Doodles! #illustration #fantasyart #digitalart

Are you #rustlang curious? Perhaps you want to chat in a relaxed environment with others who are also curious and/or know about it? If so, please consider coming along to one of the rustandfriends.org sessions in Edinburgh next week.

🧶 I only learned recently that 'spalted' wood is simply wood that's started rotting already, so it gets some interesting patterns from bacteria starting to break it down. This crochet hook was unwittingly made from spalted birch. #crochet #yarncrafts #woodcarving #whittling

Make it stick.

🧶 The very first crochet hook I ever carved, oh, back in the summer of 2019, was this little number from an oak branch I found while hiking. It's aged beautifully and I'll never get tired of looking at the pretty, pretty end grain pattern. #crochet #yarncrafts #woodcarving #whittling

I finally got round to writing-up a thing I did over xmas using Lidar heights to visualise possible impact of sea-level rise on Edinburgh: youtu.be/7-W-LEc9GPQ Much kudos to GeoMob Edinburgh / Peter Creasey for making me aware of these datasets, and to the Scottish government for producing them!

If you want to defeat the far right, you need a real alternative, not a more moderate version that panders & parrots but offers nothing to address real issues. Congratulations @greenparty.org.uk, Hannah Spencer, @zackpolanski.bsky.social & the people of Gorton & Denton www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cp...

Well. After a January that seemed to take years, February is almost gone in a blink 😅, and it's time for our first #MLOps of the year on Wednesday! This time we'll be hearing from Assulan Nurkas on "Scaling Fine-Tuned LLMs: Processing 200k Daily Reviews at Trustpilot"; luma.com/1eolb1o5

“is there a technology that the left is excited about?” Trains. We love trains, actually

love a bit of continvouclous morging

ai;dr AI; didn't read.

Book targeting 🎯 is becoming incredibly fine-grained nowadays…

Every American needs to watch this:

A couple of hours and $8 of Claude later (!) I added a mini-blog to my fosdem site: fosdem.houseofmoran.io/blog/. I do have *other* reasons for doing this, like summarising data changes, but was also a good way to decompress after a very busy #fosdem weekend 😅.

I've been coming to #Fosdem since 2019; the bad (still) isn't all that bad, and the good is still very good. Many thanks to all the organisers and volunteers for making this possible 🙇‍♂️. www.houseofmoran.com/post/2026-02...

Here's a Red-bearded Bee-eater for day 27 of #Birbfest #Birbfest2026 #illustration #sketchbook #birds

We're starting-off this year in #MLOps with a great talk in Feb from Assulan Nurkas ( luma.com/1eolb1o5 ) : "Scaling Fine-Tuned LLMs: Processing 200k Daily Reviews at @trustpilot.bsky.social". Many thanks also to @skyscanner.net for hosting + sponsoring us. Hope to see you there!

#Birbfest, day 25: I feel very lucky to have seen kingfishers a few times in the wild, just because in Edinburgh they like to jump out at unsuspecting people passing by running water. Such a joy to behold! #Birbfest2026 #illustration #sketchbook #birds

As a kid who grew up with Mr. Rogers, this legit made me emotional.

Nuthatches are cool because with their go-faster-stripes and them constantly being upside down for some reason they always look like they're Very Seriously Going Somewhere. #Birbfest, day 23. #Birbfest2026 #illustration #sketchbook #birds

I've never seen a population more united. If people can hold onto that unity, if people can accept that different people will have different ways of confronting fascism, if we can remind NGOs and orgs that they can join but not control the resistance, then, well, people here will write history.

I just donated to Pizza to the Polls to help keep Democracy Delicious this year - you should too! #democracyisdelicious polls.pizza/donate

After six trains bouncing around the snow in Germany, back to watching the cat be excited about something in the garden

We will be eeeeasing-in to 2026 with a daytime #Rustlang ☕️ session in January 😎. Please do come along, especially if you've not been before. The atmosphere is pretty chill and no need or expectation to be an expert in Rust (or any language). Hope to see you there! www.meetup.com/rust-and-fri...

