Heh, I get 1 minute free for every 3 minutes someone calls me and Voice-powered spambot does not appear to hang up when you put it on hold. Currently on 11 minutes - let's see how long I can keep this going...

One last push - these posts close EoD on Sunday, so why not apply? https://fosstodon.org/@Gord1i/115059983055985430

One last push - these posts close EoD on Sunday, so why not apply? https://fosstodon.org/@Gord1i/115059983055985430

I'm going to do some longer post on our new #data jobs at the City of #capetown over the next day or two. I would greatly appreciate it if you could read, and share with anyone that you think has the right stuff! And also just boost for general reach. Something that we really prioritise, other […]

We have a slate of jobs opening up - apologies, only have a LinkedIn link for now: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/delyno-dutoit_city-of-cape-town-jobs-linkedin-activity-7361684604451221504-hJb1 Will update and do a longer thread when I have the job application URLs #getfedihired #data […]

Come work with me at the City of #capetown - https://uct.ac.za/sites/default/files/2025-08/com-e25810-datascientist-jpal-saldru-soe.pdf The job says data scientist, but really this is a #dataengineering position. We run a decent Open Source, modern data stack, but what sets us apart is our […]

Evergreen post - the longer I work in government, the more I end up repeating bits verbatim https://theatl.social/@ShmosKnows/114881277746999591

Come work with me at the City of #capetown - https://uct.ac.za/sites/default/files/2025-08/com-e25810-datascientist-jpal-saldru-soe.pdf The job says data scientist, but really this is a #dataengineering position. We run a decent Open Source, modern data stack, but what sets us apart is our […]

With the launch of Ghost 6.0, every publication that runs on Ghost becomes part of the #fediverse. You can follow and comment on Platformer or 404 Media articles without leaving your Mastodon feed. This is the future of social media. Congratulations to @johnonolan and all the team at Ghost!

A fixture of the local and continental #python, @PyConUK has done well with their keynote this year! https://fosstodon.org/@PyConUK/114952309897869774

Do you think his user agent string is "Gecko"? Considering we're hitting -4°C at night, you've got to get warmth wherever you can find it! #dadjokes

Number 35k! https://mastodon.africa/@coct_service_alerts/114818015707394307

🚧 Burst Water Main Alert in Vredehoek 📍 Clifford Avenue ⏰ Jul 8, 1:00 PM. Water streaming down the road; motorists should exercise caution. Maintenance team on-site for repairs. Use request number 9120304951 for updates. #waterandsanitation #capetown Content generated automatically from […]

It's a small thing, the syntactic sugar of using `/` to concatenate paths and strings is reason enough to use pathlib. And then you find out about all the built in methods... https://mastodon.social/@treyhunner/114778741547764668

Those who use #python for Data Science. Have you explored Polars? Or built production-grade applications with this? Coming from #rstats , Polars feels more intuitive (and apparently it is much faster!) #datascience

As someone who uses #llm s a fair bit, this sort of hallucination is good for reminding yourself that it's just bashing words together until it looks sort of like what's in its training data, especially in various RAG-type setups

I assume all other #southafrica #cricket fans also no longer have fingernails, tips, etc. just stubs? #38years #nochoke

#savevoa website just went online. It includes all the important legal milestones linked to the court documents, a page where you can input your address to find your congressional representatives, a sample script for your outreach and various testimonials on rotation. http://savevoa.com/

When we released post editing for #mastodon, we first released a version that supported processing and displaying edits incoming from other servers, before releasing a version that flipped a switch allowing anyone to make edits. We're taking an identical approach with quote posts, as the […]

Fediverse users: Follow @bsky.brid.gy to allow #bluesky users to find and follow you. Bluesky users: Follow @ap.brid.gy to allow #fediverse users to find and follow you. #socialmedia

Looking at the Common Alert Protocol (https://docs.oasis-open.org/emergency/cap/v1.2/CAP-v1.2-os.html), for our Service Alerts (https://github.com/cityofcapetown/service-alerts-connector/) - reasonably sure I could do a translation, and just offer it as another output form. Anyone have any […]

*The purpose of a system is what it does* Please share with anyone that needs this, or might know those that do #capetown #southafrica

Heh, guess when I got my #solar panels installed? One advantage of living in a very sunny place, recouping the investment is happening very quickly! #soithafrica

