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Daniel McQuillen

@dmcq.bsky.social
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Indie software dev. Data validation. Energy efficient buildings. e-Learning. Sustainability. validibot.com ┆ modelsandpatterns.org ┆ mcquilleninteractive.com

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Daniel McQuillen @dmcq.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Schematron people rejoice. You can now use schematron in your Validibot workflows when validating XML docs. A short example from the world of Digital Calibration Certificates: validibot.com/blog/schemat... #validibot #DCC #schematron #datavalidation #xml #manufacturing #metrology
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XML Schematron support in Validibot : An Example from the World of Metrology. | Validibot Blog
If you're working in the world of metrology and calibration XML, you're probably validating your documents using an XML schema like XSD, or maybe RelaxNG. However, if you want to get serious
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Daniel McQuillen @dmcq.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Using Validibot to validate semantic building data with the new SHACLValidator...including an example featuring the upcoming ASHRAE 223P ontology. validibot.com/blog/shacl-v... #datavalidation #SHACL #ashrae223p #sparql #nomorebusywork
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Validating Data With SHACL Validations | Validibot Blog
Sarah the Engineer has had it with manually checking files. Validibot to the rescue.
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
"The president's case against wind are literally the rantings of an old man. I've seen grandpa Simpson make more sense."
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Daniel McQuillen @dmcq.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Mildly poetic juxtaposition on Reddit today...
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David Pocock @davidpocock.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
CSIRO have now lost more jobs under the Albanese Governmet than under the Abbott Government. We have to do better on research funding and backing our scientists. www.smh.com.au/environment/...
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‘Worst thing I’ve ever seen’: CSIRO slashes climate modelling jobs
Australia’s science agency is cutting more than 100 jobs in its Environment Research Unit, which critics say will crush our capacity to predict climate change.
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Renew Economy @reneweconomy.com.au · 10/03/2026
Head of #energy policy in world’s fourth biggest economy says scale and pace of energy #transition is unprecedented, but the fossil fuel industry is fighting back.
reneweconomy.com.au
"A tidal wave of hostile messaging:" The billions spent each year by fossil fuel industry demonising renewables
Head of energy policy in world's fourth biggest economy says scale and pace of energy transition is unprecedented, but the fossil fuel industry is fighting back.
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Daniel McQuillen @dmcq.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
An example of how to use simulations as part of a #datavalidation workflow in Validibot. In this case we use #EnergyPlus validibot.com/blog/validat...
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Validating Inputs With Simulations | Validibot Blog
Connect a simulation to a Validibot workflow and suddenly your whole team can validate data quickly...without installs, setup rituals or other monkey business.
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Climate News @climatenews.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
the_thinking_great_ape
You know what WON'T get stuck in the Strait of Hormuz?
Sunlight and solar panels.
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Daniel McQuillen @dmcq.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
A new report on "Planetary Habitability, Global Convergence and Structural Transformation" by The World Prosperity Lab (includes Thomas Piketty of "Capital in the Twenty-First Century" fame). wid.world/document/pro...
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Daniel McQuillen @dmcq.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
It's a great time to build a SaaS app! #datavalidation #thisisfine validibot.com/blog/great-t...
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Great time to build a SaaS App! | Validibot Blog
Why am I building a SaaS product in the middle of the Great SaaS Meltdown? Fair question. If you follow tech news at all, you'll know some or all of the following:...
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Philip Oldfield @sustainabletall.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Competition winning design for 60 social housing apartments in Catalonia, Spain. A timber structure, operable shades and the blurring of interior and exterior spaces with generous balconies. By Carles Endrich Studio
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Daniel McQuillen @dmcq.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
New paper on compressed earth blocks for building by Valenzuela, Marian; Ciudad, Gustavo; Cárdenas, Juan Pablo et al. orbi.uliege.be/handle/2268/...
