Simon Willison’s Weblog

9th April 2026

Tool GitHub Repo Size

GitHub doesn't tell you the repo size in the UI, but it's available in the CORS-friendly API. Paste a repo into this tool to see the size, for example for simonw/datasette (8.1MB).

Posted 9th April 2026 at 9:31 pm

Recent articles

Meta's new model is Muse Spark, and meta.ai chat has some interesting tools - 8th April 2026
Anthropic's Project Glasswing - restricting Claude Mythos to security researchers - sounds necessary to me - 7th April 2026
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This is a beat by Simon Willison, posted on 9th April 2026.

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