30th December 2025
TIL
Downloading archived Git repositories from archive.softwareheritage.org
— Last February I [blogged about](https://simonwillison.net/2025/Feb/7/sqlite-s3vfs/) a neat script called `sqlite-s3vfs` which was released as MIT licensed open source by the UK government's Department for Business and Trade.
Recent articles
- Conceptual integrity and counting lines of code - 19th August 2026
- Qwen 3.8 27B is excellent, but it defaults to wildly overthinking things - 16th August 2026
- Now we have a timeline of the OpenAI accidental attack against Hugging Face - 7th August 2026