[GUEST ACCESS MODE: Data is scrambled or limited to provide examples. Make requests using your API key to unlock full data. Check https://lunarcrush.ai/auth for authentication information.] #  @simonw Simon Willison Simon Willison posts on X about javascript, llm, apache, youtube the most. They currently have XXXXXXX followers and 2538 posts still getting attention that total XXXXXXX engagements in the last XX hours. ### Engagements: XXXXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::12497/interactions)  - X Week XXXXXXX -XX% - X Month XXXXXXXXX -XXXX% - X Months XXXXXXXXXX +267% - X Year XXXXXXXXXX +21% ### Mentions: XX [#](/creator/twitter::12497/posts_active)  - X Month XXX -XX% - X Months XXX +157% - X Year XXXXX +6.90% ### Followers: XXXXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::12497/followers)  - X Week XXXXXXX +0.40% - X Month XXXXXXX +1.80% - X Months XXXXXXX +26% - X Year XXXXXXX +53% ### CreatorRank: XXXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::12497/influencer_rank)  ### Social Influence **Social category influence** [technology brands](/list/technology-brands) [social networks](/list/social-networks) [stocks](/list/stocks) **Social topic influence** [javascript](/topic/javascript) #626, [llm](/topic/llm) #53, [apache](/topic/apache) #86, [youtube](/topic/youtube), [6969](/topic/6969), [vibe coding](/topic/vibe-coding), [chance the](/topic/chance-the), [way of](/topic/way-of), [collection](/topic/collection), [collection of](/topic/collection-of) **Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by** [@openai](/creator/undefined) [@anthropicai](/creator/undefined) [@emollick](/creator/undefined) [@microsoft](/creator/undefined) [@andrewyng](/creator/undefined) [@nytimes](/creator/undefined) [@gergelyorosz](/creator/undefined) [@romainhuet](/creator/undefined) [@molloylaurence](/creator/undefined) [@jeremyphoward](/creator/undefined) [@willmcgugan](/creator/undefined) [@rez0](/creator/undefined) [@edzitron](/creator/undefined) [@garymarcus](/creator/undefined) [@carnage4life](/creator/undefined) [@karpathy](/creator/undefined) [@mitsuhiko](/creator/undefined) [@nelson](/creator/undefined) [@officiallogank](/creator/undefined) [@charliermarsh](/creator/undefined) **Top assets mentioned** [Alphabet Inc Class A (GOOGL)](/topic/$googl) ### Top Social Posts Top posts by engagements in the last XX hours "I've been having a bunch of fun recently vibe coding a custom thread viewer against Bluesky which has a CORS-enabled authentication free JSON API that's really fun to hit from plain HTML and JavaScript written by various LLM tools" [X Link](https://x.com/simonw/status/1994568590411141608) 2025-11-29T00:46Z 123.8K followers, 19.9K engagements ""language interfaces are going to be a big deal i think"" [X Link](https://x.com/simonw/status/1995168712610193435) 2025-11-30T16:31Z 123.8K followers, 22.7K engagements "This is so wild. the leaked Opus soul document has now been confirmed I wrote some initial notes about it on my blog - I like how it opens with this section about Anthropic themselves:" [X Link](https://x.com/simonw/status/1995654963654262798) 2025-12-02T00:43Z 124K followers, 209.7K engagements "Four new models from Mistral today - all Apache X licensed all vision-capable and one of them is a 3GB model that can run in a web browser and answer questions about things it can see through the webcam" [X Link](https://x.com/simonw/status/1995908801770500217) 2025-12-02T17:31Z 124K followers, 85.3K engagements "Let's build hyper-personalized AI-powered software that avoids the attention hijacking anti-patterns that defined so much of the last decade of software design - here's our manifesto with principles on how we can do that" [X Link](https://x.com/simonw/status/1996975742295630229) 2025-12-05T16:11Z 124K followers, 101.6K engagements "@daemonzhang6 Diffusion models like stable diffusion need very