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Daniel McQuillen @dmcq.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Doing basic schema validations in Validibot...in this case, checking a THERM file. validibot.com/blog/validib...
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Validibot Use Case: THERM File Validation | Validibot Blog
Demonstrates Validibot by constructing a basic validation workflow for THERM files.
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Justin Mikulka @justinmikulka.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
It was less than 10 years ago that this was considered impossible. And from what I read there wasn't much dissent. Everyone accepted this was the reality. Time to update some assumptions.
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This state’s power prices are plummeting as it nears 100% renewables
South Australia is proving to the world that relying largely on wind and solar energy with battery back-up is incredibly cheap, with electricity prices tumbling by 30 per cent in a year and sometimes ...
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Daniel McQuillen @dmcq.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Released my Validibot project today on GitHub. Still very much a work in progress but trying from this point to work out in the open. If you’re interested in data validation I’d love to hear what you think… github.com/danielmcquil...
Illustration of Validibot robot using magnifying glass to look at documents.
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Daniel McQuillen @dmcq.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Coming soon to SimpleValidations: FMU support. FMI = the rules, like: coin goes in, gumball rolls out if the gods are pleased. FMU = the actual gumball machine simulator that follows those rules. www.simplevalidations.com/blog/coming-...
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Coming soon : FMU Support | SimpleValidations Blog
FMUs are like the gumball dispensers of the simulation world. Compact little containers with complexity hidden behind a simple interface. Terrible analogy? Possibly. But either way here's how we'....
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Daniel McQuillen @dmcq.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
If these come to AU and we get a vote, 100% Tassie devil, preferably mid-snarl. www.goodgoodgood.co/articles/aus...
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PHOTOS: Austria is turning drab power lines into giant metal animals — and they are fully functional
It’s part of an effort to increase public acceptance of expanding electrification.
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Daniel McQuillen @dmcq.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
I'm building a data validation service for things like EnergyPlus and Modelica files. www.simplevalidations.com
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Meet Your Data Validation Assistant | SimpleValidations
SimpleValidations lets you build robust data validation workflows with schema checks, simulations, and credentialing.
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Daniel McQuillen @dmcq.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
I'm building an e-Learning site for energy-efficiency peeps. modelsandpatterns.org
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Models + Patterns
Models + Patterns is an e-Learning platform for energy-efficiency professionals.
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Daniel McQuillen @dmcq.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Classic. "Don’t you see? It doesn’t matter what your app architecture is. If AWS falls over, you are going to be affected NO MATTER WHAT ... I don’t care what the uptime of your haunted palace of Kubernetes is." newsletter.goodtechthings.com/p/when-every...
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When everybody's down, nobody is
you want a take about the AWS outage? fine, here's a take
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Daniel McQuillen @dmcq.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Put on Vangelis’s soundtrack for Blade Runner and then read Michael Levin’s TAME framework paper : pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC... … I’m serious.
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Technological Approach to Mind Everywhere: An Experimentally-Grounded Framework for Understanding Diverse Bodies and Minds
Synthetic biology and bioengineering provide the opportunity to create novel embodied cognitive systems (otherwise known as minds) in a very wide variety of chimeric architectures combining evolved and designed material and software. These advances ...
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Daniel McQuillen @dmcq.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Learning about the latest positive thinking from the Sustainability Summit / Future of Building Materials Summit at the Melbourne Build Expo today.
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
American institutions don't crumble. But they can be destroyed.
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Daniel McQuillen @dmcq.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
"Creative puzzle-solving is left to the machines, and we become mere operators disassociated from our craft." hojberg.xyz/the-programm...
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The Programmer Identity Crisis ❈ Simon Højberg ❈ Principal Frontend Engineer
On AI, Creativity, and Craft
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Daniel McQuillen @dmcq.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
Broccoli. Muscle ups. Emacs. All things I want to have in my life but they just keep receding into the distance. Waxbanks writes "You cannot rule without fire." waxbanks.wordpress.com/2025/08/01/b...
