Simon Willison

I'm glad somebody out there is brave enough to push back against the "personal ChatGPT usage is terrible for the environment" message https://andymasley.substack.com/p/a-cheat-sheet-for-conversations-about

"If you want to prompt ChatGPT 40 times, you can just stop your shower 1 second early."

"If I choose not to take a flight to Europe, I save 3,500,000 ChatGPT searches. this is like stopping more than 7 people from searching ChatGPT for their entire lives."

New release of my llm-openai plugin supporting today's three new GPT-4.1 models from OpenAI:

llm install -U llm-openai-plugin
llm -m openai/gpt-4.1 "Generate an SVG of a pelican riding a bicycle"

https://github.com/simonw/llm-openai-plugin/releases/tag/0.2

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Severance S2E1 spoiler

Rewatching Severance in preparation for season 2 starting on January the 19th - it rewatches *really well*. I'm running a rewatch series on MetaFilter FanFare here, with a new episode every three days - just posted S1E2 https://fanfare.metafilter.com/show/severance

I figured out a prompting pattern for getting Claude to produce fully self-contained Python scripts that execute with "uv run" using PEP 723 inline script dependencies - and now I can one-shot useful Python utilities with it https://simonwillison.net/2024/Dec/19/one-shot-python-tools/

Any tips on preventing this flood of annoying notification spam on Mastodon? Is there a way I can turn off notifications from people I don't follow if they include Japanese characters, for example? I'm self-hosted using @mastohost

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I really enjoyed this interview with John Oliver about the process involved in producing Last Week Tonight https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9kNMJ8SguQ

"Those jokes have no structural integrity if the facts underneath them are bullshit"

Any screen reader users able to help idenfity the best pattern for ensuring this proposed fediverse symbol gets read out loud correctly in different software?
https://typo.social/@FediverseSymbol/113012440880547584

OK, turns out Tim Walz is a former geography teacher and a GIS and data visualization nerd
https://mastodon.social/@kjhealy/112915624921601732

It turns out Google Chrome ships a default, hidden extension that allows code on `*.google.com` access to private APIs, including your current CPU usage

You can test it out by pasting the following into your Chrome DevTools console on any Google page:

chrome.runtime.sendMessage(
"nkeimhogjdpnpccoofpliimaahmaaome",
{ method: "cpu.getInfo" },
(response) => {
console.log(JSON.stringify(response, null, 2));
},
);

More notes here: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Jul/9/hangout_servicesthunkjs/