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Simon Willison Releases iNaturalist Blog Tool, Uses It at PyCon

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6 versions, newest first.

  1. Version 6 2026-05-24 08:57 UTC · 77 items

    No new substantive signal on inaturalist-clumper itself. Two minor clarifications emerge: PyCon US 2026 is specified as Downtown Long Beach [^16504] rather than simply 'Los Angeles,' and Willison's May 19 post-conferenc…

  2. Version 5 2026-05-24 03:05 UTC · 58 items

    Two structural clarifications emerge from this pass. First, the GitHub repository is named inaturalist-clumps (not inaturalist-clumper), and it contains a clumps.json file [^13250][^15354], sharpening the picture of the…

  3. Version 4 2026-05-23 03:42 UTC · 32 items

    Two items add modest texture without changing the story's trajectory. The GitHub repository listing [^11679] confirms the tool's self-description as grouping sightings 'into clumps,' which sharpens the previously vague …

  4. Version 3 2026-05-22 19:59 UTC · 16 items

    No substantive new developments this pass. The new items retrieved are entirely background and contextual pages — PyCon schedule pages, pyinaturalist library documentation, iNaturalist API forum threads, and City Nature…

  5. Version 2 2026-05-21 09:13 UTC · 5 items

    A second voice has entered the thread: tech curator B Devanarayanan picked up the inaturalist-clumper release in a daily digest, grouping it with the Cerebras $60B IPO and OpenAI Codex mobile [^8255][^8254]. This is the…

  6. Version 1 2026-05-19 12:02 UTC · 3 items

    Simon Willison released inaturalist-clumper 0.1 on May 15, 2026 [^7275], a personal tool for publishing iNaturalist nature sightings to a blog that he had already been running in production for several weeks [^7275]. Th…