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bare metal (the emacs essay)
The following submission to Jeremy Friesen’s ‘elevator pitch’-themed Emacs blog carnival is taken from my rather long manuscript in progress (‘the present work’), tent…
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Daniel McQuillen @dmcq.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
JupyterLite team gives you MatLab scripts via GNU Octave...in your browser! "Xeus-Octave allows you to run GNU Octave code directly on your browser. GNU Octave is a free and open-source Scientific Programming Language that can be used to run Matlab scripts. " blog.jupyter.org/gnu-octave-m...
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GNU Octave Meets JupyterLite: Compute Anywhere, Anytime!
We are thrilled to announce the newest member of our JupyterLite kernel ecosystem: Xeus-Octave. Xeus-Octave allows you to run GNU Octave…
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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Why are they even looking for more??? This is another 475 million tonnes of CO2 !!! "there’s no room for new fields to be opened. When you’re in a hole, you have to stop digging.” - Dr. Greg Muttitt, @iisd.org #ClimateEmergency
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Lawrence @ldog562.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Full Mehdi Hasan speech at No Kings protest calls Trump out, says immigrants 'love this country'. www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHtI...
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Full Mehdi Hasan speech at No Kings protest calls Trump out, says immigrants 'love this country'
YouTube video by USA TODAY
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
Pritzker: Throughout history we've learned that tyranny doesn't arrive with dramatic proclamations. Most times it comes quietly wrapped in the language of law and order, with fingers pointed at someone who doesn't look like you, promising safety while demanding that we sacrifice our neighbors.
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Daniel McQuillen @dmcq.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
I'm developing a new web application that helps orgs create automated, API-based data validations for their community of users. www.simplevalidations.com
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Meet Your Data Validation Assistant | SimpleValidations
SimpleValidations lets you build robust data validation workflows with schema checks, simulations, and credentialing.
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Daniel McQuillen @dmcq.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
@michaelburchert.bsky.social Saw this on LinkedIn today and thought you might find interesting given your work ... Submission site: www.editorialmanager.com/enb/default2...
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 17/10/2025
There is a reason "offsetting" does not exist in the vast majority of cases of avoidable harm to human safety: it would be laughed off as physically absurd and outright fraudulent. Somehow, in the single most catastrophic physical threat facing our species, it became accepted as normal
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Carbon credits are failing to help with climate change — here’s why
The idea that emissions can be offset through projects that claim to avoid releases or to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere is fatally flawed.
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Daniel McQuillen @dmcq.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
Mark Litwintschik wrangles GIS data on U.S. solar farms step-by-step. tech.marksblogg.com/american-sol...
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American Solar Farms
Benchmarks & Tips for Big Data, Hadoop, AWS, Google Cloud, PostgreSQL, Spark, Python & More...
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Daniel McQuillen @dmcq.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
Scientists: be careful with your preprint submissions. "In the absence of sanitization, submissions may disclose sensitive information that adversaries can harvest using open-source intelligence." arxiv.org/abs/2510.03761
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You Have Been LaTeXpOsEd: A Systematic Analysis of Information Leakage in Preprint Archives Using Large Language Models
The widespread use of preprint repositories such as arXiv has accelerated the communication of scientific results but also introduced overlooked security risks. Beyond PDFs, these platforms provide un...
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Lyle Lewis @race2extinct.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Saying the climate is too complex for tipping points is like saying your body is too complex to die. Complexity doesn’t prevent collapse…..it just gives you more ways to reach it.
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Daniel McQuillen @dmcq.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
Dave Deek asks "Can We Terraform the Earth Using Life Itself?"... to which I would add "despite our declining attention spans."
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All-Natural Geoengineering with Frank Herbert's Dune
Can We Terraform the Earth Using Life Itself?
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Daniel McQuillen @dmcq.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
Been meaning to move my projects from Heroku to Fly.io or Render.com and I just got a big burst of energy for next week. www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/m...
