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Me, {Linux, HPC, Cloud} Engineer, tinkerer of things. 🌍🇺🇳🇬🇧🥐☕️\n

Opinions are my own, not an endorsement, etc..

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Weather forecasts have become much more accurate. A four-day forecast today is as accurate as a one-day forecast 30 years ago.
February 26, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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✍️ I did an explainer on the CPU and GPU and how they coordinate tasks between them.

Going to a series on rendering💥
January 26, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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For the 4th year in a row, my all-sky camera has been taking an image of the sky above the Netherlands every 15 seconds. Combining these images reveal the length of the night changing throughout the year, the passage of clouds and the motion of the Moon and the Sun through the sky. #astrophotography
January 4, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Painfully accurate Linux meme.
January 5, 2025 at 3:02 PM
My past self set a cursed catch-all value for Intel CPU codenames...
January 3, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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Scientists, academics, researchers: We’re excited to share that @altmetric.com is now tracking mentions of your research on Bluesky! 🧪
There are already many articles for which there is more attention on Bluesky than on other comparable micro-blogging sites, meaning the academic community and the general public have clearly adopted Bluesky as one of its core places to disseminate and discuss new research.

A Place of Joy.
December 3, 2024 at 2:10 PM
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Really interesting interactive visualization and demonstration of how Large Language Models (LLMs) work. These form the basis of technologies such as ChatGPT. bbycroft.net/llm 🧪
December 2, 2024 at 11:23 AM
Writing bash scripts in ${CURRENT_YEAR}

Still can't bring myself to `rm` my tempfiles

You never know when a cosmic ray will strike the memory containing your $TMPDIR and turn your `rm -rf ${TMPDIR}/var` into `rm -rf /var`

The paranoia is real!
I'll leave cleaning up /tmp to a system service!
November 28, 2024 at 10:03 AM
Wow, people using BlueSky's Open Network in their own apps to do add discussion threads to.. anything!

This is the sort of global database that Blockchain promised to be, without all the dodgy crypto and high energy use of existing Blockchains.
i'm obsessed with the speed of devs building here

@joneslloyd.bsky.social built a chrome extension that allows you to use bluesky replies as the comments section for *any URL*

with an open network, bluesky can be the comments section of the entire internet
November 26, 2024 at 5:09 PM
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It's #SC24 week, so what better time for the Bristol Centre for Supercomputing (BriCS) to assemble the 5MW data centre for Isambard-AI. Of course we have typical UK winter weather to contend with, i.e. wind, rain, and today even snow. Fantastic support from HPE and Contour makes this possible #HPC
November 19, 2024 at 5:35 PM
Thank you for all for blowing up my phone with New Follower notifications!

I plan to start sharing lessons learned in HPC, Cloud Native, Linux, but also considerably less sexy stuff such as documentation & project management approaches.

There, I can't take it back now!
November 18, 2024 at 11:52 AM
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It seems like #SC24 is a popular time to not only announce new supercomputers, but decommission them.

In addition to Summit's farewell party this week (after six years of service!), Isambard-2 is being retired after 6 years as well: gw4.ac.uk/news/gw4-isa...
GW4 Isambard 2 officially powers down after 6 years of service and innovation - GW4
GW4 Isambard 2, one of the world’s first Arm-based supercomputers to go into production use, has officially powered down for the final time, after six years of service.
gw4.ac.uk
November 15, 2024 at 6:33 PM
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During the early days of Kubernetes I had the honor of working with @scottmccloud.bsky.social on the "Smooth Sailing with Kubernetes" comic. cloud.google.com/kubernetes-e...
November 14, 2024 at 1:39 PM
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OK, let's try this to show the HPC community already has momentum and can thrive here on Bluesky ...

If #HPC or #supercomputing is of interest to you, please interact with this post in some way - either repost, quote, like, reply with insights or just your fav gif, tag friends, etc.
November 13, 2024 at 11:21 PM
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This week I'm revisiting pointers in C and this video does an excellent job teaching the fundamentals. Everything from the pacing to the code examples is well executed. youtu.be/MIL2BK02X8A?...
Pointers in C for Absolute Beginners – Full Course
YouTube video by freeCodeCamp.org
youtu.be
November 11, 2024 at 5:18 PM
I've developed a pleasingly simple interactive Bash script template over the years, I need to do a write-up explaining it

Bash has such a long legacy some sysadmins will account for issues that have been long solved, or conversely use syntax that hasn't been necessary in well over a decade.
November 8, 2024 at 2:15 PM
When you've invested too many hours in a platform before you realise it uses JQuery...

Worse that, the JQuery is introducing a 2 second rendering delay... and it's woven into everything so I'd have to rewrite ... Ugh Javascript.. to fix it!

My disappointment is immeasurable, and my day is ruined
a man is sitting at a table with a box of mcdonald 's fries
Alt: a man is sitting at a table with a box of mcdonald 's fries, saying: My disappointment is immeasurable, and my day is ruined
media.tenor.com
November 8, 2024 at 1:50 PM
November 7, 2024 at 10:06 AM
BlueSky lists has really helped turbo charge my feed back to what I used to enjoy on that old website, "Twitter"? Was it?

It was like MySpace but less poorly compressed wav files.. and no custom background images...

Anyway, I'm glad to see my tech people tweeting again!
November 7, 2024 at 10:01 AM
Wow, so all it took for people to try a new social media platform was realising they were accidentally fueling a crypto-fascist movement, oopsies!

Welcome to the Internet!
November 5, 2024 at 2:26 PM
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Added Matthias Loibl (@metalmatze.de) director of @PolarSignals.com Cloud to the CNCF Ambassadors Starter Pack 🦋 go.bsky.app/JmYPdtB
November 4, 2024 at 9:49 PM
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Kubernetes is now on BlueSky! Make sure you follow the community's new accounts - we've got yaml jokes!

Kubernetes news for anyone and everyone: bsky.app/profile/kube...
Kubernetes Contributor news by & for contributors: bsky.app/profile/kube...
November 5, 2024 at 12:27 AM
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Hello 🦋

Happy to see many familiar faces around. Wasn't easy to find all of you (I probably missed many), so I created a starter pack to make it easier to (re)connect and nerd out about distributed systems, programming languages, and container stuff. Let me know who I missed!

go.bsky.app/U1hZhum
October 27, 2024 at 7:31 AM
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👋🏼 Good to see you on this side. Welcome to Bluesky. I’ve put together a short starter pack of community members who post technical topics about Kubernetes. Hope you enjoy.
go.bsky.app/MHYb3B9
November 4, 2024 at 5:44 PM
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Announcing the Prometheus Starter Pack!
Prometheus maintainers, contributors and close friends.

go.bsky.app/3hckqpe
November 5, 2024 at 8:43 AM