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Simon Willison: TIL

Things I've learned, collected in simonw/til.

  • By Simon Willison
  • Based in United States of America
  • Roughly four posts per month
  • First post on

Posts per month

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Posts per month
Month starting Posts
Oct 2022 4
Nov 2022 14
Dec 2022 8
Jan 2023 12
Feb 2023 8
Mar 2023 13
Apr 2023 13
May 2023 7
Jun 2023 11
Jul 2023 12
Aug 2023 19
Sep 2023 11
Oct 2023 4
Nov 2023 4
Dec 2023 3
Jan 2024 10
Feb 2024 6
Mar 2024 9
Apr 2024 3
May 2024 3
Jun 2024 2
Jul 2024 4
Aug 2024 5
Sep 2024 2
Oct 2024 10
Nov 2024 3
Dec 2024 4
Jan 2025 0

Any gaps could be due to errors when fetching the blog’s feed.

Most recent posts

Calculating the size of all LFS files in a repo
I wanted to know how large the deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3-Base repo on Hugging Face was without actually downloading all of the files. With some help from Claude, here's the recipe that worked. First, clone the repo without …
On , by Simon Willison, 218 words
Named Entity Resolution with dslim/distilbert-NER
I was exploring the original BERT model from 2018, which is mainly useful if you fine-tune a model on top of it for a specific task. dslim/distilbert-NER by David S. Lim is a popular implementation …
On , by Simon Willison, 247 words
Fixes for datetime UTC warnings in Python
I was getting the following warning for one of my Python test suites: DeprecationWarning: datetime.datetime.utcnow() is deprecated and scheduled for removal in a future version. Use timezone-aware objects to represent datetimes in UTC: datetime.datetime.now(datetime.UTC). I …
On , by Simon Willison, 232 words