iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Michael Skelton @codingo.com · 17/02/2025

New farm additions! A dwarf alpaca and additional miniature goats! 🦙🐐

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Michael Skelton @codingo.com · 18/01/2025

Harvest day! This is what a fully grown bowen mango sizes up to

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Michael Skelton @codingo.com · 13/01/2025

We do a lot of earthworks here, has made hydraulics the bane of my existence.. I always carry a spare of the longest length on the tractor now

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Michael Skelton @codingo.com · 13/01/2025

So much for harvesting our guava's later this month then...

Goats stealing guavas right from the tree

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Michael Skelton @codingo.com · 11/01/2025

lol, live on a farm and regularly working on tractors and building.. I was just impatient, and rushing

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Michael Skelton @codingo.com · 11/01/2025

Had this earlier in the year, I’d over tightened one side (used an impact).. doing them equally(ish) to tension by hand fixed the seal and stopped the leak

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Michael Skelton @codingo.com · 29/12/2024

New farm additions for Christmas, and a family barn build for the weekend 🐐

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Michael Skelton @codingo.com · 03/02/2024

Tag, drench and bulls to steers today.. taught my son how to ear tag and had him do a few, pretty cool experience for a 5yo

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Michael Skelton @codingo.com · 03/12/2023

First mangos of the season! We’ve 37 fruiting trees, so going to be learning a lot this year..

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Michael Skelton @codingo.com · 31/10/2023

Successfully rejuvenated 37 mango trees that hadn't borne fruit for the past ~two years. Working with an arborist, we drastically pruned them from 20m to 10m per tree. Thrilled to see that they're now bearing fruit! 🌳🥭

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Michael Skelton @codingo.com · 21/10/2023

A year to the day I burnt out worse than I ever have, leading to my wife and I selling our house, and buying an overrun farm to restore to prior glory. ... Best decision we ever made. Happier than ever, huge health improvements mentally, and physically. Strongly recommended.

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Michael Skelton @codingo.com · 23/09/2023

Weekend scrub clearing.. I can get to my bees again!

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Michael Skelton @codingo.com · 21/08/2023

Came outside to quite the sight. Something tells me the kids have been feeding the Kookaburra's...

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Michael Skelton @codingo.com · 12/08/2023

Noted, though I’ve already made the mistake of tequila at defcon before my flight home, may consider that part optional

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Michael Skelton @codingo.com · 12/08/2023

At the time, I was a developer from Australia… seemed to fit :)

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Michael Skelton @codingo.com · 12/08/2023

Interesting… I’m mostly following the lead of a lawyer friend. If I wanted to learn more about that, with much less experience in this than you have, where would you begin?

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Michael Skelton @codingo.com · 08/08/2023

Ahhhhhh… sorry, bias. I did the land thing last year / been building out.

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Michael Skelton @codingo.com · 08/08/2023

Depends on what kind of a master agreement you have with them… most are very explicit on data ownership, which makes this a non issue. Matters for individual <-> individual but not for businesses as press is making out

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Michael Skelton @codingo.com · 08/08/2023

Thinking this through more too - fencing is about 50k if 10-20 acres (self building), another 10k or so for materials if you build your own barns.. all very, very expensive if you want to build something multi generational with minimal upkeep

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Michael Skelton @codingo.com · 08/08/2023

Missed opportunity for a subtle “oh hay there” when you walked in.. imagine your reaction later on if they did

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Michael Skelton @codingo.com · 08/08/2023

Not sure I’d agree if you’re doing food also. The labour cost is high, even if you’re just farming to supplement. Much higher time inputs if you don’t own tractor, excavator, etc also. At least 150k need there

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Michael Skelton @codingo.com · 08/08/2023

I’ve managed water, and septic.. off grid power, fully off grid starts at min 50k where I live though. Battery technology still isn’t quite there yet

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Michael Skelton @codingo.com · 31/07/2023

I’ve tried a few times to get going here, but it does feel dead to me each time. Genuine question - what should I do differently? I’d like to post more, but don’t want to spam, and get no interest when I do post

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Michael Skelton @codingo.com · 31/07/2023

Oof. Feel for the chicken that laid this! Regular eggs for comparison. I’ve no turkeys or ducks in this run..

