The tragedy of AI goes beyond environmental and political to a far worse sin: turning interesting intelligent people into the biggest bores on the planet. Get a grip on yourselves fuck. This is how I used to post and it’s why I stopped.
James Wheare
@jwheare.com
@irccloud.com founder. Software design, JavaScript, Erlang. Fife coast and dog content. Bad at Bluesky. http://jwheare.com
Cursed doomscroll algorithm tech: shame detection. Track when a user urgently scrolls past a thirst trap ad to avoid being linger detected.
Related: either we had a bird strike or it’s time to replace the anemometer.
A Bluesky client for Roku TV Personal project 4 weeks in, update epitomical.co.uk/blueku/ #softwaredev #dev #bskyclient
I put together a mosaic of 2025 from the timelapse camera on my roof jwheare.com/year-mosaic/... (not a keogram, but inspired by @cbassa.bsky.social)
2025 Year Mosaic
Full year mosaic for 2025 from a roof camera in Fife
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Cees Bassa@cbassa.bsky.social · 7mo agoHappy new year! My all sky camera imaged the sky every 15 seconds and this picture shows what happened in the sky in 2025. It shows the length of the night and day with the hourglass shape, the monthly lunar cycle with the diagonal bands, the elevation of the Sun at local noon, and lots of clouds.
An incredible high wind gust was recorded on the Isle of May weather station as storm Éowyn hit #Fife in late January. An insane 98MPH top windspeed was recorded! 😱😱😱 The live dashboard for this station is available on my website's main page: www.fifeweather.co.uk
Love it when we get the alternative camera angle DVD extra from the Aberdour webcam.
FifeWeather.co.uk@fifeweather.co.uk · last yr.#Fife #Weather at 07:01 🌡7.3°C (🔺8.3°C/🔻7.2°C) 💧88%RH 🌬SW 6.9mph, Max Gust 23.9mph 🌀1000.1mb 🔼 ☔0.0mm/hr, 0.00mm 🏭Air quality: 🟢PM2.5: 1.8 (AQI 1, Low pollution) 🟢PM10: 13.9 (AQI 1, Low pollution)
Where I live we now have got through the 10 weeks of the year with less than 9 hours of daylight and are approaching what I like to call the "rapidly lengthening daylight" period of the year. This #dataviz shows the weekly loss and gain of daylight at 51 degrees north.
Right, time to close all these tabs and go for a wallk... oh wait. (spoilers for another project)
Boatify wrapped 2024! Stats, maps, timelapses and silly stuff from my AIS receiver and webcam overlooking the Firth of Forth. (recommend viewing on a grown up computer, works on phones but not optimised for them) vessels.marinesightings.com/review/2024/
AIS year in review 2024
Stats and interesting ships I saw come sailing in
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Lenticular clouds. January 16 2025 Full length on Youtube: youtu.be/2rZ3nUkFZnw
Wrote up some notes on the Online Safety Act guidance and how it applies to small websites, because Ofcom's guidance is terrible: russ.garrett.co.uk/2024/12/17/o...
Online Safety Act Notes for Small Sites — Russ Garrett
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