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Nick Ludlam @nick.recoil.org · 19/09/2026

Don’t do it! It’s a nostalgia trap. I was talking about this with @anil.recoil.org the other day and was saying you can’t recapture A) Youth, and B) Your old guild’s sociality

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Nick Ludlam @nick.recoil.org · 17/09/2026

Anything openclaw ish? That sort of agent ?

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Nick Ludlam @nick.recoil.org · 15/09/2026

So it’s a speech recognition failure rather than a query shape failure ?

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Nick Ludlam @nick.recoil.org · 15/09/2026

Sorry but this irks me. It’s new, we’re curious nerds, so what was your learning to share from this ? What do we need to avoid ? Is this something many of us will experience ? Was the query something basic? Complex ? Is it still indexing ? Cmon….

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Nick Ludlam @nick.recoil.org · 12/09/2026

I wonder if they will seek to control any potential monetisation of that like Apple do.

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Nick Ludlam @nick.recoil.org · 17/08/2026

Am on Smarty (Three infrastructure) and I got it twice. But this is on an iPhone so no useful evidence available

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Nick Ludlam @nick.recoil.org · 15/08/2026

How did you make this link btw ? Because it popped up a message with my username and your username. It was some kind of trackable thing with metrics ? Urgh

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Nick Ludlam @nick.recoil.org · 15/08/2026

That’s wild. What about an alternative OS ? One under your control more

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Nick Ludlam @nick.recoil.org · 11/08/2026

Yeah my partner is a writer and at least 50% of her work is maintaining the social media accounts and mailing list. It’s astonishing

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Nick Ludlam @nick.recoil.org · 10/07/2026

The written equivalent of a YouTuber using a conspicuous Bluetooth mic when monologuing to camera. The imperfections of genuine authenticity

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Nick Ludlam @nick.recoil.org · 28/06/2026

Shower thought: Is an LLM the FPGA of neural networks

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Nick Ludlam @nick.recoil.org · 08/06/2026

Anil's made an absolutely EPIC writeup of all the behind-the-scenes work it takes to implement and maintain your own email service without drowning in spam. Also it's the first mention that recoil.org has its own IPv4 range, which I still can't quite believe.

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Nick Ludlam @nick.recoil.org · 28/04/2026

Nice! The link in your post isn’t turning up as an actual active link on bsky, I had to copy and paste it like a caveman

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Nick Ludlam @nick.recoil.org · 10/04/2026

Yeah. It’s a balance. It never pays to stay perfectly contented (especially with the current tech disruption), but also you want to feel good about what you do.

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Nick Ludlam @nick.recoil.org · 28/03/2026

This YouTube short has a separate audio commentary track recorded under “Klingon”. That’s genuinely a really inventive way of getting people to watch your video more than once. youtube.com/shorts/I87xX...

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Making a Yooperlite Sphere

YouTube video by Michigan Rocks

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Nick Ludlam @nick.recoil.org · 27/03/2026

I am continuing to enjoy playing with OpenClaw. I recently tried out the process of generating self-taught skills, and made a post which unpicks how this kinda crazy process works. nick.recoil.org/notes/2026/s...

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Self taught skills in OpenClaw

I had my first attempt at getting OpenClaw to turn a relatively basic prompt from me into a reusable skill. It worked, but it wasn’t without issues, so I wanted to dig into how the process worked.

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Nick Ludlam @nick.recoil.org · 22/03/2026

Huh, I never thought to link that art piece to Smith Charts from electrical engineering. Neat

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Nick Ludlam @nick.recoil.org · 13/03/2026

Great work @oneofmoo.bsky.social and everyone involved! I’m looking forward to giving Mythmatch a spin

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Nick Ludlam @nick.recoil.org · 21/02/2026

I ended up installing CatchyOS, and have managed to get KSA up and running. I’ve upped my donation because this is a most excellent update, cheers!

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Nick Ludlam @nick.recoil.org · 21/02/2026

The KSA Linux build has also tipped me into setting up a dual boot system for the first time in like 10 years. Proton also works well with Elite Dangerous, apparently. Space fans rejoice!

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Nick Ludlam @nick.recoil.org · 11/02/2026

Done! Good luck, that’s a great round number target

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Nick Ludlam @nick.recoil.org · 27/01/2026

I've written up an experiment with Blender's geometry nodes I made last year. In particular I wanted to learn about the simulation capabilities, so I challenged myself to make a looping animation of some nice autumn leaves fluttering to the ground. nick.recoil.org/articles/ble...

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Simulating falling autumn leaves in Blender

Using Blender's geometry nodes to create a simple yet pleasing animation of falling leaves

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Nick Ludlam @nick.recoil.org · 22/10/2025

Algorithmic social media invites us to turn of our hearts, it’s basically a one-two punch combo

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Nick Ludlam @nick.recoil.org · 08/09/2025

I managed to get it working on the Mac! I might fiddle around and add a WASD + mouse mode as an alternative to Gamepad input

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Nick Ludlam @nick.recoil.org · 06/09/2025

That looks fantastic! I guess there are probably ways to accelerate it, but it’s not worth the time because this is more of a proof of concept ?

