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@deejaygraham.bsky.social

Software Architect | Jazz Maverick | Literally works *in* The Cloud | Ensembler | Infrequent Sketchnoter | micro:bit hacker | STEAM Ambassador | He/Him

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Inlay card for the audio tape for Wind in the willows

Inlay card for the audio tape for Wind in the willows

@misterabk.bsky.social reminded of the audiobook of Wind in the Willows read by Kenneth Williams. Two audio tapes and so much more cosy and with less Pan

19.02.2026 10:08 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

People talk about this stuff in terms of how much it'll suck for gaming and I hate to inform you how many MRI machines, X-Rays, all sorts of other vital machinery are just a Windows IoT Edition PC in a beige plastic box with a big magnet/accelerator/whatever attached.

17.02.2026 21:12 β€” πŸ‘ 6904    πŸ” 3028    πŸ’¬ 30    πŸ“Œ 94

Come on, it’s half an hour of the worst thing you/I’ve ever heard

18.02.2026 16:46 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The AI Vampire with Gas Town's Steve Yegge AI is making developers dramatically more productive...so why is everyone so exhausted? In this episode, Scott talks with Steve Yegge, legendary blogger and creator of Gas Town, a multi-agent orchestr...

@edzitron.com you might like/hate hanselminutes.com/1035/the-ai-...

18.02.2026 16:43 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Gladys Mae West obituary: mathematician who pioneered GPS technology She made key contributions to US cold-war science despite facing huge barriers as a Black woman.

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientistβ€”because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition.

Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

06.02.2026 09:09 β€” πŸ‘ 46847    πŸ” 19217    πŸ’¬ 1341    πŸ“Œ 789
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Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue

05.02.2026 11:50 β€” πŸ‘ 32173    πŸ” 13827    πŸ’¬ 590    πŸ“Œ 1603
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preorder To Catch A Fascist today, in stores on Tues, let’s make this thing a bestseller www.simonandschuster.com/books/To-Cat...

01.02.2026 11:32 β€” πŸ‘ 24    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 2

All my old bands got back together without me?!?

01.02.2026 10:52 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
The BEST Programmers Use Tests For Engineering Like THIS...
YouTube video by Modern Software Engineering The BEST Programmers Use Tests For Engineering Like THIS...

Lots of people have opinions about what good tests look like - I've taken inspiration from many and condensed it all down to some useful insights. And I talk about shoes! youtu.be/IFrmfN1fxLg?...

If you prefer to read, this blog is on the same topic: coding-is-like-cooking.info/2025/12/test...

22.01.2026 07:25 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The habit persists with to this day, 40 years later.

17.01.2026 15:02 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

@recdiffs.bsky.social doing prep for my radio operator exams back in the day, I was β€œencouraged” to write 7 and 0 with a slash so that I could not be marked down for ambiguity when taking down morse code.

17.01.2026 15:02 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
A yellow bird singing the words "despair is a tool of your enemies" -audre lorde

A yellow bird singing the words "despair is a tool of your enemies" -audre lorde

Good night, everyone. It feels like our so-called "leaders" have all but abandoned us, but we still have each other. I didn't know what else to do, so I made a little painting. Stay safe out there πŸ’›

15.01.2026 06:35 β€” πŸ‘ 404    πŸ” 157    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 3

Weird philosophical @kevlin.bsky.social with my phone's todo app. Due dates for repeating tasks have stayed the same but their reminders have moved forward one day.

All my important "Today don't forget to..." have been magically transformed into "Yesterday did you remember to...?"

09.01.2026 11:30 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Delivery confirmation email showing a blank email address as $object dot shipping address dot email

Delivery confirmation email showing a blank email address as $object dot shipping address dot email

I $object to this template @kevlin.bsky.social

30.12.2025 10:33 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

And maybe buy a huge turkey in the morning. Oh, no wait...you already bought a huge turkey :)

24.12.2025 17:12 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

My Christmas wish for any ai vibe coders out there is for you to be visited in the night by @JasonGorman.bsky.social, GeePaw Hill and @EmilyBache.com. Don't worry, they aren't ghosts, they are nice, you'll really like them. Listen to them.

24.12.2025 17:11 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

You will be visited by three spirits.

09.12.2025 07:06 β€” πŸ‘ 15    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 5
Part of our 2025 Advent Calendar, a black and white line drawing showing my version of Bigfoots wearing wintery clothes and bearing various wrapped Christmas presents.

Part of our 2025 Advent Calendar, a black and white line drawing showing my version of Bigfoots wearing wintery clothes and bearing various wrapped Christmas presents.

Every year we make a free-to-download-and-print-off-yourself colouring-in Advent Calendar. This year’s heavily features Bigfoots. Please share!
Download it for free here… www.worldofmoose.com/pages/2025-b...

29.11.2025 13:41 β€” πŸ‘ 483    πŸ” 334    πŸ’¬ 35    πŸ“Œ 32
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The very last #AgileNorthEast tonight, closing with a round of lightning talks.

Thanks to Jon, Paul and Stephen for the hard work of organising and facilitating over the years #agile

18.11.2025 20:31 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Hackable and fixable

13.11.2025 16:22 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Occasionally on my work laptop a black box pops up with the words "Windows Powershell", and I think "Yes, it probably does."

05.11.2025 11:10 β€” πŸ‘ 149    πŸ” 33    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 1

Reminding myself of maintenance on an early c++ project with at least one file > 17k lines

05.11.2025 10:05 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Extract Method?

05.11.2025 10:03 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

…you did so no *new* tools and I’m sure I have a CD laying around here somewhere

31.10.2025 07:40 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Rational Rose?

31.10.2025 07:25 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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LLMs, Context Windows & Brown M&Ms An interesting piece of research was published recently that found that the effective maximum context size of Large Language Models is orders of magnitude smaller than the advertised maximum contex…

Van Halen wouldn't have fallen for it!

"I showed GPT-5’s responses to a bunch of people, and more than half didn’t notice the 'Brown M&Ms'. This, I suspect, is what really explains why people perceive the effectiveness of LLMs so differently"

codemanship.wordpress.com/2025/10/03/l...

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I could do that in about a parsec, easy

11.09.2025 12:28 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Coffee!

10.09.2025 08:04 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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