alastair rushworth
@alastairrushworth.com
⚙️🛠️ hacking with ML, data & stats. blogs and rss feeds at blognerd.app, tech newsletters at blaze.email. cycling history stuff at cyclearchive.com, code at github.com/alastairrushworth
blaze.email site update - just a cute little static site now 😎
October 23, 2025 at 4:05 PM
blaze.email site update - just a cute little static site now 😎
Custom RSS feed creator is in beta!
Would anyone into #RSS feeds (or from #rstats community) like to give this whirl and provide any feedback? No signup or anything, just go to blognerd.app.
Would anyone into #RSS feeds (or from #rstats community) like to give this whirl and provide any feedback? No signup or anything, just go to blognerd.app.
October 2, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Custom RSS feed creator is in beta!
Would anyone into #RSS feeds (or from #rstats community) like to give this whirl and provide any feedback? No signup or anything, just go to blognerd.app.
Would anyone into #RSS feeds (or from #rstats community) like to give this whirl and provide any feedback? No signup or anything, just go to blognerd.app.
September 28, 2025 at 2:58 PM
This was actually a bug, searches were being limited to the last month. Now you get a few much better matches for ellmer. Let me know if there are any posts you would expect to see for this that don't appear though!
September 28, 2025 at 8:13 AM
This was actually a bug, searches were being limited to the last month. Now you get a few much better matches for ellmer. Let me know if there are any posts you would expect to see for this that don't appear though!
A total overhaul to blognerd.app .... I'm quite happy with the results, and already finding it useful.
✨ surf blogs that are similar to other blogs
↔ find posts similar to other posts
🔎 search (of course)
⬇️ export RSS feeds as OPML, CSV
Have a go and let me know what you think!
✨ surf blogs that are similar to other blogs
↔ find posts similar to other posts
🔎 search (of course)
⬇️ export RSS feeds as OPML, CSV
Have a go and let me know what you think!
September 27, 2025 at 5:05 PM
A total overhaul to blognerd.app .... I'm quite happy with the results, and already finding it useful.
✨ surf blogs that are similar to other blogs
↔ find posts similar to other posts
🔎 search (of course)
⬇️ export RSS feeds as OPML, CSV
Have a go and let me know what you think!
✨ surf blogs that are similar to other blogs
↔ find posts similar to other posts
🔎 search (of course)
⬇️ export RSS feeds as OPML, CSV
Have a go and let me know what you think!
September 21, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Don't be like James, buy good bicycle tires.
Front cover of 'The Bicycling World' - January 1886
cyclearchive.com/magazines/th...
Front cover of 'The Bicycling World' - January 1886
cyclearchive.com/magazines/th...
September 19, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Don't be like James, buy good bicycle tires.
Front cover of 'The Bicycling World' - January 1886
cyclearchive.com/magazines/th...
Front cover of 'The Bicycling World' - January 1886
cyclearchive.com/magazines/th...
Weird cycling history. Ad showing the multiple uses for a bike lamp: May 3rd, 1900.
September 14, 2025 at 8:47 AM
Weird cycling history. Ad showing the multiple uses for a bike lamp: May 3rd, 1900.
Here's a beautiful looking blog I just found - jero.zone/posts belonging to @jeromepaulos.com
September 13, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Here's a beautiful looking blog I just found - jero.zone/posts belonging to @jeromepaulos.com
So that we can preserve gems like this 😂
September 7, 2025 at 10:48 AM
So that we can preserve gems like this 😂
Testing out my new toy - (non destructive) document scanner - from CZUR. Quality is great. Stacks of ancient cycling magazines to get through.
September 7, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Testing out my new toy - (non destructive) document scanner - from CZUR. Quality is great. Stacks of ancient cycling magazines to get through.
0.34 Wh per ChatGPT query, according to Altman himself. Not the point of the post, but (after trying to find hard stats on it earlier in the year) it's the part that jumped out to me.
blog.samaltman.com/the-gentle-s...
blog.samaltman.com/the-gentle-s...
August 19, 2025 at 6:26 AM
0.34 Wh per ChatGPT query, according to Altman himself. Not the point of the post, but (after trying to find hard stats on it earlier in the year) it's the part that jumped out to me.
blog.samaltman.com/the-gentle-s...
blog.samaltman.com/the-gentle-s...
weird one. flipped over to gpt-5 series of models and suddenly started using a lot more output tokens versus input - like millions more.
August 11, 2025 at 7:45 AM
weird one. flipped over to gpt-5 series of models and suddenly started using a lot more output tokens versus input - like millions more.
A simple thing I like - blaze newsletters now contain relevance filtered sections from company tech blogs. Example here is for the GenAI newsletter.
July 15, 2025 at 6:47 AM
A simple thing I like - blaze newsletters now contain relevance filtered sections from company tech blogs. Example here is for the GenAI newsletter.
reminder that you can search all 50k+ blog sites (posts too!) at blognerd.app. I forget about it from time to time even though I made it for myself 😅
But I think it's really cool to be able to find other people and their writing in really specific niches you are interested in.
