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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 six 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 0

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

Most recent posts

Transcribing MP3s with whisper-cpp on macOS
I asked on Twitter for tips about running Whisper transcriptions in the CLI on my Mac. Werner Robitza pointed me to Homebrew's whisper-cpp formula, and when I complained that it didn't have quite enough documentation …
On , by Simon Willison, 735 words
A script to capture frames from a QuickTime video
I was putting together some notes for a talk I gave, and I wanted an efficient way to create screenshots of specific moments in a video of that talk. After much messing around in ChatGPT …
On , by Simon Willison, 389 words
impaste: pasting images to piped commands on macOS
I wanted the ability to paste the image on my clipboard into a command in the macOS terminal. It turns out pbpaste only works with textual data - so copying a portion of a screenshot …
On , by Simon Willison, 200 words