Daniel McQuillen
@dmcq.bsky.social
Indie software dev. Energy efficient buildings. e-Learning. www.mcquilleninteractive.com
If these come to AU and we get a vote, 100% Tassie devil, preferably mid-snarl.
www.goodgoodgood.co/articles/aus...
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PHOTOS: Austria is turning drab power lines into giant metal animals — and they are fully functional
It’s part of an effort to increase public acceptance of expanding electrification.
www.goodgoodgood.co
November 1, 2025 at 11:34 PM
If these come to AU and we get a vote, 100% Tassie devil, preferably mid-snarl.
www.goodgoodgood.co/articles/aus...
www.goodgoodgood.co/articles/aus...
I'm building a data validation service for things like EnergyPlus and Modelica files.
www.simplevalidations.com
www.simplevalidations.com
Meet Your Data Validation Assistant | SimpleValidations
SimpleValidations lets you build robust data validation workflows with schema checks, simulations, and credentialing.
www.simplevalidations.com
October 27, 2025 at 11:14 PM
I'm building a data validation service for things like EnergyPlus and Modelica files.
www.simplevalidations.com
www.simplevalidations.com
Classic. "Don’t you see? It doesn’t matter what your app architecture is. If AWS falls over, you are going to be affected NO MATTER WHAT ... I don’t care what the uptime of your haunted palace of Kubernetes is."
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When everybody's down, nobody is
you want a take about the AWS outage? fine, here's a take
newsletter.goodtechthings.com
October 23, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Classic. "Don’t you see? It doesn’t matter what your app architecture is. If AWS falls over, you are going to be affected NO MATTER WHAT ... I don’t care what the uptime of your haunted palace of Kubernetes is."
newsletter.goodtechthings.com/p/when-every...
newsletter.goodtechthings.com/p/when-every...
Put on Vangelis’s soundtrack for Blade Runner and then read Michael Levin’s TAME framework paper : pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC... … I’m serious.
Technological Approach to Mind Everywhere: An Experimentally-Grounded Framework for Understanding Diverse Bodies and Minds
Synthetic biology and bioengineering provide the opportunity to create novel embodied cognitive systems (otherwise known as minds) in a very wide variety of chimeric architectures combining evolved and designed material and software. These advances ...
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
October 22, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Put on Vangelis’s soundtrack for Blade Runner and then read Michael Levin’s TAME framework paper : pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC... … I’m serious.
Learning about the latest positive thinking from the Sustainability Summit / Future of Building Materials Summit at the Melbourne Build Expo today.
October 21, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Learning about the latest positive thinking from the Sustainability Summit / Future of Building Materials Summit at the Melbourne Build Expo today.
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American institutions don't crumble. But they can be destroyed.
October 21, 2025 at 12:31 AM
American institutions don't crumble. But they can be destroyed.
"Creative puzzle-solving is left to the machines, and we become mere operators disassociated from our craft." hojberg.xyz/the-programm...
The Programmer Identity Crisis ❈ Simon Højberg ❈ Principal Frontend Engineer
On AI, Creativity, and Craft
hojberg.xyz
October 21, 2025 at 8:31 PM
"Creative puzzle-solving is left to the machines, and we become mere operators disassociated from our craft." hojberg.xyz/the-programm...
Broccoli. Muscle ups. Emacs. All things I want to have in my life but they just keep receding into the distance. Waxbanks writes "You cannot rule without fire." waxbanks.wordpress.com/2025/08/01/b...
bare metal (the emacs essay)
The following submission to Jeremy Friesen’s ‘elevator pitch’-themed Emacs blog carnival is taken from my rather long manuscript in progress (‘the present work’), tent…
waxbanks.wordpress.com
October 21, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Broccoli. Muscle ups. Emacs. All things I want to have in my life but they just keep receding into the distance. Waxbanks writes "You cannot rule without fire." waxbanks.wordpress.com/2025/08/01/b...
JupyterLite team gives you MatLab scripts via GNU Octave...in your browser! "Xeus-Octave allows you to run GNU Octave code directly on your browser. GNU Octave is a free and open-source Scientific Programming Language that can be used to run Matlab scripts. " blog.jupyter.org/gnu-octave-m...
GNU Octave Meets JupyterLite: Compute Anywhere, Anytime!
