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Welcome to another episode of Develomentor. Today's guest is Simon Willison.

Simon Willison is a JSK Journalism Fellow. When selected as a fellow he was an engineering director at Eventbrite. He originally joined Eventbrite through its acquisition of Lanyrd, a Y Combinator-funded company he co-founded in 2010. Simon has made huge leaps in data journalism.\xa0

Simon is a co-creator of the Django Web Framework. He has also been blogging about web development, programming and data journalism since 2002 at simonwillison.net.

Simon is the creator of Datasette, a new tool for publishing structured data as a web API. Datasette is based on Simon\u2019s experiences working as a data journalist at the Guardian newspaper in the United Kingdom. One of Simon\u2019s projects included the Guardian\u2019s crowdsourcing application for analyzing expense claims by members of Parliament.

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Quotes

These days python is used for data science. None of that tooling existed back then. The website of python was very nascent. People were still figuring out \u2018whats the best way to build things with python\u2018?

You can use software engineering skills to help tell stories and to help break the news.\xa0

\u201cMy wife and I got married in 2010 and we decided that we\u2019d quit our jobs and go off traveling as long as we could. We\u2019d take laptops and see if there were freelancing clients we could work with.\u201d \xa0

\u2014Simon Willison

Additional Resources

What is a content management system (CMS)? \u2013 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cb8MkRr9gu0

One of Simon\u2019s side projects Owls Near Me \u2013 https://www.owlsnearme.com/

Learn more about the Django Project \u2013 https://www.djangoproject.com/

The Pendulum Approach \u2013 by Charity Majors \u2013 https://charity.wtf/2019/01/04/engineering-management-the-pendulum-or-the-ladder/

Charity Majors on Develomentor \u2013 https://develomentor.com/2020/06/18/charity-majors-systems-engineer-cofounder-of-honeycomb-io-66/

Check out Simon\u2019s newest side project Datasette \u2013 https://github.com/simonw/datasette

The Manager\u2019s path \u2013 https://www.amazon.com/Managers-Path-Leaders-Navigating-Growth/dp/1491973897

Ask a manager blog \u2013 https://www.askamanager.org/

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