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Smiffy 2.0
@smiffy.bsky.social
Tech generalist, into languages, music, cooking, making stuff, picking up heavy things, and trying to solve all the world's problems with Python. AuDHD. Narungga Country, South Australia
I am genuinely having trouble getting my head round this. It's like, in a regular gig, congratulations, you're now senior developer (and software architect, and...) but it's just a FLOOD of issues into GitHub (my fault, they weren't using a proper bug tracker before) and, of course
July 10, 2024 at 11:59 AM
So, I read this 6 month plan, and my name is ALL OVER IT. *gulp* I have - things to do. And I feel like...
July 10, 2024 at 11:54 AM
And beyond the continents, too; it is everywhere that I am online. My avatar is Amelia's work. Here's the full, uncropped piece.

I find it hard to express how much this piece means to me. That this abstract representation of me was created by a real, living artist, whose style I love so much.
November 30, 2023 at 11:15 PM
Power infrastructure nerds! Is this thing hanging off the 11kV line an isolator?

This is where the line goes underground a short way, as it passes under a 132kV feeder. Seen from the substation end. Line ends in a new solar farm.
November 3, 2023 at 2:30 AM
Oh, hello, welcome to ridiculous o'clock. 0140, and a windy 21°C Some way to mark the beginning of my 57th orbit of the day-star, Goodnight, again.
October 23, 2023 at 3:26 PM
This is Hell. A #TGIF treat, part of my own, private Oktoberfest. I have a selection of actual Oktoberfestbiers on their way from Sydney, right now. Prost!

(I do this as part of my birthday month.)
October 6, 2023 at 7:03 AM
And done! Both eyes now fitted with a Xen stent, a treatment for refractory open angle glaucoma.

www.xengelstent.com/XENGelStent
September 14, 2023 at 4:47 AM
Exhibit A. Eye with glaucoma. Currently on the health bus to Adelaide. In about 24 hours, a load of drops will be going in, as part of the exercise to make eye without glaucoma. Providing nothing untoward happens, right eye doing very well.
September 13, 2023 at 1:10 AM