Theodore Manassis @mamonu.bsky.social · 02/08/2026RIP to a kind soul that made of the wickedest plugins in existence 010
Reposted by Theodore ManassisEvan Peck @peck.phd · 18/03/2026I made a tiny tool for quickly sharing small datasets (< ~1000 rows) without uploading any data to a server. 🔗 ziptbl.com It compresses the data into the link itself, so there’s no account, hosting, or storage layer involved. Here's Florence Nightingale's famous 📊 data: ziptbl.com#d=eNpdlE-LGz... 1430996
Theodore Manassis @mamonu.bsky.social · 25/01/2026How the "Dear Jonas" letter to the Norwegian PM really sounds like*. 3rd rate cartoon villainy . *Credit to the original creator for this 020
Reposted by Theodore ManassisSusie Dent @susiedentwords.bsky.social · 07/01/2026Word of the day is ‘fanfaronade’ (19th century): to strut and swagger about as if you own the stage. 431267246
Theodore Manassis @mamonu.bsky.social · 26/11/2025Gihub Copilot's and Claude Code's fav track www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8ab...youtube.comRobotnik (Kling Klang Mix)YouTube video by Kraftwerk - Topic 010
Reposted by Theodore ManassisClassical Studies Memes for Hellenistic Teens @csmfht.bsky.social · 23/11/2025 237776
Reposted by Theodore ManassisDr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 02/11/2025Per a conversation w/ @thefallingdream.bsky.social: "AI Psychosis": ableist, saneist, makes it seem like an individual problem; washed "AI Ensorcellment": highlights both the truth of the magico-religious commitments underlying all tech *&* the curse-like nature of systemic "AI" impositions; fire 13494179
Reposted by Theodore ManassisDreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · 11/09/2025Despite easily being the most British fighting vehicle ever developed, the mock-Tudor AT-AT programme was sadly cancelled due to budgetary concerns 512311571
Reposted by Theodore ManassisGlenn 'devalias' Grant @devalias.net · 22/04/2025And similar to my original gist, to better direct people to the appropriate details in a slightly less scattered/chaotic way than in the past: Serum 1 Preset File Format (.fxp): gist.github.com/0xdevalias/5... Serum 2 Preset File Format (.SerumPreset): gist.github.com/0xdevalias/5... 011
Reposted by Theodore ManassisGlenn 'devalias' Grant @devalias.net · 22/04/2025I also added 2 new sections to my new gist, summarising the Serum 1 preset (.fxp) file format notes: gist.github.com/0xdevalias/1... And the Serum 2 preset (.SerumPreset) file format notes: gist.github.com/0xdevalias/1... 111
Reposted by Theodore ManassisGlenn 'devalias' Grant @devalias.net · 21/04/2025Speaking of old projects of mine; there's been some interesting discussion recently on one of my old gists that in part is about reverse engineering / figuring out the Serum VST preset file format. 111
Reposted by Theodore ManassisPatrick Vallely @pjvphotography.bsky.social · 28/08/2025"Pat, why do you carry that ridiculous 600mm lens on long hikes?" Buddy, I can see mountains reflected in the eyes of a trailside pika. 6404367310931
Reposted by Theodore ManassisVicki @vickiboykis.com · 05/08/2025Have become fairly allergic to any content that ✅ now ✅ includes ✅ emoji lists 101047
Reposted by Theodore ManassisInsta Science @instascience.bsky.social · 06/08/2025Smart! Raven loves winning Tic Tac Toe. 387180192985
Theodore Manassis @mamonu.bsky.social · 31/07/2025andrewlock.net/working-on-t...andrewlock.netWorking on two git branches at once with git worktreeIn this post I describe how you can use git worktree to check out multiple branches at once, and some scenarios in which this can be useful 000
Reposted by Theodore ManassisPrateek Buch @prateekbuch.bsky.social · 31/07/2025A reminder that working in the open, even just amongst your colleagues, takes time, effort, care, thoughtfulness and dedication. It can feel exhausting, yet failing to invest these intangibles can lead to obfuscation. And yes, this is a note to self, not a criticism of others! 021
Reposted by Theodore ManassisHannes Mühleisen @hannes.muehleisen.org · 01/07/2025Want to read #ducklake from APACHE SPARK? Check this out: gist.github.com/hannes/395ac... #butdoesitscale #yesitdoesgist.github.compyspark-ducklake-2.pyGitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets. 0186
Reposted by Theodore ManassisEmily St. John Mandel @emilymandel.bsky.social · 30/04/2025“And I’m like, what do you mean, you ‘do your own research’? You running a double-blind study in your living room, dawg?” - A guy walking ahead of me with his friends on a NYC sidewalk in 2021, also my favorite overheard dialogue of the entire pandemic 740270806670
