus JavaScript and compares coding tools and environments. We discuss prompt engineering techniques and the first steps...
2025-01-24
1h 22
mbanerjeepalmer+listennotes 's Listen Later
(BNS) Simon Willison And SWYX Tell Us Where AI Is In 2025
Podcast: Tech Brew Ride Home (LS 58 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)Episode: (BNS) Simon Willison And SWYX Tell Us Where AI Is In 2025Pub date: 2025-01-11Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationThe great Simon Willison joins SWYX and I to talk about everything we learned about LLMs in 2024, and what the state of AI is generally, as we go into 2025.Here is Simon's blog post we keep referring to:https://simonwillison.net/2024/Dec/31...00:00 The State of AI in 2025
2025-01-16
1h 16
Latent Space: The AI Engineer Podcast
[Ride Home] Simon Willison: Things we learned about LLMs in 2024
Due to overwhelming demand (>15x applications:slots), we are closing CFPs for AI Engineer Summit NYC today. Last call! Thanks, we’ll be reaching out to all shortly!The world’s top AI blogger and friend of every pod, Simon Willison, dropped a monster 2024 recap: Things we learned about LLMs in 2024. Brian of the excellent TechMeme Ride Home pinged us for a connection and a special crossover episode, our first in 2025. The target audience for this podcast is a tech-literate, but non-technical one. You can see Simon’s notes for AI Engineers in his Wo...
2025-01-12
1h 13
Tech Brew Ride Home
(BNS) Simon Willison And SWYX Tell Us Where AI Is In 2025
The great Simon Willison joins SWYX and I to talk about everything we learned about LLMs in 2024, and what the state of AI is generally, as we go into 2025.Here is Simon's blog post we keep referring to:https://simonwillison.net/2024/Dec/31...00:00 The State of AI in 202510:05 The Evolution of AI Models19:54 Challenges in AI Agents30:07 The Future of AI in Creative Industries38:29 The Rise of AI Influencers40:54 Credibility in the Age of AI43:15 The Future of User Interfaces for LLMs
2025-01-11
1h 16
Around the Prompt
Simon Willison: The Future of Open Source and AI
In this conversation, Simon Willison discusses the intersection of AI, Open Source, and journalism, emphasizing the importance of tools like Dataset in enhancing data journalism. He reflects on his journey from developing Django to his current work with AI, highlighting the role of open source in software development. Willison shares insights on how AI can augment human capabilities rather than replace them, and he expresses concerns about the future of AI, particularly regarding AGI. The discussion also touches on the evolving landscape of programming and the need for better onboarding processes for new developers.
2024-12-01
54 min
ThursdAI - The top AI news from the past week
📅 ThursdAI - Oct 24 - Claude 3.5 controls your PC?! Talking AIs with 🦾, Multimodal Weave, Video Models mania + more AI news from this 🔥 week.
Hey all, Alex here, coming to you from the (surprisingly) sunny Seattle, with just a mind-boggling week of releases. Really, just on Tuesday there was so much news already! I had to post a recap thread, something I do usually after I finish ThursdAI! From Anthropic reclaiming close-second sometimes-first AI lab position + giving Claude the wheel in the form of computer use powers, to more than 3 AI video generation updates with open source ones, to Apple updating Apple Intelligence beta, it's honestly been very hard to keep up, and again, this is literally part of my job!
2024-10-25
1h 56
ThursdAI - The top AI news from the past week
📆 ThursdAI - Oct 3 - OpenAI RealTime API, ChatGPT Canvas & other DevDay news (how I met Sam Altman), Gemini 1.5 8B is basically free, BFL makes FLUX 1.1 6x faster, Rev breaks whisper records...
Hey, it's Alex. Ok, so mind is officially blown. I was sure this week was going to be wild, but I didn't expect everyone else besides OpenAI to pile on, exactly on ThursdAI. Coming back from Dev Day (number 2) and am still processing, and wanted to actually do a recap by humans, not just the NotebookLM one I posted during the keynote itself (which was awesome and scary in a "will AI replace me as a podcaster" kind of way), and was incredible to have Simon Willison who was sitting just behind me most of Dev Day...
2024-10-04
1h 45
Latent Space: The AI Engineer Podcast
Building AGI in Real Time (OpenAI Dev Day 2024)
We all have fond memories of the first Dev Day in 2023:and the blip that followed soon after. As Ben Thompson has noted, this year’s DevDay took a quieter, more intimate tone. No Satya, no livestream, (slightly fewer people?). Instead of putting ChatGPT announcements in DevDay as in 2023, o1 was announced 2 weeks prior, and DevDay 2024 was reserved purely for developer-facing API announcements, primarily the Realtime API, Vision Finetuning, Prompt Caching, and Model Distillation.However the larger venue and more spread out schedule did allow a lot more hallway conversations with at...
