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

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