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build:
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
steps:
- name: check out repo
uses: https://gitea.com/actions/checkout@v3
#uses: actions/checkout@v3
uses: actions/checkout@v3
# - name: install python+pip
# run: |
# apt-get update -y
# apt-get install -y python3 python3-pip
# - name: setup bstools
# run: pip install --index-url https://git.jamesravey.me/api/packages/ravenscroftj/pypi/simple/ bstools
- name: Deploy Site
run: |
mkdir -p ~/.ssh/
@ -26,13 +28,15 @@ jobs:
echo "$SSH_KNOWN_HOSTS" > ~/.ssh/known_hosts
ssh \
-i ~/.ssh/id_rsa \
-t james@noprobe.rvns.xyz \
"cd /home/james/brainsteam.co.uk; git pull; cd brainsteam; ./build.sh"
-t james@newprobe.jamesravey.me \
"cd /data/applications/brainsteam.co.uk; git pull; cd brainsteam; ./build.sh"
shell: bash
env:
SSH_PRIVATE_KEY: ${{secrets.SSH_KEY}}
SSH_KNOWN_HOSTS: ${{secrets.SSH_KNOWN_HOSTS}}
# - name: Deploy Notes
# run: |
# mkdir -p ~/.ssh/
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# env:
# SSH_PRIVATE_KEY: ${{secrets.SSH_KEY}}
# SSH_KNOWN_HOSTS: ${{secrets.SSH_KNOWN_HOSTS}}

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__pycache__
dist/
.env

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[submodule "brainsteam/themes/Mainroad"]
path = brainsteam/themes/Mainroad
url = ssh://git@git.jamesravey.me:222/ravenscroftj/Mainroad.git
[submodule "brainsteam/themes/plague"]
path = brainsteam/themes/plague
url = https://github.com/brianreumere/plague.git

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date: {{ .Date }}
draft: true
description: short summary
url: {{ time.Format "/2006/1/2" .Date }}/{{.Name}}
type: posts
url: {{ time.Format "/2006/1/2/" .Date }}/{{.Name}}
type: post
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#!/bin/bash
cd ../bstools
/home/james/.local/bin/uv run python card.py tree -i ../brainsteam/content/posts/ -w ../brainsteam
cd ../brainsteam
hugo
cd ../bstools
/home/james/.local/bin/uv run python webmention.py update
git add ../brainsteam/content/posts
#git add ../bstools/wm_state.json
git commit -m "update thumbs"
git push
docker run --rm -it -v `pwd`:/src -u $UID:$GID klakegg/hugo

