Great post! IMO the quantization stuff is good (concrete demo of why the loss of precision is ~OK) . For me, the refresher on FP representation was the highlight. Even having learnt it supposedly getting my CS degree, I still got caught out and learnt something. Highly Recommended :)

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Nearly show time!

Neat tool => This year on Bluesky I wrote 15 posts and 42 replies. I received 71 likes, whereas 5 was from my most popular post, and apparently I love saying "just" and ✨! www.madebyolof.com/bluesky-wrap...

oh my god it's incredible

I may be featured in this meme...

Looks exciting!

I tried to explain why I don't believe the recent accusations toward my former teammates, as well as how the Ruby and Rails Infra team at Shopify operates and why it can be trusted. byroot.github.io/opensource/r...

✨ Big O ✨ Let me take you on a visual introduction to what big O notation is in my new blog post: samwho.dev/big-o. With big O notation you can better understand how algorithms will perform in practice, finding orders of magnitude improvements often with very simple changes to your code.

So simple and elegant. Lovely! I mean the limitations on size are real, but for someone like me who relatively rarely posts mostly text, this is a super-easy backup option to enable. Thanks!

Winter sports...

I just signed up for the Cambridge Half Marathon in September - raceroster.com/events/2025/... - will I see you there?

Lit the fire for the first time this year...

This is an extremely useful articulation of the value of distinctions and how they need to be constructed in order to be useful. Inspiring!

Baking with my sous chef.

My thoughts on the current discussions around InternetNZ and DNS Censorship: mattb.nz/w/2025/03/31...

Completed my first ever timed run this morning, 10km in the Waipa Fun Run. www.strava.com/activities/1... my.raceresult.com/329337/resul... Great fun!

Looking forward to getting into this which arrived in the mail today, hot off the press!

sadly also mirrors my thoughts exactly.

This post is a great deep dive into the current state of the NZ electricity (and broader energy) sector. newzealandenergy.substack.com/p/new-zealan... Unfortunately it's pretty grim reading :(

Easing back into the new year with a retrospective of 2024 and some goal setting for 2025. mattb.nz/w/2025/01/08...

Back in the world after a relaxing week camping in "the wilderness". What did I miss?

Smashed out my longest run yet up Maungatautari this evening. Beautiful weather for it. I'm sure my legs will pay for it tomorrow, but feeling pretty happy right now. strava.app.link/9aH7RFov1Ob

Quick musings on the privacy/consent/AI brouhaha. The BSky App exists to publish posts publicly on the public AT network. That's literally point 1 in the privacy policy/terms! I've always understood the implicit social contract to be posting into the public domain, much like I did with Twitter.

Nice! I am connected.

The approach of following a very limited number of people, and tracking the rest via lists is working very well for me, particularly when combined with the multi-column view in TOKIMEKI.

The downside of the surge in activity is my feed becoming increasingly unmanageable. Starter packs are probably a trap in this regard too. I wish I had been more selective about following from them... So from today, I'm going to try a new approach using lists + tokimeki

This would actually be really useful!

Lovely night for a soccer game. NZ vs Vanuatu.

Celebrating 20 fabulous years of marriage today, and looking forward to many, many more!

On the radar - they launched scheduling improvements recently, so I wasn't sure how much demand for it there would be... I haven't met many incident.io users yet in my travels - looks nice/polished, but perhaps still early in adoption? DM me, or reach out via the site if you'd like to chat more!

Hello Bluesky, I've been lurking here for quite a while without it really clicking, but with the influx of folks over the last month that's changed and I intend to start being a bit more active here. Intro thread follows if we haven't met before...

SHITPOSTING is an anagram of TOP INSIGHTS

I've been down in the GCP mines fighting with disjointed documentation via terraform this morning: www.mattb.nz/w/2024/10/24... How's your day going? :)