Independent open source developer and creator of Datasette
Simon Willison
Simon Willison is an independent developer, Datasette creator, and Django co-creator who builds open source tools and writes about language models.
About Simon Willison
Simon Willison is an independent open source developer and the creator of Datasette, a tool for exploring and publishing data. He builds software for data journalism and maintains LLM, a Python library and command-line tool for working with large language models.
He is a co-creator of the Django web framework and previously worked as an engineering director at Eventbrite after its acquisition of Lanyrd, which he co-founded. His long-running blog documents programming, AI tools, and experiments with language models.
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- Kimi K3.1 Pro: Moonshot's Open-Weight Flagship Scores 65.7% on Terminal-Bench 4.0, Weights Due by Nov 4 →
Moonshot AI launched Kimi K3.1 Pro and a 2-3x faster Highspeed variant on October 23, 2026. Here is what the company published about benchmarks, price, cyber controls and the November 4 open-weight promise, what comes from Moonshot alone, and what developers on Hacker News are saying.
- eMudhra CA Compromise: The "Update Everything" Security Checklist and What a Viral Thread Missed →
A viral security thread told developers to update everything and avoid the web for a week. The real incident behind it, eight weak eMudhra CA keys, is a trust-store problem. Here is a prioritized checklist covering browsers, operating systems, language runtimes, containers and the claims we could not confirm.
- Battle Drones: Simon Willison's Vibe-Coded RTS With Multiplayer Over Audio →
Simon Willison published Battle Drones, a browser real-time strategy game built over 12 iterations and 321 commits, mostly by coding agents. Two phones can play each other by sending sound. Here is how it was made, the engineering tricks Claude came up with, and what the author admits he has not reviewed.
- Anthropic Q3 Revenue of $16.8B: What Is Claimed and What Is Verified →
Anthropic reportedly told prospective IPO investors that third-quarter revenue reached $16.8 billion and that it was profitable on an adjusted basis. Every figure comes from anonymous attendees, not a filing. Here is the claim, the corroboration, the gaps, and what to watch.