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@houseofmoran.com
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software engineer, dad and baldie 🏠 :
https://www.houseofmoran.com
🌎 :
https://geo.houseofmoran.io
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Floopy Buzzlesworth
5 days ago
Doodles!
#illustration
#fantasyart
#digitalart
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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.
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Rust and Friends
Website for the Rust language community in Edinburgh
https://rustandfriends.org/
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Floopy Buzzlesworth
28 days ago
🧶 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
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Hypervisible
about 1 month ago
Make it stick.
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People Are Calling Meta Ray-Bans "Pervert Glasses"
On Bluesky, users quickly embraced the term "pervert glasses" to refer to Meta's Ray Ban smart glasses, following a shocking investigation.
https://futurism.com/future-society/meta-ray-ban-smart-pervert-glasses
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Floopy Buzzlesworth
about 1 month ago
🧶 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
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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!
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Edinburgh Heights visualised in Kepler.gl
YouTube video by Mike Moran
https://youtu.be/7-W-LEc9GPQ
about 1 month ago
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Aaron Winter
about 1 month ago
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...
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Green Party wins Gorton and Denton by-election with Labour pushed into third by Reform
Hannah Spencer, a 34-year-old plumber, also becomes the first Green Party candidate to win a Westminster by-election.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cp8rjk02r0jt
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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
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MLOps Meetup Feb 2026 · Luma
Tonight we’ll be hearing from: Assulan Nurkas on "Scaling Fine-Tuned LLMs: Processing 200k Daily Reviews at Trustpilot". From Assulan: Assulan Nurkas is a…
https://luma.com/1eolb1o5
about 2 months ago
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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫
about 2 months ago
“is there a technology that the left is excited about?” Trains. We love trains, actually
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⭑ salma
about 2 months ago
love a bit of continvouclous morging
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Kelsey Hightower
about 2 months ago
ai;dr AI; didn't read.
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Book targeting 🎯 is becoming incredibly fine-grained nowadays…
2 months ago
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Mary L Trump
2 months ago
Every American needs to watch this:
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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 😅.
2 months ago
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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...
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Fosdem 2026 is done!
https://www.houseofmoran.com/post/2026-02-01/
2 months ago
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Floopy Buzzlesworth
2 months ago
Here's a Red-bearded Bee-eater for day 27 of
#Birbfest
#Birbfest2026
#illustration
#sketchbook
#birds
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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!
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MLOps Meetup Feb 2026 · Luma
Tonight we’ll be hearing from: Assulan Nurkas on "Scaling Fine-Tuned LLMs: Processing 200k Daily Reviews at Trustpilot". From Assulan: Assulan Nurkas is a…
https://luma.com/1eolb1o5
2 months ago
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Floopy Buzzlesworth
2 months ago
#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
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Aaron Ross Powell ☸️
2 months ago
As a kid who grew up with Mr. Rogers, this legit made me emotional.
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Floopy Buzzlesworth
3 months ago
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
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Margaret Killjoy
3 months ago
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.
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I just donated to Pizza to the Polls to help keep Democracy Delicious this year - you should too!
#democracyisdelicious
polls.pizza/donate
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Pizza to the Polls 🍕🇺🇸
Pizza to the Polls is making democracy delicious by delivering free food for all to polling places with long lines. Send us reports of long lines and we'll send in the delicious reinforcements.
https://polls.pizza/donate
3 months ago
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After six trains bouncing around the snow in Germany, back to watching the cat be excited about something in the garden
3 months ago
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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...
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Rust and Friends (daytime coffee), Fri, Jan 16, 2026, 1:00 PM | Meetup
We will be eeeeasing-in to 2026 with a daytime ☕️ session in January 😎. Please do come along, especially if you've not been before. The atmosphere is pretty chill and no
https://www.meetup.com/rust-and-friends/events/312662987/
3 months ago
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Wandering in the snow at dusk
3 months ago
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Open Tech Calendar
3 months ago
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!
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Welcome
We list virtual tech events that include community participation.
https://opentechcalendar.co.uk/
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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...
3 months ago
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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)
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Geo projects of Mike Moran
Geo projects of Mike Moran
https://geo.houseofmoran.io/posts/2025-12-23/
4 months ago
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Katie Steckles
4 months ago
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!