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languageCode = "en-us"
title = "Brainsteam"
#theme='hugo-ink'
#theme='Mainroad'
theme='plague'
theme='Mainroad'
paginate=10
disqusShortname = "brainsteam"
copyright = "© James Ravenscroft"
[module]
[[module.imports]]
disable = false
ignoreConfig = false
ignoreImports = true
path = 'plague' # Theme
pygmentsstyle = "vs"
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[markup.goldmark.renderer]
unsafe= true
summaryLength=50
[params]
[Params]
authorbox= true
subtitle = "Digital Home of James Ravenscroft Machine Learning and NLP specialist and software generalist"
avatar = "/images/avatar_small.png"
favicon = "/images/favicon.png"
mainSections = ["post","note","reply","like","repost","bookmark", "watch"]
[Author] # Used in authorbox
name = "James Ravenscroft"
bio = "James is an NLP and Machine Learning specialist and software generalist, currently CTO at Filament and previously an IBMer"
avatar = "img/avatar.png"
siteHeaderText = "Brainsteam"
siteFooterText = "Powered by [Hugo](https://gohugo.io/) and the [plague](https://github.com/brianreumere/plague) theme."
[Params.Logo]
image = "/images/avatar_small.png"
# subtitle = "Digital Home of James Ravenscroft Machine Learning and NLP specialist and software generalist"
# avatar = "/images/avatar_small.png"
# favicon = "/images/avatar_small.png"
# copyright = "James Ravenscroft"
recentSections = ["posts"]
colors = "default"
#mainSections = ["posts","notes","replies","likes","reposts","bookmarks", "watches"]
mainSections = ["posts"]
[params.hcard]
avatar = "images/avatar_small.png"
fullName = "James Ravenscroft"
pronouns = ["he", "him"]
nickname = "jamesravey"
city = "Portsmouth"
region = "Hants"
country = "United Kingdom"
showLocation = true
social = [
{ platform = "github", identity = "ravenscroftj", url_pattern = "https://github.com/%s" },
{ platform = "mastodon", identity = "jamesravey", url_pattern = "https://fosstodon.org/%s"},
{ platform = "bluesky", identity = "jamesravey", url_pattern = "https://bsky.app/profile/%s"}
]
# [Author] # Used in authorbox
# name = "James Ravenscroft"
# bio = "James is an NLP and Machine Learning specialist and software generalist, currently CTO at Filament and previously an IBMer"
# avatar = "/images/avatar.png"
# [Params.Logo]
# image = "/images/avatar_small.png"
# [Params.sidebar]
# home = "right" # Configure layout for home page
# list = "right" # Configure layout for list pages
# single = false # Configure layout for single pages
# # Enable widgets in given order
# widgets = ["search", "recent", "types", "social", "categories", "taglist", "languages"]
# [Params.widgets.social]
# # Enable parts of social widget
# #facebook = "username"
# #twitter = "username"
# #instagram = "username"
# #linkedin = "username"
# #telegram = "username"
# github = "ravenscroftj"
# mastodon = "https://fosstodon.org/@jamesravey"
# #gitlab = "username"
# #bitbucket = "username"
# #email = "example@example.com"
[Params.sidebar]
home = "right" # Configure layout for home page
list = "right" # Configure layout for list pages
single = false # Configure layout for single pages
# Enable widgets in given order
widgets = ["search", "recent", "categories", "taglist", "social", "languages"]
[[menu.main]]
name = "Home"
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[[menu.main]]
name = "Notes"
url = "/notes/"
name = "About Me"
url = "/pages/about"
weight = 3
[[menu.main]]
name = "Web Activity"
url = "/webfeed"
weight = 4
[[menu.main]]
name = "Links"
url = "/bookmarks/"
name = "My Work"
url = "/pages/my-work"
weight = 5
[[menu.main]]
@ -139,6 +90,26 @@ url = "/search"
weight = 6
[[params.social]]
name = "Twitter"
icon = "twitter"
url = "https://twitter.com/jamesravey/"
[[params.social]]
name = "Mastodon"
url ="https://fosstodon.org/@jamesravey"
icon = "message-circle"
[[params.social]]
name = "Github"
icon = "github"
url = "https://github.com/ravenscroftj"
[[params.social]]
name = "RSS"
icon = "rss"
url = "/pages/feeds/"
[taxonomies]
tag = "tags"

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---
---
Welcome to the Digital Home of James Ravenscroft Machine Learning and NLP specialist and software generalist.
<img src="/images/avatar_small.png" style="max-width:250px;">
I am a Chief Technology Officer and Software Engineer specialising in Machine Learning and in particular, Natural Language Processing. I am an amateur musician, cook and photographer and I love to read fiction and watch box sets and movies. I live with my wife and cats in the south of England.
On this site you will find:
- A selection of [essays and long-form posts](/posts/) that I have written about software engineering, philosophy, machine learning and AI, and personal topics.
- A [microblog of shorter content](/notes/) in response to things that interest me, including some photos.
- [Links](/bookmarks/) to content that I've found and read along with my comments and responses.
You can find more of my thoughts and in-progress writing over on my [Digital Garden](https://notes.jamesravey.me)

