Schematron people rejoice. You can now use schematron in your Validibot workflows when validating XML docs. A short example from the world of Digital Calibration Certificates: validibot.com/blog/schemat... #validibot #DCC #schematron #datavalidation #xml #manufacturing #metrology

XML Schematron support in Validibot : An Example from the World of Metrology. | Validibot Blog

If you're working in the world of metrology and calibration XML, you're probably validating your documents using an XML schema like XSD, or maybe RelaxNG. However, if you want to get serious

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Using Validibot to validate semantic building data with the new SHACLValidator...including an example featuring the upcoming ASHRAE 223P ontology. validibot.com/blog/shacl-v... #datavalidation #SHACL #ashrae223p #sparql #nomorebusywork

Validating Data With SHACL Validations | Validibot Blog

Sarah the Engineer has had it with manually checking files. Validibot to the rescue.

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"The president's case against wind are literally the rantings of an old man. I've seen grandpa Simpson make more sense."

Mildly poetic juxtaposition on Reddit today...

CSIRO have now lost more jobs under the Albanese Governmet than under the Abbott Government. We have to do better on research funding and backing our scientists. www.smh.com.au/environment/...

‘Worst thing I’ve ever seen’: CSIRO slashes climate modelling jobs

Australia’s science agency is cutting more than 100 jobs in its Environment Research Unit, which critics say will crush our capacity to predict climate change.

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Head of #energy policy in world’s fourth biggest economy says scale and pace of energy #transition is unprecedented, but the fossil fuel industry is fighting back.

"A tidal wave of hostile messaging:" The billions spent each year by fossil fuel industry demonising renewables

Head of energy policy in world's fourth biggest economy says scale and pace of energy transition is unprecedented, but the fossil fuel industry is fighting back.

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An example of how to use simulations as part of a #datavalidation workflow in Validibot. In this case we use #EnergyPlus validibot.com/blog/validat...

Validating Inputs With Simulations | Validibot Blog

Connect a simulation to a Validibot workflow and suddenly your whole team can validate data quickly...without installs, setup rituals or other monkey business.

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A new report on "Planetary Habitability, Global Convergence and Structural Transformation" by The World Prosperity Lab (includes Thomas Piketty of "Capital in the Twenty-First Century" fame). wid.world/document/pro...

It's a great time to build a SaaS app! #datavalidation #thisisfine validibot.com/blog/great-t...

Great time to build a SaaS App! | Validibot Blog

Why am I building a SaaS product in the middle of the Great SaaS Meltdown? Fair question. If you follow tech news at all, you'll know some or all of the following:...

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Competition winning design for 60 social housing apartments in Catalonia, Spain. A timber structure, operable shades and the blurring of interior and exterior spaces with generous balconies. By Carles Endrich Studio

New paper on compressed earth blocks for building by Valenzuela, Marian; Ciudad, Gustavo; Cárdenas, Juan Pablo et al. orbi.uliege.be/handle/2268/...

Doing basic schema validations in Validibot...in this case, checking a THERM file. validibot.com/blog/validib...

Validibot Use Case: THERM File Validation | Validibot Blog

Demonstrates Validibot by constructing a basic validation workflow for THERM files.

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It was less than 10 years ago that this was considered impossible. And from what I read there wasn't much dissent. Everyone accepted this was the reality. Time to update some assumptions.

This state’s power prices are plummeting as it nears 100% renewables

South Australia is proving to the world that relying largely on wind and solar energy with battery back-up is incredibly cheap, with electricity prices tumbling by 30 per cent in a year and sometimes ...

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Released my Validibot project today on GitHub. Still very much a work in progress but trying from this point to work out in the open. If you’re interested in data validation I’d love to hear what you think… github.com/danielmcquil...

Coming soon to SimpleValidations: FMU support. FMI = the rules, like: coin goes in, gumball rolls out if the gods are pleased. FMU = the actual gumball machine simulator that follows those rules. www.simplevalidations.com/blog/coming-...

