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Mike Moran @houseofmoran.com · 12/09/2026

I really love when someone finds a way to take a nuisance effect like noise and turn it into a signal, particularly when it doesn't require buying lots of new hardware 😀 I was already impressed by the first application they showed, but then came three more 👏 ! #pydata pretalx.com/pydata-amste...

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The unreasonable effectiveness of DAS: ML on fiber-optic vibration data for rail monitoring PyData Amsterdam 2026

Distributed Acoustic Sensing (DAS) turns ordinary fiber-optic cables into continuous microphones stretching up to 100 km. By firing laser pulses down the fiber and measuring the backscattered light, e...

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Mike Moran @houseofmoran.com · 12/09/2026

The quality of all the talks at @pydata.bsky.social Amsterdam was amazing but my favourite was "The unreasonable effectiveness of DAS: ML on fiber-optic vibration data for rail monitoring".

Presenter shows an x-y graph of backscatter per location over time, which clearly shows two lines. He then uses this to illustrate a fit of two lines representing trains.

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Mike Moran @houseofmoran.com · 14/08/2026

Please come along to our usual ☕️ coffee meetup venue of Machina Coffee to chat about #Rustlang or #Rustlang adjacent topics. No need to be an expert, you can just be Rust-curious 🧐 😀. Hope to see you there!

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Mike Moran @houseofmoran.com · 04/07/2026

Really happy that we're once again full-up, but please do sign-up anyways! There are always some people who can't make it on the day and drop out. We always keep an eye on that, and make sure as many people as possible can get in.

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Mike Moran @houseofmoran.com · 04/07/2026

*It's almost time* for the next #MLOps Meetup on Wednesday at Wordsmith.AI where they will be doing a talk on "Agent Harness Engineering", alongside the talk from Marios Zachariou, PhD on “Agentic MLOps in Rust: From Chatbots to Autonomous Infrastructure Actors”

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“Agentic MLOps in Rust: From Chatbots to Autonomous Infrastructure Actors” + "Agent Harness Engineering"(MLOps Meetup July 2026) · Luma

Tonight we’ll be hearing from: in first talk, from Marios Zachariou on “Agentic MLOps in Rust: From Chatbots to Autonomous Infrastructure Actors”. From…

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Mike Moran @houseofmoran.com · 28/06/2026

It's *almost time* for this months #Rustlang meetup on Thursday. It's great to see so many people interested, and I'm really looking forward to it! (some places still free though) (Btw, if you came along last time to Patersons Land, note that it is there again, but just in a different room)

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Bevy, Bits, & Cats (Rust July Talks), Thu, Jul 2, 2026, 6:30 PM | Meetup

Tonight we’ll be hearing from: * [Fallible Things](https://blog.fallible.net/) on "Bevy in Anger (and other stages of grief)": Fallible has been working on a digital card

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Mike Moran @houseofmoran.com · 09/06/2026

Please feel free to come to both 🙂 This a "vote with your feet" situation: come along to find out about #Rustlang and also to let us know what you'd like to see and/or help with. Look out later in the year for some presentation sessions, which we're also currently organising.

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Mike Moran @houseofmoran.com · 09/06/2026

It's great to see the increasing interest in Glasgow about #Rustlang, and so we are kicking-off some meetups there. To start with we're having some coffee/pub meetups (on the same day, Thu 18th June): ☕️ A daytime coffee event at 13:00 🍻 An evening pub event at 18:00 (See thread for links)

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Mike Moran @houseofmoran.com · 05/06/2026

What does #Rustlang have to do with "Bits & Cats"? If you're curious, come along to our July Meetup to hear our (just announced) second speaker, Matthew Liam Healy, talk about "Bits & Cats: Rust's dual histories, and what comes next"

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Bevy, Bits, & Cats (Rust July Talks), Thu, Jul 2, 2026, 6:30 PM | Meetup

Tonight we’ll be hearing from: * [Fallible Things](https://blog.fallible.net/) on "Bevy in Anger (and other stages of grief)": Fallible has been working on a digital card

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Mike Moran @houseofmoran.com · 10/05/2026

If you can't make this one, then please do join luma.com/scotland-mlops as it's always the place we share news of events first!

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Mike Moran @houseofmoran.com · 10/05/2026

We're at Waitlist right now, but please do sign-up. There are always some small amount of people who drop-out nearer the time, and we always make sure someone has a slot if there is one.

