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Our World in Data @ourworldindata.org · 26/02/2025

Weather forecasts have become much more accurate. A four-day forecast today is as accurate as a one-day forecast 30 years ago.

Line chart showing improvements in the accuracy of weather forecasts over time. These have improved in the North and Southern Hemisphere.

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Sarah Drasner @sarahedo.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

✍️ I did an explainer on the CPU and GPU and how they coordinate tasks between them. Going to a series on rendering💥

Drawing of expanded view of the GPU and CPU, with explanations for both and a brief description of how they coordinate

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Cees Bassa @cbassa.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

For the 4th year in a row, my all-sky camera has been taking an image of the sky above the Netherlands every 15 seconds. Combining these images reveal the length of the night changing throughout the year, the passage of clouds and the motion of the Moon and the Sun through the sky. #astrophotography

This image shows the hourglass shape of the nights shortening and
lengthening from winter to summer and from summer to winter, passing
clouds, the Moon passing through the night sky every month (diagonal
bands) and the Sun climbing higher in the sky during summer.

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Heaton.dev @heaton.dev · 05/01/2025

Painfully accurate Linux meme.

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Heaton.dev @heaton.dev · 03/01/2025

My past self set a cursed catch-all value for Intel CPU codenames...

Intel CPU Series "Moist Lake" is apparently a thing!

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Bluesky @bsky.app · 03/12/2024

Scientists, academics, researchers: We’re excited to share that @altmetric.com is now tracking mentions of your research on Bluesky! 🧪

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Mike Croucher @walkingrandomly.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Really interesting interactive visualization and demonstration of how Large Language Models (LLMs) work. These form the basis of technologies such as ChatGPT. bbycroft.net/llm 🧪

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Heaton.dev @heaton.dev · 28/11/2024

Writing bash scripts in ${CURRENT_YEAR} Still can't bring myself to `rm` my tempfiles You never know when a cosmic ray will strike the memory containing your $TMPDIR and turn your `rm -rf ${TMPDIR}/var` into `rm -rf /var` The paranoia is real! I'll leave cleaning up /tmp to a system service!

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Heaton.dev @heaton.dev · 26/11/2024

Wow, people using BlueSky's Open Network in their own apps to do add discussion threads to.. anything! This is the sort of global database that Blockchain promised to be, without all the dodgy crypto and high energy use of existing Blockchains.

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Simon McIntosh-Smith @simonmcs.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

It's #SC24 week, so what better time for the Bristol Centre for Supercomputing (BriCS) to assemble the 5MW data centre for Isambard-AI. Of course we have typical UK winter weather to contend with, i.e. wind, rain, and today even snow. Fantastic support from HPE and Contour makes this possible #HPC

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Heaton.dev @heaton.dev · 18/11/2024

Thank you for all for blowing up my phone with New Follower notifications! I plan to start sharing lessons learned in HPC, Cloud Native, Linux, but also considerably less sexy stuff such as documentation & project management approaches. There, I can't take it back now!

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Glenn K. Lockwood @glennklockwood.com · 15/11/2024

It seems like #SC24 is a popular time to not only announce new supercomputers, but decommission them. In addition to Summit's farewell party this week (after six years of service!), Isambard-2 is being retired after 6 years as well: gw4.ac.uk/news/gw4-isa...

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GW4 Isambard 2 officially powers down after 6 years of service and innovation - GW4

GW4 Isambard 2, one of the world’s first Arm-based supercomputers to go into production use, has officially powered down for the final time, after six years of service.

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Kelsey Hightower @kelseyhightower.com · 14/11/2024

During the early days of Kubernetes I had the honor of working with @scottmccloud.bsky.social on the "Smooth Sailing with Kubernetes" comic. cloud.google.com/kubernetes-e...

WHOA, WHERE ARE WE?!

