Arthur Vickers
@ajcvickers.bsky.social
Neuroscientist. Programmer. Life-long learner.
Staff Engineer at MongoDB working on developer experience. Previously, top EF Core contributor at Microsoft. Opinions are my own.
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Staff Engineer at MongoDB working on developer experience. Previously, top EF Core contributor at Microsoft. Opinions are my own.
Books/pets/music/history/fenlands/physics/Lego/nature/VR/Amiga/C++/C#/Go/Rust
My little gnome really came through!
July 19, 2025 at 11:26 AM
My little gnome really came through!
In April, I sowed some woodland wildflower seeds in a dark corner of the garden. They have been doing really well, and are now starting to bloom. Ten pounds well spent! #garden
July 1, 2025 at 7:16 AM
In April, I sowed some woodland wildflower seeds in a dark corner of the garden. They have been doing really well, and are now starting to bloom. Ten pounds well spent! #garden
Here's the party doing all the heavy lifting in my Baldur's Gate honour run. Magic? What's that? Pfft; we just sneak up and hit things really hard! And if that don't work, we blow them up! #bg3
June 29, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Here's the party doing all the heavy lifting in my Baldur's Gate honour run. Magic? What's that? Pfft; we just sneak up and hit things really hard! And if that don't work, we blow them up! #bg3
Just starting Act 3 of Baldur's Gate III in honour mode with Piper: a deep gnome rogue4/monk6. Working really well.
Str: 10
Dex: 23
Con: 14
Int: 17
Wis: 16
Cha: 12
AC: 21
Deception, persuasion, and intimidation all +9, so I don't fight unless I want to! #bg3
Str: 10
Dex: 23
Con: 14
Int: 17
Wis: 16
Cha: 12
AC: 21
Deception, persuasion, and intimidation all +9, so I don't fight unless I want to! #bg3
June 29, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Just starting Act 3 of Baldur's Gate III in honour mode with Piper: a deep gnome rogue4/monk6. Working really well.
Str: 10
Dex: 23
Con: 14
Int: 17
Wis: 16
Cha: 12
AC: 21
Deception, persuasion, and intimidation all +9, so I don't fight unless I want to! #bg3
Str: 10
Dex: 23
Con: 14
Int: 17
Wis: 16
Cha: 12
AC: 21
Deception, persuasion, and intimidation all +9, so I don't fight unless I want to! #bg3
March 28, 2025 at 5:44 PM
We haven't been getting out enough, so yesterday we went to Cleethorpes. Lovely snowdrops in the Wolds, and then very cold on the seafront! Steels Corner House was the perfect cure for that. Then a drive by Franklin College and the Healing schools. Great mood booster! 💙
February 28, 2025 at 5:36 PM
We haven't been getting out enough, so yesterday we went to Cleethorpes. Lovely snowdrops in the Wolds, and then very cold on the seafront! Steels Corner House was the perfect cure for that. Then a drive by Franklin College and the Healing schools. Great mood booster! 💙
February 20, 2025 at 3:51 PM
First time on a racing sim and already better than me! (Okay, that's a very low bar, but still...)
February 20, 2025 at 2:54 PM
First time on a racing sim and already better than me! (Okay, that's a very low bar, but still...)
I also found a picture of my #Amiga 500, with GVP 52MB SCSI HD and 2MB fast RAM. There is also an AT-Once board in it, so I could boot into DOS and use WordPerfect! 🤣 🤣
(The ergonomics here suck, but it was the best I could do while renting a room as a neuroscience intern.)
(The ergonomics here suck, but it was the best I could do while renting a room as a neuroscience intern.)
February 19, 2025 at 4:54 PM
I also found a picture of my #Amiga 500, with GVP 52MB SCSI HD and 2MB fast RAM. There is also an AT-Once board in it, so I could boot into DOS and use WordPerfect! 🤣 🤣
(The ergonomics here suck, but it was the best I could do while renting a room as a neuroscience intern.)
(The ergonomics here suck, but it was the best I could do while renting a room as a neuroscience intern.)
I found photographs that my mother took when I was a kid of my #Amiga screen with generated #Mandelbrot images. (We didn't have a printer, and certainly not a color one!) The quality isn't great, but it _is_ great to have a record of these! #Fractals
February 19, 2025 at 4:44 PM
I found photographs that my mother took when I was a kid of my #Amiga screen with generated #Mandelbrot images. (We didn't have a printer, and certainly not a color one!) The quality isn't great, but it _is_ great to have a record of these! #Fractals
I'm reading "The #Rust Programming Language". Ownership is interesting; it looks a lot like the guidelines I wrote for using smart pointers in C++. The Rust design is cleaner and more robust, but the fundamental approach is very similar. We had a lot of success with C++ used like this. But that… 1/2
February 19, 2025 at 4:20 PM
I'm reading "The #Rust Programming Language". Ownership is interesting; it looks a lot like the guidelines I wrote for using smart pointers in C++. The Rust design is cleaner and more robust, but the fundamental approach is very similar. We had a lot of success with C++ used like this. But that… 1/2
Watching the peacocks in the neighborhood got me thinking about mating displays as correlated incentives. The goal is for the healthiest peacock to breed most. The hen is incentivized in this by the peacock's tail, because it was/is correlated with health. So, if the peacock can improve its… 1/4
February 14, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Watching the peacocks in the neighborhood got me thinking about mating displays as correlated incentives. The goal is for the healthiest peacock to breed most. The hen is incentivized in this by the peacock's tail, because it was/is correlated with health. So, if the peacock can improve its… 1/4
Adder in Thetford Forest last year.
February 14, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Adder in Thetford Forest last year.
Making my wife an American yellow cake for Valentine's Day.
Baking from scratch is the only way I have found to get a good yellow cake over here. And anyone who suggests a Victoria sponge cake instead can use that dry thing to mop up their spilled tea! 🤣🤣🤣 #Baking
Baking from scratch is the only way I have found to get a good yellow cake over here. And anyone who suggests a Victoria sponge cake instead can use that dry thing to mop up their spilled tea! 🤣🤣🤣 #Baking
February 14, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Making my wife an American yellow cake for Valentine's Day.
Baking from scratch is the only way I have found to get a good yellow cake over here. And anyone who suggests a Victoria sponge cake instead can use that dry thing to mop up their spilled tea! 🤣🤣🤣 #Baking
Baking from scratch is the only way I have found to get a good yellow cake over here. And anyone who suggests a Victoria sponge cake instead can use that dry thing to mop up their spilled tea! 🤣🤣🤣 #Baking
February 9, 2025 at 3:07 PM