Simon WillisonSep 10, 2024
I'm interviewed in the latest episode of the Software Misadventures podcast. It was a *really fun* conversation - we talked about my past career highlights, my experiences as an independent open source developer, my various processes for working in public, blogging and releasing code and (of course) a whole bunch about my explorations of LLMs
https://softwaremisadventures.com/p/simon-willison-llm-weird-intern
LLMs are like your weird, over-confident intern | Simon Willison (Datasette)

"vibes-based evaluation", "conference-driven development", and being an independent developer.

Software Misadventures Podcast
Show threadSimon WillisonSep 10, 2024
I extracted some highlights from the transcript and wrote them up on my blog: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Sep/10/software-misadventures/
Notes from my appearance on the Software Misadventures Podcast

I was a guest on Ronak Nathani and Guang Yang’s Software Misadventures Podcast, which interviews seasoned software engineers about their careers so far and their misadventures along the way. Here’s …

Show threadSimon Willison
Be subversive... publish a blog! https://simonwillison.net/2024/Sep/10/software-misadventures/#having-a-blog
Notes from my appearance on the Software Misadventures Podcast

I was a guest on Ronak Nathani and Guang Yang’s Software Misadventures Podcast, which interviews seasoned software engineers about their careers so far and their misadventures along the way. Here’s …

Sep 10, 2024 at 10:57pmWeb
Show threadKhürt WilliamsSep 10, 2024
@simon I’ve been subversive since 2001.
Show threadSimon WillisonSep 11, 2024
@khurtwilliams you beat me by a year!
Show threadIzzySep 11, 2024
@simon I'm (eventually) making a personal website by hand-coding HTML and CSS. I'm quite looking forward to having a space on the internet that is entirely mine.
Show threadShaun McDonaldSep 11, 2024
@simon one of the downsides of having young kids is getting hardly any home time in front of the computer. What there is, is usually catching up on personal emails or finances. Part of the reason my blog is so empty.
Show threadGraham Sutherland / PolynomialSep 11, 2024

@simon "you get to learn SEO" is not a positive lmao

(I say this as someone who has learned more SEO than the average person)

Show threadGraham Sutherland / PolynomialSep 11, 2024
@simon joking aside, yes, having a little website all to yourself, for your writing or whatever else, is very nice.
Show threadineitiSep 11, 2024

@simon Of course, real nerds build their decentralized network first, before writing their blog post software.

Oups - forgot to write the blog post now... But at least I have a blackboard and a web-proxy :)

Upcoming: blog post for fledger. ETA: 2 years...

https://web.fledg.re

#nerd #Decentralized #Fledger

Fledger - Decentralized Resource Sharing

Show threadFrost, ᛁᛊᛟᛚᚠᚱ 🐺❄️Sep 11, 2024
@simon Databases? Pff my blog is just a few PHP files! :3 (https://frost.brightfur.net/blog/ !)