Rob Sharp
@qnm.bsky.social
Scot in Aus. Does computer things.
He/him.
He/him.
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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/...
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 …
simonwillison.net
November 20, 2024 at 6:08 AM
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/...
Spotted at my local servo
November 13, 2024 at 9:33 AM
Spotted at my local servo
Met a baby mynah who was learning to fly. Hadn’t quite worked it out.
November 3, 2024 at 7:58 AM
Met a baby mynah who was learning to fly. Hadn’t quite worked it out.
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.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trick-o...
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trick-o...
Trick-or-treating - Wikipedia
en.m.wikipedia.org
October 31, 2024 at 9:43 AM
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.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trick-o...
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trick-o...
Migrating my Twitter follows into bsky.
Loads more since I did this a year or so ago!!
Loads more since I did this a year or so ago!!
October 30, 2024 at 2:04 AM
Migrating my Twitter follows into bsky.
Loads more since I did this a year or so ago!!
Loads more since I did this a year or so ago!!
I’d love to see an offical release of Justice at Coachella 2024 à la Alive 2007 - it’s such a great set!
July 30, 2024 at 11:41 AM
I’d love to see an offical release of Justice at Coachella 2024 à la Alive 2007 - it’s such a great set!
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.
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.
July 24, 2024 at 12:02 PM
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.
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.
Looks like there are more null checking fails out there in the wild.
July 21, 2024 at 3:47 AM
Looks like there are more null checking fails out there in the wild.
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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
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
aoc please do go on forever about star trek
June 15, 2023 at 6:59 PM
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
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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apparently muting the hellthread doesnt work? technically that's a bug but it's hilarious so
April 29, 2023 at 3:52 AM
apparently muting the hellthread doesnt work? technically that's a bug but it's hilarious so
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.
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.
April 29, 2023 at 4:49 AM
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.
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.
‼️Block lists are here! Note that they are public.‼️
April 29, 2023 at 2:04 AM
‼️Block lists are here! Note that they are public.‼️
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it just occurred to me that if posts here are skeets, blocks should be yeets
April 28, 2023 at 9:53 PM
it just occurred to me that if posts here are skeets, blocks should be yeets
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…
The site is holding up well so far but user and post numbers are up and to the right…
April 27, 2023 at 10:44 PM
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…
The site is holding up well so far but user and post numbers are up and to the right…
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Just realised that hashtags are not (yet) a thing here.
April 24, 2023 at 12:00 AM
Just realised that hashtags are not (yet) a thing here.
Hi folks. I’m Rob, this is Fade my #rabbit. Just checking out Bluesky.
April 23, 2023 at 11:21 PM
Hi folks. I’m Rob, this is Fade my #rabbit. Just checking out Bluesky.