We are thrilled to announce the newest member of our JupyterLite kernel ecosystem: Xeus-Octave. Xeus-Octave allows you to run GNU Octave…
blog.jupyter.org
October 19, 2025 at 10:59 PM
JupyterLite team gives you MatLab scripts via GNU Octave...in your browser! "Xeus-Octave allows you to run GNU Octave code directly on your browser. GNU Octave is a free and open-source Scientific Programming Language that can be used to run Matlab scripts. " blog.jupyter.org/gnu-octave-m...
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Why are they even looking for more???
This is another 475 million tonnes of CO2 !!!
"there’s no room for new fields to be opened. When you’re in a hole, you have to stop digging.” - Dr. Greg Muttitt, @iisd.org
#ClimateEmergency
This is another 475 million tonnes of CO2 !!!
"there’s no room for new fields to be opened. When you’re in a hole, you have to stop digging.” - Dr. Greg Muttitt, @iisd.org
#ClimateEmergency
October 18, 2025 at 8:16 AM
Why are they even looking for more???
This is another 475 million tonnes of CO2 !!!
"there’s no room for new fields to be opened. When you’re in a hole, you have to stop digging.” - Dr. Greg Muttitt, @iisd.org
#ClimateEmergency
This is another 475 million tonnes of CO2 !!!
"there’s no room for new fields to be opened. When you’re in a hole, you have to stop digging.” - Dr. Greg Muttitt, @iisd.org
#ClimateEmergency
Reposted by Daniel McQuillen
Full Mehdi Hasan speech at No Kings protest calls Trump out, says immigrants 'love this country'.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHtI...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHtI...
Full Mehdi Hasan speech at No Kings protest calls Trump out, says immigrants 'love this country'
YouTube video by USA TODAY
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October 18, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Full Mehdi Hasan speech at No Kings protest calls Trump out, says immigrants 'love this country'.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHtI...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHtI...
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Pritzker: Throughout history we've learned that tyranny doesn't arrive with dramatic proclamations. Most times it comes quietly wrapped in the language of law and order, with fingers pointed at someone who doesn't look like you, promising safety while demanding that we sacrifice our neighbors.
October 18, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Pritzker: Throughout history we've learned that tyranny doesn't arrive with dramatic proclamations. Most times it comes quietly wrapped in the language of law and order, with fingers pointed at someone who doesn't look like you, promising safety while demanding that we sacrifice our neighbors.
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Too late dipshit. You said it, you meant it, we saw it, we know.
You’re only apologizing because your employees and customers started calling you out for it.
You’re only apologizing because your employees and customers started calling you out for it.
October 17, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Too late dipshit. You said it, you meant it, we saw it, we know.
You’re only apologizing because your employees and customers started calling you out for it.
You’re only apologizing because your employees and customers started calling you out for it.
I'm developing a new web application that helps orgs create automated, API-based data validations for their community of users.
www.simplevalidations.com
www.simplevalidations.com
Meet Your Data Validation Assistant | SimpleValidations
SimpleValidations lets you build robust data validation workflows with schema checks, simulations, and credentialing.
www.simplevalidations.com
October 18, 2025 at 1:37 AM
I'm developing a new web application that helps orgs create automated, API-based data validations for their community of users.
www.simplevalidations.com
www.simplevalidations.com
@michaelburchert.bsky.social Saw this on LinkedIn today and thought you might find interesting given your work ...
Submission site: www.editorialmanager.com/enb/default2...
Submission site: www.editorialmanager.com/enb/default2...
October 18, 2025 at 1:05 AM
@michaelburchert.bsky.social Saw this on LinkedIn today and thought you might find interesting given your work ...
Submission site: www.editorialmanager.com/enb/default2...
Submission site: www.editorialmanager.com/enb/default2...
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There is a reason "offsetting" does not exist in the vast majority of cases of avoidable harm to human safety: it would be laughed off as physically absurd and outright fraudulent.
Somehow, in the single most catastrophic physical threat facing our species, it became accepted as normal
Somehow, in the single most catastrophic physical threat facing our species, it became accepted as normal
Carbon credits are failing to help with climate change — here’s why
The idea that emissions can be offset through projects that claim to avoid releases or to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere is fatally flawed.
www.nature.com
October 17, 2025 at 9:21 AM
There is a reason "offsetting" does not exist in the vast majority of cases of avoidable harm to human safety: it would be laughed off as physically absurd and outright fraudulent.
Somehow, in the single most catastrophic physical threat facing our species, it became accepted as normal
Somehow, in the single most catastrophic physical threat facing our species, it became accepted as normal
Mark Litwintschik wrangles GIS data on U.S. solar farms step-by-step.