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Marc Benioff says Trump should send National Guard to San Francisco
Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff said that President Trump should deploy the National Guard to San Francisco to combat crime: “We don’t have enough cops, so if they can be cops, I’m all for it.”
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Doug Parr @dougparr.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
“I think China is using [clean technology] in a very, very geopolitically savvy way, taking advantage of America’s stupidity and regression back into a petrostate. China just wins. America has abrogated the playing field.” www.ft.com/content/013e...
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The ‘profound’ global impact of China’s rise as an electrostate
The country’s companies now dominate many clean technology industries
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Daniel McQuillen @dmcq.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
So appropriate for late 2025. "Plants and fungi maintain stable and fair resource exchange by sharing or withholding resources according to the trading partner’s performance." www.macfound.org/fellows/clas...
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Toby Kiers
Investigating symbiotic relationships among plants, fungi, and other microbes and their role in planetary health.
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Daniel McQuillen @dmcq.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
"The goal is to build places so good that people are freed from the necessity of driving."
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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Congratulations to new Nobel Peace Prize laureate María Corina Machado for her courageous struggle to bring democracy to Venezuela.
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Live Updates: María Corina Machado of Venezuela Is Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
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Daniel McQuillen @dmcq.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Coffee roaster digital twin. autoroaster.com From the HN post: "The models are custom Machine Learning modules that honor roaster physics and bean physics (this is not GPT/transformer-based). Buncha math." news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4549... (You know you're going to jack the heater to 100.)
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AutoRoaster
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Daniel McQuillen @dmcq.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
John Fulghum makes trading physical cards with NFC tags as a way of interacting with music: fulghum.io/album-cards
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Album Cards: Rebuilding the Joy of Music Discovery for My 10-Year-Old
What's the modern equivalent of flipping through CDs? Physical album cards with NFC tags that bring back the tactile joy of music discovery.
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Daniel McQuillen @dmcq.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Good article by @rozenmd.com on running a small SaaS: maxrozen.com/on-four-year...
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Four years of running a SaaS in a competitive market - Max Rozen
Looking back on the last four years, what worked, what didn't.
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Daniel McQuillen @dmcq.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Need to make sure "Everything's Not Lost" is on my playlist b/c it should be there. "More than half of the European Union’s (EU) electricity came from renewables in the second quarter of 2025, and solar is leading from the front." electrek.co/2025/09/30/s...
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Solar leads EU electricity generation as renewables hit 54%
In Q2 2025, renewables powered 54% of EU electricity, with solar leading the mix and topping all sources in June for the first time.
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Daniel McQuillen @dmcq.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Noah Brier writes about the intersection of AI and the unix philosophy (doing one thing well, every output is an input,...) www.alephic.com/writing/the-...
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The Magic of Claude Code
Claude Code combines a terminal-based Unix command interface with filesystem access to give LLMs persistent memory and seamless tool chaining, transforming it into a powerful agentic operating system ...
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Daniel McQuillen @dmcq.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
I read recently that green walls are too costly to install and too hard to maintain. But I like them and hope architects keep trying. Saw this one in Melbourne today and it looks reasonably nice doesn’t it? It’s like a small postcard from a forest reminding you to come back and visit sometime.
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Daniel McQuillen @dmcq.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Good article on AI coding by Chris Loy: chrisloy.dev/post/2025/09.... I want to believe his Quality vs. Velocity diagram (shown below) but I'm guessing many would say the last part of that blue line is non-linear and headed much higher...
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 14/09/2025
"Anthony Albanese's claim that more fossil gas is needed for the energy transition is unscientific nonsense - it is gas industry propaganda raised to the level of state policy – and reflects a stampede toward more fossil fuels rather than a transition away."
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Australian government gaslights the nation as it puts Woodside ahead…
Climate Analytics responds to the Australian government's approval of Woodside Energy's gas production project out to 2070
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