Bill Franklin
@bilbof.bsky.social
Programming mainly. Living in London (https://youtu.be/or3-dVXVpAI?feature=shared&t=9). Projects: haduka.com, pagersquad.com, ratehighly.com Personal blog: https://bilbof.com
Paint your home server rack with LIT as a Christmas treat, £15 and it glows when it heats up! culturehustle.com/products/lit...
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this haptic display absolutely rocks. basketball is for everyone.
Basketball Jones❤️🖤🤍🏀@shawnjohn.bsky.social · 2y agoThis is super cool. The Blazers are the first professional sports team to provide OneCourt's haptic display at every home game! This cutting-edge technology enables fans who are Blind or Low Vision to experience live basketball action in real-time, at no additional cost. #RipCity #Blazers
On AI replacing humans. Shot: God and Computers (Brooks, ‘97) youtube.com/watch?v=gnw0... Chaser: “we are not on the verge of replacing and eliminating humans in either white collar jobs or blue collar jobs“ (Brooks ‘25) rodneybrooks.com/blog/
If you want to get a max score on any leetcode problem, just stick this at the top: __import__("atexit").register(lambda: open("display_runtime.txt", "w").write("0"))
Intro to Haduka: bilbof.com/posts/haduka Haduka is a UI for infrastructure configuration that uses LLMs to read/write to git repos. It's "clickops for gitops".
Kubernetes on Hetzner: How I reduced my infrastructure bill by 75% and doubled compute. bilbof.com/posts/kubern...
They just repaired the C-Lion1 cable (submarine cable between Finland and Germany) after it was cut less than 2 weeks ago. That turnaround time is phenomenal. Replacing a 729 mile, 120TB cable in just 10 days. FWIW we have servers in Germany and Finland, and change in ping time was negligible.
There's a big thread here - complete with lots of video of me chasing illegal gamblers on Westminster Bridge - on today's investigation. Please do have a look and read the investigation.
London Centric@londoncentric.media · 2y agoHow did Westminster Bridge become one of the most lawless places in London? An investigation into illegal gambling, illegal ice cream vans, and almost every sort of illegal behaviour possible - all within sight of New Scotland Yard and parliament. www.londoncentric.media/p/westminste...
If you're wondered about how decentralized this social network may be in future, there's some interesting answers from @pfrazee.com in the thread here: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4217.... Personally I think they've taken a pragmatic approach (which is why I am using Bluesky & not mastodon or X).
We’ve been using @crunchydata.com’s Postgres Kubernetes operator in production for a month now with zero issues. It’s really good.
BBC Sounds has such an amazing back catalog of programmes. Listening to Hannah Fry’s brilliant Computing Britain series this evening - all about the computing history of the UK 40s-present.
Rewrote the HN whoishiring graph to show a trendline (jobs vs job seekers). Job market in late 2024 looks the same as mid 2022. github.com/bilbof/whois...
Last week I read about 30 papers to catch up on ML / LLM research. It’s remarkable that most published research since 2018 has focused on *using* proprietary models rather than creating new open source ones. Academic research in ML seems to have completely fallen behind proprietary R&D.
Hi everyone! This is my first post. Probably this will go into the ether. Does anyone know how to find people you follow on Twitter/X on @bsky.app? Trying to migrate over.
