Michael Esteban
@mikeesto.com
research engineer & a dog's best friend. likes open source, electronics and education. often making small websites and tools.
☆ https://mikeesto.com
☆ https://mikeesto.com
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Spreading the data donation love at the @ardc.edu.au symposium this week! Big high fives to our team at the AIO for the great work this year
Our UQ and QUT cohort at AIO shared how the Data Donation tools were used in two different projects, what their experiences were from the process of this novel method of recruiting participants for data donation in their HASS research!
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AIO offers HASS & I digital researchers with Data Donation tools. Lauren Hayden who is the Research Fellow at the University of Queensland - the team is developing data donation tools by working w...
AIO offers HASS & I digital researchers with Data Donation tools. Lauren Hayden who is the Research Fellow at the University of Queensland - the team is developing data donation tools by working with ...
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November 12, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Spreading the data donation love at the @ardc.edu.au symposium this week! Big high fives to our team at the AIO for the great work this year
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I'm at risk for redundancy so if anyone is hiring a Senior or Lead UX Researcher remote or in London hybrid let me know! Open to perm or contracts
October 15, 2025 at 7:25 AM
I'm at risk for redundancy so if anyone is hiring a Senior or Lead UX Researcher remote or in London hybrid let me know! Open to perm or contracts
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RIP Patricia Routledge one of the best ever to do it.
October 3, 2025 at 2:37 PM
RIP Patricia Routledge one of the best ever to do it.
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i constantly think about this post
September 3, 2025 at 3:15 AM
i constantly think about this post
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telling that people who are professionally Very Computer so often want Less Computer in their lives
I just don’t want a more ambient, pervasive computer, actually. If anything I would like less computer
Microsoft's Windows lead has teased the future of Windows will be more ambient, pervasive, and multi-modal in the wake of AI, promoting voice as a primary input method for using your PC. www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/wi...
August 14, 2025 at 4:08 AM
telling that people who are professionally Very Computer so often want Less Computer in their lives
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they should be taken to The Hague for this graph crime
August 7, 2025 at 6:31 PM
they should be taken to The Hague for this graph crime
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one of my favorite ideas, said 4 ways
August 3, 2025 at 7:57 PM
one of my favorite ideas, said 4 ways
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fun news! I was laid off from Twilio.
going to take this weekend to chill out, and will start looking for roles next week.
if you or someone you know is looking for staff/principal level Developer Advocacy, OSPO, dev infra, or similar roles pass them along!
reposts from tech folks appreciated <3
going to take this weekend to chill out, and will start looking for roles next week.
if you or someone you know is looking for staff/principal level Developer Advocacy, OSPO, dev infra, or similar roles pass them along!
reposts from tech folks appreciated <3
July 25, 2025 at 9:01 PM
fun news! I was laid off from Twilio.
going to take this weekend to chill out, and will start looking for roles next week.
if you or someone you know is looking for staff/principal level Developer Advocacy, OSPO, dev infra, or similar roles pass them along!
reposts from tech folks appreciated <3
going to take this weekend to chill out, and will start looking for roles next week.
if you or someone you know is looking for staff/principal level Developer Advocacy, OSPO, dev infra, or similar roles pass them along!
reposts from tech folks appreciated <3
I've been playing around with making small animations from GPT-4o image gen. This was a surprisingly fun small project! I've tapped away and written some words here: mikeesto.com/posts/animat...
June 17, 2025 at 7:50 AM
I've been playing around with making small animations from GPT-4o image gen. This was a surprisingly fun small project! I've tapped away and written some words here: mikeesto.com/posts/animat...
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this weekend I’m traveling up to Queensland with my bike to cycle for charity in the Brissie to the Bay ride 🚴♀️
I’d love to reach my goal of raising $500 and I’m pretty close! If you can spare a few dollars I’d be really appreciative ❤️
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I’d love to reach my goal of raising $500 and I’m pretty close! If you can spare a few dollars I’d be really appreciative ❤️
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I'm riding 50km to support the 1 million Queenslanders living with neuro conditions - Please support me!
Support Susan in the MS Brissie to the Bay! Susan's riding to help connect more than one million Queenslanders living with neurological conditions to a better life! Please support their ride and hel...
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June 12, 2025 at 2:21 PM
this weekend I’m traveling up to Queensland with my bike to cycle for charity in the Brissie to the Bay ride 🚴♀️
I’d love to reach my goal of raising $500 and I’m pretty close! If you can spare a few dollars I’d be really appreciative ❤️
www.brissietothebay.com.au/fundraisers/...
I’d love to reach my goal of raising $500 and I’m pretty close! If you can spare a few dollars I’d be really appreciative ❤️
www.brissietothebay.com.au/fundraisers/...
Emma always makes me want to shut my laptop and hike in Japan. Came for the writing, got entirely distracted by the photos..
New post up and gosh, this one was harder to write than I thought! But I've been meaning to write this one for a long time now (and procrastinating on it) so I'm happy I finally got it done.
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The best hikes in Japan: mountains for every month and season
Japan has so many beautiful mountains on offer, but if you asked me what was the best hike in Japan, my answer would vary depending on when
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June 8, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Emma always makes me want to shut my laptop and hike in Japan. Came for the writing, got entirely distracted by the photos..
