E27 - History of Django, Open Source and LLM Security with Simon Willison
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Simon Willison is the creator of Datasette, an open source tool for exploring and publishing data. Prior to becoming an independent open source developer, Simon was an engineering director at Eventbrite. Simon joined Eventbrite through their acquisition of Lanyrd, a Y Combinator funded company he co-founded in 2010. He is a co-creator of the Django Web Framework, and has been blogging about web development and programming since 2002. In this episode, we explored the history of Django, we discussed the challenges of maintaining and monetising popular open source projects, and the security problems of large language models. ▬▬▬▬▬▬ Support this podcast 💜 ▬▬▬▬▬▬ ⁠Become a member of the channel⁠ ⁠Patreon exclusive perks⁠ ⁠1 time support⁠
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