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thattommyhall

@thattommyhall.com
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Like mountains, cycling and math(s) Doing a mix of Dev and Ops since before we concatenated the strings Annoyingly pre-post-economic

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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
A rich person can never be held accountable. Therefore, a rich person must never make a societal decision
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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 25/09/2026
I have blamed The agents That hacked Your website And which You probably Reasonably thought I controlled Forgive me I am rich And unaccustomed To taking responsibility
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Giovanni Campagna @gcampax.com · 24/09/2026
It feels wrong that software engineering was solved before IKEA furniture assembly, and yet it's so, so relatable
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Andrey Sitnik @en.sitnik.es · 12/09/2026
If you’re also fascinated by what people are doing with the fly connectome (and wondering what the fly thinks about all this) read “Lena,” by @qntm.org a very short story written like a Wikipedia article about the near future that may be waiting for us. qntm.org/mmacevedo
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thattommyhall @thattommyhall.com · 12/09/2026
Hearing about how LLMs are solving serious math problems while one tells me that in my loft I'll have trouble moving around under the ridge as that's the lowest point. What a strange time to be alive.
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thattommyhall @thattommyhall.com · 08/09/2026
Looking at the lineup and it seems that the talks are about Racket, not about LLMs
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Matt Henderson @matthen.com · 07/09/2026
A ring built from the Julia sets found along the main cardioid of the Mandelbrot set. one of my favourite mathematical objects
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thattommyhall @thattommyhall.com · 07/09/2026
I don't understand why people like fitted kitchens. I don't see any advantage to having wooden doors in front of appliances and from a hygiene perspective making large parts of the floor inaccessible seems obviously bad
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thattommyhall @thattommyhall.com · 27/08/2026
I love how this is basically every webpage now, even on a 1G connection
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thattommyhall @thattommyhall.com · 22/08/2026
Home is where the automations run
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tef @tef.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
FRONTIER LABS: We turned up the sycophancy because it produces addictive behaviour, and had to turn it down because of all the lawsuits. We promise to find a good midpoint between revenue and psychosis PROGRAMMER: Thank god technology is neutral FRONTIER LABS: We're building a god, actually
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thattommyhall @thattommyhall.com · 20/08/2026
Proud panel daddy
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thattommyhall @thattommyhall.com · 19/08/2026
I've incremented my count of solar installations and children this week. Great week.
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Gleam Programming Language @gleam.run · 19/08/2026
Did you know? @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social has added #Gleamlang to it's CS course!
Graphic with "Did you know... Berkeley University is now using Gleam for one of its Computer Science courses?" and a smiling pink star holding an envelope with a light bulb
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Anil Madhavapeddy @anil.recoil.org · 18/08/2026
I remain a bit shocked just how many of the requests to my website are direct agent calls now. It feels weird to be able to directly manipulate the context windows of tens of thousands of inquisitive tool-using LLMs...
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tef @tef.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
it's fun to contrast the tech industry, who believe they're creating the future and so cannot be held accountable, and the media circus, who believe that they're serving the public interest, and so cannot be held accountable there's something about working in advertising that rots your brains huh
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thattommyhall @thattommyhall.com · 10/08/2026
My daughter is loving Cats at the moment, I'm going to have to send nursery a note about why she's asking for "the cavity" tho
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Sam Rose @samwho.dev · 07/08/2026
I found a real bug in Kubernetes through webernetes, my port of Kubernetes to TypeScript. github.com/kubernetes/k... I found it by using webernetes to visualise how liveness probes work and noticed they didn’t work as I expected. Thought it was a webernetes bug but it was a Kubernetes bug!
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Liveness probe failure container restart leads to container starting up with started=true and liveness probes starting before startup probes have run · Issue #141155 · kubernetes/kubernetes
What happened? The full details of the repro can be seen in the Bash script below, but roughly: Start a container with startup and liveness probe. Wait for both to succeed. All normal so far. Flip ...