2024-10-03
2h 09
The Pragmatic Engineer
AI tools for software engineers, but without the hype – with Simon Willison (co-creator of Django)
The first episode of The Pragmatic Engineer Podcast is out. Expect similar episodes every other Wednesday. You can add the podcast in your favorite podcast player, and have future episodes downloaded automatically.Listen now on Apple, Spotify, and YouTube.Brought to you by:• Codeium: Join the 700K+ developers using the IT-approved AI-powered code assistant.• TLDR: Keep up with tech in 5 minutes—On the first episode of the Pragmatic Engineer Podcast, I am joined by Simon Willison.Simon is one of the best-known software engineers experimenting with LLMs...
2024-09-25
1h 12
The TWIML AI Podcast (formerly This Week in Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence)
Supercharging Developer Productivity with ChatGPT and Claude with Simon Willison
Today, we're joined by Simon Willison, independent researcher and creator of Datasette to discuss the many ways software developers and engineers can take advantage of large language models (LLMs) to boost their productivity. We dig into Simon’s own workflows and how he uses popular models like ChatGPT and Anthropic’s Claude to write and test hundreds of lines of code while out walking his dog. We review Simon’s favorite prompting and debugging techniques, his strategies for sidestepping the limitations of contemporary models, how he uses Claude’s Artifacts feature for rapid prototyping, his thoughts on the use and impa...
2024-09-17
1h 14
mbanerjeepalmer+listennotes 's Listen Later
LLMs are like your weird, over-confident intern | Simon Willison (Datasette)
Podcast: Software Misadventures (LS 29 · TOP 10% what is this?)Episode: LLMs are like your weird, over-confident intern | Simon Willison (Datasette)Pub date: 2024-09-10Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationKnown for co-creating Django and Datasette, as well as his thoughtful writing on LLMs, Simon Willison joins the show to chat about blogging as an accountability mechanism, how to build intuition with LLMs, building a startup with his partner on their honeymoon, and more. Segments: (00:00:00) The weird intern (00:01:50) The...
2024-09-16
1h 55
Software Misadventures
LLMs are like your weird, over-confident intern | Simon Willison (Datasette)
Known for co-creating Django and Datasette, as well as his thoughtful writing on LLMs, Simon Willison joins the show to chat about blogging as an accountability mechanism, how to build intuition with LLMs, building a startup with his partner on their honeymoon, and more. Segments: (00:00:00) The weird intern (00:01:50) The early days of LLMs (00:04:59) Blogging as an accountability mechanism (00:09:24) The low-pressure approach to blogging (00:11:47) GitHub issues as a system of records (00:16:15) Temporal documentation and design docs (00:18:19) GitHub issues for team collaboration
2024-09-10
1h 55
Django Chat
Datasette, LLMs, and Django - Simon Willison
Simon Willison’s WeblogDatasetteDatasette Cloud running on Fly.ioChoose Boring TechnologyDatasette enrichmentsLLM and LLM pluginsMistral, Mixtral, and ways to run it on LLMNYT lawsuit against OpenAIChatGPT for AppleScriptSimon uses https://llm.mlc.ai/#ios to run Mistral 7B on his iPhoneBuilding a Blog in DjangoSimon’s 15-year-old single file Django attempt djng and notesAI Superpowers bookSupport the ShowLearnDjango.comButtonDjango News newsletter
2024-01-24
1h 05
Oxide and Friends
Open Source LLMs with Simon Willison
Simon Willison joined Bryan and Adam to discuss a recent article maligning open source large language models. Simon has so much practical experience with LLMs, and brings so much clarity to what they can and can’t do. How do these systems work? How do they break? What are open and proprietary LLMs out there?Recorded 1/15/2024We've been hosting a live show weekly on Mondays at 5p for about an hour, and recording them all; here is the recording.In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, we were joined by special guest Si...
2024-01-17
1h 33
The MonkCast
A RedMonk Conversation: Industry’s Tardy Response to the AI Prompt Injection Vulnerability (With Simon Willison)
Kate Holterhoff, analyst with Redmonk, and Simon Willison, founder of Dattasette, co-creator of Django, and expert in AI technologies, speak about the AI prompt injection vulnerability. Simon lays out what prompt injection is and why it is so difficult to mitigate. They also cover major industry players (OpenAI, Meta, Anthropic, Google), and the common mistake of confusing moderation, in the sense of not letting the model say bad things, with security, not letting an attack trigger the model into performing an action that leaks private data or triggers tools in the wrong way. Prompt injection is a security issue...
