Simon Willison’s Weblog

Which event gave you a real happiness?

28th October 2013

My answer to Which event gave you a real happiness? on Quora

The Maker Faire in California, and the Mini Maker Faire in Brighton, UK. The enthusiasm for making things for the sake of making things is delightful and infectious.

Posted 28th October 2013 at 12:07 pm · Follow me on Mastodon, Bluesky, Twitter or subscribe to my newsletter

More recent articles

The Summer of Johann: prompt injections as far as the eye can see - 15th August 2025
Open weight LLMs exhibit inconsistent performance across providers - 15th August 2025
LLM 0.27, the annotated release notes: GPT-5 and improved tool calling - 11th August 2025

This is Which event gave you a real happiness? by Simon Willison, posted on 28th October 2013.

events 108 quora 1005

Next: What are some of the best offbeat attractions in London?

Previous: What are movie scenes where the hero hurtles from high-up to Earth and nearly dies, but is saved somehow?

Monthly briefing

Sponsor me for $10/month and get a curated email digest of the month's most important LLM developments.

Pay me to send you less!

Sponsor & subscribe