Simon Willison’s Weblog

Desk Depot. We picked up some chairs from here the other day—it’s a fascinating place, essentially an entire history of Silicon Valley told through second-hand furniture.

# 13th January 2011, 3:50 am / history, recovered, furniture

What is the history of Django? I’ve been playing with Quora—it’s a really neat twist on the question-and-answer format, which makes great use of friends, followers and topics and has some very neat live update stuff going on (using Comet on top of Tornado). I just posted quite a long answer to a question about the history of Django.

# 24th August 2010, 5:31 pm / comet, django, history, tornado, quora, recovered, qna