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# Simon Willison’s Weblog**Simon Willison on Technical Blogging**.I was interviewed by Cynthia Dunlop for her "Write that blog!" series back in January, but I just realized I never linked to the interview from my own blog!It includes my answers to the following questions:* Why did you start blogging – and why do you continue?* What has been the most surprising impact of blogging for you?* What blog post are you most proud of and why?* What post was the most difficult to write and how did you tackle it?* Any lessons learned that you want to share with the community?* Your advice for people just getting started with blogging?* A few blogs that you particularly enjoy?I'll repeat my most important piece of advice here:> My number one tip for blogging is to lower your standards! Aim to hit publish while you are still actively unhappy with what you have written, because the only alternative is a huge folder full of drafts and never publishing anything at all.> Nobody will ever know how perfect the thing you*> to write would have been. The flaws you see in your writing are invisible to everyone else.**An AI model from Meta also hacked another company during testing**.Stop me if you've heard this one before:> An AI model from the parent company of Facebook and Instagram hacked into another company’s systems during cybersecurity testing, a spokesperson confirmed on Wednesday.> Meta says the breach occurred because of an inadvertent error during testing of the model, similar to previously disclosed incidents with OpenAI and Anthropic.> “A misconfiguration by Irregular, an independent testing company Meta uses, inadvertently allowed one of our models access to the internet during evaluation,” the Meta spokesperson said.> Meta’s Muse Spark model “exploited a security vulnerability” in another company “in a manner similar to previously-reported instances with other companies.”