Just a bump on this - position is closing soon! https://fosstodon.org/@Gord1i/114388283511858690

Come work with me in the City of #capetown #datascience branch! We do cool things in the name of science and our residents: http://www.capetown.gov.za/careers Feel free to @ me with any questions. Would appreciate boosts for reach. #civictech #CapeTown #southafrica #data #jobs

Happy Easter! (From me and @newscientist.com)

A somewhat jaded flyer, I couldn't resist taking this photo of Table Mountain, looking particularly mooi. Looks like we're getting lucky with our Easter weather! #capetown #southafrica

Are you a #dataengineer interested in getting into #civictech, but want to still keep a toe-hold in acdaemia? Our frequent collaborators at #JPAL Africa have a post for a data engineer that will embedded in the City of #capetown's Data Science team […]

Are you a #dataengineer interested in getting into #civictech, but want to still keep a toe-hold in acdaemia? Our frequent collaborators at #JPAL Africa have a post for a data engineer that will embedded in the City of #capetown's Data Science team […]

I've really enjoyed this miniseries on Houdini in case anyone is looking for something to listen to: https://econtwitter.net/@TimHarford/114238312210225412

I really enjoyed this interview with Lina Khan, who was chair of the FTC in the States until recently. Really refreshing to hear a competent, serious young person in #publicservice, in contrast the chaos often being wrought by the often incompetent and unserious "elders" […]

Need to do some load testing of an internal HTTP service, mostly emulating interactive workloads. Primarily interested in measuring latency and throughput. Any recommendations? #devops #api #loadtesting

Really great to start seeing alerts from my colleagues in Transport starting to come through! They're starting with planned road works #civictech #capetown https://mastodon.africa/@coct_service_alerts/114081897276521084

Via @fixthenews.com - in a shocking development, developing countries are switching to the cheapest form of energy (renewables) very quickly: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2025-02-24/china-is-rewiring-the-global-south-with-clean-power If we keep installing at this rate, we would […]

A small win, but a win non-the-less - #capetown Metrorail times showing up on Google Maps: https://www.reddit.com/r/capetown/comments/1it3f4p/train_schedules_now_on_google_maps/?rdt=48560 Would appreciate any leads on the GTFS endpoint, if anyone knows it

New Post: Barbarians at the Gates https://tnl.net/blog/2025/02/15/barbarians-at-the-gates

Was helping a colleague with some debugging yesterday, and realised that a lot of behaviours - working methodically through the code, checking basic assumptions, "working the problem" are soothing behaviours. Which makes sense, as you're convincing yourself that everything is going to be OK […]

A perfect February morning in Company’s Garden, #capetown #southafrica #cities #nature

Had such a nice meal at Maria's in Gardens. An old haunt from when I lived round the corner, the lamb is always worth coming back for! #capetown #food

Go @czue! https://mstdn.social/@hkrn/113924019613349051

Please share: Our Max Planck Institute recently left X and is present here on Mastodon. Give them a follow! Beautiful pictures from the science of light! #mastodon #physics #science #light #quantum #optics #photonics #pictures @maxplanckgesellschaft From: @MPI_ScienceOfLight […]

Our bi-annual #gitlab upgrade had a bit more excitement than the last iteration. As always, the GL docs are great, and using the omnibus docker installation, the upgrade is path. There is now a fancy upgrade tool, which helps you map out the version increments […]

Always nice to draw a pretty picture of #capetown! Working with our colleagues in our Geomatics dept to serve up monthly images composites based upon satellite imagery, similar to our annual aerial imagery (nice demo of that here […] [Original post on fosstodon.org]

@Gord1i @coct_service_alerts very cool! Bravo

Very cool map built by one of my colleagues on top of the API behind @coct_service_alerts - https://ttlx.me/coct/service-alerts/ #civictech #capetown #southafrica #servicedelivery

Here's my end-of-year review of things we learned out about LLMs in 2024 - we learned a LOT of things https://simonwillison.net/2024/Dec/31/llms-in-2024/ Table of contents:

Announcing FediMeteo – Weather in the Fediverse! Weather has always influenced our lives: from agriculture to outdoor activities, to extreme events that, thanks to modern technology, can now be predicted with greater reliability. Personally, weather plays a significant role in my daily […]

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