Simon Willison

Simon Willison has asked 16 questions and find answers to 9 problems.

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Creator of Datasette. Blog at simonwillison.net. @simonw on Twitter.

Simon Willison questions

How can I search wikidata based on an external identifier such as a Spotify ID?
What do screen readers do with an ellipsis unicode character?
How does the "specs" BDD framework for Scala work?
Running apt-get on EC2 without coughing up for a bunch of bandwidth charges
Algorithm for neatly indenting SQL statements (Python implementation would be nice)
How do you install lxml on OS X Leopard without using MacPorts or Fink?
How can I use mongodump to dump out records matching a specific date range?
How to convert an integer to the shortest url-safe string in Python?

Simon Willison answers

How to communicate between traditional thread and asyncio thread in Python?
Patterns for dealing with memcache Caching in Django
Is there a Python news site that's the near equivalent of RubyFlow?
What is the practical difference between xml, json, rss and atom when interfacing with Twitter?
Is it dangerous to leave your Django admin directory under the default url of admin?
Select first instance only with XPath?
How do you install lxml on OS X Leopard without using MacPorts or Fink?
How can I use mongodump to dump out records matching a specific date range?
Converting string into datetime