Simon Willison’s Weblog

Subscribe

Items in 2015

Filters: Year: 2015 × Sorted by date


Weekend travel in Europe

I’ve been using www.atlasobscura.com a lot for travel inspiration recently—it’s particularly good for finding the most interesting/weird things in a given area (it can even do geolocation in your phone to show the most interesting nearby things). I bet you could find some very exciting options there.

[... 105 words]

5:50 am / 27th December 2015 / askmetafilter, Travel, Europe, activity

What are the best strategies to get a tech job at YC-backed startups in the next 5 months?

Keep an eye on jobs | Hacker News—it’s the official listing of almost all jobs advertised at YC companies.

[... 46 words]

11:02 am / 18th December 2015 / jobs, startups, ycombinator, quora, careers, techstars, 500startups

How can I negotiate a free conference venue in London?

The two top options in my experience are universities (including student unions) and private companies with good meeting facilities.

[... 107 words]

1:22 pm / 24th May 2015 / conferences, london, quora

Are traditional web frameworks and languages like RubyOnRail, Spring Boot and PHP dying now when new fast reactive pure JavaScript frameworks and services like Meteor, Node, Angular 2.0 and Firebase are breaking ground?

No.

[... 40 words]

9:33 am / 24th May 2015 / django, frameworks, java, javascript, programming, programminglanguages, webdevelopment, quora

Types

Years

Months

Tags