Despite easily being the most British fighting vehicle ever developed, the mock-Tudor AT-AT programme was sadly cancelled due to budgetary concerns

And similar to my original gist, to better direct people to the appropriate details in a slightly less scattered/chaotic way than in the past: Serum 1 Preset File Format (.fxp): gist.github.com/0xdevalias/5... Serum 2 Preset File Format (.SerumPreset): gist.github.com/0xdevalias/5...

I also added 2 new sections to my new gist, summarising the Serum 1 preset (.fxp) file format notes: gist.github.com/0xdevalias/1... And the Serum 2 preset (.SerumPreset) file format notes: gist.github.com/0xdevalias/1...

Speaking of old projects of mine; there's been some interesting discussion recently on one of my old gists that in part is about reverse engineering / figuring out the Serum VST preset file format.

"Pat, why do you carry that ridiculous 600mm lens on long hikes?" Buddy, I can see mountains reflected in the eyes of a trailside pika.

Have become fairly allergic to any content that ✅ now ✅ includes ✅ emoji lists

Smart! Raven loves winning Tic Tac Toe.

A reminder that working in the open, even just amongst your colleagues, takes time, effort, care, thoughtfulness and dedication. It can feel exhausting, yet failing to invest these intangibles can lead to obfuscation. And yes, this is a note to self, not a criticism of others!

Bird sounds.

Want to read #ducklake from APACHE SPARK? Check this out: gist.github.com/hannes/395ac... #butdoesitscale #yesitdoes

“And I’m like, what do you mean, you ‘do your own research’? You running a double-blind study in your living room, dawg?” - A guy walking ahead of me with his friends on a NYC sidewalk in 2021, also my favorite overheard dialogue of the entire pandemic

TIL about the 🔥 chardet library — it guesses unknown file encodings! 📄 Write text in latin-1 ➡️ try to read as utf-8 ➡️ 💥 UnicodeDecodeError. 👨‍💻 Solution:

oops. i just got a basic 24GB RAM m4 mac mini to replace my 2012 (!) mac mini that still runs great. For the $$ its a no brainer.

The Skrub TableReport is a lightweight tool that allows to get a rich overview of a table quickly and easily. ✅ Filter columns 🔎 Look at each column's distribution 📊 Get a high level view of the distributions through stats and plots, including correlated columns 🌐 Export the report as html

Making a temporary file/dur is very useful for 𝘁𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴. In the example below, we first use 𝘛𝘦𝘮𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘢𝘳𝘺𝘋𝘪𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘺 to create 5 temp files. This is a great example of using a 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗲𝘅𝘁 𝗺𝗮𝗻𝗮𝗴𝗲𝗿 — a clean way to automatically clean up resources. pytest makes it even easier using the 𝘵𝘮𝘱_𝘱𝘢𝘵𝘩 fixture:

just a nice article about what is happening right now with botnets jan.wildeboer.net/2025/02/Bloc...

List piece on dualshockers about linguistic games - and great, HV is in it, but also - PataNoir! The Gostak! Suveh Nux! This is a good list. The Gostak is an all-timer.

Wrote some notes on Aider's unconventional but kind of brilliant installation mechanism, which solves the "isolated Python virtual environment" problem by bundling uv as a dependency! simonwillison.net/2025/Mar/6/a...

You know who should've won an Oscar last night? The person who designed the little 'Gravity on / off' buttons in Alien Romulus.

Low-hanging fruit: If you've already done the work of laying out the sequences in a convolution-friendly way, taking their Fourier Domain representation is a multiplication. Thing is the layouts are learnable, and the memory grows in nlogn as opposed to n^2 arxiv.org/abs/2502.18394

ALPS CP10SJ550A Kanji Keyboard. deskthority.net/viewtopic.ph... 480 keys.

The Hobbiton set is now a generational project. It was built cheaply for LOTR, then torn down, then rebuilt more permanently for The Hobbit, and has had substantial impressive additions since then. If interest continues, I expect it will keep growing. It's more than a set now.

The album that introduced me to 90s ambient bought in 1993 and is responsible for much of my CD/Digital collection

uv is one year old today. Hard to believe its only been a year. The growth, adoption, and impact surpassed my wildest expectations. Happy birthday, uv! 🥳

While reading Data & Reality Chapter 3 (Naming), I realized that I've basically written my own version of the chapter: jennajordan.me/blog/definin... Essentially a love letter to unique identifiers, I wrote this essay as a final paper for my grad school seminar on "Theories of Information".

Excited to share my latest blog post: "The Journey of MARRAS - From Prototype to Project"! Check it out here: oksi.games/blog/the-jou... #Shmup #GameDev #Marras #IndieGame

“Everyone knows your location: tracking myself down through in-app ads” - a very interesting hands-on blog post about contemporary location data flows and sales timsh.org/tracking-mys...

this is how it feels to reach 30 MILLION users!!!

Stop committing API keys in your notebooks! Here's my practical guide to securing secrets in data science: ✓ Using direnv + .env files ✓ Pre-commit hooks that work ✓ What to do when you mess up https://buff.ly/3WfBPAt #datascience #security