Simon Willison
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what they talk about
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where they keep going back
- DjangoCon US4 editions2008–2024
- PyCon US3 editions2023–2026
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on a stage with
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who talks about the same things
- Timothy Allen8 talks
- Andrew Godwin29 talks
- Andrew Pinkham6 talks
- Andrew Mshar6 talks
- Mario Munoz12 talks
- Łukasz Langa15 talks
| title | conference | date |
|---|---|---|
| Lightning Talks - Saturday May 16, PM | PyCon US 2026 | 2026-05-13 |
Rapid specifics: a Rust-backed tool called Feder enumerates site‑packages and flags CVSS scores (example CVSS 9.8 PyTorch); GH‑profiler fingerprints GitHub… | ||
| 2025 in LLMs so far, illustrated by Pelicans on Bicycles | AI Engineer World's Fair 2025 | 2025-06-03 |
A rapid six‑month survey counts about 30 significant model releases and introduces a code‑based test: the Pelican Riding a Bicycle benchmark — prompt models to… | ||
| How to design and implement extensible software with plugins with Simon Willison | DjangoCon US 2024 | 2024-09-22 |
Live coding demonstrates a working plugin lifecycle: building small packages, running tests, pushing releases, and deploying to PyPI via GitHub Actions to add… | ||
| Meet our Keynote Speakers – Simon Willison | PyCon US 2024 | 2024-05-15 |
The keynote recounts over 20 years with Python, built a CMS that became Django (open sourced a year after leaving the newspaper), the interactive REPL habit… | ||
| Keynote Speaker - Simon Willison | PyCon US 2024 | 2024-05-15 |
Talk explains how LLMs are practical tools: running Mistral on an iPhone with MLC Chat, using an llm CLI to run local models, and the GPT‑4o/LLama leaderboard… | ||
| Data analysis with SQLite and Python | PyCon US 2023 | 2023-04-19 |
Shows concrete workflows: use Python's sqlite3 and sqlite-utils to import CSVs (14,341 manatee records), normalize columns into foreign keys, and add ISO… | ||
| KEYNOTE: Big Opportunities in Small Data | Citus Con: An Event for Postgres 2023 | 2023-04-18 |
Demo of an open-source tool that uses SQLite to publish and explore data shows a 1,700-row San Francisco assets CSV rendered on a map, interactive read-only… | ||
| Datasette | FOSDEM 2021 | 2021-02-06 |
An open source multi-tool for exploring and publishing data
Datasette is a tool for exploring and publishing data. It helps people take data of any shape or… | ||
| Build your own data warehouse for personal analytics with SQLite and Datasette | PyConline AU 2020 | 2020-09-04 |
Concrete takeaways: use SQLite (single-file, ubiquitous, example photos.sqlite at ~856 MB) plus Datasette (web UI, editable SQL, JSON/CSV export, ~30 plugins)… | ||
| Lightning Talks Day 1 | DjangoCon US 2018 | 2018-10-14 |
Nine minute bursts report concrete takeaways: automated screenshots built with selenium + chrome headless + pytest and fixtures; a geojson GitHub feeds a… | ||
| "State of Django" Panel | DjangoCon US 2018 | 2018-10-14 |
Django community reports concrete wins and concrete asks: 69 upcoming events and 671 past workshops, 43,885 applicants with about 16,000 attendees and 21%… | ||
| Datasette and Datasette Publish | ZEIT Day 2018 | 2018-04-28 |
A toolchain converts CSVs into SQLite files, deploys them as browseable sites and JSON APIs, and demonstrably handles big datasets like 190,000 trees and… | ||
| Lightning Talks Day 1 | DjangoCon US 2017 | 2017-08-13 |
Eight rapid demos report concrete work and outcomes: Yamdl: YAML-backed RRM loads text files into an in‑memory SQLite (shared URI requires Python 3.4) and… | ||
| The denormalized query engine design pattern | DjangoCon US 2017 | 2017-08-13 |
Argues that a search index becomes a real-time analytics layer: Elasticsearch or Solr holds denormalized records so queries that would cripple SQL (top twenty… | ||
| A Fireside Chat | DjangoCon AU 2014 | 2014-08-01 |
History of Django from a newsroom proves specific things: it starts in 2003 as a CMS to rebuild lawrence.com, serving a college town with over a thousand MP3s… | ||
| A new default web stack | PyOhio 2014 | 2014-07-26 |
Proposes a practical Python web stack: add a full‑text index as a denormalized query layer (uses Solr (robust) not Elasticsearch after production issues)… | ||
| Challenges in developing a large Django site | EuroPython 2011 | 2011-06-20 |
Lanyard is a Django site that actually ships solutions: it sends ~3,000 emails/day with signed JSON unsubscribe tokens instead of storing per-email state; uses… | ||
| Challenges in developing a large Django site | EuroPython 2011 | 2011-06-20 |
Lanyrd is a Django site that sends about 3,000 emails a day using signed JSON unsubscribe links and uses signed cookies to avoid per-page session lookups… | ||
| Advanced Aspects of the Django Ecosystem: Haystack, Celery & Fabric | EuroPython 2011 | 2011-06-20 |
Three concrete tools and how they are used: Haystack connects Django models to Whoosh, Solr or ZAPEN backends so a working full‑text search over mixed models… | ||
| DjangoCon 2008 Panel: Django Technical Design | DjangoCon US 2008 | 2008-09-06 |
Panelists debate adding features to core versus contrib, report a refactored OpenID integration that explores class-based generic views, and admit the… | ||
| DjangoCon 2008 Panel: Schema Evolution | DjangoCon US 2008 | 2008-09-06 |
Three different migration systems get shown: Demigrations stores raw SQL files with up/down methods, runs manage.py demigrate up/down, and the team reports 14… | ||
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