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This one was satisfying. Spend today fiddling with force-directed layouts for my Hollywood graph. Each dot is an actor, connected to others via films they've been in together. Check it out: hollywood.six-degrees.app/explore

Graph network of hollywood actors with Mads Mikkelsen highlighted

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Owen Lacey @owenlacey.dev · 29/09/2026

I'm pretty much building roller coaster tycoon at this point, which I'm OK with

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Owen Lacey @owenlacey.dev · 29/09/2026

TIL you can set a limit for YouTube shorts - it's always pissed me off how some apps become doomscrollified, and I'm extremely susceptible. I set it to 0 🙏

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Owen Lacey @owenlacey.dev · 26/09/2026

I made something to generate blueprints for solves of my son's railcube, using every piece. How long until it finds a duplicate? (hint: it's at 2k an hasn't found one yet)

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Owen Lacey @owenlacey.dev · 24/09/2026

Tell me you've got time off work without telling me you've got time off work

line chart showing my github contributions going up

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Owen Lacey @owenlacey.dev · 17/09/2026

Excited to see what becomes of this. Browsing sites with agents is the worst youtu.be/xtVvkRTH5ck?...

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WebMCP is here (and you should care)

YouTube video by Syntax

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Owen Lacey @owenlacey.dev · 17/09/2026

Only took me 4 trips to Edinburgh to climb up Arthur's seat

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Owen Lacey @owenlacey.dev · 08/09/2026

I'm never going back to smart watches, but I did miss being able to do wrist maths

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Matt Henderson @matthen.com · 26/08/2026

To tell if a maze is solvable, just hang it by its corners If it tears into pieces, you’ve found a solution

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Owen Lacey @owenlacey.dev · 26/08/2026

AI certs these days: "An SME is an AI skeptic. What's the most appropriate action to take?" 1. Call them a woke snowflake 2. Agree with them: AI is stupid 3. Do the middle finger wind up crank thing 4. Listen to them, show them quick-wins that will make their day-to-day easier

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Owen Lacey @owenlacey.dev · 23/08/2026

I challenge you to find a better way to sink £3.74

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Owen Lacey @owenlacey.dev · 16/08/2026

I'm gonna post soon about how I made a program to generate thousands of possible solutions for my son's railcube. It will involve using my js port of google or tools to solve real-time in the browser. It's very fun

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Owen Lacey @owenlacey.dev · 12/08/2026

I don't know what an agent harness is and at this point I'm too afraid to ask

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Owen Lacey @owenlacey.dev · 04/08/2026

Such a brilliant idea to generate your own data and then do a dataviz piece on it 🤯 pudding.cool/2026/06/mow/

pudding.cool

Why some people mow a lawn better than others

We analyzed 132,003 attempts to mow a virtual lawn efficiently.

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Owen Lacey @owenlacey.dev · 03/08/2026

See if you can spot the point where Strava (orange) put their API behind a paywall

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Owen Lacey @owenlacey.dev · 27/07/2026

"ALWAYS" in agent instructions feels like a worse version of css !important

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Owen Lacey @owenlacey.dev · 25/07/2026

That feeling when you find a library that does exactly what you need it to, nothing more 👌

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Owen Lacey @owenlacey.dev · 08/07/2026

Has someone made a letmeclaudethatforyou yet? I have some use cases

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Owen Lacey @owenlacey.dev · 06/07/2026

BBC breakfast cutting to a primary school who are watching the match replay not knowing the result yet goes down as one of the best moments of 2026 for me

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Owen Lacey @owenlacey.dev · 03/07/2026

I hate git submodules - I can't be alone here? Theoretically game-changing, but so fiddly to actually get value from them

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Owen Lacey @owenlacey.dev · 22/06/2026

Pity people who spend money on stuff like clothes

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Owen Lacey @owenlacey.dev · 20/06/2026

So, the plot of Toy Story 5 is exactly the same as Inside Out 2? Am I going mad?

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Owen Lacey @owenlacey.dev · 08/06/2026

This has been on my list for ages

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Owen Lacey @owenlacey.dev · 02/06/2026

I've started getting RSI twinges in my right hand and it's giving me the heebie-jeebies. Does anyone have any recommendations (wrist protectors, ergonomic keyboard, voice control software)?

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Owen Lacey @owenlacey.dev · 26/05/2026

I've just finished storyboarding my Kevin Bacon blog post. I actually have a clear structure, beginning middle end, all that jazz This is by far the hardest I've worked on a post before I've properly started it - I even made an app as a side quest ffs 😅

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Owen Lacey @owenlacey.dev · 24/05/2026

Leaving for a family function with Claude on auto /goal

Joker walking away from a blown up hospital in the dark knight

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Owen Lacey @owenlacey.dev · 13/05/2026

Today I picked my train carriage based on the optimal stopping problem (looking into each carriage and seeing how busy it is) - got a table seat

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Nik Gadermann @nik.digital · 27/04/2026

New blog post: Compositing & Blending! 🥳 I spent the last few months reading all about blend modes so you don't have to: You'll learn what compositing and blending are, and what is actually going on under the hood when you apply blend modes in CSS 🎨 nik.digital/posts/compos...

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Compositing & Blending • Niklas Gadermann

Exploring the math and intuition behind blend modes in the browser

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Owen Lacey @owenlacey.dev · 24/04/2026

I found this book online for my next project

A book titled "six degrees of Kevin Bacon"

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Owen Lacey @owenlacey.dev · 23/04/2026

One of my biggest pet peeves of appearing competent is that people will just send me links to tech stuff with no context. Why are you sending me this? What do you want me to do with this information? Can I just say "cool" and not read it?

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shri @shrikhalpada.dev · 20/04/2026

I built an interactive guide on how Shazam (the music identification app) works! This is the next installment in my newly coined "How The Heck?" series, where we explore everyday tech that can feel like magic (QR Codes, GPS, and now this one). Hope you enjoy it! perthirtysix.com/how-the-heck...

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Owen Lacey @owenlacey.dev · 18/04/2026

I made a contexto.me solver. I was able to zero in on it using the GloVe 300d dataset. Uses lemmas under the hood (runs, run, runing -> run), and then "just" find the word(s) where the guess is X distance away. I think my best score before this was like 50.

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Owen Lacey @owenlacey.dev · 16/04/2026

This is exciting. The majority of my projects involve using Googles CP-SAT solver in some way. Today, I got a PoC js port working

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Owen Lacey @owenlacey.dev · 15/04/2026

Reinventing the wheel is underrated

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Owen Lacey @owenlacey.dev · 14/04/2026

This is one of those things you make that barely anyone notices, but gives me endless joy. Site is football.six-degrees.app/daily

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Owen Lacey @owenlacey.dev · 09/04/2026

Can confirm @samwho.dev is equally sound IRL

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Owen Lacey @owenlacey.dev · 07/04/2026

One thing they don't tell you about parenting - getting up at stupid-AM for a flight is an absolute pisstake compared to before

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Sam Rose @samwho.dev · 25/03/2026

I spent 2 months learning about quantization and am extremely proud of the post I've written about it. I think these are some of the nicest visuals I've ever made, and I love how this compression technique invented in 1898 is being used on the bleeding edge in 2026. ngrok.com/blog/quantiz...

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Quantization from the ground up | ngrok blog

A complete guide to what quantization is, how it works, and how it's used to compress large language models

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