quick new post on what i've gotten out of HN vickiboykis.com/2025/03/17/2...

Anyone know of a recipe that works for getting a "pytest --pdb" debugger REPL up that lets you interactively execute "await ..." statements, similar to "python -m asyncio" ? The StackOverflow threads about this are all pretty stale, wondering if there's a new option that I've not been able to […]

Here's the table of contents for my lengthy new piece on how I use LLMs to help me write code https://simonwillison.net/2025/Mar/11/using-llms-for-code/

I started using Python 20 years ago, but left and come back to it repeatedly. Every time I picked it back up, the dev experience had swung wildly. Getting caught up, even as an experienced user, was a huge PITA. I think that's finally going to change with what @tdhopper.com just launched.

If you use python, but you don't use uv yet: why?

👋🏻 In the last 10 years, I’ve had a growing interest in making Python development more effective. I’ve learned that a lot of teams don’t make the best use of the tooling available to use. This has culminated with writing an ebook on developer tooling I’m excited to share with you. pydevtools.com

if your back doesn’t hurt yet, protect it at all costs bsky.app/profile/imlu...

I wrote a post about my love for my Sony mirrorless camera for photographing my 4 kids tdhopper.com/blog/sonya7i...

7-year old wanted to know how far the north pole is, so I asked Siri three times. 1st time “call mom” displayed on my screen and it started calling my *dad* 2nd it said “which Joel would you like to call” 3rd time it started to show directions to North Pole, AK

👂🏻I spoke with Dr. Robert Ghrist of the University of Pennsylvania about his recent groundbreaking endeavor to "direct" the creation of a beautiful new linear algebra textbook for AI students in just 55 days using a customized Anthropic Claude project. tdhopper.com/blog/writing...

Great discussion of my recent post here 👇🏻

With uv, you can launch a Jupyter Lab instance with Pytorch installed instantly with a single command 🤯 pydevtools.com/blog/one-lin...

Highly recommend getting a 3D printer because it's the best way to make new parts for your 3D printer

In this article, @tdhopper.com shared key principles of Python tooling, common anti-patterns he has observed, best practices & his list of favourite tools from December 2024. pydevtools.com/blog/effecti... #python #Programming #SoftwareDevelopment #WebDevelopment #TechNews #OpenSource

Here's my end-of-year review of things we learned out about LLMs in 2024 - we learned a LOT of things simonwillison.net/2024/Dec/31/... Table of contents:

Updated my annual accomplishments notes * Survived herniated disc pain and surgery * Back to weight lifting after 5 month break * Landed amazing job @ Spotify * Spoke at 1st conference in 5 years * Saw 1st total eclipse * Back to blogging a bit tdhopper.com/annual-accomplishments/

I don't know much about modern web applications, but I have a few small projects to do that just require basic account creation and CRUD operations. I've been looking at Cloudflare Pages + Supabase so that I could run them for free and serverless.

today I learned that you can create a special text file to use for logging curl timing details blog.josephscott.org/2011/10/14/t...

#TodayinHistory #dataviz #Onthisday #OTD 📊 🎂Dec 26, 1791 Charles Babbage born in London, England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 1822: Invented a mechanical device for calculating mathematical tables (the Difference Engine) -- the forerunner of computing machines.

Feels like every hotel, airplane, car, new home, etc implemented standard USB ports and literally the same year the entire tech world changed over to USB-C

🦋is this agi?

FYI 'pip install pyright[nodejs]` will install node binaries for you github.com/RobertCraigi...

I have to take an annual fire safety training for work, and I am reminded that I asked some of the folks who manage these things how they evacuate the NICU and apparently they have vests you can load up with babies

TIL this is what the office around NPR's Tiny Desk looks like

Type of guy that posts explanations from ChatGPT whenever anyone asks a question

+1 to every single thing that Tim said

I was asked by a friend to talk to his team about Python developer tooling and productivity. Here’s the substance of that talk 👇🏻 pydevtools.com/blog/effecti...

It was awesome being on with Tim. Talked about how we use AI to build our company, Parakeet.

Me at 52 giving physical fitness advice to my 26yo self:

This should be a movie. And a roadtrip. Maybe a road-trip movie.

I interview the one and only @jowanza.bsky.social about how he’s building a startup at lightning speed using Cursor tdhopper.com/blog/buildin...

Out shopping for Christmas dinner

I ported Matt Might's bash scripts for detecting common issues in writing to a little web app (using Claude) and it's pretty fun to play with: simonwillison.net/2024/Dec/14/...

Where are my fellow Lego nerds at? #lego

Finally got around to dealing with one of those "DeprecationWarning: datetime.datetime.utcnow() is deprecated" warnings, so I wrote it up as a tiny TIL: https://til.simonwillison.net/python/utc-warning-fix

I’ve never seen the iOS auto photo crop be good

My team was discussing our code review practice and I offered to talk about the post I wrote for a previous team (tdhopper.com/blog/code-re...). I dropped the markdown for the post from GitHub into chatgpt and asked it to generate Marp (marp.app) slides for me.

a bit messy, but: echo "SHELL HISTORY UNWRAPPED" `date +%Y` && history | gawk '{gsub(/^\s*[0-9]+\*?(\s*[0-9/T:]+)\s+/, "", $0); print $0}' | gawk '{gsub(/ \| /, "\n", $0); print $0}' | gawk ' { i=2; while ($1 ~ /^[A-Z0-9_]+=/) { $1=$i; i++ }; print $1 }' | sort | uniq -c | sort -n | tail -n 10

“Big monsieur, big sandwich!”

I hated contronyms until I read John McWhorter’s Words on the Move which taught me to love the ever evolving craziness of language.

At my first off-site with the Spotify Audio Intelligence team and we did lightning round introductions of ourselves, so I used ChatGPT and tad.ai to generate a song about my career history 😂 youtu.be/v8mc-26Q6fQ?...

will not survive this hotel

Every time I hear a French police siren I’m looking around for Jason Bourne

RadioShack Crystal Phone (1990s)📞✨

Many birds are more tolerant of being approached by kayak than by foot, and it is delightful. #birds

it's zine sale time! from now until the end of the day on Friday, all my PDF zines are 50% off with the discount code WIZARDPDF print zines are 30% off with code WIZARDPRINT wizardzines.com

Why does it take CarPlay ten seconds to read a text when I tap the notification?