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bookmark-of:
title: "Deciphering Glyph ::\n The One Python Library Everyone Needs\n "
url: https://glyph.twistedmatrix.com/2016/08/attrs.html
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date: '2021-12-24T18:30:50.176573'
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title: 'GitHub - Textualize/textual: The lean application framework for Python. Build
sophisticated user interfaces with a simple Python API. Run your apps in the terminal
and a web browser.'
url: https://github.com/willmcgugan/textual
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title: How to ice a Christmas cake - Great British Chefs
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title: Adding a generic oembed handler for Hugo // Just a Summary
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bookmark-of: https://bofh.org.uk/2020/05/12/oembed-for-hugo/
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bookmark-of:
title: bubbletea.dev
url: https://misskey.bubbletea.dev/notes/8v0czo0b54
bookmark-of: https://misskey.bubbletea.dev/notes/8v0czo0b54
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title: WakaTime - Dashboards for developers
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title: The Illustrated Retrieval Transformer Jay Alammar Visualizing machine
learning one concept at a time.
url: http://jalammar.github.io/illustrated-retrieval-transformer/
bookmark-of: http://jalammar.github.io/illustrated-retrieval-transformer/
date: '2022-01-03T12:50:55.571137'
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bookmark-of:
title: 'Thematically richer than the Bible: what I learned at the first annual
Boss Baby symposium | The Boss Baby | The Guardian'
url: https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2022/jan/05/thematically-richer-than-the-bible-what-i-learned-at-the-first-annual-boss-baby-symposium
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bookmark-of:
title: "\n BookStack\n "
url: https://www.bookstackapp.com/#features
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best practices list (July 2024)'
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title: 'GitHub - BoltzmannEntropy/interviews.ai: It is my belief that you, the postgraduate
students and job-seekers for whom the book is primarily meant will benefit from
reading it; however, it is my hope that even the most experienced researchers
will find it fascinating as well.'
url: https://github.com/BoltzmannEntropy/interviews.ai
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title: Firepad - An open source collaborative code and text editor
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title: Understanding the Three Fundamental Principles of How IPFS Works | IPFS Blog
& News
url: https://blog.ipfs.io/2021-11-03-understanding-fundamentals-of-ipfs/
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url: https://copyq.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
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title: ' Focalboard: Open source alternative to Trello, Asana, and Notion'
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title: GitHub - MathieuCayssol/Item2Vec
url: https://github.com/MathieuCayssol/Item2Vec
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title: 'GitHub - singlesourcepub/community: A community site around scholarly single
source publishing #SiSoPub'
url: https://github.com/singlesourcepub/community
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date: '2022-01-28T08:35:18.299464'
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title: 'GitHub - DaveGamble/cJSON: Ultralightweight JSON parser in ANSI C'
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title: 'GitHub - GuLinux/ScreenRotator: Automatic screen rotation daemon for X11'
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title: Marginalia Search - browse:random
url: https://search.marginalia.nu/explore/random
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title: Lapce
url: https://lapce.dev/#downloads-all
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date: '2022-03-17T04:04:00.893398'
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title: 'Flower: A Friendly Federated Learning Framework'
url: https://flower.dev/
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date: '2022-03-28T16:25:56.008046'
post_meta:
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title: "\n\n\tHow Will Keeping A Notebook Help You Hack Your Life - \n\nWebSeitz/wiki\n"
url: http://webseitz.fluxent.com/wiki/HowWillKeepingANotebookHelpYouHackYourLife
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date: '2022-04-01T12:07:45.854807'
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title: 'GitHub - MaggieAppleton/digital-gardeners: Resources, links, projects, and
ideas for gardeners tending their digital notes on the public interwebs'
url: https://github.com/MaggieAppleton/digital-gardeners
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date: '2022-04-01T12:08:15.893717'
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title: models/official/projects/token_dropping at master · tensorflow/models · GitHub
url: https://github.com/tensorflow/models/tree/master/official/projects/token_dropping
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title: Finally, a Stock Market Crash!
url: https://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2022/05/20/2022-stock-market-crash/?utm_source=mmmapp&utm_medium=mmmapp&utm_content=browser
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title: Giving a Shit as a Service - Allen Pike
url: https://allenpike.com/2022/giving-a-shit
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date: '2022-07-12T15:35:39.969101'
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bookmark-of:
title: 'Show HN: I made some ambient music generators that run in your browser |
Hacker News'
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date: '2022-07-19T10:21:01.008429'
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title: My Reading Philosophy in 17 Guidelines Tracy Durnell's Mind Garden
url: https://tracydurnell.com/2023/08/19/my-reading-philosophy-and-17-reading-guidelines/
date: '2023-08-20T19:09:20.357609'
post_meta:
- date
tags:
- reading
title: Reading Philosophy and 17 Reading Guidelines
type: bookmarks
url: /bookmarks/2023/08/20/reading-philosophy-and-17-reading-guidelines1692558560
---
I love this post by Tracy. I think that it's easy to fall into the trap of "I've started so I'll finish" as a badge of honour when it comes to books, even when I'm not enjoying them any more.
I also echo the sentiment about knowing what you like. Whilst I enjoy a good pop-sci non fiction book, biographies trigger my "air raid siren".
I also like having multiple non fiction books on the go whilst I power through one good story.
Reading what you want, when you want is also a great directive. I find that if I'm feeling industrious, I might want to sit and make notes on a non fic but sometimes if I'm tired or anxious (e.g. Sunday scaries), a good story is great escapism.

