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Alex Willmer
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Python and Ansible developer. Recovering Sherlock. Armchair energy pundit. Pun usually intended. He/they.
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A screen recording may show it better
October 26, 2025 at 10:04 AM
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Have you seen Python REPL rendering multiple history items on a single line in VS Code's terminal? It's annoying me and so far my web searches haven't uncovered anything. It affects multiple Python versions from xcode-select and from uv. The same Python REPLs are fine in macOS Terminal and Ghostty.
Visual Studio Code showing .python_history in the top pane, and a terminal session below. The terminal session shows a Python REPL session, and two lines from the .python_history have been erroneously rendered on a single line.
October 26, 2025 at 10:02 AM
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Announcing lzma-cf: multithreaded LZMA for .xz files in Python; through the power of CFFI and standing on the shoulders of PyPy pypi.org/project/lzma... #Python
Professor Farnsworth announcing "Good body, everynews! lzma_cf supports multithreaded compression"
October 3, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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FYI, there's something slightly odd with Unicode in these Bluesky posts. Here's how this one appears in my timeline (Firefox 143.0.1, amcos 15.6.1). However it eppears correctly abovce the reply form as I type this.
Screenshot of the post this is in reply to. The 👉 isn't rendered, 3 � glyphs appear in it's place.
September 30, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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We are the Dans who do ... Ni!
Two Kendo graders standing in fronnt of a wall, pointing at the sheet saying they passed Nidan (2nd Dan) grade. I'm on the right.
August 3, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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Firefox recently started showing a large link preview over the top of hyperlinks in a page. To disable it untick "Enable link previews" in Preferences > Browsing.
An unchcked checkbox labelled "Enable Link previews", from Firefox preferences. Descriptive text below it reads "See page title, decsription, and more. Use one of the shortcuts or right-click to preview links". Three sub-checkboxes below it are greyed out and also unchecked.
July 30, 2025 at 8:19 AM
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First blackberry of the year 🤤
A single ripe blackberry on the bush, surrounded by unripe green blackberries
June 17, 2025 at 11:47 AM
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I'm not usually a fan of RGB lighting in computers, but there are exceptions #RetroFestUK
June 1, 2025 at 11:53 AM
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Has AI branding gone too far?
Photo of a flip chart. At first glance the cover sheet says AI Flipchart Pad. It's actually A1 Flichart Pad, but in a san-serif font.
June 1, 2025 at 11:42 AM
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I don't know what lives in that bird house. I'm not sure i want to find out.
A tree stump with a bird house on it, surrounded by grave stones. The stump is cordoned off on all sides with red striped hazard tape.
May 25, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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Bertie Badger, at Reading Museum #RdgUK
A stuffed baggage wearing aa white cape embroidered with the text: In old and fragile. Please don't stroke me. A stuffed badger with a balls patch on their head. A label attached to the bade reads: Please take care of Bertie Badger. Bestie is wearing a jacket due to damage from being stroked too much. You can also see some damage to the top of Bertie's head.
May 15, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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Seen in the window of Oxfam Music, Reading
Portrait of a Star Wars Jawa wearing a brown hooded cloak, face in shadow with yellow glowing eyes. Text in stencil font at the top reads: DROIDS WANTED CASH WAITING
May 5, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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M M M, I can't believe it's not trademark
A roll of "M M M" double sided, Hxres tape. Not to be confused with 3M™️ tape.
April 16, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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Second attempt printing with ASA filament. These came out a lot better - Bambu P1S, eSun ASA filament, texture PEI plate, Bambu liquid release stick, generic ASA profile, scaled 50% www.printables.com/model/303484...

#3DPrinting
Two 3D printed car boot cargo fixers, in front of a banana (for scale). They're L shaped with one half is a solid rectangle with velcro on the outside, the other half had triangle cut outs. They work by sticking to the carpet in a car boot, to stop small items sliding.
April 14, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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Honourable mention to kohlmaker's design www.thingiverse.com/thing:2009495 which can be installed while a cable is plugged in and in use. However I'd only consider it single use, because it required too much force to delatch and unplug.
Two variations of a 3D printed retention clip on an RJ45 ethernet plug. The clips attach to the cable where it meets the base of the plug. One of the plugs is longer to account for the strain relied. Both clips extend a bar to the front of the plug, providing a T-shaped latch to hold the plug in the socket.
April 4, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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The two best 3D printed RJ45 retention clips (for me) - based on widest compatibility, strength & ease of use. mike_mattala's zip tie model is slimmer for tight spaced sockets www.thingiverse.com/thing:5530878. fakeDeltatime's 2 part model is self contained www.thingiverse.com/thing:4757607
Close up of a 3D printed retention clip attached to an RJ45 ethernet plug. The clip is secured by a black zip tipe that passes through a hole in the clip and around the plug. Close up of a 2-part 3D printed retention clip on an RJ45 ethernet plug. The clip is made of collar surrounding the base of the plug, and a spring piece that curves over the top, to where the original clip snapped off.
April 4, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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Wait until you unlock the first boss en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megawat...
Speculative diagram of Megawatt Charging System, version 3.2. It looks like an alien face. 2 very large orange round circles labelled DC make up the eyes. A smaller green circle labelled PE is the mouth. Smaller shapes between make the nose and cheeks.
January 17, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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Good to know one's place in life 🤖
Screenshot of a Google search result for my handle "moreati". Highlighted text in the AI summary reads "Moreati is a collection of Ansible modules and filters that can be used for managing Python packages and virtualenvs."
January 9, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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What shall we do this year?
Scene from the cartoon Pinky and the Brain. Two white lab mice standing in their cage at night. One of them, Brain, looms over the camera with arms outstreched. His oversized head is in shadow. He's clearly about to reveal his megalomaniac plan and do his villain laugh.
January 1, 2025 at 10:13 AM
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Probably time to retire this NAS
Partial screenshot of a login page. The text reads "Note: Please turn on Javascript and ActiveX control setting on Internet Explorer."
December 28, 2024 at 3:16 PM
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@sldrant@mastodon.social moderately better result with Bambu smooth PEI plate, Bambu liquid glue, generic ASA profile, and rabbit ears www.thingiverse.com/make:1207554
A 3D printed T key with a tapered square tip; for a unlocking a utility cupboard. It's sitting on a print bed, and the outline of it can be seen, where a layer of glue was pulled away when the freshly printed key was removed.
December 27, 2024 at 10:59 PM
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Kapton tape and/or temperature tweaks helped. It completed, with a little warping. The kapton gives the underside a sheen
A black 3D printed scraper tool with a steel blade. The top surface of the handle is reflecting the light.
December 12, 2024 at 2:01 PM