Reposted by Theodore ManassisBob Belderbos @bbelderbos.bsky.social · 29/04/2025TIL about the 🔥 chardet library — it guesses unknown file encodings! 📄 Write text in latin-1 ➡️ try to read as utf-8 ➡️ 💥 UnicodeDecodeError. 👨💻 Solution: 121
Theodore Manassis @mamonu.bsky.social · 30/04/2025oops. i just got a basic 24GB RAM m4 mac mini to replace my 2012 (!) mac mini that still runs great. For the $$ its a no brainer. 010
Reposted by Theodore ManassisSkrub @skrub-data.bsky.social · 23/04/2025The Skrub TableReport is a lightweight tool that allows to get a rich overview of a table quickly and easily. ✅ Filter columns 🔎 Look at each column's distribution 📊 Get a high level view of the distributions through stats and plots, including correlated columns 🌐 Export the report as html 164
Reposted by Theodore ManassisBob Belderbos @bbelderbos.bsky.social · 23/04/2025Making a temporary file/dur is very useful for 𝘁𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴. In the example below, we first use 𝘛𝘦𝘮𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘢𝘳𝘺𝘋𝘪𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘺 to create 5 temp files. This is a great example of using a 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗲𝘅𝘁 𝗺𝗮𝗻𝗮𝗴𝗲𝗿 — a clean way to automatically clean up resources. pytest makes it even easier using the 𝘵𝘮𝘱_𝘱𝘢𝘵𝘩 fixture: 132
Theodore Manassis @mamonu.bsky.social · 23/04/2025just a nice article about what is happening right now with botnets jan.wildeboer.net/2025/02/Bloc...jan.wildeboer.netBotnet Part 1: Those Stealthy BotnetsIt’s one of those days again where botnets are hammering my little e-mail server with brute force attacks to send spam. This comes in waves, but is persistent and part of the #SysAdminLife. (They obvi... 000
Reposted by Theodore ManassisJon Ingold @jon.inkle.co · 17/04/2025List piece on dualshockers about linguistic games - and great, HV is in it, but also - PataNoir! The Gostak! Suveh Nux! This is a good list. The Gostak is an all-timer.dualshockers.com8 Best Games For Linguistic ExpertsThe best video games for players than consider themselves linguistic aficionados. 16522
Reposted by Theodore ManassisSimon Willison @simonwillison.net · 06/03/2025Wrote some notes on Aider's unconventional but kind of brilliant installation mechanism, which solves the "isolated Python virtual environment" problem by bundling uv as a dependency! simonwillison.net/2025/Mar/6/a... 5736
Reposted by Theodore ManassisJon Walmsley @arghzombies.com · 03/03/2025You know who should've won an Oscar last night? The person who designed the little 'Gravity on / off' buttons in Alien Romulus. 50145591805
Reposted by Theodore ManassisOmer Shapira @omershapira.com · 26/02/2025Low-hanging fruit: If you've already done the work of laying out the sequences in a convolution-friendly way, taking their Fourier Domain representation is a multiplication. Thing is the layouts are learnable, and the memory grows in nlogn as opposed to n^2 arxiv.org/abs/2502.18394arxiv.orgThe FFT Strikes Back: An Efficient Alternative to Self-AttentionConventional self-attention mechanisms incur quadratic complexity, limiting their scalability on long sequences. We introduce FFTNet, an adaptive spectral filtering framework that leverages the Fast F... 0194
Reposted by Theodore ManassisPresent & Correct @presentcorrect.bsky.social · 25/02/2025ALPS CP10SJ550A Kanji Keyboard. deskthority.net/viewtopic.ph... 480 keys. 213130
Reposted by Theodore ManassisRyan Moulton @moultano.bsky.social · 21/02/2025The Hobbiton set is now a generational project. It was built cheaply for LOTR, then torn down, then rebuilt more permanently for The Hobbit, and has had substantial impressive additions since then. If interest continues, I expect it will keep growing. It's more than a set now. 1222
Theodore Manassis @mamonu.bsky.social · 16/02/2025The album that introduced me to 90s ambient bought in 1993 and is responsible for much of my CD/Digital collection 020
Reposted by Theodore ManassisCharlie Marsh @crmarsh.com · 16/02/2025uv is one year old today. Hard to believe its only been a year. The growth, adoption, and impact surpassed my wildest expectations. Happy birthday, uv! 🥳 1741136
Reposted by Theodore ManassisJenna Jordan @jennajordan.me · 13/02/2025While reading Data & Reality Chapter 3 (Naming), I realized that I've basically written my own version of the chapter: jennajordan.me/blog/definin... Essentially a love letter to unique identifiers, I wrote this essay as a final paper for my grad school seminar on "Theories of Information".jennajordan.meDefining Unique Identifiers | Jenna Jordana conceptual analysis 3121