Simon Willison’s Weblog

1st September 2008 - Link Blog

Socks away! Roald Dahl's wartime sex raids. That explains “My Uncle Oswald”.

Posted 1st September 2008 at 1:43 pm

Recent articles

The U.S. Census Bureau and “Super Intelligence” - 2nd November 2026
The October inflection point for vibe game development - 28th October 2026
Battle Drones - a vibe coded RTS with audio-based multiplayer - 20th October 2026
Hello Python 3.15, goodbye 3.10, and now I can use 3.11 - 12th October 2026

This is a link post by Simon Willison, posted on 1st September 2008.

funny 68 roald-dahl 1

Monthly briefing

Sponsor me for $10/month and get a curated email digest of the month's most important LLM developments.

Pay me to send you less!

Sponsor & subscribe