Simon Willison’s Weblog

Develomentor podcast: Simon Willison – Data Journalism, The Importance of Side Projects (via) Grant Ingersoll interviewed me for the Develomentor podcast. We talked about my career so far, and how much of it was driven by side-projects that I’ve worked on individually or with Natalie.

# 17th July 2020, 1:33 am / interview, podcasts, careers

Datasette: A Developer, a Shower and a Data-Inspired Moment (via) Matt Asay interviewed me over Zoom last month. This captures a lot of my thinking around open source really well: “Datasette is aggressively open source for a bunch of reasons. Most of them are very selfish reasons.”

# 18th June 2020, 11:32 pm / interview, open-source, datasette

Interview with Ian Hickson, editor of the HTML 5 specification. By Bruce Lawson of the Web Standards Project. Worth reading.

# 14th May 2009, 4:07 pm / bruce-lawson, html5, ian-hickson, interview, web-standards-project

Interview: Simon Willison on OpenID. Christian Heilmann interviewed me for the YDN blog.

# 3rd February 2008, 10:18 pm / christian-heilmann, interview, openid, yahoo, ydn

Bruce Schneier interviews Kip Hawley. The head of the Transportation Security Administration in conversation with one of his most eloquent critics.

# 7th August 2007, 3:23 pm / bruce-schneier, interview, kip-hawley, security, tsa

Vitamin Interviews: Simon Willison. Bobbie Johnson pointed a camera at me after my Future of Web Apps talk and interviewed me for eight minutes on OpenID.

# 23rd March 2007, 1:41 am / bobbiejohnson, fowa, future-of-web-apps, interview, openid