Simon Willison’s Weblog

lightningtimer.net. I'm fed up of having to dig out or knock up a timer script every time I manage lightning talks, so I've given one a domain name. You can use lightningtimer.net/#90 to set a different start time for the counter.

Update March 25th 2025: I rescued an old copy of this from the Internet Archive and re-published it to tools.simonwillison.net/lightning-timer.

# 12th November 2008, 4:43 pm / javascript, lightning-talks, lightningtimer, projects, tools

Tweetersation. Nat and my latest side project: a JSONP API powered tool to more easily follow conversations between people on Twitter, by combining their tweets in to a single timeline.

# 2nd October 2008, 5:08 pm / api, javascript, jsonp, natalie-downe, projects, tweetersation, twitter

json-tinyurl. Because sometimes you want to be able to create a shorter version of a URL directly from JavaScript without hosting your own server-side proxy.

# 27th August 2008, 10:58 am / appengine, javascript, json, jsonp, jsontinyurl, projects, tinyurl

Get Lat Lon now has a “Get my location (by IP)” button. It took all of five minutes to add using the new google.loader.ClientLocation API. The button is only visible if your location can be resolved.

# 22nd August 2008, 10:16 am / clientlocation, getlatlon, javascript, location, projects

jsontime. Nat and I threw this together this morning—it runs on Google App Engine and exposes Python’s pytz timezone library over JSONP.

# 21st June 2008, 7:07 pm / api, appengine, javascript, json, jsontime, projects, python, pytz