Daily Feed — 2026-04-18
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Join us at PyCon US 2026 in Long Beach - we have new AI and security tracks this year
Source: Simon Willison's Weblog | Tags: ai, pycon, security | Published: 2026-04-17 | Novelty: 44%
This year’s PyCon US in Long Beach features two new dedicated tracks: AI and Security. The AI track includes talks on various topics such as AI-assisted contributions, running large language models on laptops, and building real-time voice agents. Notable speakers include Paolo Melchiorre, Sonny Mupfuni, and Camila Hinojosa Añez.
Adding a new content type to my blog-to-newsletter tool
Source: Simon Willison's Weblog | Tags: automation, blog, content-management, newsletter, sql | Published: 2026-04-18 | Novelty: 37%
The article details how the author used a concise prompt to update their blog-to-newsletter tool, adding support for 'beats' — a new content type. The solution involved modifying an HTML app and updating SQL queries with a UNION clause to include relevant beats in the newsletter. Notable code includes a mapping object beatTypeDisplay that defines how different beat types should be displayed.