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Tom Dewar

@tomdewar.dev

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Data science since before it was trendy. Ex-NHS, ex-civil servant. Wants you to use evidence to make better decisions. Formally @tomdewar_ on the old bird site. More frequently lurking on Mastodon as @tomdewar@mas.to

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Tom Dewar @tomdewar.dev · 16/09/2026

Screenshot of Bluesky muted words with “Piddington” added to the list

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Tom Dewar @tomdewar.dev · 12/08/2026

Am I doing this right?

Picture of an idiot wearing eclipse glasses with a colander on his head

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Tom Dewar @tomdewar.dev · 05/08/2026

Not sure. Got them an age ago, almost certainly from Cotswold Outdoor. Wish I could find them again to buy more.

A picture of a merino wool trainer sock - yes, my life is exciting, why do you ask?

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Tom Dewar @tomdewar.dev · 01/05/2026

Way to make me feel older @tokyosexwhale.bsky.social 🤣

Close up of Tokyo’s excellent calendar showing the beginning of April 2026. Highlighted are entries for 3rd and 4th April noting they are the 30th anniversary of films The Twister and Dead Man, the 25th anniversary of The Mummy Returns, and the 50th anniversary of Star Wars: A New Hope!

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Tom Dewar @tomdewar.dev · 23/04/2026

Wow. Also, do Law degrees not look similarly ropey in this chart. Compare to Medicine. Lots of overcharged wannabe-lawyers?

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Tom Dewar @tomdewar.dev · 06/04/2026

Ah, @iandunt.bsky.social, never change

Screen shot of the title of Ian Dunt’s latest podcast on an in-car Airplay. Title reads: “I buggered up the podcast - here’s the…”

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Tom Dewar @tomdewar.dev · 16/03/2026

Going to assume this work voicemail is a wrong number and not an evergreen comment on my life.

Screenshot of a voicemail left with the message converted to text: “no you silly sausage”.

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Tom Dewar @tomdewar.dev · 07/03/2026

Wow 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Scoreboard showing final result in the Six Nations game between Scotland and France: 50 to 40.

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Tom Dewar @tomdewar.dev · 14/02/2026

Not bad for a 56yo, gives us all hope

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Tom Dewar @tomdewar.dev · 25/01/2026

Looks like the USD’s days as the global reserve currency might be numbered. Can’t think why.

Graph of US dollar as a percent of global currency reserves between 2000 and 2025 (now-ish). Shows a decline from around 60% to 40%.

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Tom Dewar @tomdewar.dev · 24/01/2026

I assume you’ve already tried setting WiFi power to High?

Screenshot of UniFi app showing option to customise the WiFi transmit power

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Tom Dewar @tomdewar.dev · 24/01/2026

If AI kills Reddit the way it has killed StackOverflow, we will all be really sorry.

Chart showing the dramatic decline in questions posted on Stack Overflow since LLMs came into widespread use. This chart courtesy of a blog at practicalengineer.com.

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Tom Dewar @tomdewar.dev · 17/01/2026

Sub incoming. For Duma here, of course, not me ;)

Sleeping Bengal cat, head resting on paw, on a blue-green cushion

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Tom Dewar @tomdewar.dev · 30/12/2025

What have they got against doctors?

Clip from gov.uk website stating that “doctor” is not a recognised profession to countersign a passport application.

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Tom Dewar @tomdewar.dev · 25/11/2025

Anyone know what’s on fire to the north east of Heathrow?

Smoke rising from something on fire in the distance beyond the north east of Heathrow airport.

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Tom Dewar @tomdewar.dev · 26/10/2025

Way back, Edward Tufte invented sparklines, a data visualisation that would fit inline like a word in a written sentence. Often used to show stock price trends alongside ref to a company’s shares. This, in the FT, is like a sonic equivalent for referncing songs in the app age. Novel and I like it.

Excerpt from FT article about the band Creedence Clearwater Revival. It includes an inline music clip player seamless writhing the written words.

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Tom Dewar @tomdewar.dev · 07/08/2025

My new fave AI fail story: colleague used a latest gen LLM to try and retrieve a financial number from the latest published version of a report. It failed to find it on the internet, said “don’t worry I can source it from an alternative” and then proceeded, very slowly, to draw the following image.