WELCOME TO AN ANCIENT TIME, LONG LONG AGO, WHEN WEDGE SNEAKERS WERE POPULAR, GAME OF THRONES WAS, LIKE, ON SEASON TWO-

- AND MONOLITHIC APPLICATIONS RULED THE EARTH!

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Andrew Jones (hpcnotes) @hpcnotes.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

OK, let's try this to show the HPC community already has momentum and can thrive here on Bluesky ... If #HPC or #supercomputing is of interest to you, please interact with this post in some way - either repost, quote, like, reply with insights or just your fav gif, tag friends, etc.

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Kelsey Hightower @kelseyhightower.com · 11/11/2024

This week I'm revisiting pointers in C and this video does an excellent job teaching the fundamentals. Everything from the pacing to the code examples is well executed. youtu.be/MIL2BK02X8A?...

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Pointers in C for Absolute Beginners – Full Course

YouTube video by freeCodeCamp.org

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Heaton.dev @heaton.dev · 08/11/2024

I've developed a pleasingly simple interactive Bash script template over the years, I need to do a write-up explaining it Bash has such a long legacy some sysadmins will account for issues that have been long solved, or conversely use syntax that hasn't been necessary in well over a decade.

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Heaton.dev @heaton.dev · 08/11/2024

When you've invested too many hours in a platform before you realise it uses JQuery... Worse that, the JQuery is introducing a 2 second rendering delay... and it's woven into everything so I'd have to rewrite ... Ugh Javascript.. to fix it! My disappointment is immeasurable, and my day is ruined

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a man is sitting at a table with a box of mcdonald 's fries

Alt: a man is sitting at a table with a box of mcdonald 's fries, saying: My disappointment is immeasurable, and my day is ruined

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Heaton.dev @heaton.dev · 07/11/2024

BlueSky lists has really helped turbo charge my feed back to what I used to enjoy on that old website, "Twitter"? Was it? It was like MySpace but less poorly compressed wav files.. and no custom background images... Anyway, I'm glad to see my tech people tweeting again!

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Heaton.dev @heaton.dev · 05/11/2024

Wow, so all it took for people to try a new social media platform was realising they were accidentally fueling a crypto-fascist movement, oopsies! Welcome to the Internet!

Red Dwarf - Timeslides. Lister tells Lister from the past: "Stop saying everything's crypto-fascist! You make me sound like I was a complete git!"

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Hans Kristian @starefossen.bsky.social · 04/11/2024

Added Matthias Loibl (@metalmatze.de) director of @PolarSignals.com Cloud to the CNCF Ambassadors Starter Pack 🦋 go.bsky.app/JmYPdtB

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Kaslin Fields @kaslin.rocks · 05/11/2024

Kubernetes is now on BlueSky! Make sure you follow the community's new accounts - we've got yaml jokes! Kubernetes news for anyone and everyone: bsky.app/profile/kube... Kubernetes Contributor news by & for contributors: bsky.app/profile/kube...

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Michael Gasch @embano1.mgasch.com · 27/10/2024

Hello 🦋 Happy to see many familiar faces around. Wasn't easy to find all of you (I probably missed many), so I created a starter pack to make it easier to (re)connect and nerd out about distributed systems, programming languages, and container stuff. Let me know who I missed! go.bsky.app/U1hZhum

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ahmet alp balkan @ahmet.dev · 04/11/2024

👋🏼 Good to see you on this side. Welcome to Bluesky. I’ve put together a short starter pack of community members who post technical topics about Kubernetes. Hope you enjoy. go.bsky.app/MHYb3B9

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Matthias Loibl @metalmatze.de · 05/11/2024

Announcing the Prometheus Starter Pack! Prometheus maintainers, contributors and close friends. go.bsky.app/3hckqpe

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𝙳𝚘𝚝𝚊𝚗 𝙷𝚘𝚛𝚘𝚟𝚒𝚝𝚜 ✈️ Open Source Summit 🇪🇺 @horovits.bsky.social · 05/11/2024

I created a starter pack of the guests of OpenObservability Talks🎙️ @openobservability.bsky.social throughout these past 5 years. go.bsky.app/AVdcXnw > Note: this is WIP if I missed you DM me

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Kubernetes @kubernetes.io · 05/11/2024

Kubernetes is now on BlueSky! Tune in here for news about the project, straight from the contributor community! This account is owned and managed by the Contributor Comms subproject of SIG ContribEx: github.com/kubernetes/c...