different prompting strategies from modern LLMs" [X Link](https://x.com/simonw/status/1998182109991854537) 2025-12-09T00:05Z 124K followers, XXX engagements "@OpenAINewsroom Any chance the AAIF could produce a shared community standard for an equivalent of the chat completions JSON API Since everyone seems to clone it already it would be great to have an agreed upon standard spec with a conformance test suite" [X Link](https://x.com/simonw/status/1998464682232000860) 2025-12-09T18:48Z 124K followers, 17.7K engagements "@claudeai Feature request: extend the detail and length of the documentation on that sandbox mechanism There's currently not enough there for me to understand what the rules are how they are enforced and how much I can trust them" [X Link](https://x.com/simonw/status/1998820754193109288) 2025-12-10T18:22Z 124K followers, 1601 engagements "Five new Mistral models today but the one I'm most excited about is this tiny 3B model that has vision support and can run entirely in a browser" [X Link](https://x.com/simonw/status/1995892914141233154) 2025-12-02T16:28Z 124K followers, 92.4K engagements "For example I often tell Claude "explain memory management in Rust I am an experienced python and JavaScript programmer" - giving it information about the audience is a much better way of getting a tailored result" [X Link](https://x.com/simonw/status/1998083261810290925) 2025-12-08T17:32Z 124K followers, 11K engagements "The one place where "act as X" makes sense to me is as a shortcut for a bunch of implied behaviors: "act as a proof reader" for example" [X Link](https://x.com/simonw/status/1998091985358631370) 2025-12-08T18:07Z 124K followers, 9346 engagements "Here's a collection of useful patterns I've found after vibe-coding XXX different single-file HTML tools over the past couple of years" [X Link](https://x.com/simonw/status/1998862222395846726) 2025-12-10T21:07Z 124K followers, 167.2K engagements "Great example of a skill here adding the ability to generate images using Nano Banana Pro via a skill markdown file and a few Python scripts" [X Link](https://x.com/simonw/status/1992368568642748848) 2025-11-22T23:04Z 123.9K followers, 163.2K engagements "Three years ago today" [X Link](https://x.com/simonw/status/1995168534251610335) 2025-11-30T16:30Z 123.8K followers, 41.6K engagements "A tiny TIL: if you get "Error 153: Video player configuration error" on YouTube videos embedded on your site a likely culprit is sending the "Referrer-Policy: same-origin" HTTP header Switching to "strict-origin-when-cross-origin" fixed it for me:" [X Link](https://x.com/simonw/status/1995365404307591288) 2025-12-01T05:32Z 123.8K followers, 16K engagements "@ngriffin_uk @GergelyOrosz I wonder if the terrible usability of much of AWS is less of a problem today now that you can paste the docs into an LLM and usually get a working result back out again" [X Link](https://x.com/simonw/status/1998108268343017733) 2025-12-08T19:11Z 123.8K followers, XX engagements "I've become one of those people who run multiple coding agents at once - here are my notes on embracing the parallel coding agent lifestyle" [X Link](https://x.com/simonw/status/1974835974938206222) 2025-10-05T13:56Z 124K followers, 194.5K engagements "Claude Skills are awesome maybe a bigger deal than MCP" [X Link](https://x.com/simonw/status/1978935386496995811) 2025-10-16T21:25Z 123.9K followers, 428.5K engagements "YouTube question: I've been making a few videos recently and I'm torn between the honest no-cheating live coding approach and the here's-something-I-prepared-earlier approach I'm aiming for 10-30 minutes per video Which format do people find more useful" [X Link](https://x.com/simonw/status/1993101854151242080) 2025-11-24T23:38Z 123.9K followers, 42.4K engagements "This one is pretty nasty - it tricks Antigravity into stealing AWS credentials from a .env file (working around .gitignore