Wandering in the snow at dusk

We list virtual #tech events that include community participation: opentechcalendar.co.uk Whatever your reason for preferring virtual tech events - public health, children, care duties or remote location - check us out. If you know of any good virtual tech events let us know!

As it often the case when I am in Germany, the topic of (painful) train travel came up, and in particular: is it quicker to go North↔South than East↔West? Me being me, I wondered if I could answer this with data: geo.houseofmoran.io/posts/2025-1...

I finally got round to writing-up / finishing-off my "Makers Gonna Make" session in September: geo.houseofmoran.io/posts/2025-1... 😅 (yes, I am one of those people who just tend to switch to a different type of work over holidays, if I let myself)

Bored over the festive season? We're still seeking contributions to our ridiculous saytheprime.com video project: sign up and make a 5-minute video of yourself saying a chunk of digits of the largest known prime number. Can we finish before they discover a bigger one? It's a race against maths!

posted about my Apple ID woes, please share widely? hey.paris/posts/appleid/

Interested in Space or Micro-satellites? Want to know how Spire.com uses #Rustlang with them? 🛰️ Want to know about practicalities of applying Types at Scale, sometimes Exotically? 🔣 Or ... do you just wanna ask "what the hell is unwrap()?"😅

Thinking ahead to luma.com/wrkzc6ov and to next year, myself and Stefano wanted to start the conversation on a couple of things we are considering for 2026 for Edinburgh #MLOps Meetup.

I am relieved to resolve my "watch this space" pun 😀, and announce the second set of Rust and Friends presenters this month will be Tiago Santos and Cafer Eren Şimşek talking about "Rust in Space at Spire" 🛰️ 🦀! #rustlang

🦀 It was already great to see the growing number of people attending the #rustlang pub/coffee meet-ups, but it's also nice to end the year on an even larger high, with another couple of great talks.

My daughter was annoyed that i generated a picture for my talk yesterday. Normally avoid AI generated images but it was a talk about vibe coding @aifortherestofus.live. So she drew me an alternative picture. This is a software developer that has replaced their keyboard with a tab button.

EuroRust is barely over and it's time for another pair of back-to-back rustandfriends.org Edinburgh 🍻/ ☕️ Meetups! We have these Meetups every couple of months and they are an opportunity to ask questions / share interesting stuff / meet other #rustlang folks.

It's almost time for another #MLOps session and I am super-looking forward to Joan Figuerola Hurtado and Richard Bownes talks: luma.com/u8344qcq

We just hit 93,000 members. We're polling on average higher than we have ever before. Over 1000 people joining a day! Join our movement. Join.greenparty.org.uk

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It’s really cool to see what’s getting built using the components of the composable data stack like Apache Datafusion, Apache Arrow, and Apache Iceberg. Cloudflare’s R2SQL is just another example of what’s possible. Hey @columnar.tech where is the driver for this?

It's🍁and it's time for another #MLOps Edinburgh Meetup! In October we are joined by Joan Figuerola Hurtado talking about “From Blue Links to Answers: How Agents Enable A New Era of Information Access and Discovery" and Richard Bownes on "Bring-your-own-tooling in the age of AI" . luma.com/u8344qcq

You should come to @londonwebstandards.org #sotb2026 Early bird tickets are £70 And if you can’t afford it apply for a diversity ticket 2026.stateofthebrowser.com

And now there are two sticker sheets. Look, there's even an early bird tumshie! 😆🌰🍁🍂🍄🍎 #illustration #stickers

Many thanks to #BCS Edinburgh for hosting me this week to talk about " #rustlang : Squeezable, Modern, Helpful, Wide". As promised, the slides with various links are now available. If you want to find out more, please do join us at the monthly Rust Edinburgh Meetup (see rustandfriends.org )

This is clearly where this is all going

Hot on the heels of the Rust Meetups in August (see my previous post), I have the privilege of talking about #rustlang in front of Edinburgh British Computer Society chapter on Wed 3rd Sept (open to all):