Coming soon : FMU Support | SimpleValidations Blog

FMUs are like the gumball dispensers of the simulation world. Compact little containers with complexity hidden behind a simple interface. Terrible analogy? Possibly. But either way here's how we'....

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If these come to AU and we get a vote, 100% Tassie devil, preferably mid-snarl. www.goodgoodgood.co/articles/aus...

PHOTOS: Austria is turning drab power lines into giant metal animals — and they are fully functional

It’s part of an effort to increase public acceptance of expanding electrification.

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I'm building a data validation service for things like EnergyPlus and Modelica files. www.simplevalidations.com

Meet Your Data Validation Assistant | SimpleValidations

SimpleValidations lets you build robust data validation workflows with schema checks, simulations, and credentialing.

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I'm building an e-Learning site for energy-efficiency peeps. modelsandpatterns.org

Models + Patterns

Models + Patterns is an e-Learning platform for energy-efficiency professionals.

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Classic. "Don’t you see? It doesn’t matter what your app architecture is. If AWS falls over, you are going to be affected NO MATTER WHAT ... I don’t care what the uptime of your haunted palace of Kubernetes is." newsletter.goodtechthings.com/p/when-every...

When everybody's down, nobody is

you want a take about the AWS outage? fine, here's a take

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Put on Vangelis’s soundtrack for Blade Runner and then read Michael Levin’s TAME framework paper : pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC... … I’m serious.

Technological Approach to Mind Everywhere: An Experimentally-Grounded Framework for Understanding Diverse Bodies and Minds

Synthetic biology and bioengineering provide the opportunity to create novel embodied cognitive systems (otherwise known as minds) in a very wide variety of chimeric architectures combining evolved and designed material and software. These advances ...

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Learning about the latest positive thinking from the Sustainability Summit / Future of Building Materials Summit at the Melbourne Build Expo today.

American institutions don't crumble. But they can be destroyed.

"Creative puzzle-solving is left to the machines, and we become mere operators disassociated from our craft." hojberg.xyz/the-programm...

The Programmer Identity Crisis ❈ Simon Højberg ❈ Principal Frontend Engineer

On AI, Creativity, and Craft

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Broccoli. Muscle ups. Emacs. All things I want to have in my life but they just keep receding into the distance. Waxbanks writes "You cannot rule without fire." waxbanks.wordpress.com/2025/08/01/b...

bare metal (the emacs essay)

The following submission to Jeremy Friesen’s ‘elevator pitch’-themed Emacs blog carnival is taken from my rather long manuscript in progress (‘the present work’), tent…

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JupyterLite team gives you MatLab scripts via GNU Octave...in your browser! "Xeus-Octave allows you to run GNU Octave code directly on your browser. GNU Octave is a free and open-source Scientific Programming Language that can be used to run Matlab scripts. " blog.jupyter.org/gnu-octave-m...

GNU Octave Meets JupyterLite: Compute Anywhere, Anytime!

We are thrilled to announce the newest member of our JupyterLite kernel ecosystem: Xeus-Octave. Xeus-Octave allows you to run GNU Octave…

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Why are they even looking for more??? This is another 475 million tonnes of CO2 !!! "there’s no room for new fields to be opened. When you’re in a hole, you have to stop digging.” - Dr. Greg Muttitt, @iisd.org #ClimateEmergency

Full Mehdi Hasan speech at No Kings protest calls Trump out, says immigrants 'love this country'. www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHtI...

Full Mehdi Hasan speech at No Kings protest calls Trump out, says immigrants 'love this country'

YouTube video by USA TODAY

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Pritzker: Throughout history we've learned that tyranny doesn't arrive with dramatic proclamations. Most times it comes quietly wrapped in the language of law and order, with fingers pointed at someone who doesn't look like you, promising safety while demanding that we sacrifice our neighbors.