Simon Willison: My approach to running a link blog

I've been noodling on how we might lower the cost to create prototypes of sites for people who aren't technical. When I speak to a lot of people about websites, they kinda know what they want and can describe it, but it's a lot of work for them to get a functional skeleton of a site working, so ultimately they don't build that site or they just...

This great post by Dion "English will become the most popular development language in 6 years" is worth a mull imho. There's obviously a lot of push back on LLM's be it what they were trained on and how much energy they use. However the technology is here, and Dion poses a great question: Will natural language become the way people control their...

I fondly remember the early days of the web. I remember my first time on the Web in an Internet cafe with my friend Bob, patiently waiting for the only thing we knew to load (cnn.com). It was a time intertwined with a lot of other personal discoveries: ICQ, uh-oh and a/s/l; software modems that didn't work with my Cyrix P150+, Quake @ 2fps on the...

I saw The success of Interop 2024! in Stefan Judis's Web Weekly Newsletter. Jen Simmons at Apple on WebKit pulled together this great post about the progress that has been made in 2024. In 2024, there were 17 such focus areas: Accessibility, CSS Nesting, Custom Properties, Declarative Shadow DOM, font-size-adjust, HTTPS URLs for WebSocket,...

My buddy Dion made a great post "English will become the most popular development language in 6 years". Dion's vision is pretty expansive, but it really tickled my brain. I've been creating a fair number of web-apps with Replit. These "agents" are awesome, they take me through the entire app process. But what if I just want a small bit of my...