2023-12-21
33 min
Code for Thought
[EN] ByteSized RSE: Web Development with Django
In this episode of ByteSized RSE I talk about Django, a Python based web development framework that was developed in the mid 2000s. My guests are Tom Couch from the University College London and Max Albert from Southampton University.Links:https://www.djangoproject.com the entry point for Django with tutorials and referenceshttps://www.dj4e.com Django for you tutorial sitehttps://www.feldroy.com/books/two-scoops-of-django-3-x the Book Two Scoops of Django by David Greenfeld https://pydanny.blogspot.com and here is his bloghttps://2024.djangocon.eu If you want to go to a Dj...
2023-12-07
22 min
Newsroom Robots
Simon Willison: How Datasette Helps with Investigative Reporting (Part 2)
In this second part of the episode with Simon Willison, he shares how Datasette, the open-source data exploration and publishing tool he built, could help journalists perform data analysis with minimum technical expertise. He also shares some fun use cases of ChatGPT in his personal life. Simon, a former software architect at The Guardian and a JSK Journalism Fellow at Stanford University, currently works full-time to build open-source tools for data journalism. Before becoming an independent open-source developer, Simon was an engineering director at Eventbrite. He is also renowned for his work as the co-creator of th...
2023-12-02
40 min
Newsroom Robots
Simon Willison: OpenAI's New Features & Security Risks of Large Language Models (Part 1)
Simon Willison, the creator of the open source data exploration and publishing tool Datasette, joins Nikita Roy to discuss the recent turmoil at Open AI and the new features unveiled at OpenAI’s first developer conference earlier this month.They discuss the security risks inherent in generative AI applications and explore the usefulness of small language models for journalists, particularly for analyzing sensitive data on personal devices.Simon, a former software architect at The Guardian and JSK Fellow at Stanford University, currently works full-time to build open-source tools for data journalism. Prior to be...
2023-11-24
52 min
ThursdAI - The top AI news from the past week
📅 ThursdAI Oct-26, Jina Embeddings SOTA, Gradio-Lite, Copilot crossed 100M paid devs, and more AI news
ThursdAI October 26thTimestamps and full transcript for your convinience## [00:00:00] Intro and brief updates## [00:02:00] Interview with Bo Weng, author of Jina Embeddings V2## [00:33:40] Hugging Face open sourcing a fast Text Embeddings## [00:36:52] Data Provenance Initiative at dataprovenance.org## [00:39:27] LocalLLama effort to compare 39 open source LLMs +## [00:53:13] Gradio Interview with Abubakar, Xenova, Yuichiro## [00:56:13] Gradio effects on the open source LLM ecosystem## [01:02:23] Gradio local URL via Gradio Proxy## [01:07:10] Local inference on device with Gradio - Lite## [01:14:02] Transformers.js integration with Gradio-lite
2023-10-27
1h 39
Tech Brew Ride Home
Mon. 10/16 – Nikola Tesla’s Dream Now A Reality
Mark Gurman already has details on a cheaper Vision Pro. Minecraft passes 300 million units sold. Why prompt injection is THE security issue of the AI era. And what if Nikola Tesla’s dream of sending electrical energy over distance without any wires is slowly becoming a thing?Sponsors:Collective.com/rideCrucibleMoments.comLinks:Apple Renews Top Ranks With Wave of Executive Promotions (Bloomberg)A New Protocol Vulnerability Will Haunt the Web for Years (Wired)Goldman Sachs Wants Out of Consumer Lending. Employees Say It Can’t Happen Fast Enough. (WSJ)Multi-modal prompt...
2023-10-17
17 min
Tech Brew Ride Home
Mon. 10/16 – Nikola Tesla’s Dream Now A Reality?
Mark Gurman already has details on a cheaper Vision Pro. Minecraft passes 300 million units sold. Why prompt injection is THE security issue of the AI era. And what if Nikola Tesla’s dream of sending electrical energy over distance without any wires is slowly becoming a thing?Sponsors:Collective.com/rideCrucibleMoments.comLinks:Apple Renews Top Ranks With Wave of Executive Promotions (Bloomberg)A New Protocol Vulnerability Will Haunt the Web for Years (Wired)Goldman Sachs Wants Out of Consumer Lending. Employees Say It Can’t Happen Fast Enough. (WSJ)Multi-modal prompt...