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bookmark-of: https://herbertlui.net/the-squeeze/
date: '2023-08-29T05:34:58.819512'
post_meta:
- date
tags:
- enshittification
- business
title: The squeeze - Herbert Lui
type: bookmarks
url: /bookmarks/2023/08/29/the-squeeze-herbert-lui1693287298
---
Herbert writes about companies squeezing good deals once they've lured enough customers in (aka enshittification)
> You can bet that the better a deal sounds, the more likely its temporary. The company is going to squeeze at some point
As an end customer, make hay while the sun shines and look out for good deals but also take heed of anything that could prevent you from leaving when something goes south. That could be as explicit as an in-contract price hikes or simply a lack of interoperability that would make you think twice about leaving a service after all the time and effort you put in to organising your siloed information.

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bookmark-of:
title: Elegant and powerful new result that seriously undermines large language
models
url: https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/elegant-and-powerful-new-result-that
date: '2023-09-25T07:45:30.033651'
post_meta:
- date
tags:
- llms
- ai
title: Elegant and powerful new result that seriously undermines large language models
type: bookmarks
url: /bookmarks/2023/09/25/elegant-and-powerful-new-result-that-seriously-undermines-large-language-models1695627930
---
Gary's article dropped on Friday and has been widely circulated and commented upon over the weekend.
It shows that LLMs struggle to generalise outside of their prompt (they know that Tom Cruise's mum is Mary Lee Pfeifer but don't know that Mary Lee Pfeiffer's son is Tom Cruise - but there are many more examples). This is a known weakness of neural networks that I wrote about in my [EACL2021 paper](https://aclanthology.org/2021.eacl-main.21.pdf) and that has previously been documented as far back as the 90s. What's interesting is that it still holds today for these massive models with billions of parameters.
For me, the message here isn't "LLMs aren't intelligent so let's write them off as a technology" but rather it's more evidence that they're a powerful and yet limited tool in our arsenal and that they're not a silver bullet. It vindicates and validates approaches that combine technologies to get to the desired output (for example, pairing an LLM with a graph database could help with the mum/son thing).
For me this is a stake in the heart for the whole " there's the spark of general intelligence there" argument too. I find these kinds of probing/diagnostic tests done on models really interesting too.

