iliamad.bsky.social @iliamad.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Looking forward to your talk. I've been doing a bunch of profiling and performance in python, so I'm super interested in seeing the best way to apply those techniques in .NET 010
iliamad.bsky.social @iliamad.bsky.social · 05/10/2026I used this to make this little visualiser for a small economy simulator I'm making. As the R/C/I population grows, the world's space gets flood-filled with roads and buildings . Before implementing it, the road would normally get cut-off after a dozen or so steps #GameDev 080
iliamad.bsky.social @iliamad.bsky.social · 05/10/2026This is an exceptionally good article describing the Flood Fill algorithm, and how to implement different versions of it. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flood_f...en.wikipedia.orgFlood fill - Wikipedia 100
Reposted by @iliamad.bsky.socialJason Elkin @jasonelkin.uk · 29/09/2026Looking forward to speaking at this, and excited for the rest of the talks - have had some sneak peaks and you are in for a real treat! Expect fun, shenanigans and a friendly community vibe. If you're in the UK and work with #Umbraco, you need to be here - LAST CHANCE! 132
iliamad.bsky.social @iliamad.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Preparing for my talk at @umbraco.foundation (16 Oct) on using language models to find security issues in #Umbraco and #dotnet applications. Today I'll be intentionally building a super-insecure Umbraco application 🛠️🫣 2026.umbracofoundation.co.uk2026.umbracofoundation.co.ukUMBUK26 - The Umbraco UK ConferenceThe Umbraco UK Conference is the premier event for Developers, Creatives, and Partners - happening October 16th 2026 in London - brought to you by the Umbraco UK Foundation 031
iliamad.bsky.social @iliamad.bsky.social · 07/09/2026I've been working on a little Entity/Component/System (ECS) game engine in C#/Monogame recently. I've blogged about the choices I've made, and how those choices have created issues for me further down the implementation process... www.liamlaverty.com/blogs/buildi... #gamedev #monogame #ecsliamlaverty.comTrying to build a little game with Entity/Component/System (ECS) Architecture | Liam LavertyI'm trying to build out a little game engine in Monogame using ECS architecture. Here's some notes on my struggles so far. 090
iliamad.bsky.social @iliamad.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Hey @mattbrailsford.dev, now that github.com/umbraco/OurU... is archived, how do you pick up stuff for umb.fyi 's firehose?github.com 100
iliamad.bsky.social @iliamad.bsky.social · 12/05/2026www.etive-mor.com/blog/carlini... Carlini did a great talk at [un]prompted recently, detailing how Anthropic were using LLMs to automate software vulnerability discovery. I take a look at replicating his process in the Umbraco-CMS repository, for less than 1% the cost. #umbraco #security #llm #ai 011
iliamad.bsky.social @iliamad.bsky.social · 06/05/2026Can a #LanguageModel paint? I've built an app which gets language models to paint a piece iteratively (one stroke at a time) rather than producing it in one-shot from a prompt. Not sure if this counts as #GenerativeArt www.etive-mor.com/blog/can-a-l... www.liamlaverty.com/paint-by-lan... 000
iliamad.bsky.social @iliamad.bsky.social · 20/03/2026If you search for famous artists on #duckduckgo , they change their logo to match the result. On each result, the DDG logo is themed after the artist. Monet duck wears a flatcap, Van Gogh duck has a ginger beard, Dali duck has a thin moustache, and Kahlo duck is dressed in bright floral colours 000
iliamad.bsky.social @iliamad.bsky.social · 07/10/2025I'd love to see a recording or recreation of this presentation if there's one available. 100
iliamad.bsky.social @iliamad.bsky.social · 26/08/2025I’d never noticed the MCR album was set a sci fi dystopia 100
Reposted by @iliamad.bsky.socialClive Thompson @clivethompson.bsky.social · 20/08/2025This is really fascinating Wikipedia's list of linguistic and stylist "tells" of AI writing, the better to help editors recognize it en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped... 16493193