2023-10-16
17 min
Rooftop Ruby Podcast
26: Large Language Models with Simon Willison
Send us a textDjango co-creator Simon Willison joins to talk about large language models.A guide to large language modelsOpenAI ClipDatasetteJoin the Discord Follow us on Mastodon: Rooftop Ruby Collin Joel Show art created by JD Davis.
2023-09-28
1h 25
ThursdAI - The top AI news from the past week
📅 ThursdAI - Special interview with Killian Lukas, Author of Open Interpreter (23K Github stars for the first week) 🔥
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit sub.thursdai.newsHey! Welcome to this special ThursdAI Sunday episode. Today I'm excited to share my interview with Killian Lucas, the creator of Open Interpreter - an incredible new open source project that lets you run code via AI models like GPT-4 or local models like Llama on your own machine. Just a quick note, that while this episode is provided for free, premium subscribers enjoy the full write up including my examples of using Open Interpreter, the complete (manually...
2023-09-17
55 min
Talking Postgres with Claire Giordano
Why people care about PostGIS and Postgres with Paul Ramsey & Regina Obe
The geospatial world of Postgres is so much more than mapping. Paul Ramsey and Regina Obe join Claire Giordano and Pino de Candia to explore the "where" on Path To Citus Con*, the podcast for developers who love Postgres. What are some of the unexpected use cases for PostGIS, one of the most popular extensions to Postgres? How have Large Language Models helped in the geospatial world? Can you really model almost anything with pgRouting? “Where” is the universal foreign key. They talk about communities and governments using geospatial data and how it's very difficult to build a database that...
2023-09-08
1h 10
Latent Space: The AI Engineer Podcast
Code Interpreter == GPT 4.5 (w/ Simon Willison, Alex Volkov, Aravind Srinivas, Alex Graveley, et al.)
Code Interpreter is GA! As we do with breaking news, we convened an emergency pod and >17,000 people tuned in, by far our most biggest ever. This is a 2-for-1 post - a longform essay with our trademark executive summary and core insights - and a podcast capturing day-after reactions. Don’t miss either of them!Essay and transcript: https://latent.space/p/code-interpreterPodcast Timestamps[00:00:00] Intro - Simon and Alex[00:07:40] Code Interpreter for Edge Cases[00:08:59] Code Interpreter's Dependencies - Tesseract, Tensorflow[00:09:46] Code Interpreter Limitations...
2023-07-10
2h 03
glich
E27 - History of Django, Open Source and LLM Security with Simon Willison
Simon Willison is the creator of Datasette, an open source tool for exploring and publishing data. Prior to becoming an independent open source developer, Simon was an engineering director at Eventbrite. Simon joined Eventbrite through their acquisition of Lanyrd, a Y Combinator funded company he co-founded in 2010. He is a co-creator of the Django Web Framework, and has been blogging about web development and programming since 2002. In this episode, we explored the history of Django, we discussed the challenges of maintaining and monetising popular open source projects, and the security problems of large language...
2023-07-06
1h 01
Console DevTools
Cloud infra, with Kurt Mackey (Fly.io) - S04E11
In this episode, we speak with Kurt Mackey, CEO of Fly.io. We discuss what it's like running physical servers in data centers around the world, why they didn't build on top of the cloud, and what the philosophy is behind the focus on pure compute, networking, and storage primitives. Kurt sheds light on the regions where Fly.io is most popular, why they’re adding GPUs, and the technology that makes it all work behind the scenes.Hosted by David Mytton (Console) and Jean Yang (Akita Software).Things mentioned:Ars TechnicaY CombinatorMongoHQServerCentral (now De...
2023-07-06
35 min
Talking Postgres with Claire Giordano
Working in public on open source with Simon Willison & Marco Slot
Simon Willison is the creator of Datasette and co-creator of Django. Marco Slot is the lead architect for the Citus database extension to Postgres. In this episode of Path To Citus Con*, Simon and Marco talk about working in public on open source. Simon shares many of his learnings in public—with weeknotes, tweets, blogs, and “today I learned” (TIL) posts. Marco has been developing Citus in public since it was first open sourced in 2016. Hosted by Claire Giordano and Pino de Candia from the Postgres team at Microsoft, listen to find out how working in publi...
2023-06-30
1h 05
Critical Thinking - Bug Bounty Podcast
Episode 24: AI + Hacking with Daniel Miessler and Rez0
Episode 24: In this episode of Critical Thinking - Bug Bounty Podcast, we chat with Daniel Miessler and Rez0 about the emergence and potential of AI in hacking. We cover AI shortcuts and command line tools, AI in code analysis and the use of AI agents, and even brainstorm about the possible opportunities that integrating AI into hacking tools like Caido and Burp might present. Don't miss this episode packed with valuable insights and cutting-edge strategies for both beginners and seasoned bug bounty hunters alike.Follow us on twitter at: @ctbbpodcastWe're new to this podcasting...