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categories:
- Personal
date: "2024-08-27 20:11:00"
draft: true
tags: [indiehacking, entrepeneurship]
title:
Bookmarked https://phrack.org/issues/71/17.html#article. A primer on how hacking
mentality ...
type: bookmarks
---
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<div class="wp-block-indieblocks-context"><i>Bookmarked <a class="u-bookmark-of" href="https://phrack.org/issues/71/17.html#article">https://phrack.org/issues/71/17.html#article</a>.</i></div>
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categories:
- Engineering Leadership
- Software Development
date: "2024-09-04 12:06:18"
draft: false
tags: []
title: Bookmarked The Art of Finishing | ByteDrum by ...
type: bookmarks
---
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<div class="wp-block-indieblocks-bookmark"><div class="u-bookmark-of h-cite"><p><i>Bookmarked <a class="u-url p-name" href="https://www.bytedrum.com/posts/art-of-finishing/">The Art of Finishing | ByteDrum</a> by <span class="p-author">Tomas Stropus</span>.</i></p></div><div class="e-content"><!-- wp:paragraph -->
<p>An incredibly relatable essay with a lot of sensible advice and suggestions for issues I struggle with. I think I'm getting better at shipping MVPs but the hard bit is not getting distracted by new shiny ideas when you get stuck with something else. This philosophy is in direct opposition to <a href="https://tilde.town/~dozens/sofa/">the SOFA principle</a>.</p>
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<div class="wp-block-indieblocks-bookmark"><div class="u-bookmark-of h-cite"><p><i>Bookmarked <a class="u-url p-name" href="https://stackoverflow.blog/2024/08/27/postgres-genai-vector-databases-timescale-open-source-db/">Where does Postgres fit in a world of GenAI and vector databases? - Stack Overflow</a>.</i></p></div><div class="e-content"><!-- wp:paragraph -->
<p>The title and framing of this talk are weird and it's bugging me</p>
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<p>The question could be paraphrased as "why would we need to efficiently store and retrieve data in a deterministic way when we have GenAI?" This is like asking "why do we need cars when we have speedboats?" or "Why do we need butter knives now that we've invented the chainsaw?".</p>
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<p>The actual subject matter is "PostgreSQL with a couple of plugins can do pretty good nearest neighbour search". I've long been a big fan of Postgres. You probably don't need separate vector database engines, you can just <a href="https://www.amazingcto.com/postgres-for-everything/">use postgres for everything</a>.</p>
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Another self-hosted paas type platform similar to [Dokku](https://dokku.com/) and [Coolify](https://coolify.io/).
An interesting distinction is that RtS seems to specifically use kubernetes orchestration whereas Dokku and Coolify tend to prefer docker. Since kubernetes is on my list to dive into a little bit more.
I've started a [digital garden page](https://notes.jamesravey.me/Software/Reclaim-The-Stack) about it for taking notes.

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> Oligos research team recently uncovered 6 vulnerabilities in Ollama, one of the leading open-source frameworks for running AI models. Four of the flaws received CVEs and were patched in a recent version, while two were disputed by the applications maintainers, making them shadow vulnerabilities.
This work provides some concrete evidence that hosting public-facing Ollama instances is a bad idea. It's great to see that some of the vulnerabilities were already fixed but it also tracks that making an API that's allowed to consume a bunch of GPU time accessible to the public might allow baddies to take advantage of your systems. If you (or your organisation) are planning to use Ollama for model hosting, I recommend [running it behind litellm](https://brainsteam.co.uk/2024/07/08/ditch-that-chatgpt-subscription-moving-to-pay-as-you-go-ai-usage-with-open-web-ui/)
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> The key is authenticity. Dont do this just for marketing—do it because youre genuinely interested in learning from others and building on their ideas. Its not hard to find things to be excited about. Im amazed by how few people take this approach. Its both effective and fun.
I like this. People don't want to be marketed at, and authenticity is very hard to fake.
I post a little infrequently so perhaps I should work on that.

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I found this article via [Thought Shrapnel](https://thoughtshrapnel.com/2024/12/12/anxiety-as-an.html) but I really enjoyed it and related a little too hard.
Some quotes that particularly resonated:
> *How often does the thing you were worried about actually happen? Sure, occasionally there are issues that come up. Occasionally, you miss the connection or the package arrives late. But far more often, the imagined disaster dissolves into nothing.*
> *But even with reminders, breaking free from anxiety is not easy. It traps you in a tunnel where emotions blur your thinking,*
> *“Its not events that upset us but our opinions about them.”*
> *Anxiety is expensive—not just in terms of the mental toll, but in the way it costs us our lives. Every minute spent consumed by worry is a minute lost.*
I spent a lot of time worrying about things, rationalising about all of this stuff when you're not in "the tunnel" is easy but breaking out of this mindset is far from it.

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This article is new to me but was published 13 years ago. However its message remains evergreen. Particularly in an era where social media silos are speed-running enshittification by letting assholes take over their sites.
The tech industry loves to reinvent the wheel and we often forget that we can adopt solutions developed in other industries. As Anil says, we can draw from learnings in cvil engineering, city planning and crowd control to help us manage websites.
> But, by simply learning from disciplines like urban planning, zoning regulations, crowd control, effective and humane policing, and the simple practices it takes to stage an effective public event, we can come up with a set of principles to prevent the overwhelming majority of the worst behaviors on the Internet.
> Fix your communities. Stop allowing and excusing destructive and pointless conversations to be the fuel for your business. Advertisers, hold sites accountable if your advertising appears next to this hateful stuff. Take accountability for this medium so we can save it from the vilification that it still faces in our culture.

