Can't say I'm wildly keen on the new Google Maps marker design - they've added a thicker white border, so now my map is mostly white borders

Anyone got any experience with GraalPy?

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"Python 3.10 compliant runtime" claiming a 3-4x performance boost over cPython once the JIT has warmed up It's under Oracle's Universal Permissive License which looks GPL-like, and apparently has OSI approval

The Universal Permissive License Version 1.0 – Open Source Initiative

Just spent 20 frustrating minutes figuring out how to setup a new S3 bucket that could be used to publicly serve static files, despite having devoted an unreasonable amount of time in the past to solving that exact same problem when I built

s3-credentials

Why is this so hard !?

I wrote about my process for publishing annotated versions of my talks - like

Simon Willison’s Weblog

Catching up on the weird world of LLMs

I gave a talk on Sunday at North Bay Python where I attempted to summarize the last few years of development in the space of LLMs—Large Language ...

- and shared a new tool I built to help with that progress, allowing me to OCR my slides for alt= attributes and type up annotations for them in Markdown

Simon Willison’s Weblog

How I make annotated presentations

Giving a talk is a lot of work. I go by a rule of thumb I learned from Damian Conway: a minimum of ten hours of preparation for every one …

Weeknotes: Plugins for LLM, sqlite-utils and Datasette

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Weeknotes: Plugins for LLM, sqlite-utils and Datasette

The principle theme for the past few weeks has been plugins. Llama 2 in LLM via plugins I added the ability to support models other than the OpenAI...

Question for Dependabot users: have you found a good pattern for landing multiple dependency bumps at once? I have continuous deployment configured but I don't want to ship the whole repo every time I land a Dependabot PR

Random thought concerning personal AI ethics: it's rude to publish something that would take someone longer to read than it took you to write it

Wow there is a ton of fascinating stuff tucked deep in the Settings -> Safari -> Advanced -> Experimental Features menu Notifications is "off" by default - I've tried turning it on but I'm having trouble finding an example site that can send web push notifications and doesn't user-agent detect iOS Safari and disable the feature

Weeknotes: Self-hosted language models with LLM plugins, a new Datasette tutorial, a dozen package releases, a dozen TILs

Simon Willison’s Weblog

Weeknotes: Self-hosted language models with LLM plugins, a new Datasette tutorial, a dozen package releases, a dozen TILs

A lot of stuff to cover from the past two and a half weeks. LLM and self-hosted language model plugins My biggest project was the new version of my...