2023-06-22
1h 03
Latent Space: The AI Engineer Podcast
Emergency Pod: OpenAI's new Functions API, 75% Price Drop, 4x Context Length (w/ Alex Volkov, Simon Willison, Riley Goodside, Joshua Lochner, Stefania Druga, Eric Elliott, Mayo Oshin et al)
Full Transcript and show notes: https://www.latent.space/p/function-agents?sd=pfTimestamps:[00:00:00] Intro[00:01:47] Recapping June 2023 Updates[00:06:24] Known Issues with Long Context[00:08:00] New Functions API[00:10:45] Riley Goodside[00:12:28] Simon Willison[00:14:30] Eric Elliott[00:16:05] Functions API and Agents[00:18:25] Functions API vs Google Vertex JSON[00:21:32] From English back to Code[00:26:14] Embedding Price Drop and Pinecone Perspective[00:30:39] Xenova and Huggingface Perspective[00:34:23] Function Selection[00:39:58] Designing Code Agents with Function API[00:42:16] Models as...
2023-06-14
1h 28
Django Chat
Django Co-Creator - Simon Willison (Ep 21 Replay)
Simon Willison’s WeblogDatasetteNow by ZeitGoogle Cloud Runsqljs.orgBrython - Python 3 in the browserSquoosh - Image CompressionObservableSimon Willison PyCon 2019 - Instant serverless APIs, powered by SQLiteasgi-corsSHAMELESS PLUGSLearnDjango.comCarlton's website NoumenalDjango News Newsletter
2023-06-07
1h 04
Latent Space: The AI Engineer Podcast
No Moat: Closed AI gets its Open Source wakeup call — ft. Simon Willison
It’s now almost 6 months since Google declared Code Red, and the results — Jeff Dean’s recap of 2022 achievements and a mass exodus of the top research talent that contributed to it in January, Bard’s rushed launch in Feb, a slick video showing Google Workspace AI features and confusing doubly linked blogposts about PaLM API in March, and merging Google Brain and DeepMind in April — have not been inspiring. Google’s internal panic is in full display now with the surfacing of a well written memo, written by software engineer Luke Sernau written in early April, revealing in...
2023-05-05
43 min
Changelog Interviews
LLMs break the internet
This week we’re talking about LLMs with Simon Willison. We can not avoid this topic. Last time it was Stable Diffusion breaking the internet. This time it’s LLMs breaking the internet. Large Language Models, ChatGPT, Bard, Claude, Bing, GitHub Copilot X, Cody…we cover it all. Join the discussionChangelog++ members get a bonus 18 minutes at the end of this episode and zero ads. Join today!Sponsors:DevCycle – Build better software with DevCycle. Feature flags, without the tech debt. DevCycle is a Feature Flag Management platform designed to help you buil...
2023-04-07
1h 42
The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
LLMs break the internet (Interview)
This week we’re talking about LLMs with Simon Willison. We can not avoid this topic. Last time it was Stable Diffusion breaking the internet. This time it’s LLMs breaking the internet. Large Language Models, ChatGPT, Bard, Claude, Bing, GitHub Copilot X, Cody…we cover it all. Join the discussionChangelog++ members get a bonus 18 minutes at the end of this episode and zero ads. Join today!Sponsors:DevCycle – Build better software with DevCycle. Feature flags, without the tech debt. DevCycle is a Feature Flag Management platform designed to help you buil...
2023-04-07
1h 42
Changelog Master Feed
LLMs break the internet (The Changelog #534)
This week we’re talking about LLMs with Simon Willison. We can not avoid this topic. Last time it was Stable Diffusion breaking the internet. This time it’s LLMs breaking the internet. Large Language Models, ChatGPT, Bard, Claude, Bing, GitHub Copilot X, Cody…we cover it all. Leave us a comment Changelog++ members get a bonus 18 minutes at the end of this episode and zero ads. Join today! Sponsors: DevCycle – Build better software with DevCycle. Feature flags, without the tech debt. DevCycle is a Feature Flag Management platform designed to help you...
2023-04-07
1h 42
Tech Brew Ride Home
Fri. 08/07 – Twitter Blocking Substack?