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 19/07/2024

CrowdStrike xkcd.com/2961

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 28/06/2024

And here’s my guide to determining the age of an undated map xkcd.com/1688

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Carbon Brief @carbonbrief.org · 19/06/2024

Analysis: Cutting the ‘green crap’ has added £22bn to UK energy bills since 2015 | @drsimevans.bsky.social Read here: buff.ly/4b7ZiII

Cutting the 'green crap' has added £22bn to UK energy bills: Impact on UK energy bills of rolling back “green crap” climate policies over the past decade, £bn. Source: Carbon Brief analysis. Chart by Carbon Brief.

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Bluesky @bsky.app · 28/02/2024

📢 1.70 is rolling out now (2/6) Mute words! In the Moderation screen, you can now add mute words which target either hashtags or the full content of a post (text, alt text, and hashtags).

A screenshot of the Moderation screen

Content filtering
Muted words & tags
Moderation lists
Muted accounts
Blocked accounts

A red arrow is pointed at Muted words & tags

A screenshot of the mute words menu

Add muted words and tags

Posts can be muted based on their text, their tags, or both.

Enter a word or tag

Mute in text & tags
Mute in tags only

Add +

We recommend avoiding common words that appear in many posts, since it can result in no posts being shown.

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Heaton.dev @heaton.dev · 08/01/2024

GitHub adds repo page tabs for README, Code of Conduct, License, Security; Awesome!

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Heaton.dev @heaton.dev · 08/01/2024

Laptop warmer than usual? Using VSCode? Like Markdown? Looks like there's a language server bug, fixed in 1.85 (Unreleased currently), where a rogue regex is consuming 100% CPU(core)

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Heaton.dev @heaton.dev · 08/01/2024

This Chrome/Firefox addon is brilliant for migrating your Followings from Xitter to #BlueSky! github.com/kawamataryo/... Sadly I cannot use it as I closed my account a while back and it doesn't look like the GDPR account export contains who you followed... 😔

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GitHub

GitHub is where people build software. More than 100 million people use GitHub to discover, fork, and contribute to over 420 million projects.

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Kevus @kevus.bsky.social · 21/11/2023

My first post on bluesky! I'm a passionate photographer of all things birb and other small critters like isopods and jumping spiders, based in southern Germany. My first post is dedicated to one of my favorite genres of birbs: BORBS. Only the floofiest of floofs! #birds

Photo of a European robin perched on a wooden fence. It is of exquisite floofness, at least an 8/10 on the scale of borbness.
Its feathers are mostly brown, with a darker shade on its dorsal side and a lighter shade on its belly. Its most striking feature is its orange-red throat and face.

Photo of a chaffinch all borbed up, perched on a small stick running vertically through the frame. I would rate it a solid 9/10 on the scale of borb.
The bird's front is mostly covered in brown feathers, its head capped by grey feathers. Its wings are darker shades of brown and black, with white and yellow highlights mixed in. The chaffinch has a beige bill.

Photo of another European robin perched on a fence pole in the golden light of sunset. It is turned sideways to face to our left. It is of decent floofyness, rating an encouraging 6/10 on the borbness scale.

Photo of a long-tailed tit perched on a mossy branch. The floofness of this specimen is literally off the charts. Rating it would be inadequate and only lead to insult against the outstanding roundness of this borb.

The long-tailed tit has a white underside with some cream or pink hues mixed in, and its head and back feature blacks and dark greys. Its tail feathers are extremely long in proportion to its body. It has a short, black bill and strikingly yellow upper eyelids.

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