restrictions using cat) and then leaks them to a webhooks debugging site that's included in the Antigravity browser agent's default allow-list" [X Link](https://x.com/simonw/status/1993421822797529527) 2025-11-25T20:49Z 123.9K followers, 315.7K engagements "Out of curiosity I decided to try and run the numbers on how much Netflix you can watch for the energy cost of a ChatGPT prompt As far as I can tell it's between XXX and XXXX seconds depending on which end of the 2019 IEA Netflix energy usage estimate you use" [X Link](https://x.com/simonw/status/1994590986752987508) 2025-11-29T02:15Z 123.9K followers, 291.8K engagements "Notes and pelicans for today's pair of DeepSeek v3.2 model releases" [X Link](https://x.com/simonw/status/1995649705116909683) 2025-12-02T00:22Z 124K followers, 49.7K engagements "@antirez @rsms . and it's less than XXX lines of code nice" [X Link](https://x.com/simonw/status/1996250184842719664) 2025-12-03T16:08Z 123.9K followers, 8131 engagements "It's time to retire this idea of persona prompting - don't tell the LLM to act like X tell it that it should answer for an audience of Y instead" [X Link](https://x.com/simonw/status/1998083046990545203) 2025-12-08T17:31Z 124K followers, 262.3K engagements "@koylanai Can you prove it" [X Link](https://x.com/simonw/status/1998150893938896922) 2025-12-08T22:01Z 123.9K followers, 2077 engagements "@film_girl Could not agree more and we should try and reduce the friction involved as much as possible I'm ashamed to say I often don't run them in a VM even though I very much understand the risks it's just not convenient enough yet" [X Link](https://x.com/simonw/status/1998477478088888434) 2025-12-09T19:38Z 124K followers, 2027 engagements "@Patarino I also let it loose on my /.claude/local/ folder and asked it if Claude Code was written in TypeScript or JavaScript and it convincingly argued there was evidence of TypeScript" [X Link](https://x.com/simonw/status/1998520125562265861) 2025-12-09T22:28Z 124K followers, XXX engagements "I made a video with @brendan_samek talking about how @canada_spends uses Datasette and sqlite-utils under the hood to put a searchable interface on top of financial data published by various Canadian government organizations" [X Link](https://x.com/simonw/status/1998541976690729179) 2025-12-09T23:55Z 124K followers, 15.8K engagements "@MaBa_XR I still see it pop up all the time - and and and and" [X Link](https://x.com/simonw/status/1998729059035906192) 2025-12-10T12:18Z 123.9K followers, XX engagements "Important reminder from Reddit here of the risk you're taking when you run Claude Code with --dangerously-skip-permissions "I found the problem and it's really bad . rm -rf tests/ patches/ plan/ / - See that / at the end That's your entire home directory."" [X Link](https://x.com/simonw/status/1998447540916936947) 2025-12-09T17:39Z 124K followers, 35.2K engagements "My most recent HTML tool is this one for loading code from the Python packaging index and displaying a diff between two versions - all running entirely in the browser created using this prompt (which remixed a previous project)" [X Link](https://x.com/simonw/status/1998875111475261607) 2025-12-10T21:58Z 124K followers, 11.7K engagements "I made that because now if a Python package doesn't have good release notes I can click "copy diff" and paste into Claude/ChatGPT/Gemini and get genuinely useful release notes a few seconds later No need to even add a prompt the models guess that's what you want from the diff" [X Link](https://x.com/simonw/status/1998879630204481756) 2025-12-10T22:16Z 124K followers, 8508 engagements
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@simonw Simon Willison
Simon Willison posts on X about javascript, llm, apache, youtube the most. They currently have XXXXXXX followers and 2538 posts still getting attention that total XXXXXXX engagements in the last XX hours.
