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Simon Foster @funkysi1701.com · 22/09/2026

If you know me you know I love a good tech conference. Well I am part of the organisational team behind Developers Up North 2027 #DUNC27 I would love to hear your talk and see you at the event in July. Please head on over to www.developersupnorth.co.uk/submit-talk and submit a session

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Simon Foster @funkysi1701.com · 11/09/2026

I love my stats, and I thought I would add a cool chart to see which #StarTrek series are getting watched on Episode Atlas, no surprise that the currently airing SNW leads the way, but after that we have a lovely mix of the others. Keep logging your watches on www.episodeatlas.com

Chart of how many episodes from each series have been watched in the last 30 days

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Simon Foster @funkysi1701.com · 08/09/2026

Happy 60th #StarTrek, may you continue to Live long and prosper. It felt rude not to wear the uniform today

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Simon Foster @funkysi1701.com · 05/09/2026

Janeway won't be happy. First female captain of a Star Trek show should have got a mention on this banner I think. But good that Paramount Plus is at least acknowledging the event #StarTrek60

60 years of Star Trek banner, but no Voyager mention

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Simon Foster @funkysi1701.com · 04/09/2026

The most watched episodes on Episode Atlas are: Valles Marineris, You Are Cordially Invited and Yesterdays Enterprise www.episodeatlas.com/trending/all The strange new worlds season 4 opener has risen quickly to join the other two

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Simon Foster @funkysi1701.com · 03/09/2026

I asked ChatGPT which sci-fi AI they want to be like — ignoring the scary HAL answer it is nice the EMH got a mention. Data also gets a mention in this article www.techradar.com/ai-platforms...

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Simon Foster @funkysi1701.com · 05/08/2026

Want to know what #StarTrek aired on this day, well now you can www.episodeatlas.com/on-this-day?... A few days late, but 3 years ago Subspace Rhapsody first aired #KeepUsConnected

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Simon Foster @funkysi1701.com · 01/08/2026

As a UK fan, I am loving the pointless references this week, hopefully a full on pointless episode is on the long list (I mean with obscure picks, I would never describe TrekRanks as pointless)

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Simon Foster @funkysi1701.com · 25/07/2026

I have enjoyed building Episode Atlas and we have some regular users now. Do reach out to me if you have ideas or suggestions, I love to know what you think

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Simon Foster @funkysi1701.com · 17/07/2026

Hey @awscloud.bsky.social Please tell me this is a mistake?

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Simon Foster @funkysi1701.com · 12/07/2026

Strange New Worlds Season 4 is back on our screens from 23rd July and you will be able to track all your watches with Episode Atlas www.episodeatlas.com/episodes #StarTrek

Season 4 of Strange New Worlds announcement on Episode Atlas

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Simon Foster @funkysi1701.com · 17/06/2026

#dunc26 Looking forward to a full day of developer conference talks tomorrow in Hull developersupnorth.co.uk/event-guide

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Simon Foster @funkysi1701.com · 06/06/2026

Episode Atlas has a new look for navigating over 900 episodes of #StarTrek Take a look at www.episodeatlas.com/episodes now and you will see a sidebar with every TV series and movie listed so you can easily find the episode you want, and the whole is still searchable from the top bar

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Simon Foster @funkysi1701.com · 04/06/2026

You are listening to TrekRanks and they all discuss episodes which you know you need to watch next. Episode Atlas now has a cool new feature to help track these "watch next" episodes. Login and give it a try.

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Simon Foster @funkysi1701.com · 30/05/2026

This is interesting, I asked how far the real Voyager 2 spacecraft would have travelled by the time of Star Trek. It would only be a tiny fraction of a light year away from Earth

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Simon Foster @funkysi1701.com · 26/05/2026

Does uptime and reliability still matter in this AI world? Is the only thing that matters now is using AI tokens and delivering features fast? Github has been having lots of issues recently, and its uptime is less than 90% now

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Simon Foster @funkysi1701.com · 25/05/2026

Exploring the differences between Azure Container Registry and AWS Elastic Container Registry in my latest blog post! Thoughts? 🌐 www.funkysi1701.com/posts/2026/acr-… #Azure #AWS #Docker #Containers #DevOps #ACR #ECR #Cloud

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Simon Foster @funkysi1701.com · 23/05/2026

Episode Atlas title cards episodeatlas.com

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Simon Foster @funkysi1701.com · 22/05/2026