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thattommyhall @thattommyhall.com · 07/08/2026
Of course there are LLM poem summaries in the searches now and they are terrible
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thattommyhall @thattommyhall.com · 05/08/2026
I'm very into Timmy Mallet being a cycling legend now
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Quinn Slobodian @quinnslobodian.com · 04/08/2026
@mwpalen.bsky.social vindication press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
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Pax Economica
The forgotten history of the liberal radicals, socialist internationalists, feminists, and Christians who envisioned free trade as the necessary prerequisite for anti-imperialism and peace
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Fastmail @fastmail.com · 03/08/2026
Fastmail data can now live primarily in the EU, on servers our own engineers set up in Amsterdam. Current customers can switch in settings; new accounts pick a region at signup. 

 Our CEO Bron's post walks through exactly what lives where.
www.fastmail.com/blog/fastmai... #Fastmail #Email
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Fastmail offers EU data region
Choose if you want to make the European Union the primary home for your Fastmail data, on our own secure servers in Amsterdam.
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Brawlcats @brawlcats.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
airbnb I’m staying at unintentionally created the toughest punk album cover of 2027
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Veerender Singh Jubbal @veerenderjubbal.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
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cool use case of chatgpt work i heard last night:
connect your family calendars and explain your kids' interests.
every morning for the drive to school, have it make a podcast that talks about one kid's soccer game that afternoon, one kid's upcoming birthday, some news, etc.
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What if you just talked to your children
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thattommyhall @thattommyhall.com · 31/07/2026
"Inspired by timeless french workwear but for people that like reading more than working" with massive pockets for when you need to carry 8 massive books but for some reason hate bags and won't need to sit down at any point.
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nolen @itseieio.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
they're running DOOM in the language we made up for our programming contest
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thattommyhall @thattommyhall.com · 29/07/2026
The worst thing about having Fuck Off For A Bit money and not Fuck Off money is it's very hard to pretend to give a microfuck about someone elses self inflicted problem
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New-Cleckit Dominie @ncdominie.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
This is just to say I have OCRed the text thet was in tne arch:ve and whicb yov were prabaldy seamhing for "breahtast" Fargme ms fheg mem debo:w5 sb ?mccf mmb 5c oc1b
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Charlie Ball @lmicharlie.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
It was a trip to Jodrell Bank when I was 5 that ignited a love for science that took me through a PhD and beyond into a life dedicated to good evidence and sound data. Closing it doesn't just mean less science in the UK, it means fewer kids will get the spark that makes them want to do science.
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thattommyhall @thattommyhall.com · 27/07/2026
I shared this the other day, the contest is about to finish but I hope they leave it up as a permanent resource as it's loads of fun
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Cult Edge @cultedge.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Very interested. I’m assuming you’re Ken Armstrong’s son 😊 I work with Jonathan Helm to create Blake’s 7 production publications. We’ve even resurrected the magazine your dad worked on. Those photos would be made very good use of… www.cultedge.art
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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
There is more to say about all this, but it would be a dereliction of duty not to begin with a bit of lifting cats, toppling horses, and hurling trees at one’s enemies with the power of one’s bodily emissions—plus the art of getting your mate to fart in a sack and emptying that at your foes
A section of a he-gassen scroll c.1846, depicting a man with no trousers on farting a black and white cat into the air, its limbs flailing as it fliesA section of a he-gassen scroll c.1846, depicting a man with no trousers on, farting. His fart, depicted as a jet of grey across the scroll, seems to have toppled a horse and its rider (who is being crushed by the prone, flailing horse)A section of a he-gassen scroll c.1846, depicting a man with no trousers on, farting. His fart, depicted as a jet of grey across the scroll, seems to have lifted a dead tree and is carrying it towards two other men who are running awayA section of a he-gassen scroll c.1846, depicting a group of people at the far right holding a sack up to the arse of a naked man to catch his farts. In the centre, a group of people opens a sack of farts, and at the left, three people tumble over and flee from the fart
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Mateusz Fafinski @calthalas.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Remember, both the Iliad and the Odyssey were originally audiobooks.
