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Simon Willison

@swillison

https://simonwillison.net

Channel created: November 09, 2011

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Under the hood of Canada Spends with Brendan Samek

I talked with Brendan Samek about how Canada Spends from Build Canada works, including importing data from PDFs using Gemini and pulling together government data from disparate sources using Datase...

How I automate my Substack newsletter with content from my blog

Substack doesn't have an API, but they do support copy-and-paste... here's a walkthrough of the extensive chain of digital duct tape I use to go from Django+Heroku+PostgreSQL to GitHub Actions to S...

Reverse engineering Codex CLI to get GPT-5-Codex-Mini to draw me a pelican

Notes, links and full terminal transcripts for this video can be found here: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Nov/9/gpt-5-codex-mini/

My process for upgrading Datasette plugins with uv and OpenAI Codex CLI

Here are detailed notes to accompany this video, including all of the commands I ran plus links to additional resources: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Nov/6/upgrading-datasette-plugins/

Using Claude Code for web to build a tool to copy-paste share terminal sessions

I used the new Claude Code for web to build https://tools.simonwillison.net/terminal-to-html - a tool that lets you copy and paste terminal sessions on macOS and turn them into HTML that preserves ...

Using Claude Code to build a GitHub Actions workflow

A short demo of using Claude Code to add a new feature to one of my GitHub repositories by implementing a GitHub Actions workflow for me. Full code written by Claude can be found here: https://gis...

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Datasette comments, pins and write UI with Alex Garcia

Alex Garcia demonstrates three plugins for Datasette: datasette-write-ui, datasette-pins and datasette-comments. https://github.com/datasette/datasette-write-ui https://github.com/datasette/datase...

Simon Willison on new Datasette Enrichments

Simon Willison demonstrates the latest improvements to Datasette Enrichments - https://enrichments.datasette.io/ and https://github.com/datasette/datasette-enrichments