Simon Willison’s Weblog

Introducing Cloudera Desktop. It’s a GUI for Hadoop, and under the hood is a whole stack of open source software, including Python, Django, MooTools, Twisted, lxml, CherryPy, Mako, Java and AspectJ.

Posted 21st October 2009 at 6:48 pm

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Trying out Gemini 3 Pro with audio transcription and a new pelican benchmark - 18th November 2025
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