iliamad.bsky.social @iliamad.bsky.social · 20/08/2025In 2022/23 I did some research on #AI price setting algorithms. It's published here: www.etive-mor.com/blog/ai-coop... Throughout the research, models consistently colluded to undermine consumers. I'm hoping to recreate the research with LLMs as the economic agents in the near future.etive-mor.comAI cooperation in simulated economies | Etive MòrResearch into what happens when Artificially Intelligent economic agents set prices in a simulated economy. 021
Reposted by @iliamad.bsky.socialDr. Tom 7 Murphy VII Ph.D. ! @tomvii.bsky.social · 20/02/2025I understand why people are concerned about space rock 2024-YR4, which by taking the cumulative impact probability of 0.28% and multiplying it by a velocity of 13,260 m/s has an expected damage of 37 m/s. But even more concerning to me is 2016 WN55’s expected damage of NaN! 0181
iliamad.bsky.social @iliamad.bsky.social · 12/08/2025They found that even with lots of prompt-engineering the results were "so inconsistent that I'm absolutely certain that reviewing + polishing all of the work done by the robots took more time than if we just did every single block by hand in the first place " 000
iliamad.bsky.social @iliamad.bsky.social · 12/08/2025@tailwindcss.com sent a newsletter out yesterday describing their journey to add dark-mode to their premium themes. They estimated it'd take them 6 weeks to implement dark mode on their premium themes. They instead used #AI & #LLMs to speed up the process, taking them only... 12 weeks 101
iliamad.bsky.social @iliamad.bsky.social · 04/08/2025Also not financial advice.. but check out GamesWorkshop. Mostly well-run business with a total monopoly over their niche and a captive audience - all of whom seem to have massive disposable income. I almost make enough off the stock to pay for my Space Marines 000
iliamad.bsky.social @iliamad.bsky.social · 01/08/2025When you look through Claude's output during coding sessions, you realise that an absolutely unreal amount of energy & GPU cycles are being dedicated to it grepping around the codebase. 000
iliamad.bsky.social @iliamad.bsky.social · 01/08/2025Hey @codesharepaul.bsky.social, how do packages get listed on this site? psw.codeshare.co.ukpsw.codeshare.co.ukPackage Script WriterA tool to help you generate the scripts needed to install Umbraco and the associated packages. 110
iliamad.bsky.social @iliamad.bsky.social · 20/05/2025Happy to see our Python IMO CII Calculator making into OpenSustain.tech #climate #sustainability #imo #ciiopensustain.techOpen Sustainable TechnologyOpen technology projects sustaining stable climate, energy supply, biodiversity and vital natural resources 011
Reposted by @iliamad.bsky.socialOpen Sustainable Technology @opensustaintech.bsky.social · 20/05/2025We welcome a new project to OpenSustain.tech #climate #sustainability #opensource #opensustain #openscience github.com/Etive-Mor/py...github.comGitHub - Etive-Mor/py-open-IMO-CII-calculator: Unofficial open source python implementation of the Carbon Intensity Indicator (CII) by the International Maritime Organization (IMO), as outlined in Res...Unofficial open source python implementation of the Carbon Intensity Indicator (CII) by the International Maritime Organization (IMO), as outlined in Resolution MEPC.354(78) - Etive-Mor/py-open-IMO... 121
iliamad.bsky.social @iliamad.bsky.social · 22/04/2025The only context I've seen "sandbagging" in is F1 & motorsports. At (public) pre-season testing, teams intentionally slow the cars by adding ballast (the "sandbag" in question). The intention is to hide the true performance capabilities of the car ahead of the first race. 000
Reposted by @iliamad.bsky.socialOpen Sustainable Technology @opensustaintech.bsky.social · 22/04/2025We are opening a new chapter of ClimateTriage.com as part of the GitHub Climate Action Plan for Developers, presented at the San Francisco Climate Week. Together with GitHub, we are joining forces on a common mission: To get more developers involved in open source climate and sustainability projects 032
iliamad.bsky.social @iliamad.bsky.social · 09/04/2025I wrote this in an essay years ago: "T-bills can be considered riskless (pragmatically, though not theoretically) as the conditions where the US government defaults on T-Bills are aligned with the total collapse of capitalism, at which point the model is redundant". Hope I was wrong 🙏 010
