*It's almost time* for the next #MLOps Meetup on Wednesday at Wordsmith.AI where they will be doing a talk on "Agent Harness Engineering", alongside the talk from Marios Zachariou, PhD on “Agentic MLOps in Rust: From Chatbots to Autonomous Infrastructure Actors”

“Agentic MLOps in Rust: From Chatbots to Autonomous Infrastructure Actors” + "Agent Harness Engineering"(MLOps Meetup July 2026) · Luma

Tonight we’ll be hearing from: in first talk, from Marios Zachariou on “Agentic MLOps in Rust: From Chatbots to Autonomous Infrastructure Actors”. From…

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It's *almost time* for this months #Rustlang meetup on Thursday. It's great to see so many people interested, and I'm really looking forward to it! (some places still free though) (Btw, if you came along last time to Patersons Land, note that it is there again, but just in a different room)

Bevy, Bits, & Cats (Rust July Talks), Thu, Jul 2, 2026, 6:30 PM | Meetup

Tonight we’ll be hearing from: * [Fallible Things](https://blog.fallible.net/) on "Bevy in Anger (and other stages of grief)": Fallible has been working on a digital card

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It's great to see the increasing interest in Glasgow about #Rustlang, and so we are kicking-off some meetups there. To start with we're having some coffee/pub meetups (on the same day, Thu 18th June): ☕️ A daytime coffee event at 13:00 🍻 An evening pub event at 18:00 (See thread for links)

What does #Rustlang have to do with "Bits & Cats"? If you're curious, come along to our July Meetup to hear our (just announced) second speaker, Matthew Liam Healy, talk about "Bits & Cats: Rust's dual histories, and what comes next"

Bevy, Bits, & Cats (Rust July Talks), Thu, Jul 2, 2026, 6:30 PM | Meetup

Tonight we’ll be hearing from: * [Fallible Things](https://blog.fallible.net/) on "Bevy in Anger (and other stages of grief)": Fallible has been working on a digital card

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No sooner am I back from RustWeek than I'm announcing Rust July Talks: www.meetup.com/rust-and-fri... 😀 Look out also for another talk, yet to be announced!

Rust July Talks: Bevy + TBA, Thu, Jul 2, 2026, 6:30 PM | Meetup

Tonight we’ll be hearing from: * [Fallible Things](https://blog.fallible.net/) on "Bevy in Anger (and other stages of grief)": Fallible has been working on a digital card

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It's almost time to hear from Rachel Willmer on Wed about "Roll Your Own AI: Adventures in Self-Hosting" (luma.com/887pelox) 😀

"Roll Your Own AI: Adventures in Self-Hosting" (MLOps Meetup May 2026) · Luma

Tonight we’ll be hearing from: Rachel Willmer on "Roll Your Own AI: Adventures in Self-Hosting". From Rachel: New tech: where everything is so new…

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Second #rustlang Edinburgh talk now announced: Fallible will be talking on "Bevy in Anger (and other stages of grief)" 😀 I particularly like how the two talks show the breadth of applicability of #rustlang. This is shaping-up to be a really interesting night!

Rust May Talks: Aetherus + Bevy, Thu, May 7, 2026, 6:30 PM | Meetup

Tonight we’ll be hearing from: * Cristian Bourceanu on "Aetherus: Monte-Carlo radiative transfer with photon history tracking of interactions for materials and surfaces".

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It's #rustlang time: www.meetup.com/rust-and-fri... . Super-pleased to announce our first set of talks for a little while 😀 . Please do come along and also watch out for the second talk to be announced ...

Rust May Talks: Aetherus + TBA, Thu, May 7, 2026, 6:30 PM | Meetup

Tonight we’ll be hearing from: * Cristian Bourceanu on "Aetherus: Monte-Carlo radiative transfer with photon history tracking of interactions for materials and surfaces".

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Doodles! #illustration #fantasyart #digitalart

Are you #rustlang curious? Perhaps you want to chat in a relaxed environment with others who are also curious and/or know about it? If so, please consider coming along to one of the rustandfriends.org sessions in Edinburgh next week.

Rust and Friends

Website for the Rust language community in Edinburgh

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🧶 I only learned recently that 'spalted' wood is simply wood that's started rotting already, so it gets some interesting patterns from bacteria starting to break it down. This crochet hook was unwittingly made from spalted birch. #crochet #yarncrafts #woodcarving #whittling

Make it stick.