Shenanigans from some Elon companies. Twitter looks like it’s blocking Substack. Not just links to Substack but even mentioning the name, the word Substack, in some cases. Oh, and Tesla employees apparently liked to view videos from your car and share them with each other internally. Last quarter was epically bad when it came to venture investing. And, of course, the Weekend Longreads Suggestions.Links:Twitter now disables likes, replies, and retweets if a tweet has Substack links (The Verge)Special Report: Tesla workers shared sensitive images recorded by customer cars (Reuters)A third of orga...
2023-04-07
17 min
The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
Twitter's open algorithm, Auto-GPT, LLMs as "calculators for words", SudoLang & stochastic parrots (News)
Twitter publishes (some of) its recommendation algorithm, Toran Bruce Richards puts GPT-4 on autopilot, Simon Willison shares a good way for us to think about LLMs, Eric Elliot creates a powerful pseudocode programming language for LLMs & I define and demystify the term “stochastic parrot”. View the newsletterJoin the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Featuring:Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
2023-04-03
07 min
Changelog Master Feed
Twitter's open algorithm, Auto-GPT, LLMs as "calculators for words", SudoLang & stochastic parrots (Changelog News)
Twitter publishes (some of) its recommendation algorithm, Toran Bruce Richards puts GPT-4 on autopilot, Simon Willison shares a good way for us to think about LLMs, Eric Elliot creates a powerful pseudocode programming language for LLMs & I define and demystify the term “stochastic parrot”. Discuss on Changelog News Changelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today! Featuring: Jerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn Show Notes: Twitter’s algorithm Rowan Cheung Auto-GPT Think of an LLM as a “calculator for words”...
2023-04-03
07 min
Changelog News
Twitter's open algorithm, Auto-GPT, LLMs as "calculators for words", SudoLang & stochastic parrots
Twitter publishes (some of) its recommendation algorithm, Toran Bruce Richards puts GPT-4 on autopilot, Simon Willison shares a good way for us to think about LLMs, Eric Elliot creates a powerful pseudocode programming language for LLMs & I define and demystify the term “stochastic parrot”. View the newsletterJoin the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Featuring:Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
2023-04-03
07 min
Stepfunction Podcast
Episode 9 - Have You Ever Questioned the Nature of Your Reality?
Jeff and Seymour mention audio generation technology which leads to a larger conversation about how we can tell if audio, text, images, and other media is a Deepfake. They end with questions about media gatekeepers, social polarization, and how do we know what's real? Links: Vim is Jeff's favorite text editor and 10 reasons you should learn it. Andrej Karpthy's YouTube video on building a transformer from scratch. Simon Willison on AI empowering him to build more software side projects. Open Letter for 6-month moratorium on generative AI development. Italian regulators use GDPR rules to ban use...
2023-04-03
24 min
Flux Podcasts (Formerly Theory of Change)
Theory of Change #066: Simon Willison on technical and practical applications of ChatGPT and AI
Artificial intelligence is all over the news of late. People are using it to compose silly poems and making images of dogs driving cars. There’s also a lot of hype for the technology with some putative experts claiming we’re on the verge of sentient robots seeking to destroy us all. There are also a lot of naysayers who claim that the generative AIs that are out there like ChatGPT or Midjourney are nothing but toys and are just useless creators of junk.The truth, however, is somewhere in-between all this. It is actually true that Chat...
2023-04-01
1h 10
This Day in AI Podcast
Six Month Pause on AI More Powerful Than GPT-4, ChatGPT Plugins, GPT-4 Development, GPT-4 AGI? | E08
Your two favorite luddites are back in Episode 8 of "This Week in AI" podcast. In this episode we cover the FutueOfLife.org Open Letter Asking for a Six Month Pause on AI More Powerful Than GPT-4, Talk About Implementing GPT-4 and It's Limitations, Cover Eliezer Yudkowsky's Doom Predictions in a TIME article, Discuss the Implications of ChatGPT Plugins, MisInformation and A Whole Lot More.If you enjoy this podcast please consider subscribing and leaving a review to help spread the word. Thanks for listening.00:00 - Powerful AI is GONNA KILL US ALL!?00:16 - Six...
2023-03-31
1h 04
Stepfunction Podcast
Episode 6 - Where Will Generative AI Startups Win and Lose?
Jeff and Seymour start with another major week of news, including GPT-4, Microsoft and Google adding generative AI to their office suites, and LLaMA breaking out into the wild and onto Raspbery Pi and smartphones. Simon Willison's 3-day history of LLaMA developments this past weekend. Potentially bigger news than the dramatic collapse of Silicon Valley Bank. Two relevant articles from Elad Gil: Startups vs Incumbents and Why weren't there any big startup winners from the last 10 years of deep learning? Coca-Cola commercial set in an art museum using Stable Diffusion PCs disrupting mainframes in the 1980s in the...