Navigating the shifting sands of AI in software development. Adapt, learn, and thrive in this new era. www.funkysi1701.com/posts/2026/ai-w… #ai #software-development #career #engineering #productivity

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Simon Foster @funkysi1701.com · 20/05/2026

🚀 Excited to share 3 of my live Azure projects: Episode Atlas for TV tracking, AI-powered Semantic Search, and a Blog Platform with seamless deploys. Dive in and explore! 🌐 www.funkysi1701.com/posts/projects

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Simon Foster @funkysi1701.com · 19/05/2026

🖖 Star Trek fans! Explore every series, find episodes fast, and rediscover your favourites with Episode Atlas 🚀 www.episodeatlas.com Live long and prosper!

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Simon Foster @funkysi1701.com · 19/05/2026

It’s Both What You Say and the Way You Say It #ThePragmaticProgrammer

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Simon Foster @funkysi1701.com · 18/05/2026

Build Documentation In, Don’t Bolt It On #ThePragmaticProgrammer

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Simon Foster @funkysi1701.com · 16/05/2026

Great episode, feel the need to share my wife's favourite quote from Armageddon Game

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Simon Foster @funkysi1701.com · 15/05/2026

Don't Think Outside the Box - Find the Box #ThePragmaticProgrammer

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Simon Foster @funkysi1701.com · 13/05/2026

🖖 Star Trek fans! Explore every series, find episodes fast, and rediscover your favourites with Episode Atlas 🚀 www.episodeatlas.com Live long and prosper!

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Simon Foster @funkysi1701.com · 12/05/2026

I have volunteered to help out with the Developers Up North conference which is happening next month. Looking forward to meeting lots of like minded developers. www.developersupnorth.co.uk #dunc26

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Simon Foster @funkysi1701.com · 26/04/2026

Looking at adding some improvements to the episode search on www.episodeatlas.com after getting some user feedback

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Simon Foster @funkysi1701.com · 18/04/2026

I've added a cool new feature to Episode Atlas, you can now select a random episode that you have not watched. So no more clicking through 10 randomly selected episodes you watched last week! Check it out at www.episodeatlas.com/random

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Simon Foster @funkysi1701.com · 14/04/2026

This is cool I just implemented semantic search for my blog based on a talk I heard at NDC. Going to add a blog post about it soon...

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Simon Foster @funkysi1701.com · 17/03/2026

I have update episodeatlas.com to allow log in via Google as well as my existing authentication methods github and Microsoft

Log in to Episode Atlas with Google, Microsoft or github

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Simon Foster @funkysi1701.com · 13/03/2026

Can't decide what #StarTrek episode to watch? www.episodeatlas.com/Random Episode Atlas now has a random episode generator, selected at random from all 964 episodes or choose your favourite series

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Simon Foster @funkysi1701.com · 28/02/2026

Hard problem is often the people part

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Simon Foster @funkysi1701.com · 28/02/2026

Next up at #dddnorth a talk all about creating MCPs

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Simon Foster @funkysi1701.com · 22/02/2026

We are all thinking this at the moment with the growth of AI, what will coding be like? Is there still value in learning the skills? I still think learning to code is useful and valuable

But what is the point in learning to code?

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Simon Foster @funkysi1701.com · 29/01/2026

It is so cool to hear a bit about the internal workings of old consoles. #ndclondon All chips should have names like suzy or mikey

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Simon Foster @funkysi1701.com · 29/01/2026

I love this quote about the role of AI in software development, from a paper in 2025. Interesting to see what happens in the years to come #ndclondon

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Simon Foster @funkysi1701.com · 29/01/2026

I am enjoying being on the #ndclondon volunteer team. I am not great at networking with people, but wearing the purple t-shirt gives me that extra confidence to chat with people and vendors and even one or two speakers.

The author giving out Hoodies at ndc London

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Simon Foster @funkysi1701.com · 04/01/2026

The rise of viewers for funkysi1701.com Even if we ignore the recent peak 2025 had a clear increase over the previous year. Keep blogging folks

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Simon Foster @funkysi1701.com · 04/01/2026

I am reading a book about innovation in technology and I love how women led the way. Grace Hopper discovered one of the first "bugs" when a large moth got trapped in the workings, after that the term debugging was used

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Simon Foster @funkysi1701.com · 20/12/2025

Amazing amount of Google searches for my website yesterday #Blog

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