Jacob Filik

I think it probably gets enough leg exercise hopping around the garden, everyday is leg day for frogs. You shouldn't skip leg day Claire.

Lol it's not leg day! Also if it was id totally be intimidated by the quads on display in this garden.

Look fella, will ya move along, I'm trying to do a workout here.

First takeaway from Chaa Affaire, smells amazing (missing naan is making me sad though, they looked good)

Photo of a cute little white 3d printed "benchy" boat

Oh this is not going to end well...

It’s called ‘vs code’ because the code is an enemy you are fighting

That's a pretty elite club you've got yourself there...

We enjoyed it very much!

1802: Everyone is talking about the new Steam Machine

2025: Everyone is talking about the new Steam Machine

That was mine, the kids had a more "traditional" feel. Got quite a few sweets left over but it was pretty busy considering half term and the weather.

Absolutely.

Carved pumpkin and lots of sweets

Nearly that time again....

Hosting a WebSite on a Disposable Vape Someone’s trash is another person’s web server.

Hosting a WebSite on a Disposable Vape. “Recently, disposable vapes have gotten more advanced”; some have USB-C and rechargeable batteries. [bogdanthegeek.github.io]

Silksong is the new Glastonbury tickets.

One of the most useful features of hdf5 is it's ability to hold big/multidimensional data - this allows you to store complicated multi-modal scans (like combined transmission, xrf and xrd tomography) in a way that reflects the measurement better than a column.

Yeah, we have discussed this for many hours at Diamond. There is definitely a set of measurements for which an NXdata can map quite nicely to a pandas dataframe, but when you try to generalise over all the experiments done at a synchrotron it's not that large a set.

Ah yes, if it can read the data, but it is not in the correct structure that is a different problem. If you wanted to go direct from Nexus to Data frame you would probably need a specific Nexus base class/application definition (or custom import code).

It may have a "non-standard" compression on the data (i.e. blosc). You probably just need to install the hdf5plugin package.

A famous meme shows two office mates arguing with animosity over contrasting opinions. In this case, this is how the conversation went: A: "today a student said 'xrd spectrum', I made it quite clear they're wrong" - B: "Well not in energy, but it is a spectrum: of spatial frequencies" - A: "Diffraction is elastic, calling it spectrum makes confusion!" - B: "Then don't say 'Bragg reflection', it is not a reflection!" - B: "And actually diffraction is seemingly elastic, but fundamentally FULLY inelastic!"

Time to stir controversies... but I had this meme in mind for too long

This is a photo of two bowls next to one another. On the left are the husks of the cacao seeds we have been working so hard on. On the right is a bowl of pure magic. It’s as if someone made perfect little chocolate candies in the shape of cacao seeds. But of course, that’s backwards. These fermented, dried and roasted seeds are the SOURCE of chocolate… they ARE chocolate. As pure as it gets.

Dear Reader, I spent the evening removing the papery, fragrant shells from the cacao seeds. Machines can do this, but these are my babies.

Your eyes don’t lie:, they have transformed into the purest, most incredible dark chocolate. This is where it comes from. This is it.

Next, milling.

Diabetes time.

A bowl containing an excessive amount of sweets.

It's nearly that time...

Well I'm sure @markbasham.bsky.social @envirosynch2.bsky.social @evilokapi.bsky.social etc will say hello...

Yes please

Probably not many bluesky (the social media app, not the data acquisition framework) using people at #nobugs2024

Picture of a frog.

Ribbit.

Oh my... What did you do?!

Indoor gym sounds pretty nice about now. Apart from there being other people there.

Barbell outside

Getting quite cold for outdoor gym.

... And we're off.