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Nick Ludlam @nick.recoil.org · 04/09/2025

To my mind, the only value in preserving old domain data would be that Google or whoever replace the old site’s entries with the new, but that seems incredibly unlikely

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Nick Ludlam @nick.recoil.org · 02/09/2025

There must be a game engine or something which encapsulates TTRPG mechanics and offers some easy scripting

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Nick Ludlam @nick.recoil.org · 18/08/2025

@anil.recoil.org this was the recent hn post I mentioned on Large Object Promisors in git news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4491...

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The future of large files in Git is Git | Hacker News

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Nick Ludlam @nick.recoil.org · 11/08/2025

I'm looking forward to tracking the rise of @tangled.sh given the potential enshittification of Github now their CEO is out. www.theverge.com/news/757461/...

Nick Ludlam @nick.recoil.org · 01/08/2025

Welp, there goes my Nest thermostat support. Google are offering some kind of discount on a Tado thermostat to ease my pain. shop.tado.com/en-gb/pages/...

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Nick Ludlam @nick.recoil.org · 31/07/2025

It's deployed, albeit temporarily, to exif.recoil.org. It's the first time I've experimented with PWA, and it Just Works (tm). Svelte and Vite are great.

exif.recoil.org

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Nick Ludlam @nick.recoil.org · 31/07/2025

The biggest false-start was the initial library chosen (Exif-HEIC.js) didn't have typescript bindings, and it got into a horrible pickle trying to mix JS and TS code. In the end I got it to use exifr, as it worked with fine with HEIC. Then the only hand tweaks were to the table layout.

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Nick Ludlam @nick.recoil.org · 31/07/2025

As a little experiment, I vibe-coded an offline-first PWA Svelte app to make something @anil.recoil.org could use to in a pinch get EXIF tags from images while connectivity is patchy. github.com/nickludlam/s...

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GitHub - nickludlam/svelte-exifdump: A vibe-coded client-side SPA to dump EXIF tags from images

A vibe-coded client-side SPA to dump EXIF tags from images - nickludlam/svelte-exifdump

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Nick Ludlam @nick.recoil.org · 28/06/2025

Just caught some of Yussef Dayes at Glastonbury on iPlayer, and it’s so good. I love discovering a new artist to dive into the back catalogue of. The keyboard player Elijah Fox was awesome too 😍

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Nick Ludlam @nick.recoil.org · 18/06/2025

Is that the iPad app being wrapped to work on desktop under the new macOS beta?

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Nick Ludlam @nick.recoil.org · 12/06/2025

Watch out, this could become a competitor to Slug before you know it 😀

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Nick Ludlam @nick.recoil.org · 10/06/2025

Of course the other approach is that they’re housed in Trump hotels at the taxpayer’s expense

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Nick Ludlam @nick.recoil.org · 05/06/2025

I have to be careful going to emojikitchen.dev because I end up having way too much fun laughing at the random results button

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Nick Ludlam @nick.recoil.org · 04/06/2025

There is a process of compass calibration if you’re talking about an iPhone, if it helps

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Nick Ludlam @nick.recoil.org · 31/05/2025

That’s both lovely, and also reminds me I have some of my old cards somewhere too. Chemicals are one problem, sure, but spare a thought for “forever clutter”. Once it enters the household, it can never be remover

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Nick Ludlam @nick.recoil.org · 31/05/2025

I petition you buy a multi shelf glass cabinet and start a Museum of Moo. It could feature behind you in any self presentation videos!

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Nick Ludlam @nick.recoil.org · 24/05/2025

I think we saw a buzzard in our local green space! Was calmly sitting in the ground while a whole lot of crows were freaking out and dive bombing it. Never seen on in London before, and it looked so majestic

A picture of what I think is a common buzzard

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Nick Ludlam @nick.recoil.org · 21/05/2025

Oh where did that happen??

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Nick Ludlam @nick.recoil.org · 12/05/2025

Today I found out exactly how violently the old style of CFL bulb can fail. Big pop, burning smell, cue me running around pulling every plug out the wall until my nose lead me to the lampshade. I’m glad we have got past this as a “normal” failure mode!

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Nick Ludlam @nick.recoil.org · 28/04/2025

@rooreynolds.bsky.social Hey just wanted to let you know rooreynolds.com looks like it needs a poke

rooreynolds.com

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Nick Ludlam @nick.recoil.org · 22/04/2025

I need to pick some out-of-copyright romance novels through my LLM book reading project. I did try some Tolstoy but all the triple barrelled Russian names blew its tiny mind. Need relatively basic stuff, but mostly we consider the great works. Who wrote trashy novels around the turn of last century?

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Nick Ludlam @nick.recoil.org · 22/04/2025

Yeah that has less immediately problematic implications. I should try putting the name of the book as a big horizontal bar in the background

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Nick Ludlam @nick.recoil.org · 22/04/2025

Well one of them's the cat, so hopefully not 😆

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