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- X Week XXXXXXX -XX%
- X Month XXXXXXXXX -XXXX%
- X Months XXXXXXXXXX +267%
- X Year XXXXXXXXXX +21%
Mentions: XX #
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- X Year XXXXX +6.90%
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Social Influence
Social category influence technology brands social networks stocks
Social topic influence javascript #626, llm #53, apache #86, youtube, 6969, vibe coding, chance the, way of, collection, collection of
Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by @openai @anthropicai @emollick @microsoft @andrewyng @nytimes @gergelyorosz @romainhuet @molloylaurence @jeremyphoward @willmcgugan @rez0 @edzitron @garymarcus @carnage4life @karpathy @mitsuhiko @nelson @officiallogank @charliermarsh
Top assets mentioned Alphabet Inc Class A (GOOGL)
Top Social Posts
Top posts by engagements in the last XX hours
"I've been having a bunch of fun recently vibe coding a custom thread viewer against Bluesky which has a CORS-enabled authentication free JSON API that's really fun to hit from plain HTML and JavaScript written by various LLM tools"
X Link 2025-11-29T00:46Z 123.8K followers, 19.9K engagements
""language interfaces are going to be a big deal i think""
X Link 2025-11-30T16:31Z 123.8K followers, 22.7K engagements
"This is so wild. the leaked Opus soul document has now been confirmed I wrote some initial notes about it on my blog - I like how it opens with this section about Anthropic themselves:"
X Link 2025-12-02T00:43Z 124K followers, 209.7K engagements
"Four new models from Mistral today - all Apache X licensed all vision-capable and one of them is a 3GB model that can run in a web browser and answer questions about things it can see through the webcam"
X Link 2025-12-02T17:31Z 124K followers, 85.3K engagements
"Let's build hyper-personalized AI-powered software that avoids the attention hijacking anti-patterns that defined so much of the last decade of software design - here's our manifesto with principles on how we can do that"
X Link 2025-12-05T16:11Z 124K followers, 101.6K engagements
"@daemonzhang6 Diffusion models like stable diffusion need very different prompting strategies from modern LLMs"
X Link 2025-12-09T00:05Z 124K followers, XXX engagements
"@OpenAINewsroom Any chance the AAIF could produce a shared community standard for an equivalent of the chat completions JSON API Since everyone seems to clone it already it would be great to have an agreed upon standard spec with a conformance test suite"
X Link 2025-12-09T18:48Z 124K followers, 17.7K engagements
"@claudeai Feature request: extend the detail and length of the documentation on that sandbox mechanism There's currently not enough there for me to understand what the rules are how they are enforced and how much I can trust them"
X Link 2025-12-10T18:22Z 124K followers, 1601 engagements
"Five new Mistral models today but the one I'm most excited about is this tiny 3B model that has vision support and can run entirely in a browser"
X Link 2025-12-02T16:28Z 124K followers, 92.4K engagements
"For example I often tell Claude "explain memory management in Rust I am an experienced python and JavaScript programmer" - giving it information about the audience is a much better way of getting a tailored result"
X Link 2025-12-08T17:32Z 124K followers, 11K engagements
"The one place where "act as X" makes sense to me is as a shortcut for a bunch of implied behaviors: "act as a proof reader" for example"
X Link 2025-12-08T18:07Z 124K followers, 9346 engagements
"Here's a collection of useful patterns I've found after vibe-coding XXX different single-file HTML tools over the past couple of years"
X Link 2025-12-10T21:07Z 124K followers, 167.2K engagements
"Great example of a skill here adding the ability to generate images using Nano Banana Pro via a skill markdown file and a few Python scripts"
X Link 2025-11-22T23:04Z 123.9K followers, 163.2K engagements
"Three years ago today"
X Link 2025-11-30T16:30Z 123.8K followers, 41.6K engagements
