Simon Willison’s Weblog

Subscribe
Atom feed

Elsewhere

Release TIL Research Tool Museum Sighting Comment

Filters: Sorted by date

Release tweet-images 0.1.2 — Send tweets with images from the command line
18th Apr 2022, 3:11 am
None
TIL How to get credentials for a new Twitter bot — I wanted to build a Twitter bot that would tweet Covid sewage graphs from [this page](https://covid19.sccgov.org/dashboard-wastewater) every day.
17th Apr 2022, 11:03 pm
Release tweet-images 0.1.1 — Send tweets with images from the command line
17th Apr 2022, 10:24 pm
Release tweet-images 0.1 — Send tweets with images from the command line
17th Apr 2022, 10:02 pm
Release asyncinject 0.3 — Run async workflows using pytest-fixtures-style dependency injection
16th Apr 2022, 11:51 pm
Sighting 2:06 PM — Great Blue Heron, in San Mateo County, CA, US
Great Blue Heron
Great Blue Heron
14th Apr 2022
A diorama showing the scale of the USS Macon airship
Museum Moffett Field Historical Society — Building 126, Severyns Ave, Moffett Field, CA 94035
14th Apr 2022, 3:32 pm · museums
Release geojson-to-sqlite 1.1.1 — CLI tool for converting GeoJSON files to SQLite (with SpatiaLite)
13th Apr 2022, 11:39 pm
Release sqlite-utils 3.26 — Python CLI utility and library for manipulating SQLite databases
13th Apr 2022, 10:53 pm · sqlite, sqlite-utils
Sighting 2:27 PM — Brown Pelican, in Pescadero State Beach, CA, US
Brown Pelican
Brown Pelican
13th Apr 2022
Release geojson-to-sqlite 1.1 — CLI tool for converting GeoJSON files to SQLite (with SpatiaLite)
13th Apr 2022, 5 am
Release summarize-template 0.1 — Show a summary of a Django or Jinja template
13th Apr 2022, 1:23 am
None
TIL Trick Apple Photos into letting you access your video files — I had an 11GB movie in Apple Photos (sync'd from my iPhone) and I wanted to upload it to YouTube (actually via AirDrop to another laptop first).
12th Apr 2022, 11:35 pm
Sighting 1:31 PM – 1:32 PM — Hudsonian Whimbrel, Snowy Egret, in Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary, CA, US, CA
Hudsonian Whimbrel
Hudsonian Whimbrel
Hudsonian Whimbrel
Hudsonian Whimbrel
Hudsonian Whimbrel
Hudsonian Whimbrel
Snowy Egret
Snowy Egret
Snowy Egret
Snowy Egret
12th Apr 2022
None
TIL GUnion to combine geometries in SpatiaLite — I was playing around with [datanews/amtrak-geojson](https://github.com/datanews/amtrak-geojson), which provides GeoJSON for Amtrak stations and track segments.
12th Apr 2022, 6:58 pm
Release geojson-to-sqlite 1.0.1 — CLI tool for converting GeoJSON files to SQLite (with SpatiaLite)
12th Apr 2022, 2:22 am
Release shot-scraper 0.12 — A command-line utility for taking automated screenshots of websites
11th Apr 2022, 7:32 pm · shot-scraper
Sighting 2:29 PM – 2:31 PM — Sanderling, Hudsonian Whimbrel, in Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary, CA, US, CA
Sanderling
Sanderling
Sanderling
Sanderling
Hudsonian Whimbrel
Hudsonian Whimbrel
10th Apr 2022
Release shot-scraper 0.11 — A command-line utility for taking automated screenshots of websites
8th Apr 2022, 8:06 pm · shot-scraper
None
TIL Using awk to add a prefix — I wanted to dynamically run the following command against all files in a directory:
8th Apr 2022, 4:25 pm
Release pypi-to-sqlite 0.2.2 — Load data about Python packages from PyPI into SQLite
8th Apr 2022, 3:12 pm
Release pypi-to-sqlite 0.2 — Load data about Python packages from PyPI into SQLite
8th Apr 2022, 2:48 pm
Sighting 5:20 PM — Savannah Sparrow, in Quarry County Park, CA, US
Savannah Sparrow
Savannah Sparrow
8th Apr 2022
Release pypi-to-sqlite 0.1 — Load data about Python packages from PyPI into SQLite
7th Apr 2022, 11:43 pm
Sighting 9:09 AM — Coyote, in San Mateo County, CA, US
Coyote
Coyote
6th Apr 2022
None
TIL Logging users out of Auth0 — If you [implement Auth0](https://til.simonwillison.net/auth0/oauth-with-auth0) for login, you may be tempted to skip implementing logout. I started out just with a `/logout/` page that cleared my own site's cookies, ignoring the Auth0 side of it.
4th Apr 2022, 1:18 am
None
TIL Treating warnings as errors in pytest — I was seeing this warning in a Django project when I thought I was correctly using timezone-aware dates everywhere:
1st Apr 2022, 5:35 pm
None
TIL Allowing a container in Docker Desktop for Mac to talk to a PostgreSQL server on the host machine — I like using [Postgres.app](https://postgresapp.com/) to run PostgreSQL on my macOS laptop. I use it for a bunch of different projects.
1st Apr 2022, 5:48 am
None
TIL Generating a calendar week grid with the Python Calendar module — I needed to generate a grid calendar that looks like this (design [by Natalie Downe](https://github.com/natbat/pillarpointstewards/issues/23)):
31st Mar 2022, 4:59 pm
Sighting 9:50 AM — Northern Elephant Seal, in Año Nuevo State Reserve, CA, US
Northern Elephant Seal
Northern Elephant Seal
29th Mar 2022

Beats

Years

Tags