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Mike Moran @houseofmoran.com · 24/04/2026

Second #rustlang Edinburgh talk now announced: Fallible will be talking on "Bevy in Anger (and other stages of grief)" 😀 I particularly like how the two talks show the breadth of applicability of #rustlang. This is shaping-up to be a really interesting night!

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Rust May Talks: Aetherus + Bevy, Thu, May 7, 2026, 6:30 PM | Meetup

Tonight we’ll be hearing from: * Cristian Bourceanu on "Aetherus: Monte-Carlo radiative transfer with photon history tracking of interactions for materials and surfaces".

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Mike Moran @houseofmoran.com · 18/04/2026

It's #rustlang time: www.meetup.com/rust-and-fri... . Super-pleased to announce our first set of talks for a little while 😀 . Please do come along and also watch out for the second talk to be announced ...

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Rust May Talks: Aetherus + TBA, Thu, May 7, 2026, 6:30 PM | Meetup

Tonight we’ll be hearing from: * Cristian Bourceanu on "Aetherus: Monte-Carlo radiative transfer with photon history tracking of interactions for materials and surfaces".

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Mike Moran @houseofmoran.com · 27/03/2026

These sessions are just f2f chats, but watch out for some possible presentations later in year.

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Mike Moran @houseofmoran.com · 27/03/2026

We try to be open to different peoples preferences / availability, so as usual we are running an evening Pub session on Wednesday and a daytime coffee session on Friday. Evening Pub: www.meetup.com/rust-and-fri...

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Rust and Friends (evening pub), Wed, Apr 1, 2026, 6:00 PM | Meetup

Time for some 🌱 chat about Rust! As is now usual, we have a couple of events in the same week to cater to different preferences: * 🍻 An evening pub event on Wed 1st Apr

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Mike Moran @houseofmoran.com · 27/03/2026

Are you #rustlang curious? Perhaps you want to chat in a relaxed environment with others who are also curious and/or know about it? If so, please consider coming along to one of the rustandfriends.org sessions in Edinburgh next week.

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Rust and Friends

Website for the Rust language community in Edinburgh

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Floopy Buzzlesworth @floopy-b.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

🧶 I only learned recently that 'spalted' wood is simply wood that's started rotting already, so it gets some interesting patterns from bacteria starting to break it down. This crochet hook was unwittingly made from spalted birch. #crochet #yarncrafts #woodcarving #whittling

Photo of a crochet hook made from spalted birch wood, sitting on a dark surface between some greenery and a petrol-coloured crochet star

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Floopy Buzzlesworth @floopy-b.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

🧶 The very first crochet hook I ever carved, oh, back in the summer of 2019, was this little number from an oak branch I found while hiking. It's aged beautifully and I'll never get tired of looking at the pretty, pretty end grain pattern. #crochet #yarncrafts #woodcarving #whittling

Photo of a crochet hook made from oak sitting on a dark surface. The handle of the hook has a very elegant curve and is still covered in the original grey/green bark with dark bands around it.

Photo of the bottom end of the crochet hook which shows a very pretty ring pattern.

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Mike Moran @houseofmoran.com · 07/03/2026

I finally got round to writing-up a thing I did over xmas using Lidar heights to visualise possible impact of sea-level rise on Edinburgh: youtu.be/7-W-LEc9GPQ Much kudos to GeoMob Edinburgh / Peter Creasey for making me aware of these datasets, and to the Scottish government for producing them!

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Edinburgh Heights visualised in Kepler.gl

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Aaron Winter @aaronwinter.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

If you want to defeat the far right, you need a real alternative, not a more moderate version that panders & parrots but offers nothing to address real issues. Congratulations @greenparty.org.uk, Hannah Spencer, @zackpolanski.bsky.social & the people of Gorton & Denton www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cp...

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Green Party wins Gorton and Denton by-election with Labour pushed into third by Reform

Hannah Spencer, a 34-year-old plumber, also becomes the first Green Party candidate to win a Westminster by-election.

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Mike Moran @houseofmoran.com · 22/02/2026

Also, thanks again to @skyscanner.net for hosting us! 🍺 🍕

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Mike Moran @houseofmoran.com · 22/02/2026

We're once again fortunate to be over-subscribed 😀, but please do register as there can sometimes be people who drop out nearer to the time. If you can't make it, please register at luma.com/scotland-mlops to find out about future meet-ups first.