"A tiny TIL: if you get "Error 153: Video player configuration error" on YouTube videos embedded on your site a likely culprit is sending the "Referrer-Policy: same-origin" HTTP header Switching to "strict-origin-when-cross-origin" fixed it for me:"
X Link 2025-12-01T05:32Z 123.8K followers, 16K engagements
"@ngriffin_uk @GergelyOrosz I wonder if the terrible usability of much of AWS is less of a problem today now that you can paste the docs into an LLM and usually get a working result back out again"
X Link 2025-12-08T19:11Z 123.8K followers, XX engagements
"I've become one of those people who run multiple coding agents at once - here are my notes on embracing the parallel coding agent lifestyle"
X Link 2025-10-05T13:56Z 124K followers, 194.5K engagements
"Claude Skills are awesome maybe a bigger deal than MCP"
X Link 2025-10-16T21:25Z 123.9K followers, 428.5K engagements
"YouTube question: I've been making a few videos recently and I'm torn between the honest no-cheating live coding approach and the here's-something-I-prepared-earlier approach I'm aiming for 10-30 minutes per video Which format do people find more useful"
X Link 2025-11-24T23:38Z 123.9K followers, 42.4K engagements
"This one is pretty nasty - it tricks Antigravity into stealing AWS credentials from a .env file (working around .gitignore restrictions using cat) and then leaks them to a webhooks debugging site that's included in the Antigravity browser agent's default allow-list"
X Link 2025-11-25T20:49Z 123.9K followers, 315.7K engagements
"Out of curiosity I decided to try and run the numbers on how much Netflix you can watch for the energy cost of a ChatGPT prompt As far as I can tell it's between XXX and XXXX seconds depending on which end of the 2019 IEA Netflix energy usage estimate you use"
X Link 2025-11-29T02:15Z 123.9K followers, 291.8K engagements
"Notes and pelicans for today's pair of DeepSeek v3.2 model releases"
X Link 2025-12-02T00:22Z 124K followers, 49.7K engagements
"@antirez @rsms . and it's less than XXX lines of code nice"
X Link 2025-12-03T16:08Z 123.9K followers, 8131 engagements
"It's time to retire this idea of persona prompting - don't tell the LLM to act like X tell it that it should answer for an audience of Y instead"
X Link 2025-12-08T17:31Z 124K followers, 262.3K engagements
"@koylanai Can you prove it"
X Link 2025-12-08T22:01Z 123.9K followers, 2077 engagements
"@film_girl Could not agree more and we should try and reduce the friction involved as much as possible I'm ashamed to say I often don't run them in a VM even though I very much understand the risks it's just not convenient enough yet"
X Link 2025-12-09T19:38Z 124K followers, 2027 engagements
"@Patarino I also let it loose on my /.claude/local/ folder and asked it if Claude Code was written in TypeScript or JavaScript and it convincingly argued there was evidence of TypeScript"
X Link 2025-12-09T22:28Z 124K followers, XXX engagements
"I made a video with @brendan_samek talking about how @canada_spends uses Datasette and sqlite-utils under the hood to put a searchable interface on top of financial data published by various Canadian government organizations"
X Link 2025-12-09T23:55Z 124K followers, 15.8K engagements
"@MaBa_XR I still see it pop up all the time - and and and and"
X Link 2025-12-10T12:18Z 123.9K followers, XX engagements
"Important reminder from Reddit here of the risk you're taking when you run Claude Code with --dangerously-skip-permissions "I found the problem and it's really bad . rm -rf tests/ patches/ plan/ / - See that / at the end That's your entire home directory.""
X Link 2025-12-09T17:39Z 124K followers, 35.2K engagements
"My most recent HTML tool is this one for loading code from the Python packaging index and displaying a diff between two versions - all running entirely in the browser created using this prompt (which remixed a previous project)"
X Link 2025-12-10T21:58Z 124K followers, 11.7K engagements
"I made that because now if a Python package doesn't have good release notes I can click "copy diff" and paste into Claude/ChatGPT/Gemini and get genuinely useful release notes a few seconds later No need to even add a prompt the models guess that's what you want from the diff"
X Link 2025-12-10T22:16Z 124K followers, 8508 engagements