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Explore the latest from AIO in our May 2025 newsletter: platform transparency, TikTok research (@admscentre.org.au), election ad tracking, and more. Stay informed on tools, events, and insights shaping digital accountability. Subscribe for more updates:
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Stay updated with the latest from the Australian Internet Observatory (AIO)
Our newsletter highlights new tools, research insights, upcoming events, and collaborative projects shaping the future of digital transparency and data governance. Subscribe to follow how AIO is…
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May 28, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Explore the latest from AIO in our May 2025 newsletter: platform transparency, TikTok research (@admscentre.org.au), election ad tracking, and more. Stay informed on tools, events, and insights shaping digital accountability. Subscribe for more updates:
📩 mailchi.mp/47656dbe5d00... @ardc.edu.au
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github's not loading. turn off uBlock. it loads
May 28, 2025 at 7:42 AM
github's not loading. turn off uBlock. it loads
@laurenhayden.bsky.social Hellooo fellow monochrome friend!
May 23, 2025 at 12:14 PM
@laurenhayden.bsky.social Hellooo fellow monochrome friend!
Nvidia's new Parakeet ASR model is fast. I got it running on my M3 MacBook Pro using parakeet-mlx where an hour of audio only took just over a minute to transcribe!
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Speech-to-text with Parakeet 0.6b v2
Nvidia's new Parakeet ASR model is impressively fast. I got it running on my M3 MacBook Pro using parakeet-mlx where an hour of audio only took just over a minute to transcribe.
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May 12, 2025 at 6:21 AM
Nvidia's new Parakeet ASR model is fast. I got it running on my M3 MacBook Pro using parakeet-mlx where an hour of audio only took just over a minute to transcribe!
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💚 PyCon 2025 is happening!!
Mark your calendars: September 12–16, we're coming together at Pullman Melbourne on the Park for an unforgettable week of Python, community, and fuuuuuun!
👉 Check it out here: : 2025.pycon.org.au
#PyConAU2025 #Python #PyConAU #PyCon
Mark your calendars: September 12–16, we're coming together at Pullman Melbourne on the Park for an unforgettable week of Python, community, and fuuuuuun!
👉 Check it out here: : 2025.pycon.org.au
#PyConAU2025 #Python #PyConAU #PyCon
May 4, 2025 at 10:30 PM
💚 PyCon 2025 is happening!!
Mark your calendars: September 12–16, we're coming together at Pullman Melbourne on the Park for an unforgettable week of Python, community, and fuuuuuun!
👉 Check it out here: : 2025.pycon.org.au
#PyConAU2025 #Python #PyConAU #PyCon
Mark your calendars: September 12–16, we're coming together at Pullman Melbourne on the Park for an unforgettable week of Python, community, and fuuuuuun!
👉 Check it out here: : 2025.pycon.org.au
#PyConAU2025 #Python #PyConAU #PyCon
Fascinating how good the Gemini 2.5 models are at spatial understanding, feels like Google are the ones really pushing multimodality
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Exploring Image Segmentation with Gemini 2.5 models
Exploring Gemini 2.5 models' experimental capability for image segmentation via prompting. Includes notes on discovering the feature, building a small demo tool (Gemini Segment), and wrestling with th...
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April 28, 2025 at 3:29 AM
Fascinating how good the Gemini 2.5 models are at spatial understanding, feels like Google are the ones really pushing multimodality
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The problem with most machine-based random number generators is that they’re not TRULY random, so if you need genuine randomness it is sometimes necessary to link your code to an external random process like a physical noise source or the current rate of US tariffs on a given country.
April 9, 2025 at 7:15 PM
The problem with most machine-based random number generators is that they’re not TRULY random, so if you need genuine randomness it is sometimes necessary to link your code to an external random process like a physical noise source or the current rate of US tariffs on a given country.
sudo certbot --nginx is a delight. it's so much easier to setup https on a vm now than whatever i was trying to manually throw together years ago
April 2, 2025 at 11:22 AM
sudo certbot --nginx is a delight. it's so much easier to setup https on a vm now than whatever i was trying to manually throw together years ago
it's cool that text-to-speech models like kokoro can even run on a raspberry pi
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Kokoro-82M high quality TTS on a Raspberry Pi
Kokoro-82M is a small and efficient text to speech (TTS) model that delivers natural sounding speech on a Raspberry Pi.
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March 10, 2025 at 10:24 AM
it's cool that text-to-speech models like kokoro can even run on a raspberry pi
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so i started a new job. and i'm now on cyclone watch. it's been an interesting two weeks
March 4, 2025 at 1:06 PM
so i started a new job. and i'm now on cyclone watch. it's been an interesting two weeks
naps2 is a delightful piece of foss software. so much easier to work with scanners than the proprietary junk they ship with
February 5, 2025 at 5:02 AM
naps2 is a delightful piece of foss software. so much easier to work with scanners than the proprietary junk they ship with
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looking for my 2024 visual studio code wrapped
December 21, 2024 at 3:40 AM
looking for my 2024 visual studio code wrapped