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American Solar Farms
Benchmarks & Tips for Big Data, Hadoop, AWS, Google Cloud, PostgreSQL, Spark, Python & More...
tech.marksblogg.com
October 13, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Mark Litwintschik wrangles GIS data on U.S. solar farms step-by-step.
tech.marksblogg.com/american-sol...
tech.marksblogg.com/american-sol...
Scientists: be careful with your preprint submissions. "In the absence of sanitization, submissions may disclose sensitive information that adversaries can harvest using open-source intelligence." arxiv.org/abs/2510.03761
You Have Been LaTeXpOsEd: A Systematic Analysis of Information Leakage in Preprint Archives Using Large Language Models
The widespread use of preprint repositories such as arXiv has accelerated the communication of scientific results but also introduced overlooked security risks. Beyond PDFs, these platforms provide un...
arxiv.org
October 13, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Scientists: be careful with your preprint submissions. "In the absence of sanitization, submissions may disclose sensitive information that adversaries can harvest using open-source intelligence." arxiv.org/abs/2510.03761
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Saying the climate is too complex for tipping points is like saying your body is too complex to die. Complexity doesn’t prevent collapse…..it just gives you more ways to reach it.
October 10, 2025 at 4:13 AM
Saying the climate is too complex for tipping points is like saying your body is too complex to die. Complexity doesn’t prevent collapse…..it just gives you more ways to reach it.
Dave Deek asks "Can We Terraform the Earth Using Life Itself?"... to which I would add "despite our declining attention spans."
All-Natural Geoengineering with Frank Herbert's Dune
Can We Terraform the Earth Using Life Itself?
www.governance.fyi
October 11, 2025 at 4:19 AM
Dave Deek asks "Can We Terraform the Earth Using Life Itself?"... to which I would add "despite our declining attention spans."
Been meaning to move my projects from Heroku to Fly.io or Render.com and I just got a big burst of energy for next week.
www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/m...
www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/m...
Marc Benioff says Trump should send National Guard to San Francisco
Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff said that President Trump should deploy the National Guard to San Francisco to combat crime: “We don’t have enough cops, so if they can be cops, I’m all for it.”
www.sfchronicle.com
October 11, 2025 at 4:11 AM
Been meaning to move my projects from Heroku to Fly.io or Render.com and I just got a big burst of energy for next week.
www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/m...
www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/m...
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“I think China is using [clean technology] in a very, very geopolitically savvy way, taking advantage of America’s stupidity and regression back into a petrostate. China just wins. America has abrogated the playing field.”
www.ft.com/content/013e...
www.ft.com/content/013e...
The ‘profound’ global impact of China’s rise as an electrostate
The country’s companies now dominate many clean technology industries
www.ft.com
October 10, 2025 at 8:19 AM
“I think China is using [clean technology] in a very, very geopolitically savvy way, taking advantage of America’s stupidity and regression back into a petrostate. China just wins. America has abrogated the playing field.”
www.ft.com/content/013e...
www.ft.com/content/013e...
So appropriate for late 2025. "Plants and fungi maintain stable and fair resource exchange by sharing or withholding resources according to the trading partner’s performance."
www.macfound.org/fellows/clas...
www.macfound.org/fellows/clas...
Toby Kiers
Investigating symbiotic relationships among plants, fungi, and other microbes and their role in planetary health.
www.macfound.org
October 11, 2025 at 3:40 AM
So appropriate for late 2025. "Plants and fungi maintain stable and fair resource exchange by sharing or withholding resources according to the trading partner’s performance."
www.macfound.org/fellows/clas...
www.macfound.org/fellows/clas...
"The goal is to build places so good that people are freed from the necessity of driving."
This billboard misses the point entirely.
We should be designing cities where adding 15,000 new neighbors doesn't automatically mean adding 15,000 more cars. The goal is to build places so good that people are freed from the necessity of driving.
We should be designing cities where adding 15,000 new neighbors doesn't automatically mean adding 15,000 more cars. The goal is to build places so good that people are freed from the necessity of driving.
Stage is set for a vote on a tense zoning fight that involves the North Side's Broadway
As charges of NIMBY-style narrow-mindedness fly about, Edgewater's alderperson is pressing for zoning changes she says can promote neighborhood vitality.
chicago.suntimes.com
October 10, 2025 at 10:04 PM
"The goal is to build places so good that people are freed from the necessity of driving."