Model: anthropic/claude-fable-5
List all of Simon Willion's open source projects, most recent first, each with a rough date of when they were first released
I think you mean Simon Willison — the prolific open source developer, co-creator of Django, and creator of Datasette.
An important caveat upfront: a truly complete list isn't feasible. Simon Willison is famously prolific — he has published hundreds of repositories (Datasette alone has 100+ plugins, many written by him), and my knowledge has a cutoff date, so I'll be missing his most recent work. Below are his notable projects with approximate initial release dates, most recent first:
- files-to-prompt (April 2024) – concatenates files into a single prompt for LLMs
- datasette-extract (2024) – plugin for extracting structured data using LLMs
- LLM (May–June 2023) – CLI tool and Python library for interacting with large language models, plus a large ecosystem of plugins (llm-gpt4all, llm-mistral, llm-claude, etc., 2023 onward)
- symbex (June 2023) – search Python code for symbols
- ttok and strip-tags (May 2023) – CLI tools for token counting and HTML cleanup for LLM pipelines
- datasette-lite (May 2022) – Datasette running entirely in the browser via WebAssembly/Pyodide
- shot-scraper (March 2022) – automated website screenshots via Playwright
- s3-credentials (November 2021) – CLI for creating scoped AWS S3 credentials
- django-sql-dashboard (2021) – SQL reporting dashboards for Django
- Dogsheep suite (2019) – personal analytics tools: twitter-to-sqlite, github-to-sqlite, healthkit-to-sqlite, dogsheep-beta, etc.
- sqlite-utils (2018) – CLI and Python library for manipulating SQLite databases
- Datasette (November 2017) – his flagship project; tool for exploring and publishing data
- csvs-to-sqlite (2017) – convert CSV files to SQLite
- Various early tools (~2007–2010) – soupselect, json-head, geocoders, and others
- Django (developed 2003–2005, open-sourced July 2005) – co-created with Adrian Holovaty at the Lawrence Journal-World
I'd recommend checking these sources directly:
- His GitHub profile: github.com/simonw (sorted by recently created)
- His blog: simonwillison.net, where he announces nearly every release
- His "projects" page on his blog, which he maintains himself
Would you like more detail on any specific project?
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Model: anthropic/claude-opus-4-8
List all of Simon Willion's open source projects, most recent first, each with a rough date of when they were first released
I don't have a reliable, comprehensive, and date-verified list of all of Simon Willison's open source projects, and I want to be honest about that rather than risk giving you inaccurate dates or fabricated entries.
Here's what I can tell you with reasonable confidence:
Well-known projects by Simon Willison:
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LLM (~2023) – A command-line tool and Python library for interacting with large language models.
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Datasette (~2017) – A tool for exploring and publishing data, probably his most prominent recent project.
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sqlite-utils (~2018-2019) – A Python library and CLI tool for manipulating SQLite databases, often used alongside Datasette.
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Django (2005) – He is one of the co-creators of the Django web framework, along with Adrian Holovaty, originally developed at the Lawrence Journal-World newspaper.
He also maintains a large ecosystem of Datasette plugins and many smaller utilities (often with names like shot-scraper, various *-to-sqlite tools for importing data, etc.).
Why I'm hedging: Simon Willison is extremely prolific—he has published a very large number of small tools and plugins, and I can't reliably enumerate all of them or pin down precise release dates without risking errors.
For an accurate, complete list, I'd recommend:
- His GitHub profile: github.com/simonw
- His blog: simonwillison.net, where he documents project releases (his "TILs" and project announcements are well-dated there)
Would you like me to share more detail on any of the specific projects I mentioned?
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