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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 five posts per month
  • First post on

Posts per month

Data for this chart is available in the table below
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 2

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

Most recent posts

Running cog automatically against GitHub pull requests
I really like Cog (previously) as a tool for automating aspects of my Python project documentation - things like the SQL schemas shown on the LLM logging page. When using cog in this way it's …
On , by Simon Willison, 320 words
Generating documentation from tests using files-to-prompt and LLM
I was experimenting with wasmtime-py today and found the current documentation didn't quite give me the information that I needed. The package has a solid looking test suite, so I decided to see if I …
On , by Simon Willison, 482 words
Installing flash-attn without compiling it
If you ever run into instructions that tell you to do this: pip install flash-attn --no-build-isolation Do not try to do this. It is a trap. For some reason attempting to install this runs a …
On , by Simon Willison, 295 words