Simon Willison’s Weblog

FireEagle. Location broker API, launched at Hack Day London. I worked on an early version of this before leaving Yahoo! back in January—great to see it out.

# 10:30 am / fireeagle, hackdaylondon, yahoo

What I did at Hack Day. John McKerrell made a tool for updating your FireEagle location through a DNS query, useful for sneaking around for-pay WiFi nodes.

# 10:32 am / dns, fireeagle, hackdaylondon, john-mckerrell, wifi

Washington Post and Facebook. Deryck Hodge on hacking against Facebook API using Django.

# 10:33 am / api, deryckhodge, django, facebook, washington-post

Python 3000 Status Update. Doesn’t look like we’ll get multiline lambdas, but the other stuff looks great. I’m not looking forward to years of Python 2 and Python 3 co-existing and splitting the community though (ala PHP 4 and 5).

# 1:49 pm / guido-van-rossum, php, python