Simon Willison

Recent talks

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How to design and implement extensible software with plugins

DjangoCon US 2024 · December 6, 2024

Simon Willison argues that plugins are a powerful way to extend software while keeping the core small, stable, and easier to maintain. Using his Dataset and LLM projects, he shows how plugins can add visualisations, commands, language models, and other features that users can install…

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Increase your productivity on personal projects with comprehensive docs and automated tests

DjangoCon US 2022 · November 23, 2022

Simon Willison explains how comprehensive tests, documentation, and issue notes let him maintain a large number of personal projects without losing context. He treats each change as a “perfect commit”: one independently understandable implementation change, tests that prove it works, documentation updated in the same…

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State of Django Panel

DjangoCon US 2018 · November 8, 2018

Django’s strength lies in the wider community around the framework: Django Girls has introduced thousands of people to technology, helped grow Python communities internationally, and shown the value of accessible education, mentorship, translations, and local events. The speakers argue for more inclusive and distributed participation,…

Has appeared with

• Andrew Godwin × 2
• Katie McLaughlin × 2
• Kojo Idrissa × 2
• Adam Fast
• Andrew Pinkham
• Anna Makarudze
• Dr. Russell Keith-Magee
• Ernist W. Durbin III
• Filipe Ximenes
• Flávio Juvenal
• Frank Wiles
• Griffith Rees

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