Simon Willison’s Weblog

MonsterID as Gravatar Fallback. Cute monsters created using a trick similar to Don Park’s 9-blocks. I like these more than gravatars.

Posted 20th January 2007 at 11:21 pm

Recent articles

What happens if AI labs train for pelicans riding bicycles? - 13th November 2025
Reverse engineering Codex CLI to get GPT-5-Codex-Mini to draw me a pelican - 9th November 2025
Video + notes on upgrading a Datasette plugin for the latest 1.0 alpha, with help from uv and OpenAI Codex CLI - 6th November 2025

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