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What I associate with my name

Ava and I are trading blog post titles. The topic Ava chose for me to write about was “What I associate with my name”. When I was young, I remember distinctly looking through a kids’ encyclopaedia and finding “James” written in there a few times [1]. I don’t know why that m...

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One of my biggest gripes with Star Trek has been that it keeps bringing up eugenics but never talks about real eugenics. Does Star Trek want to show us a future where all disabled people have been whiped out? Where the status quo doesn't have to change because everyone is magically "normal" anyway?

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I’m really enjoying having a BirdNET-Pi although I am worried that although it is possible to run it on a Pi Zero, it really doesn't perform very well. At least, not in my hands.

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11.02.2026

A photo of my Fuji X100s camera with a UV filter in front of the lens.
Reactivated my X100s. Bought a new UV filter as protection.

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Proust’s questionnaire

Zachary’s website introduced me to “Proust’s questionnaire”, a series of questions by Marcel Proust. I thought it would be fun to try and respond to them! I am writing this blog post as the snow falls outside. I wasn’t expecting snow today, but here it is. Some of the most ...

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Holy wow!! https://www.thingiverse.com/blog?p=thingiverse-joins-the-myminifactory-family Thanks Michael for the heads up!

Holy wow!!

https://www.thingiverse.com/blog?p=thingiverse-joins-the-myminifactory-family

Announcement image reads 'MyMiniFactory has acquired Thingiverse. Help us shape what comes next. Join the AMA - 17th Feb. Dare to be human. On the right is the blocky MyMiniFactory logo. On the left is an updated Thingiverse logo, also blocky.

Thanks Michael for the heads up!

Michael https://www.thingiverse.com/blog?p=thingiverse-joins-the-myminifactory-family

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A sandwich questionnaire, part two

Ruben, after responding to the sandwich questionnaire that Zachary blogged about, added a few more questions. When I saw the blog post, I thought: these questions are exactly what I need today. Below I have responded to the delightfully-named “second helping” questions that ...

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Events I Attend in the First Half of 2026

Here comes a round of events I attend in the first 6 months of this year. I bet there will be more, but those are the ones – in chronological order – where I have travel and accommodation booked and where I’d love to meet you ;) State of the Browser, London (UK) State of the...

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July 2024

Random photos from summer. A Forkalyst gig. The big funfair. Irrland. And the start into our vacation. (38 photos)

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i wrote a program and instructed it to say "yes" whenever someone asks it if it has consciousness. what does this imply about the nature of selfhood?

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10.02.2026

A cupboard with a laptop and an audio interface in a rehearsal space. A bass guitar and amps next to it.
Recording

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The inverted index pattern

In “Build a search index in Python”, I walked through how to create a search index using the “inverted index” structure. This structure is commonly used in document search. This week I was thinking about “inverting” data is more broadly applicable in software engineering th...

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Designing for inactive users: Account check-ins and deletion

Artemis has been open for registration with an invite code for over a year. In that time, many people have signed up. With that said, not everyone who signs up will end up using their account. This is par for the course with software. Signing up for an account doesn’t mean s...

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Redesigning the Artemis account deletion back-end

As I have been building Artemis, I have learned that the account deletion flow requires constant review. For example, whenever I add a new database table, I need to make sure that table is in the account deletion flow. I may also need to create an index in the database so I ...

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Notifying users of page updates

Some time in January, I was going through my browser tabs and came across an Artemis tab that had been opened a while ago. But it took me a moment to realise that the tab might be out of date. My eyes went first to the posts from authors to which I have subscribed, then to t...

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Brainstorming source code editing for web applications

Last year, I worked on a bookmarklet for editing pages on my website. When clicked, the bookmarklet would open the page in GitHub that corresponded with the page I was viewing. I used the bookmarklet so much I turned it into a browser extension, which I still use regularly t...

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09.02.2026

Me with a venician carneval mask on in red and black.
Fooling around.

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Sweet peas are up after only a week!#gardening

Sweet peas are up after only a week!

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