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Simon Willison

Here's how I implemented the live blog feature I used yesterday. I built the first version using Claude while waiting for the keynote to start, then upgraded it with the help of GPT-4o to add sort options and incremental fetching of new updates
til.simonwillison.net/django/l

2 October at 15:46 | Open on fedi.simonwillison.net
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Jeff Triplett

@simon Any tips for handling images?

I have a half dozen small blogs like that, and the pain point/bottleneck is always my ability to upload an image in a way that doesn't make me not do it.

I noticed yours were static media, so I assumed you committed/pushed.

2 October at 15:52 | Open on mastodon.social
Simon Willison

@webology images were by far the worst part of this - my process sucked: I took a photo on my phone, waited for iCloud to sync the photo to my Mac, dragged that photo out to convert it to JPEG, then dropped that onto tools.simonwillison.net/image- to grab a smaller file size version, then dragged THAT to Transmit to upload to my S3 bucket, then manually entered the img tag in the HTML of a live blog update

2 October at 16:18 | Open on fedi.simonwillison.net
Simon Willison

@webology I got half way through building a dedicated mobile web app for taking a photo on my phone and resizing that and uploading it to my S3 bucket, but I couldn't get S3 CORS headers to work right so I gave up

2 October at 16:19 | Open on fedi.simonwillison.net
Jeff Triplett

@simon I realized while microwaving my lunch that it would take about as much time to have Claude build me a file upload tool for my project changelogs (blogs) than it did to ask you how you solved the problem.

One model + one upload form and one list view with a clipboard snippet that gives me a markdown link was what I think I needed.

This technology is such a light bulb moment. Once we automate the git and pr parts we will soon be chatting with our repos to add features.

2 October at 16:28 | Open on mastodon.social
Simon Willison

@webology I think I need to get over my resistance to having Django handle file uploads and forward them on to S3 - I've always preferred having my browser push content to S3 directly, but maybe in 2024 the servers I'm running apps on can handle proxying a few MBs without me need to worry about running out of server resources

2 October at 16:34 | Open on fedi.simonwillison.net
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Jeff Triplett

@simon we really need to promote that website more. 8 months is too long to go since the last snippet.

2 October at 16:49 | Open on mastodon.social
Paolo Melchiorre

@simon @webology why don't just use Django Storages? It's "transparent" and you can change your storage provider in the future without any vendor lockin effect 👍
github.com/jschneier/django-st

2 October at 20:39 | Open on fosstodon.org
Simon Willison

@paulox @webology doesn’t that involve uploading a file to Django which then pushes that file to S3?

2 October at 20:40 | Open on fedi.simonwillison.net
Paolo Melchiorre replied to Simon

@simon @webology I think it forwards the file to S3 🤔

2 October at 20:54 | Open on fosstodon.org
Jeff Triplett

@simon @carlton in reading this, it made me wondering what it would like if written with django-template-partials and htmx.

Not a challenge or a dare, but it feels like a wonderful fit.

2 October at 16:02 | Open on mastodon.social
Simon Willison

@webology @carlton I think it would be better - I cludged it together in a rush using the first things that came to mind

2 October at 16:15 | Open on fedi.simonwillison.net
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