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Say the Prime
We're attempting to get a collection of humans to say every digit of the newly-discovered (and currently largest-known prime number) Mersenne prime M136279841, and hope to achieve this before another…
https://saytheprime.com
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@zackpolanski.bsky.social on Bluesky
Nigel Farage is probably delighted today that Reform have the most members of a political party. It doesn't have to be this way. 180,000 and rising. Hope ready to overtake hate. Stand and be counted. Join.greenparty.org.uk
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:2yp6g7aqepdbjup33qrosebv/post/3m7uifdngms2q
4 months ago
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Dr Paris Buttfield-Addison
4 months ago
posted about my Apple ID woes, please share widely?
hey.paris/posts/appleid/
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@velvetglitterman.bsky.social on Bluesky
Now up to £177,343 - keep sharing all, if people power wasn't meant for this, it wasn't meant for anything www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/hopeishere [contains quote post or other embedded content]
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:cl2qcvl3rdmp4q3c6wqjep72/post/3m6sacxustk2f
4 months ago
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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()?"😅
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Spire : Global Data and Analytics
Spire designs, builds and operates the world’s largest multipurpose satellite constellation. With our proven history in space infrastructure, we provide you with unprecedented access and insights from...
https://Spire.com
5 months ago
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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.
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🥳 The last MLOps of the year · Luma
🥳 Welcome to the last MLOps of the year! We were aiming to fit in one last presentation evening but it’ll need to wait till Jan/Feb next year. However, we…
https://luma.com/wrkzc6ov
5 months ago
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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
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Exotically Sized Types, and Rust in Space at Spire!, Thu, Nov 27, 2025, 6:30 PM | Meetup
Tonight we’ll be hearing from: [David Wood](https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidtwco/) on "Extending Rust’s notions of sizedness". From David: * "All of Rust’s types either
https://www.meetup.com/rust-and-friends/events/311753411/
5 months ago
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🦀 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.
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November Talks: Exotically Sized Types and ..., Thu, Nov 27, 2025, 6:30 PM | Meetup
Tonight we’ll be hearing from: [David Wood](https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidtwco/) on "Extending Rust’s notions of sizedness". From David: * "All of Rust’s types either
https://www.meetup.com/rust-and-friends/events/311753411/
5 months ago
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Sid Rini
6 months ago
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.
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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.
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Rust and Friends
Website for the Rust language community in Edinburgh
https://rustandfriends.org/
6 months ago
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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
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MLOps Meetup Oct 2025 (Two talks!) · Luma
Tonight we’ll be hearing from: Joan Figuerola Hurtado on “From Blue Links to Answers: How Agents Enable A New Era of Information Access and Discovery".Joan…
https://luma.com/u8344qcq
6 months ago
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Zack Polanski
6 months ago
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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Join the Green Party
Join the Green Party from just £6 a year. Become a member today - join the only party standing up for people and planet.
https://Join.greenparty.org.uk
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Matthew Mullins
7 months ago
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?
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R2 SQL: a deep dive into our new distributed query engine
R2 SQL provides a built-in, serverless way to run ad-hoc analytic queries against your R2 Data Catalog. This post dives deep under the Iceberg into how we built this distributed engine, from its metad...
https://blog.cloudflare.com/r2-sql-deep-dive/
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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
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MLOps Meetup Oct 2024 (Two talks!) · Luma
Tonight we’ll be hearing from: Joan Figuerola Hurtado on “From Blue Links to Answers: How Agents Enable A New Era of Information Access and Discovery".Joan…
https://luma.com/u8344qcq
7 months ago
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Dave Letorey
7 months ago
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
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SotB14 | State of the Browser
Welcome to the fourteenth edition of State of the Browser, a yearly one-day, single-track conference with widely-varying talks about the modern web, accessibility, web standards, and more, organised b...
https://2026.stateofthebrowser.com/
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Floopy Buzzlesworth
7 months ago
And now there are two sticker sheets. Look, there's even an early bird tumshie! 😆🌰🍁🍂🍄🍎
#illustration
#stickers
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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
)
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Rust and Friends
Website for the Rust language community in Edinburgh
https://rustandfriends.org/
7 months ago
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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒
8 months ago
This is clearly where this is all going
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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):
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Rust
Discover Rust. - a Squeezable / Modern / Helpful / Wide Programming Language.
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/rust-registration-1546807887029
8 months ago
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