Some Northumbrian rants (and an air) from our recent @camusfolk.bsky.social gig in Weston Colville www.youtube.com/watch?v=4UoC...
24.10.2025 10:32 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0@edric.org.bsky.social
Software developer for MathWorks working on Parallel Computing. Northumbrian smallpipes and Border pipes with Camus. Persistent cyclist.
Some Northumbrian rants (and an air) from our recent @camusfolk.bsky.social gig in Weston Colville www.youtube.com/watch?v=4UoC...
24.10.2025 10:32 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Still remembered in "Palaces of Gold" - was lucky to hear this performed at the recent Martin Carthy celebration gig. open.spotify.com/track/3MVkke...
21.10.2025 11:10 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0The song "Bobby Shaftoe" was used by the politician of that name in the 1760s.
19.10.2025 16:37 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0We saw "Thin Lizzy" in 2008. Ridiculous. (I mean - they were pretty decent - but really not what anyone would expect "Thin Lizzy" to be)
13.10.2025 08:08 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0My current favourite is to make banana pancakes. One over-ripe banana+flour, milk, & baking powder makes one big fluffy "American"-style pancake.
01.10.2025 17:17 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Congratulations to England's Red Roses, the women's rugby world cup winners. A superb effort over six weeks and deserved winners.
27.09.2025 17:27 β π 785 π 68 π¬ 24 π 2Just booked in for Cambridge Junction π
24.09.2025 13:49 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0#MATLAB R2025b has dropped - a quick intro to the new desktop.
R2025b delivers quality and stability improvements, building on the new features introduced in R2025a. Thank you for all the feedback you provided to make R2025b possible.
If you are using R2025a, you should switch to R2025b.
Love a gig that doesn't finish too late π
17.09.2025 18:23 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Flyer for: 8 October 2025. Acousting Music Night. Camus; The Doghouse Collective; The String Section. Newnham Croft Social & Sports Club. Hardwick St. Cambridge CB3 9JA. Doors 19:30. Music 20:00-22:00.
We're playing in Cambridge on October 8th at Newnham Croft club, together with The Doghouse Collective and The String Section.
16.09.2025 08:37 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Job alert! I know a lot of #HPC people follow me here so if any of you are looking for a new gig, maybe this one at MathWorks is for you.
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You don't even need to know any MATLAB...we can teach you that. Your HPC/parallel chops are what we are looking for.
One of my undergrad Physics tutors has written a couple of books on this stuff - the relative non-dangerousness of nuclear power is so amazingly at odds with public perception. thebreakthrough.org/issues/energ...
04.09.2025 08:19 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I deliver High Performance Computing workshops in MATLAB for free! If you are at a University in the UK and would like a similar session to the one Manchester had, let's talk.
01.09.2025 11:14 β π 2 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0Bring the Canterbury Embroidery back home!
30.08.2025 07:58 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Petrol stations should not be allowed to display any branding. Instead, like tobacco, they should be plastered in massive grim pictorial health warnings, and only show their company name in a small nondescript font underneath.
29.08.2025 14:55 β π 99 π 7 π¬ 9 π 0CHhhhhcchhhhhhhhhchchhhh
20.08.2025 15:22 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0π΄ββοΈ London has done it.
Weβve just been crowned Europeβs favourite city for cycling, a fantastic recognition of the progress weβve made to make our city greener and more accessible for all. Our cycling boom is good for Londoners and is putting us on the map for cycle tourism.
We visited a couple of years ago and found the place and people to be lovely, despite the awfulness of their Taskmaster version.
15.08.2025 08:03 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Loved this band (at least until Mustaine went completely nuts).
15.08.2025 07:20 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Hmm Amazon have them, but you have to get the extra spicy ones too, which are a bit much for me.
11.08.2025 20:38 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Pulparindo are my favourite, haven't had any in ages though... Mm, spicy, sweet and salty.. (The optics department at Imperial had loads of Mexican people there when I was there in the late 1990s. They always used to bring back those - plus tonnes of chillis)
11.08.2025 20:36 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0MATLAB Online was updated to R2025a!
My favorites - syntax highlighting and live preview of markdown.
What's yours? blogs.mathworks.com/matlab/2025/...
We muddled through, missing our third piper (laid low with COVID - which traditionally one contracts during the festival, rather than before)
07.08.2025 21:57 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0A sign saying "PLEASE NOTE THIS VENUE CAN GET VERY _HOT_"
Please note: my pipes can get very _sharp_
07.08.2025 13:02 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0American military cargo plane flying low over our campsite making many of us think we were about to die. After it became clear that death was not imminent, our neighbour shouted "fucking hell" very loudly, a sentiment we shared.
07.08.2025 09:08 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Just seen the Red Man here in Sidmouth... dressed entirely in YELLOW! (Unless it is simply that he is approaching *extremely* quickly)
07.08.2025 08:48 β π 1 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0