Simon Willison’s Weblog

Is xkcd overrated?

16th August 2012

My answer to Is xkcd overrated? on Quora

No.

Posted 16th August 2012 at 4:31 pm · Follow me on Mastodon, Bluesky, Twitter or subscribe to my newsletter

More recent articles

Vibe scraping and vibe coding a schedule app for Open Sauce 2025 entirely on my phone - 17th July 2025
Happy 20th birthday Django! Here's my talk on Django Origins from Django's 10th - 13th July 2025
Grok: searching X for "from:elonmusk (Israel OR Palestine OR Hamas OR Gaza)" - 11th July 2025

This is Is xkcd overrated? by Simon Willison, posted on 16th August 2012.

xkcd 13 quora 1005

Next: I was wondering if anyone can recommend any organizations/conferences or seminars that provide sessions on Writing for the Web?

Previous: Can you use dropbox to host a wordpress site?

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