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Had a run in with this little guy this morning. He's been living in our garage eating bird seed out of a sack I bought for our bird feeders for a few weeks. I set up infrared cameras and humane traps and I've been watching him scurrying around cutely at night.we released him into a hedgerow next to a big field this morning and I'm kind of going to miss him.
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Had a run in with this little guy this morning. He's been living in our garage eating bird seed out of a sack I bought for our bird feeders for a few weeks. I set up infrared cameras and humane traps and I've been watching him scurrying around cutely at night.we released him into a hedgerow next to a big field this morning and I'm kind of going to miss him.

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Started playing [Tiny Life]( https://store.steampowered.com/app/1651490/Tiny_Life/), an isometric pixel art remake of The Sims 1 which is still in early access on steam but is already amazingly rounded out and cute. Getting some serious nostalgia vibes. Highly recommended.

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Welcome to my new look website. I've spent my Sunday morning getting the site looking nice and setting up webmentions. I'm now just testing that I can still make new posts

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Went to see Mission Impossible Dead Reckoning. It was ok as a cheesy action film. The AI storyline was a bit irksome but there was a bit where everyone went "yeah the biggest problem is gonna be who ends up controlling this AI and how they use it" and I was like "yea..."
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a quick walk along Lee-on-the-Solent beach to burn some morning lark energy this morning
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Just got back from watching The Meg 2. It got really bad reviews on pretty much every major review site so I was expecting it to be just plain bad but, like the first movie, it was so-bad-its-good. Statham was on form and some of the one liners were great. I'd highly recommend it to folks who like cheesy action flicks.

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<p>I spent some time updating <a href="https://wiki.jamesravey.me/books/seed-propagator/page/music">my digital garden page on music</a> with some bands that I recommend. My taste is somewhat eclectic so you have been warned!</p>
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<p>Restaurant was lovely and the food was top notch. I especially enjoyed the spice ratings on the menu from a little tingle up to life changing</p>
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<p>I was pretty horrified to be greeted by this message whilst running #ubuntu today. I've always enjoyed Ubuntu as a distro that "just works" but I'm starting to get pretty frustrated with Canonical #enshittifying the experience over time. Thinking about jumping back to Mint or possibly #fedora - I think #arch is too high maintenance.</p>
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Drinking Volcano Island blend coffee from [hics](https://hics.biz)

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home for the weekend, Passford House Hotel #newforest #sunshine #countryhouse

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<p>It was lovely to head up to London today to meet up with my friend and fellow NLP nerd Daniel. We spent some time discussing some ideas we had for side projects and talked in depth about how web development has become too complex and our desire to build new software with simple stacks with html templates and limited frontend code.</p>
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<p>We spent quite a lot of time hanging out in the National Library where there's plenty of space to study and conspire over ideas and schemes. Daniel is something of a digital nomad so it's always nice to get some in-person time when possible. Unfortunately none of our contacts at the Alan Turning Institute were available to let us in today (I mean who can blame them, it's the weekend after all).</p>
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<p style="padding:10px;">Had the pleasure of visiting Bletchley Park yesterday to see where Alan Turing and many others did amazing work on early computers and cryptanalysis. As a computer scientist it has been on my bucket list for a really long time so I'm glad to have finally gotten around to it. The bombe machines were fascinating. Mechanical machines (not computers as they were not general purpose/programmable) that brute forced enigma code cyphers by trying different combinations of circuits. They could try 37k combinations in 12 minutes. <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/BletchleyPark?src=hash" title="#BletchleyPark" class="u-url hashtag" rel="external nofollow noopener">#BletchleyPark</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/AlanTuring?src=hash" title="#AlanTuring" class="u-url hashtag" rel="external nofollow noopener">#AlanTuring</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/computers?src=hash" title="#computers" class="u-url hashtag" rel="external nofollow noopener">#computers</a></p>

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Breakfast with a view during our stay in Milton Keynes after visiting Bletchley Park

