Fun times with Dropbox’s new ~/Library/CloudStorage location and File Provider API integration.

The original “Responsive Web Design” article was published fifteen years ago. Time’s weird, man.

I just finished listening to Simon Willison’s interview on the Software Misadventures podcast. I learned a lot from the interview, so I wrote up my notes.

This is not a summary of the whole interview, just the parts that were new to me or that I’d like to remember.

Who’s Simon Willison?

• One of the co-creators of Django, the most popular web framework for Python.
• One of the most popular indepedent bloggers on Hacker News.
• For the last few years, has focused his blog primarily on AI, especially on applications of AI technology in everyday software development.
• Currently working on an open-source data analysis tool called Datasette.

Plugins as a form of open-source contribution

Original discussion

I just came across a post on X that stated “nothing makes me want to hire someone less than this”, with a picture of the “open to work” badge LinkedIn offers job seekers. This being X, I thought I answer using appropriate voice: This, albeit succinct, is not very enlightening, so let me elaborate… Like […]