Pulling both records: the posts X rewarded, the days GitHub saw…

Peak year card · 2026

@simonw

Simon Willison

216.5K followers · 61.4K posts · on X since Nov 2006

Creator @datasetteproj, co-creator Django. PSF board. Hangs out with @natbat. He/Him. Mastodon: https://t.co/t0MrmnJW0K Bsky: https://t.co/OnWIyhX4CH

35 of the 100 best posts X exposes came from 2025. That is the most recent full year. The account is at its peak, or has not reached it yet.

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Simon Willison

@simonw · 216.5K followers

Peak year2025Ships94%days with GitHub activity
51% private

Of the top35of 100 posts

Peak waslast year

202535in the top

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Best of 2025 · 12K likes
“Quitting programming as a career right now because of LLMs would be like quitting carpentry as a career thanks to the invention of the tabl…”

35 of the 100 best posts X exposes came from 2025. That is the most recent full year. The account is at its peak, or has not reached it yet.

The verdict

Against the median of the account’s own follower band

Ships & talks

@simonw ships and talks. 343 of the last 365 days on GitHub, and above the X median for an account this size.

GitHub peaked in 2020. X caught up 5 years later, in 2025. 51% of that GitHub activity is private, days counted, commits unseen.

Above the X median for their size, on GitHub a quarter of days or more.

Post this

Attention lag

+5yrs

Positive: X caught up after the work.

X peak year minus GitHub peak year.

ShipRatio94%343 of the last 365 days with GitHub activity

Ship peak2020353 days on GitHub

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Numbers

Completed years only

Likes in the sample134.3K

Median likes829

Years in a row9with a top post

Share of the top35%35 of 100 posts in 2025 · last year

2025 against the peak100%35 top posts last year

Last 12 months×1.9rising · 68.7K likes on the 10 best, 35.7K the year before

Sample: 100 top posts from 2017 to 2025, plus 45 from 2026 shown but not counted. X exposes about 100 public posts per handle and leans to the best ones, so this is a portrait of when the account did its most-rewarded work, not a log of what it posted last month.

Greatest hits

Most liked, best first

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@simonw

The verdict

@simonw ships and talks. 343 of the last 365 days on GitHub, and above the X median for an account this size.

Numbers

Greatest hits

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The record

Best of each year

The orbit · who the best posts point at

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On the wall

Patterns in the hits