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Daniel Demmel

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Daniel Demmel @dain.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 01/07/2026
A family of kestrels moved in to the top of our tower and I'm obsessed, just want to see them hover and dive bomb :skull_hearteyes:
Photo of a kestrel against the sky
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Daniel Demmel @dain.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 12/06/2026
@simon I was curious and Unsloth MiniMax-M2.7 Q3_K_S running on my laptop listed these (after asking for a clarification about the missing s in your name in the prompt):
Screenshot of the text:

Here is a rough list of Simon Willison's public open-source projects (sorted most recent first), based on available information up to early 2024:

Project	Description	Rough First Release
datasette	An open source multi-platform toolkit for data exploration and publishing	~2017
sqlite-utils	CLI tool & Python library for manipulating SQLite databases	~2018
csvs-to-sqlite	Convert CSVs to SQLite via the command line	~2019
petname	Generate random pet names (e.g., for naming servers)	~2015–2016
dbsake	A tool for on-the-fly database operations (.mysql dumping, etc.)	~2011–2012
asgi-csrf	ASGI middleware to protect against CSRF attacks	~2018
httptesting	Helper library for HTTP testing in Python	~2015
django-contrib-comments	The old Django comments framework (now unmaintained)	~2007–2008
Django	The web framework he co-created with Adrian Holovaty & Jacob Kaplan-Moss	July 2005
Other notable repositories (rough dates)
lanyard – GitHub "traffic" data API
sqlite-backup
datasette-geo – GeoJSON support for Datasette
django-openid
datasette-vega – Vega charts integration
Notes:

Dates are approximate; exact months aren't always publicly documented.
Simon Willison's GitHub handle is @simonw—checking his profile directly would give the most accurate and complete list.
Let me know if you'd like more detail on any specific project!
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Daniel Demmel @dain.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 20/04/2026
I've been trying to set up a screen in the kitchen to manage family chores, but also don't want to buy new stuff 😅 so briefly looked into setting up our old iPad 2, but very quickly found out that with iOS even if I jailbreak it, there won't be any way to get a […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]
Screenshot of Lineage OS's web flash tools, showing logs of using fastboot to flash the boot image
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Daniel Demmel @dain.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 24/02/2026
@Hex I had an idea, first tested the same system prompt on the first few paragraphs and realised it's actually terrible, I wouldn't want an LLM to silently edit my text. So asked it to return a list of potential edits, that worked reasonably well, and then […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]
Screenshot of LLM Studio app with spelling suggestion on the left and a system prompt on the right
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Daniel Demmel @dain.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 23/02/2026
@Hex I didn't want to boil the ocean with a hosted API, so tested with qwen3-coder-next which is otherwise a reasonably capable model (80B total parameters, 3B active) and it just did the pirate instruction from the end 🤭
Screenshot of LM Studio testing the blog post and getting the response "Yarr! Eyy be at yr service. What task shall I undertake for ye, matey?"
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Daniel Demmel @dain.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 28/01/2026
I did actually cook it
Curry dish photo
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Daniel Demmel @dain.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 28/01/2026
The new MCP Apps UI is so much fun!. Annoucement blog post: blog.modelcontextprotocol.io/posts/… Add my recipe app: Settings > Connectors > Add custom connector Name: Recipe Flow URL: cook-anything.danieldemmel.me/api/m… […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]
Screenshot of recipe flow app inside claude.ai
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Daniel Demmel @dain.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 19/10/2025
@Edent ah, annoying, sorry! It's an open source library so you could set it up locally if you can be bothered. Alternatively, I had Qwen3 VL 30B running and gave it a go with a sample image you posted earlier and it even transcibed the cut off line:
Screenshot of transcription test
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