About me
Here's my most recent conference bio:
Simon Willison is the creator of Datasette, an open source tool for exploring and publishing data. He currently works full-time building open source tools for data journalism, built around Datasette and SQLite.
Prior to becoming an independent open source developer, Simon was an engineering director at Eventbrite. Simon joined Eventbrite through their acquisition of Lanyrd, a Y Combinator funded company he co-founded in 2010.
He is a co-creator of the Django Web Framework, and has been blogging about web development and programming since 2002 at simonwillison.net
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About this site
This site is a custom web application built using Django. The source code can be found on GitHub at simonw/simonwillisonblog.
The site is hosted on Heroku and stores content in PostgreSQL, which is backed up to JSON files in simonw/simonwillisonblog-backup. These are then deployed to a Datasette instance running at datasette.simonwillison.net.