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Duncan Dean @dunxen.dev · 12h

Attempt with a handheld and stock antenna at ISS SSTV. Doppler and orientation roasted me.

SSTV image received from ISS, only the top 3rd is visible with the title Student Education 2026.

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Duncan Dean @dunxen.dev · 16/09/2026

What did Afriforum do this time?

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Duncan Dean @dunxen.dev · 13/09/2026

The funniest thing ever is seeing people on that other site call grok woke because it replies to their question by refuting their batshit claims… then asking Enron Husk to fix it

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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Riddle me this. If somebody donates £36 million to a political party and £5 million to its leader, how is the £5 million not political? Asking for a parliamentary standards commissioner.

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Duncan Dean @dunxen.dev · 12/09/2026

Woohoo I passed my HF assessment! Now onto the exam next month :)

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Libro.fm @libro.fm · 11/09/2026

Shout out to all the booksellers and librarians who helped me fall in love with reading as a kid 💓

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Duncan Dean @dunxen.dev · 10/09/2026

Where are the problems?

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Duncan Dean @dunxen.dev · 05/09/2026

Congratulations Isar Aerospace!

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Duncan Dean @dunxen.dev · 05/09/2026

America disgracing itself yet again at the UN :)

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Duncan Dean @dunxen.dev · 05/09/2026

I don’t think LLMs need to get better at writing like people because people are doing that job for LLMs by emulating their cringey writing tropes. Has anyone else noticed this (where LLMs aren’t being used of course)?

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TigerBeetle @tigerbeetle.com · 01/09/2026

Tomorrow, Margaret Holzmann's lessons in systems thinking from three decades designing mission-critical systems at Bell Labs and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Sep 2, 9AM PT / 12PM EST / 6PM CET youtu.be/RCSh-YCQMKI

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Duncan Dean @dunxen.dev · 30/08/2026

The world is talking about Airlink now, lol. Also seems they've never seen a St. Helena or Skukuza approach and landing 🙃 This was well-rehearsed, authorised, and executed as planned. There are many angles, I implore you to look at _all_ of them. Anyway, back to business as usual for ZS-YDE 🇿🇦

ZS-YDE in flight radar on the way to Victoria Falls this morning from Johannesburg.

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Duncan Dean @dunxen.dev · 25/08/2026

this post is load-bearing

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Duncan Dean @dunxen.dev · 25/08/2026

Dumbest thing I’ve heard this weekend: “Audiobooks are cheating.” Cheating at what? Being entertained? Always said by a person who reads for clout and not entertainment or enrichment. Try them all: physical books, audiobooks, e-books. Each has its place. Stop being a pseudo snob.

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Duncan Dean @dunxen.dev · 24/08/2026

Wow, the dollar is trash

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Duncan Dean @dunxen.dev · 23/08/2026

Tell your grandma you love her.

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Duncan Dean @dunxen.dev · 23/08/2026

Third year in a row going to Korea 😁

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Adam I @adam.iannaz.zone · 21/08/2026

Attention nerds! My ham radio app, QRV, is now in beta on Android. Sign up here: getqrv.com/android Get live PSK Reporter spots, see when DXpeditions are on the air and reachable from your location, check the band plans, and more!

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QRV for Android – Join the Beta

QRV, the ham radio multitool, is now in closed beta on Android. Join the tester group and opt in on Google Play.

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Duncan Dean @dunxen.dev · 18/08/2026

Sometimes I watch the ISS EVAs and it’s always interesting to see how much permanent damage the suit cameras’ CMOS sensors have taken from radiation.

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Tangled @tangled.org · 17/08/2026

Run your own CI, it's worth it. blog.tangled.org/selfhost-ci/

Duncan Dean @dunxen.dev · 14/08/2026

Any bluesky book clubs?

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Duncan Dean @dunxen.dev · 11/08/2026

When is Bluesky getting passkeys or at the very least TOTP 2FA? This email 2FA sucks…

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Duncan Dean @dunxen.dev · 11/08/2026

SA is a sleeping giant. Sparks of talent have emerged over the past decades, but still immeasurable potential is waiting to be unlocked in the next. Why would I move and cut myself out of that excitement?

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Duncan Dean @dunxen.dev · 07/08/2026

We’re in Dullstroom for the long weekend and I really hope we get that > 10 cm of snow on Monday and Tuesday currently predicted ❄️

Windy screenshot showing snow in the northeastern region of South Africa.

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Duncan Dean @dunxen.dev · 07/08/2026

My dog and my little nephew are troublemakers together

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Duncan Dean @dunxen.dev · 05/08/2026

Not sure why’d you want to change the pretty translatable and neutral name of South Africa to the Greek name of Azania, but at least one positive I could see is appearing near the top of country dropdowns online 😂 Very unlikely to happen, though.

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Casey Newton @caseynewton.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Me: (being murdered by the AI paperclip maximizer) Bluesky: Actually it can't 'murder' you. Murder implies intent.

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Duncan Dean @dunxen.dev · 02/08/2026

Where do the rational LLM users congregate? Also, the ones who are fighting cognitive atrophy? What are some fun things to do without the clanker on weekends? Software? Hardware? Crafting? What games are good? I’m thinking of building my first power amplifier circuit for my own QRP radio product.

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Duncan Dean @dunxen.dev · 02/08/2026

ai ai ai ai ai ai ai ai ai ai ai

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Duncan Dean @dunxen.dev · 01/08/2026

Any friends in Joburg/Pretoria who want to go rock hounding?

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Duncan Dean @dunxen.dev · 31/07/2026

What’s the psychological term for seeing AI-writing tropes everywhere even when there’s evidence it was actually written by a human? Am I seeing the perfect median clichés in all writing now? Make it stop.

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Duncan Dean @dunxen.dev · 31/07/2026

My chalkboard fell and broke 😭

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Duncan Dean @dunxen.dev · 29/07/2026

People are taking refuge in the analogue.

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Duncan Dean @dunxen.dev · 27/07/2026

Headache today plus someone thought it would be fun to drill the entire working day in the apartment building…

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Duncan Dean @dunxen.dev · 27/07/2026

We’re at the happy part of Pretoria winters:

Weather app with conditions on average around low of 6 to high of 20 degrees Celsius with full sunshine.

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Duncan Dean @dunxen.dev · 25/07/2026

Hail Mary is pretty intense. Now I have to read the book. I noted the proper/dilated time. I was like “wtf” you can’t, and then I was like “ohhh”.

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Duncan Dean @dunxen.dev · 23/07/2026

Why did no one tell me about overnight oats using orange juice?

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KiCad EDA @kicad.org · 22/07/2026

KiCad v11 will be gaining geometric constraints. This is based on the excellent library by @freecadnews.bsky.social planegcs. You can test-drive this feature in today's nightly builds downloads.kicad.org/kicad/

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Duncan Dean @dunxen.dev · 22/07/2026

It’s fun to be listening to this while reading the 3rd three body problem book: It’s cool to see how Liu Cixin included neutrino and gravitational wave signals in the book.

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Will We Ever Find Alien Civilizations?

Podcast Episode · The Joy of Why · 9 July · 54min

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Second @second.tech · 12/06/2026

1/ Bark is now a Lightning backend option in Alby Hub. Alby built the integration on the Bark SDK in record time, just days after our mainnet launch. You can now enable Lightning payments in your hub with no Lightning node, channels, or liquidity to manage.

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Second @second.tech · 21/07/2026

1/ Wallet apps built on Bark have never done their own Lightning pathfinding: the Ark server works out the best path on their behalf. It works great, but some users want more control, or don't want to share destination data. New research from grubles explores an alternative.

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