Neil Stoker ✨

@nmstoker.bsky.social

Photographer 📷 Developer 👨‍💻 Pythonista 🐍 Data Wrangler 🤠 ML Enthusiast 🤖🧠🎉 Countryside Lover 🍂🍄🌳💚

Why do IT departments seem to love adding layers to a process?! "Hey, we have one smart person handling this task well. That concentrates responsibility too much! Let's replace them with six people working in series, across timezones, cultures, now no one is responsible! Result!"

@ericmigi.com Any chance of a blog update on PT2 shipping? Last update (24th March) said expected to finish by start of June. I was in Batch 2, originally due January and haven't heard anything even though presumably I'm further ahead in the queue than many 🤷‍♂️

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Anyone else started running into ChatGPT speech getting all jittery & cutting out as it talks back to you? Was perfect for ages… now it's really frustrating, like it's calling you over a terrible phone line! Latest app release, Android 16, Pixel 10 Pro. Nothing obviously changed on device

Plasma is going all Wayland After nearly three decades of KDE desktop environments running on X11, the future KDE Plasma 6.8 release (due early 2027) will be Wayland-exclusive. Read the FAQ below to find out what this means for you and the future of KDE: blogs.kde.org/2025/11/26/g...

The Wayland (a yellow circle with a W in the center) rises over green pastures where Konqi frolics happily.

Join us at the 99th PyData London Meetup — with a talk from a genuine PyData celebrity! 🤩 Tue 2 September 19:00 Skrub: machine-learning with dataframes — @gaelvaroquaux.bsky.social Model Context Protocol: is refactoring tool calls worth your time? — Victor Zommers meetu.ps/e/Pt20x/5p7c...

PyData London - 99th Meetup, Tue, Sep 2, 2025, 7:00 PM | Meetup

**Venue**: Riverbank House, 2 Swan Ln, London EC4R 3AD **Please note**: 1. 🚨🚨🚨A valid photo ID is required by building security. 🚨🚨🚨 2. This event follows the **[Nu

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The next generation of AI-powered websites is going to be WILD! 🤯 In-browser tool calling & MCP is finally here, allowing LLMs to interact with websites programmatically. To show what's possible, I built a demo using Liquid AI's new LFM2 model, powered by 🤗 Transformers.js.

Henley & Partners’ wealth migration reports have been reported all over the world, both to prove both that there's a massive exodus of wealth from the UK and that there isn't. Our forensic review finds the data riddled with anomalies - and in key places looks fabricated:

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Not something to do *all* holiday but Codex works remarkably well on a SteamDeck for some casual vibe coding! 🥳 Not surprising as it's a full computer but I didn't find the screen size too much of a hindrance and I could git pull the code locally to check it really worked 🙂 #holidayvibes #steamdeck

Etymology of the day: spiders were once known as ‘attercops’, or ‘poison-heads’, because it was believed most spiders were venomous. The ‘cop’ element became the ‘cob’ in ‘cobweb’.