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<div class="wp-block-indieblocks-bookmark"><div class="u-bookmark-of h-cite"><p><i>Bookmarked <a class="u-url p-name" href="https://tante.cc/2024/08/27/5312/">Productivity gains in Software Development through AI</a> by <span class="p-author">tante</span>.</i></p></div>
<div class="e-content"><!-- wp:freeform --><p>A fairly good rebuttal of the 4500 hours saved piece by Amazon - I had some similar thoughts.</p>
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<p>The sunset was beautiful today as we drove up north to visit my family for the weekend. </p>

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I'm trying out moving back to hugo and webmention stuff again. I was getting a bit frustrated with the bulk involved with wordpress.
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So it's looking pretty bad for the creator of Reflection-70B who posted amazing results. Turns out they really were too good to be true. [it looks like they were proxying api requests to their model through to Anthropic](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41484981). The AI space is full of fraudsters but if this is substantiated, it's the most brazen example I know of so far.
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I started playing Hardspace Shipbreakers last night, it's a really fun space sim game which is quite relaxed and not too aggressie. However, the standout feature is definitely the soundtrack which is absolutely amazing americana/bluegrass style instrumental music https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxTyMVPaOXY
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Happy earth wind and fire day to all those who celebrate!
{{< youtube Gs069dndIYk >}}
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Went into town to collect my new glasses prescription today. Might sight got /slightly/ better but it's taking my eyes a while to get used to a weaker prescription, my computer monitor is a bit blurry...
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Mrs R and I have just tried and failed miserably to make Chorizo carbonara with vegan chorizo. We managed to burn the fake chorizo and scrambled the egg yolks... Fish and chips from justeat on their way...
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Took a slightly disappointing trip up to the top of Portsdown hill with my heltec V3 node to see if I could connect to the mesh in Portsmouth. What I didn't realise is that I needed to disable the WiFi profile on the device from home in order to get Bluetooth comms with my android phone working. Next time I need to reconfigure before I go out... Or buy more nodes 👿
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Visiting Southampton Mayflower Theatre to see Sarah Millican
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Seems the slightly better antennae I got with the 2nd heltec that came yesterday has been able to ping some nodes in Gosport and mesh-hopped into Portsmouth. Unfortunately it's not strong enough to have picked up much more than the device shortnames. The new Parador 5dbi mast I picked up yesterday should fix that... Not addicted I promise 😅
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On my way up to London today for some work meetings with my new LilyGo T-Deck+ in my pocket. If you're a mesh-head in central london keep an eye out for JRTD

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Glad to have my trusty delonghi coffee machine functioning again thanks to a trip to the Gosport Repair Cafe this afternoon. Superb help and advice from professional and amateur volunteers. We managed to figure out that I had reassembled the machine incorrectly when I last tried to fix it for a different reason.

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Christmas is coming, my first "festive coffee" of the year. I really enjoyed the tiny gingerbread man while I was up in London to meet with a couple of old friends and colleagues

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Happy caturday folks
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I'm officially on the Chappell Roan train - I've been listening to The Rise and Fall of a Midwestern Princess all afternoon. Absolute bop after absolute bop. I'm hooked. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xaPNR-_Cfn0
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Hello bridgy fed - testing bluesky propagation of my statuses

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Happy monday everyone. Mrs R and I were supposed to go see Journey in London last night but they cancelled because the band members are all suing each other. We took the PTO today anyway. Might go for a leisurely lunch instead. How are y'all doing?
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A trip out to The Railway Inn at Botley. First time visiting but we'll be back. Lovely huge sandwiches and a nice cozy atmosphere
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Just reluctantly put my new AE-10 wind synth down after a long first day of play as my fingers are starting to really ache. Being able to emulate sax, electric guitar or bagpipes and hear it + a backing track in my headphones is magical. Most excited I've been about music practice for years.
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My new Anerbic handheld (or has Mrs R already calls it my "not-a-gameboy" has arrived). I'm about to have a bunch of time to fill so I'm pretty excited to have this new addition in my collection
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Woke up unnecessarily at 5am on the first day of my long break because of course I did.
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A pretty autumnal tree that I saw on my walk this afternoon

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First funemploymenr job: redecorate my battle station with some new stickers. Mission accomplished I think.
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