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Luke Knox @lukeknox.me · 06/02/2025

this haptic display absolutely rocks. basketball is for everyone.

Bill Franklin @bilbof.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

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/

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Bill Franklin @bilbof.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

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"))

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Bill Franklin @bilbof.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

See how much you spent on PlayStation github.com/bilbof/plays...

How much I spent on PlayStation over the past 7 years: £1269.91, only £50 last year. £292/year on average if you include hardware costs.

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Bill Franklin @bilbof.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

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".

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Bill Franklin @bilbof.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Graybeards when they see young bloods using Kubernetes

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Bill Franklin @bilbof.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Kubernetes on Hetzner: How I reduced my infrastructure bill by 75% and doubled compute. bilbof.com/posts/kubern...

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Bill Franklin @bilbof.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

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.

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Bill Franklin @bilbof.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

I rebuilt my blog in Vue bilbof.com/posts/migrat...

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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 22/11/2024

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.

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Bill Franklin @bilbof.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

2024 is the year of writing Go that looks like Rails

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Bill Franklin @bilbof.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

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).

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Bill Franklin @bilbof.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

We’ve been using @crunchydata.com’s Postgres Kubernetes operator in production for a month now with zero issues. It’s really good.

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Bill Franklin @bilbof.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Added collaborative reading to my blog

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Bill Franklin @bilbof.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

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.

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Bill Franklin @bilbof.bsky.social · 22/10/2024

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...

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Bill Franklin @bilbof.bsky.social · 03/08/2024

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.

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Bill Franklin @bilbof.bsky.social · 19/05/2024

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.

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