Simon Willison’s Weblog

Scaling Mastodon: The Compendium (via) Hazel Weakly’s collection of notes on scaling Mastodon, covering PostgreSQL, Sidekiq, Redis, object storage and more.

Posted 29th November 2022 at 5:46 am

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OpenAI's new open weight (Apache 2) models are really good - 5th August 2025
ChatGPT agent's user-agent - 4th August 2025
The ChatGPT sharing dialog demonstrates how difficult it is to design privacy preferences - 3rd August 2025

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