Notes on "Simon Willison"

Individuals I’m following, who actively write and contribute in the AI field:

• Simon Willison. A must-read in this field now. He’s been topping Hacker News in 2023–2025¹. I can’t believe how he manages to cover nearly every aspect of the frontier. If you could only follow one source, make it him. He’s also the co-creator of the famous Django web framework.
• Armin Ronacher. He’s the creator of a lot of Python libraries, like Flask and Click. Now he’s writing a lot about LLMs.
• Mario Zechner. I discovered him through his tiny but curated coding agent Pi, which has been turning heads recently². I haven’t taken a look yet, but will do.
• Mitchell Hashimoto. Ghostty’s creator. He’s writing a lot about his AI adoption in real development.

Tw93, and his Mole. I heard of this macOS cleaner app called Mole before, but today I finally tried it out — a neat CLI utility that digs through and cleans up your macOS.

I checked out its author, Tw93. He’s also a Chinese programmer, and keeps a blog that caught my eye immediately. I’m glad to see programmers like him sharing tech thoughts and personal life, reminding me I’m not alone. He’s doing a great job — another role model to look up to. From his GitHub profile, I believe Simon Willison influenced him too.

Follow him on X: @HiTw93.

Simon Willison on Technical Blogging. Simon was the direct catalyst for me starting my own blog (see my post), so it’s great to see him share more about his blogging experience.

Happy holidays! At the end of 2025, I’m starting a blog. I’ve already written several entries and feel confident I can keep it going.

Here I talk about my past attempts, the writers who inspired me, the motivation, the topics to cover, and the approach I’m taking. It’s my version of a blogging manifesto.