Don (Quixote) Trump – still tilting at windmills. Paying a billion dollars to halt the construction of almost complete wind farm projects. Just making electricity more expensive and dirtier for no reason.

Our Ring Tailed Lemur enjoying sweet potato for lunch.

Beautiful female Satin Bowerbird I found. The rest of the tree had a dozen sulphur crested cockatoos. #ausbirds #birding

Apple's Neo looks pretty amazing. Speculatively though, if it's running one year behind on iPhone Pro chips, next year it should get a bump from 8 to 12GB or RAM which would be a big boost for a laptop.

Guess who's posting #atproto posts from their shiny new Haskell implementation?

@albomp.bsky.social How can we support the assassination and kidnapping of foreign heads of state? Trump pulled out of the Iran nuclear deal, Iran was following it.

I had some spare cycles and decided to tackle a 20 year old unimplemented #WineHQ feature. gitlab.winehq.org/wine/wine/-/... It's not wonderful just yet, but man that thing is a 12k line piece of unmaintainable tech debt.

Buying a Gerni with the plumbing attachment has saved me thousands is plumbing callouts. But on the other hand, tonight I picked up a garbage bag full of sewage overflow after unblocking the stack. It… wasn’t pleasant.

Got up close with Shifu for some pats today. Taught me something. #wildlife #panda #symbio

Actually started building my #birding app for #atproto. I’ve lexicons for birding observations, oauth login in (ported from @baileytownsend.dev’s rusty statusphere) and have a Tap backed app view ingesting events. I’ve also bought the domain.

Does anyone have a good local developer environment for ATproto apps? I'm thinking just docker compose with a PLC, a PDS and Relay, and maybe Jetstream too. Effectively I want to develop locally without spraying records into the public firehose.

@albomp.bsky.social can we talk about X? Elon has turned X and Grok into a child and non-consensual pornography production machines. Are bans, fines, or criminal charges coming?

Who’s a silly fish?

It’s warm but the misters are on. The Red Pandas are chilling.

Spotted while skiing, right next to the run in Hakuba. #japan #wildlife

One particularly interesting thing about Japan is the large number of birds of prey you see around towns. This fine specimen was near Toyama, but I’ve seen dozens.

Fujisan in winter is gorgeous.

@tangled.org Hey guys, I’m sure you’ve the introducing-tap post. Do you think you will adopt it? I think a key part of the atmosphere experience is that I can spin up my own appview and get a consistent experience with the main app. Also happy to help in this.

@tangled.org hey where did the @ in my URL go?

The Australian Government passed the Environment Protection Reform Bill today – a massive milestone for Australia and establishing a national EPA, updating environmental standards and increasing penalties for breaches. But, you may not have seen it in the news, because Trump is an unhinged fuckwit.

My Elm and Haskell libraries for Apache Avro were ported to OCaml… and they’re fucking fast. Only 6% slower than the fastest Rust version, but easier to use and with a richer API and complete schema migration support.

I loved reading the Han Solo Trilogy as a kid. Grime, Crime, Mobsters, and good people trying to do the right thing in the face of Fascism.

Sydney Area Programming Languages Interest Group – 2025 was on today and I gave a talk on how Haskell's laziness and the Tardis Monad can make optimisation simpler. I nominated late, so got a shorter time slot; but I spun it by smashing through with wild gesticulations and pretty humorous results.

I've got a real use case for online contextual bandits. My first thought was Vowpal Wabbit, but its apparently not maintained anymore and its python libraries tap out at 3.9. What do people use for old school online contextual bandits these days? #python #machinelearning

Senate Democrats roll over again, when their position had never been stronger. Coming off an historic win on election night, after Republicans were rightly blamed for their shutdown, and the mandate to fight having never been stronger. The idiots said "LOL. It was us, health care doesn't matter".

Lol. “Hi, It's Me, Wikipedia, and I Am Ready for Your Apology” www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/hi-...

Hey @haskell.org and community! I’m planning on publishing this little library. tangled.org/@huwcampbell... Its implementation is stupidly unsafe, but the results stand out as a nice use case for encapsulation via the ST monad. Let me know of there’s anything else you think it should include.

@github.com This intentional baiting, is so far out of line, it's ridiculous. And it's been this way for months. Hey, there's no notifications... again!

This friend just finished off a huntsman spider for a snack. #ausbirds.

We’re planning a camping trip. My daughter just cried when she found out that there’s toilets available. She wants to do it the hard way :)

I'm currently rocking an iPhone XR. It's 7 years old but actually still works really well, but I want upgrade. But Trump is a fascist. I've cancelled all my subscriptions to American companies (including Apple's). There's too much capitulation in the US by big tech. It's disgusting.

@tangled.sh Maybe a silly question, but if I were to host my own knot and spindles, is there a way to host my private repos in any meaningful way? (Collaboration and viewing in the UI for example).

Apropos of nothing. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox...

Sydney, what happened to Spring?

My dog’s favourite water bowl seems to be my beard after a shower. Why must she try and lick it dry?

I’m thinking about writing a #birding and #herping app using #atproto. Being an open platform we should be able to open sightings and populations across areas to researchers, which is critical for conservation. Herp nerds, bird nerds, biologists, what key features do you need!

@smokesignal.events I was thinking it would be great to have “in your area” and “upcoming online” tabs on the home page. I’m happy to implement; what do you think?

I would love to be able to nap like this during the day. #ausmammals #wombat #symbio

@tangled.sh Hey guys I tried to create a repo today but it didn't work. Can you have a look please?

Fresh faces seen at Symbio today with our Red-Necked wallaby joey popping out of Mum’s pouch.

We saw #titaniqueau last night. It’s fantastic, hilarious, irreverent, superlative, and (more than) a little bit gay. It’s sold out for the rest of the Australia run, but if it’s in your town give it a bash.

This is how I’m viewed… “Hey Marcella, let’s play one more round of suitcase”.

Hanging out with Chomp, the American Alligator. We had them out on the lawn for half an hour - a really nice day at Symbio. Made a bunch of guests’ day.

Does anyone else actively avoid using Gmail's auto suggestions? Even if I was going to write that, we're doing something different now.

Before the election I ranted about how the Australian National Party was a scam - offering nothing to country voters in a blatant ruse to elect Liberal (i.e., conservative) governments. I’m happy the National’s leadership finally came around to the same conclusion.

Want to understand State Machine Testing and property testing better? This old talk from lockdown days might help, where I implement a simple QuickCheck with State Machine Testing a la Hedgehog from scratch.

Loved the Australian Election results. A blow over the conservatives was smashing given world affairs. It looks like the Greens will have the balance of power in the senate which is great. But there's something I'm salty about: them ironically killing the best chance on Climate Change we've had.

@albomp.bsky.social can we talk about the critically endangered swift parrot. Your government has made a pledge towards no more extinctions, but there are no breeding programs set up despite their numbers dropping to just 300. They migrate from Tasmania to NSW, so a federal response is required.

Just awful. I’ve recently been helping care for some of these guys and they really are spectacular. So selfish, so cruel.