People Are Calling Meta Ray-Bans "Pervert Glasses"

On Bluesky, users quickly embraced the term "pervert glasses" to refer to Meta's Ray Ban smart glasses, following a shocking investigation.

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🧶 The very first crochet hook I ever carved, oh, back in the summer of 2019, was this little number from an oak branch I found while hiking. It's aged beautifully and I'll never get tired of looking at the pretty, pretty end grain pattern. #crochet #yarncrafts #woodcarving #whittling

I finally got round to writing-up a thing I did over xmas using Lidar heights to visualise possible impact of sea-level rise on Edinburgh: youtu.be/7-W-LEc9GPQ Much kudos to GeoMob Edinburgh / Peter Creasey for making me aware of these datasets, and to the Scottish government for producing them!

Edinburgh Heights visualised in Kepler.gl

YouTube video by Mike Moran

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If you want to defeat the far right, you need a real alternative, not a more moderate version that panders & parrots but offers nothing to address real issues. Congratulations @greenparty.org.uk, Hannah Spencer, @zackpolanski.bsky.social & the people of Gorton & Denton www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cp...

Green Party wins Gorton and Denton by-election with Labour pushed into third by Reform

Hannah Spencer, a 34-year-old plumber, also becomes the first Green Party candidate to win a Westminster by-election.

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Well. After a January that seemed to take years, February is almost gone in a blink 😅, and it's time for our first #MLOps of the year on Wednesday! This time we'll be hearing from Assulan Nurkas on "Scaling Fine-Tuned LLMs: Processing 200k Daily Reviews at Trustpilot"; luma.com/1eolb1o5

MLOps Meetup Feb 2026 · Luma

Tonight we’ll be hearing from: Assulan Nurkas on "Scaling Fine-Tuned LLMs: Processing 200k Daily Reviews at Trustpilot". From Assulan: Assulan Nurkas is a…

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“is there a technology that the left is excited about?” Trains. We love trains, actually

love a bit of continvouclous morging

David Bushell 🪿@dbushell.com · 6mo ago

have a chuckle at this "Git flow" slop might explain GitHub's recent outages learn.microsoft.com/en-us/traini...

ai;dr AI; didn't read.

iter::reskeet(🦀)@tuckersiemens.com · 6mo ago

This is why I'm appreciating ai;dr as a sibling to the usual tl;dr.

Book targeting 🎯 is becoming incredibly fine-grained nowadays…

Every American needs to watch this:

A couple of hours and $8 of Claude later (!) I added a mini-blog to my fosdem site: fosdem.houseofmoran.io/blog/. I do have *other* reasons for doing this, like summarising data changes, but was also a good way to decompress after a very busy #fosdem weekend 😅.

I've been coming to #Fosdem since 2019; the bad (still) isn't all that bad, and the good is still very good. Many thanks to all the organisers and volunteers for making this possible 🙇‍♂️. www.houseofmoran.com/post/2026-02...

Here's a Red-bearded Bee-eater for day 27 of #Birbfest #Birbfest2026 #illustration #sketchbook #birds

We're starting-off this year in #MLOps with a great talk in Feb from Assulan Nurkas ( luma.com/1eolb1o5 ) : "Scaling Fine-Tuned LLMs: Processing 200k Daily Reviews at @trustpilot.bsky.social". Many thanks also to @skyscanner.net for hosting + sponsoring us. Hope to see you there!

MLOps Meetup Feb 2026 · Luma

Tonight we’ll be hearing from: Assulan Nurkas on "Scaling Fine-Tuned LLMs: Processing 200k Daily Reviews at Trustpilot". From Assulan: Assulan Nurkas is a…

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#Birbfest, day 25: I feel very lucky to have seen kingfishers a few times in the wild, just because in Edinburgh they like to jump out at unsuspecting people passing by running water. Such a joy to behold! #Birbfest2026 #illustration #sketchbook #birds

As a kid who grew up with Mr. Rogers, this legit made me emotional.

Nuthatches are cool because with their go-faster-stripes and them constantly being upside down for some reason they always look like they're Very Seriously Going Somewhere. #Birbfest, day 23. #Birbfest2026 #illustration #sketchbook #birds

I've never seen a population more united. If people can hold onto that unity, if people can accept that different people will have different ways of confronting fascism, if we can remind NGOs and orgs that they can join but not control the resistance, then, well, people here will write history.