2023-03-17
26 min
Tech is Good
Hypes nerven, aber sie sind wichtig
Hypes nerven. Denn im Fahrwasser eines solchen Hypes wimmelt es von selbsternannten Experten, naiven Prognosen und ganz viel Aktionismus. Ob jeder „KI-Button“, den Produkte gerade verpasst bekommen, sinnvoll ist? Wohl kaum. Aber: solche Hypes sind wichtig, um eine Technologie in Schwung zu bringen. Warum das so ist, erkläre ich in dieser Folge. → Artikel zum Podcast Fundstücke 🔮 Zukunft Die Deutsche Bahn ist vor allem durch Jahrhundertprojekte in den Schlagzeilen, aber sie bringt noch in diesem Jahr Version 1.0 des „Ideenzugs“ auf die Schiene – und der enthält wirklich sehr viele, sehr gute Ideen. → deutscheb...
2023-03-15
16 min
Tech Brew Ride Home
Mon. 03/13 – Crisis Averted?
Unless it affected you, you might have missed a huge tech story this weekend. But now that depositors to Silicon Valley Bank are being made whole, is the whole crisis averted? Tim Cook is pressing ahead with the Apple headset over the objections of Apple’s design team. And the varied and complex dilemmas of this new AI reality in two, somewhat oppositional segments.Sponsors:RelationshipHero.com/techmemeZocDoc.com/techmemeLinks:SVB’s tech failings were a problem long before the bank run that led to its demise, critics say (CNBC)SVB p...
2023-03-13
19 min
Rare Encounter
Quickshot Sam
Open source vehicles, rejected license plates, and roads of lubricant. Executive producer: Carolyn Blaney Show NotesHere are the vanity license plate requests Ohio rejected in 2022Complete list in PDF. Modders are using AI to put voice acting in Morrowind, and I'm impressed and concerned all at once | PC GamerWhat a grand and intoxicating intelligence! Dagoth Ur invites you to post soyjaks - YouTubeCome. I have prepared a computer for you in the Heart Chamber. AI Dagoth Ur | Know...
2023-02-23
1h 26
Changelog News
Sidney Bing, Elk for Mastodon, writing an engineering strategy, what's next for core-js & cool tool lightning round
Simon Willison rounds up the goings on around Microsoft’s new GPT-powered Bing search, The Vue/Vite team build a nimble web client for Mastodon, Will Larson writes about writing an engineering strategy, Denis Pushkarev seeks support to maintain core-js & I share a lightning round of cool tools I’ve found and used recently. ⚡️ View the newsletterJoin the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Featuring:Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
2023-02-20
08 min
The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
Sidney Bing, Elk for Mastodon, writing an engineering strategy, what's next for core-js & cool tool lightning round (News)
Simon Willison rounds up the goings on around Microsoft’s new GPT-powered Bing search, The Vue/Vite team build a nimble web client for Mastodon, Will Larson writes about writing an engineering strategy, Denis Pushkarev seeks support to maintain core-js & I share a lightning round of cool tools I’ve found and used recently. ⚡️ View the newsletterJoin the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Featuring:Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
2023-02-20
08 min
Changelog Master Feed
Sidney Bing, Elk for Mastodon, writing an engineering strategy, what's next for core-js & cool tool lightning round (Changelog News)
Simon Willison rounds up the goings on around Microsoft’s new GPT-powered Bing search, The Vue/Vite team build a nimble web client for Mastodon, Will Larson writes about writing an engineering strategy, Denis Pushkarev seeks support to maintain core-js & I share a lightning round of cool tools I’ve found and used recently. ⚡️ Discuss on Changelog News Changelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today! Featuring: Jerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn Show Notes: Bing: “I will not harm you...
2023-02-20
08 min
Changelog Interviews
State of the "log" 2022
Our 5th annual year-end wrap-up episode! Sit back, relax, pour a glass of your favorite beverage and join us for listener voice mails, our favorite episodes, some must-listens, and of course the top 5 most listened to episodes of the year. Thanks for listening! 💚 Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Featuring:Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XJerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes:Listener favs: Go Time #250: Mat’s GopherCon EU diary Shi...