But I think it's really cool to be able to find other people and their writing in really specific niches you are interested in.
May 2, 2025 at 9:11 AM
reminder that you can search all 50k+ blog sites (posts too!) at blognerd.app. I forget about it from time to time even though I made it for myself 😅
But I think it's really cool to be able to find other people and their writing in really specific niches you are interested in.
But I think it's really cool to be able to find other people and their writing in really specific niches you are interested in.
Since Google took over Fitbit, the app has got worse and worse. This graphic in the app is an example. Completely meaningless.
March 8, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Since Google took over Fitbit, the app has got worse and worse. This graphic in the app is an example. Completely meaningless.
🪛 Newly minted electronics newsletter for the makers, hackers and tinkerers -
blaze.email/Electronics
blaze.email/Electronics
March 4, 2025 at 10:03 AM
🪛 Newly minted electronics newsletter for the makers, hackers and tinkerers -
blaze.email/Electronics
blaze.email/Electronics
Ever wanted an easy way to search for niche blogs on some topic you care about? Well this might be of interest....
blognerd's blog search just got a big boost - just upgraded to VoyageAI's latest + greatest embeddings, and so far the performance is really good...
blognerd.app?qry=machine+...
blognerd's blog search just got a big boost - just upgraded to VoyageAI's latest + greatest embeddings, and so far the performance is really good...
blognerd.app?qry=machine+...
February 9, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Ever wanted an easy way to search for niche blogs on some topic you care about? Well this might be of interest....
blognerd's blog search just got a big boost - just upgraded to VoyageAI's latest + greatest embeddings, and so far the performance is really good...
blognerd.app?qry=machine+...
blognerd's blog search just got a big boost - just upgraded to VoyageAI's latest + greatest embeddings, and so far the performance is really good...
blognerd.app?qry=machine+...
and I bet inexplicably there's at least one python 2 in there 😜 I really feel this
February 9, 2025 at 9:41 AM
and I bet inexplicably there's at least one python 2 in there 😜 I really feel this
I finally wrapped up and submitted to PyPi this little set of #python pandas methods for summarising dataframes (like inspectdf if any #rstats -ers remembers / used that). It's a little bit rough around the edges, so forgive any bugs!
github.com/alastairrush...
github.com/alastairrush...
January 27, 2025 at 5:19 PM
I finally wrapped up and submitted to PyPi this little set of #python pandas methods for summarising dataframes (like inspectdf if any #rstats -ers remembers / used that). It's a little bit rough around the edges, so forgive any bugs!
github.com/alastairrush...
github.com/alastairrush...
I've been working on search for blogs (both for sites and posts) for a while, and have decided to spin it out as its own project. It's still basically a streamlit app - but is now open source.
🌐 https://blognerd.app
👨💻 https://github.com/alastairrushworth/blognerd.app
🌐 https://blognerd.app
👨💻 https://github.com/alastairrushworth/blognerd.app
January 26, 2025 at 6:12 PM
I've been working on search for blogs (both for sites and posts) for a while, and have decided to spin it out as its own project. It's still basically a streamlit app - but is now open source.
🌐 https://blognerd.app
👨💻 https://github.com/alastairrushworth/blognerd.app
🌐 https://blognerd.app
👨💻 https://github.com/alastairrushworth/blognerd.app
🚲 Weird bicycle (advert) history - 'Voltaic Belts' for 'Nervous, Debilitated men'
The Wheel magazine, Feb 1886.
cyclearchive.com/magazines/th...
Found the patent for this, which doesn't give much away, but nevertheless intriguing patents.google.com/patent/US178...
The Wheel magazine, Feb 1886.
cyclearchive.com/magazines/th...
Found the patent for this, which doesn't give much away, but nevertheless intriguing patents.google.com/patent/US178...
January 23, 2025 at 8:45 AM
🚲 Weird bicycle (advert) history - 'Voltaic Belts' for 'Nervous, Debilitated men'
The Wheel magazine, Feb 1886.
cyclearchive.com/magazines/th...
Found the patent for this, which doesn't give much away, but nevertheless intriguing patents.google.com/patent/US178...
The Wheel magazine, Feb 1886.
cyclearchive.com/magazines/th...
Found the patent for this, which doesn't give much away, but nevertheless intriguing patents.google.com/patent/US178...
Weird cycling history tidbit - home training equipment 😆
from 1886 (!)
from 1886 (!)
January 16, 2025 at 7:56 AM
Weird cycling history tidbit - home training equipment 😆
from 1886 (!)
from 1886 (!)
Loads of new posts in #rstats / R programming this week to catchup on 😀 @ blaze.email
you can preview the full post here:
blaze-assets.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/pdfs/data_sc...
you can preview the full post here:
blaze-assets.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/pdfs/data_sc...
January 14, 2025 at 8:35 AM
Loads of new posts in #rstats / R programming this week to catchup on 😀 @ blaze.email
you can preview the full post here:
blaze-assets.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/pdfs/data_sc...
you can preview the full post here:
blaze-assets.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/pdfs/data_sc...