Simon Willison’s Weblog

A parent's primer to computer slang (via) According to MS, “pwn” is a leet word possibly indicating illegal activity.

Posted 17th February 2005 at 9:27 am

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My review of Claude's new Code Interpreter, released under a very confusing name - 9th September 2025
Recreating the Apollo AI adoption rate chart with GPT-5, Python and Pyodide - 9th September 2025
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