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Michael Skelton @codingo.com · 31/07/2023

Just your average danger noodle off to hunt some drop bears

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Michael Skelton @codingo.com · 22/07/2023

If I join can we get matching tattoos? Worth at least 10-15 skeet’s about how inspired by site we were

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Michael Skelton @codingo.com · 22/07/2023

Dare I ask. What’s a vagueskeet?

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Michael Skelton @codingo.com · 16/07/2023

Tell me your best Aussie fact, and I’ll tell you why it’s horribly inaccurate and probably offends us

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Michael Skelton @codingo.com · 06/07/2023

I think that depends how embedded you are on it.. It feels like an empty room to me, and I've no idea how to engage with it. Twitter was/is toxic, but at least I could have conversations about content/ideas

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Michael Skelton @codingo.com · 06/07/2023

Does that need to be a bad thing? For me, Reddit loss has been happy/healthy for me, I feel losing twitter and engaging less on other platforms is the same.

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Michael Skelton @codingo.com · 02/07/2023

A weekend out the back fixing fences with my 4yo.. His first attempt at a strainer knot is far better than mine ever was!

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Michael Skelton @codingo.com · 18/06/2023

Limits a lot of the desire for companies to build accounts/presences also… though maybe that’s a benefit.

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Michael Skelton @codingo.com · 02/06/2023

Plenty of wood for the smoker! Already seasoned.. tree was dead standing for at least five years I'm told (ironbark)

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Michael Skelton @codingo.com · 16/05/2023

I did, yeah. I also use the playground and pre-prompts to make sure it highlights when it hallucinates in a response - makes a big difference.

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Michael Skelton @codingo.com · 16/05/2023

Sure, I could do that before, but I would have had to do it with Google/Excel/more time, and it was too easy to procrastinate.. Tasks like that are now easy enough, that I want to do them

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Michael Skelton @codingo.com · 16/05/2023

I use it as a guide, mostly. I've found it useful for things that would normally take me longer on google, but I could on google. Building a localised planting schedule for my garden within 10mins, for example:

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Michael Skelton @codingo.com · 16/05/2023

I view it as an equalizer. If you were great at your job before, you now have a great tool for productivity. If you were good at your job before, you now have a tool to be great. So on, and so fourth. It brings a high standard of writing / tone to a larger audience.

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Michael Skelton @codingo.com · 16/05/2023

May one participate and keep their butt pictures to one's self also?

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Michael Skelton @codingo.com · 15/05/2023

Makes sense, thank-you! Happy to see scale go slow, but a lot of infosec peeps I know I'd love to onboard too (was considering a small, private instance if it was possible already)

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Michael Skelton @codingo.com · 15/05/2023

If someone hosts their own, does that allow them to engage with the procol / Bluesky, without an invite?

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Michael Skelton @codingo.com · 15/05/2023

K, soon as I'm done with hellthread notifications

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Michael Skelton @codingo.com · 10/05/2023

Beautiful.. but can I come over and mulch the tree bases please 🙃

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Michael Skelton @codingo.com · 10/05/2023

Or, hear me out, a masterful play by some registrar to sell _more_ domains

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Michael Skelton @codingo.com · 10/05/2023

Experience also helps to identify better who you can/can't trust also.. It's a broad generalisation, but I find Infosec are pretty bad at admitting they don't know something outside of their specialty. Makes it harder to identify who to listen to about what when new to the space

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Michael Skelton @codingo.com · 09/05/2023

Aw man, I feel this. I have a Dell XPS with i3 for personal use, and a Macbook for work. Always an hour or two of mental calibration when I swap between

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