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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 three 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 3

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

Most recent posts

Trying out free-threaded Python on macOS
Inspired by py-free-threading.github.io I decided to try out a beta of Python 3.13 with the new free-threaded mode enabled, which removes the GIL. Installation I chose to use the macOS installer to get a pre-built …
On , by Simon Willison, 878 words
Accessing 1Password items from the terminal
I save things like API keys in 1Password. Today I figured out how to access those from macOS terminal scripts. My initial goal was to make a Fly.io API key available in an environment variable, …
On , by Simon Willison, 361 words
Mocking Stripe signature checks in a pytest fixture
I'm writing some code that accepts webhooks from Stripe. I wanted to simulate hits to this endpoint in my Django tests. Stripe uses a Stripe-Signature header and I wanted a way to mock my code …
On , by Simon Willison, 274 words