Simon Willison

@simonw
Creator, Datasette
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Software engineer, creative technologist, creator of Datasette, co-creator of Django

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Released s3-credentials, a command-line utility for creating dedicated AWS credentials for specific S3 buckets.

I've coined the term "Baked Data" to describe the architectural pattern where you deploy a read-only bundle of data alongside the code for an application. I wrote about that in detail here: The Bak...

I gave this talk at PyGotham 2020: "Datasette - an ecosystem of tools for working with Small Data" https://youtu.be/Lig2gxPEZPo Transcript, links and notes: https://simonwillison.net/2021/Jul/22/sm...

I released a new tool for running SQL joins against data from CSV and JSON files: https://simonwillison.net/2021/Jun/19/sqlite-utils-memory/ Demo video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUjd0rkc678