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ICFP Programming Contest 2026 @icfpcontest.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
This year's ICFP programming contest has begun! To get started, read the textbook: icfpcontest2026.com/textbook
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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 21/07/2026
I guess this is how one becomes someone who haunts estate sales for old Pyrex
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Your Cookware Got Worse On Purpose
One buyout firm quietly collected Pyrex, Corelle, Instant Pot, and Oneida. Farberware is a name on a 200-year lease. And the pans still worth buying.
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Met Office - weather and climate @metoffice.gov.uk · 21/07/2026
Have you noticed an opaqueness to the blue sky this morning? Wildfire smoke from North America is drifting south across the UK, meaning the clear skies may not be as blue as you might expect 🌤️
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Sridhar Ramesh @radishharmers.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
The average human spends nearly 4% of their lifetime being Indonesian.
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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 15/07/2026
Left: Venus, 1 March 1982 Centre: Titan, 14 January 2005 Right: Boston, 15 July 2026
Left: Venus. Centre: Titan. Right: Earth.
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Eileen (╹◡╹) @bumble.blue · 13/07/2026
2026 @localfirstconf.com is truly one of the few places that unite disparate communities—open source, LLMs, p2p, interface design, standards—behind a shared value: user agency and empowerment. How refreshing to witness the openness and curiosity everyone brings to the discussion.
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Anand @calmerfuture.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
'this leering fairground spiv can longer sell the same magic beans simply by posing with a fag in one hand and a pint in the other' 🎯
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olive consumer @machete.gay · 12/07/2026
not being able to use subs with a third party harness is why i stopped going to german night clubs
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Glyn Moody @glynmoody.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Britain’s biggest community solar farm forced to shut over grid overload fears - www.theguardian.com/environment/... absurd; the grid should buy some batteries...
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Britain’s biggest community solar farm forced to shut over grid overload fears
Timing of Devon switchoff ‘could not be worse’, says board, as members face an estimated £2m in lost revenue
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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 12/07/2026
The thing about being ruled by a gerontocracy is that cohort mortality is a probability density, meaning all these fuckers start dying around the same time -- in clusters. The same Weibull Distribution "bathtub curve" explains why batches of light bulbs and hard drives all die in the same month.
A line graph plotting the probability density function of a Weibull distribution over time. The horizontal axis represents elapsed time, and the vertical axis represents the probability of failure. The curve models a wear-out scenario where the shape parameter is greater than one.At the beginning of the timeline, the line starts near zero, indicating a very low risk of early failure. It remains low and relatively flat across the initial and middle stages of life. As time advances toward the right, the line curves sharply upward (called the "bathtub curve" because it resembles the back of a bathtub. It forms a steep, narrow peak that represents a concentrated cluster of failures near the end of the maximum lifespan. After reaching this maximum peak, the curve plunges rapidly back down to zero, indicating that nearly all subjects in the population have failed.
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Nicolas Fulghum @nicolasfulghum.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Solar's sharp rise continues. As of April 2026, global solar capacity now exceeds 3 terawatt. 1 gigawatt → 1 terawatt: 20+ years 1 terawatt → 2 terawatt: 33 months 2 terawatt → 3 terawatt: 19 months
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thattommyhall @thattommyhall.com · 09/07/2026
Very pleased with this, first proper hill day in ages.
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
In case you missed it, here's Count Binface's appearance on the BBC this morning.
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conputer dipshit @davidcrespo.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
a manager can never be held accountable. therefore a manager must never make a management decision
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thattommyhall @thattommyhall.com · 06/07/2026
is this a joke or reality? (or both?)
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thattommyhall @thattommyhall.com · 05/07/2026
I remember Joe Armstrong giving a talk saying something like this. I wonder how many more in my generation are becoming cranky about the state of things.
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