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Mike Moran @houseofmoran.com · 22/02/2026

Well. After a January that seemed to take years, February is almost gone in a blink 😅, and it's time for our first #MLOps of the year on Wednesday! This time we'll be hearing from Assulan Nurkas on "Scaling Fine-Tuned LLMs: Processing 200k Daily Reviews at Trustpilot"; luma.com/1eolb1o5

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MLOps Meetup Feb 2026 · Luma

Tonight we’ll be hearing from: Assulan Nurkas on "Scaling Fine-Tuned LLMs: Processing 200k Daily Reviews at Trustpilot". From Assulan: Assulan Nurkas is a…

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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 18/02/2026

“is there a technology that the left is excited about?” Trains. We love trains, actually

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⭑ salma @whitep4nth3r.com · 16/02/2026

love a bit of continvouclous morging

Bugfixes (all one word) from rel comma branch may by continvoucly morged back into develop

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Kelsey Hightower @kelseyhightower.com · 15/02/2026

ai;dr AI; didn't read.

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Mike Moran @houseofmoran.com · 07/02/2026

Book targeting 🎯 is becoming incredibly fine-grained nowadays…

Book title: “So you want to own Greenland?”

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Mary L Trump @maryltrump.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Every American needs to watch this:

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Mike Moran @houseofmoran.com · 02/02/2026

A couple of hours and $8 of Claude later (!) I added a mini-blog to my fosdem site: fosdem.houseofmoran.io/blog/. I do have *other* reasons for doing this, like summarising data changes, but was also a good way to decompress after a very busy #fosdem weekend 😅.

summary of data about fosdem over time e.g. 2025 had 1105 events and 390h of videos.

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Mike Moran @houseofmoran.com · 01/02/2026

I've been coming to #Fosdem since 2019; the bad (still) isn't all that bad, and the good is still very good. Many thanks to all the organisers and volunteers for making this possible 🙇‍♂️. www.houseofmoran.com/post/2026-02...

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Fosdem 2026 is done!

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Floopy Buzzlesworth @floopy-b.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Here's a Red-bearded Bee-eater for day 27 of #Birbfest #Birbfest2026 #illustration #sketchbook #birds

Digital illustration of a red-bearded bee-eater. The bird has a curved slim beak, and a bright orange and pink 'beard' surrounding it. Its body is green, and the inside of its tail is yellow. The tips of its wings and tail are dark grey/brown.

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Mike Moran @houseofmoran.com · 26/01/2026

This will be another great talk on running AI at-scale, following on from talks like “Scaling an LLM-Based Product Feature at Zoe" from Danny Boland last year. If these sorts of things interest you then please join the group where you'll get first-dibs on announcements: luma.com/scotland-mlops

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Mike Moran @houseofmoran.com · 26/01/2026

We're starting-off this year in #MLOps with a great talk in Feb from Assulan Nurkas ( luma.com/1eolb1o5 ) : "Scaling Fine-Tuned LLMs: Processing 200k Daily Reviews at @trustpilot.bsky.social". Many thanks also to @skyscanner.net for hosting + sponsoring us. Hope to see you there!

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MLOps Meetup Feb 2026 · Luma

Tonight we’ll be hearing from: Assulan Nurkas on "Scaling Fine-Tuned LLMs: Processing 200k Daily Reviews at Trustpilot". From Assulan: Assulan Nurkas is a…

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Floopy Buzzlesworth @floopy-b.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

#Birbfest, day 25: I feel very lucky to have seen kingfishers a few times in the wild, just because in Edinburgh they like to jump out at unsuspecting people passing by running water. Such a joy to behold! #Birbfest2026 #illustration #sketchbook #birds

Digital illustration of a common kingfisher sitting on a branch. This is a female, whose wings and head are just a tiny bit more muted turquoise than the bright blue males. It's got a long pointy beak for catching fish, and an orangey chest and belly.

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Aaron Ross Powell @aaronrosspowell.com · 24/01/2026

As a kid who grew up with Mr. Rogers, this legit made me emotional.

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Floopy Buzzlesworth @floopy-b.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

Nuthatches are cool because with their go-faster-stripes and them constantly being upside down for some reason they always look like they're Very Seriously Going Somewhere. #Birbfest, day 23. #Birbfest2026 #illustration #sketchbook #birds

Digital illustration of a little nuthatch on a branch. It's got a peach-coloured belly and blue-grey back and wings, a dark grey beak and black stripe going over its eyes.

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Margaret Killjoy @margaret.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

I've never seen a population more united. If people can hold onto that unity, if people can accept that different people will have different ways of confronting fascism, if we can remind NGOs and orgs that they can join but not control the resistance, then, well, people here will write history.

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