2022-12-23
1h 28
Changelog Master Feed
State of the "log" 2022 (The Changelog #520)
Our 5th annual year-end wrap-up episode! Sit back, relax, pour a glass of your favorite beverage and join us for listener voice mails, our favorite episodes, some must-listens, and of course the top 5 most listened to episodes of the year. Thanks for listening! 💚 Discuss on Changelog News Changelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today! Featuring Adam Stacoviak – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website Jerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn Notes and Links Listener favs: Go Time #250: Mat’s GopherC...
2022-12-23
1h 28
The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
State of the "log" 2022 (Interview)
Our 5th annual year-end wrap-up episode! Sit back, relax, pour a glass of your favorite beverage and join us for listener voice mails, our favorite episodes, some must-listens, and of course the top 5 most listened to episodes of the year. Thanks for listening! 💚 Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Featuring:Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XJerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes:Listener favs: Go Time #250: Mat’s GopherCon EU diary Shi...
2022-12-23
1h 28
Citizen Coder Podcast
Episode 13: Simon Willison - Storming Castles, Django, Start-Ups
In this content packed episode I interview Simon Willison, Co-creator of the Python Django web framework and a survivor of the first dot com boom in the 90s. In this episode we hash out the history of the internet, open source, storming castles, scraping your history, blogging, building start-ups, and so much more. Let’s dive in.Simon's links:Follow him on Twitter: twitter.com/simonwFollow him on Mastodon: https://fedi.simonwillison.net/@simonIf you’d like what I’m doing and you want to sponsor the show you can re...
2022-11-18
1h 22
Python Bytes
#302: The Blue Shirt Episode
Topics covered in this episode: Can Amazon’s CodeWhisperer write better Python than you? Related and worth listening to: Stable Diffusion breaks the internet w/ Simon Willison Apache Superset Recipes from Python SQLite docs -ffast-math and indirect changes Extras Joke See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/302
2022-09-20
33 min
The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
Stable Diffusion breaks the internet (Interview)
This week on The Changelog we’re talking about Stable Diffusion, DALL-E, and the impact of AI generated art. We invited our good friend Simon Willison on the show today because he wrote a very thorough blog post titled, “Stable Diffusion is a really big deal.” You may know Simon from his extensive contributions to open source software. Simon is a co-creator of the Django Web framework (which we don’t talk about at all on this show), he’s the creator of Datasette, a multi-tool for exploring and publishing data (which we do talk about on this show...
2022-09-16
1h 17
Changelog Interviews
Stable Diffusion breaks the internet
This week on The Changelog we’re talking about Stable Diffusion, DALL-E, and the impact of AI generated art. We invited our good friend Simon Willison on the show today because he wrote a very thorough blog post titled, “Stable Diffusion is a really big deal.” You may know Simon from his extensive contributions to open source software. Simon is a co-creator of the Django Web framework (which we don’t talk about at all on this show), he’s the creator of Datasette, a multi-tool for exploring and publishing data (which we do talk about on this show...
2022-09-16
1h 17
Changelog Master Feed
Stable Diffusion breaks the internet (The Changelog #506)
This week on The Changelog we’re talking about Stable Diffusion, DALL-E, and the impact of AI generated art. We invited our good friend Simon Willison on the show today because he wrote a very thorough blog post titled, “Stable Diffusion is a really big deal.” You may know Simon from his extensive contributions to open source software. Simon is a co-creator of the Django Web framework (which we don’t talk about at all on this show), he’s the creator of Datasette, a multi-tool for exploring and publishing data (which we do talk about on this show...
2022-09-16
1h 17
Tech Brew Ride Home
Thu. 09/01 – Twitter Edit Button Arrives
At long last, an edit button has come to Twitter. Nvidia and AMD say the US has imposed restrictions on exporting chips for AI-related applications to Russia and China. How Apple is gonna handle its new holepunch configuration. Disney wants its own Prime. And an AI art-creation bot you can try, right now, for free.Links:Twitter starts testing an edit button, but you have to pay for it (The Verge)Nvidia, AMD warned of new US export restrictions on AI chips (Protocol)Source: iPhone 14 Pro display cutout to show camera plus microphone privacy indicators; redesigned Ca...
2022-09-01
16 min
Changelog Master Feed
Sophisticated Cornhole (JS Party #232)
Jerod, Nick & Ali partake in a few rounds of Story of the Week, TIL, and I’m Excited about $X. Oh, and is TypeScript the new Java? Nick responds and emotes all over the place! 😆 Discuss on Changelog News Changelog++ members save 4 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today! Sponsors Raygun – Never miss another mission-critical issue again — Raygun Alerting is now available for Crash Reporting and Real User Monitoring, to make sure you are quickly notified of the errors, crashes, and front-end performance issues that matter most to yo...
2022-07-01
56 min