Rob Sharp
@qnm.bsky.social
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Scot in Aus. Does computer things. He/him.
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Simon Willison
about 1 year ago
Foursquare just open sourced their 100 million place point of interest dataset! Some notes on poking around with it using DuckDB (it's Parquet files on S3)
simonwillison.net/2024/Nov/20/...
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Foursquare Open Source Places: A new foundational dataset for the geospatial community
I did not expect this! > [...] we are announcing today the general availability of a foundational open data set, Foursquare Open Source Places ("FSQ OS Places"). This base layer …
https://simonwillison.net/2024/Nov/20/foursquare-open-source-places/
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Spotted at my local servo
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Met a baby mynah who was learning to fly. Hadn’t quite worked it out.
about 1 year ago
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I often hear that Australians don’t “do” trick-or treat at Halloween, or that it’s “an American thing” but in my childhood back in Scotland on the 31st Oct we always went “guising” - dressing up and knocking on doors, maybe reciting a poyum, for sweets.
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Trick-or-treating - Wikipedia
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trick-or-treating#Guising
about 1 year ago
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Migrating my Twitter follows into bsky. Loads more since I did this a year or so ago!!
about 1 year ago
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I’d love to see an offical release of Justice at Coachella 2024 à la Alive 2007 - it’s such a great set!
over 1 year ago
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My Australian myGov account was closed due to too many failed logins. I created a new one, and I’ve found that after enabling passkeys you can disable password login. Good to see govt taking security seriously.
over 1 year ago
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Looks like there are more null checking fails out there in the wild.
over 1 year ago
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doomsmoker (just memes)
over 1 year ago
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
over 2 years ago
Ok! Did you know that the character of Spock & the Vulcan “live long and prosper” 🖖🏽 is actually drawn from the Torah & informed by Nimoy’s Jewish heritage? As a child, Nimoy was in synagogue & snuck a look at the Konahim blessing 🖖🏽. ST centered pluralistic society & he made it part of his character
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Paul Frazee
over 2 years ago
apparently muting the hellthread doesnt work? technically that's a bug but it's hilarious so
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I watched The Thing with my kid last night. It’s fun seeing his reaction to movies filmed 40 years ago - he’s so used to crisp 4K and realistic CGI. He described the movies monsters as cursed - he’s not wrong! They have retained their ick. A classic movie in my book.
over 2 years ago
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‼️Block lists are here! Note that they are public.‼️
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over 2 years ago
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Sarah McLaughlin
over 2 years ago
it just occurred to me that if posts here are skeets, blocks should be yeets
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I wonder what the equivalent of the Fail Whale will be? The site is holding up well so far but user and post numbers are up and to the right…
over 2 years ago
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Yukihiro Matz
over 2 years ago
Hello World!
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Just realised that hashtags are not (yet) a thing here.
over 2 years ago
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Hi folks. I’m Rob, this is Fade my #rabbit. Just checking out Bluesky.
over 2 years ago
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