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Travis Craft @travislcraft.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Hacktoberfest has been fun so far. I've liked the streams from the MLH crew!

Travis Craft @travislcraft.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

It’s October and Hacktoberfest events are going on around the world. This year the event has a focus on AI. It’s been a few years since we did an event so tonight I led the group through installing Ollama and using that to build a skill. ollama.com

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Ollama

Ollama is an API for open models. Get inference locally or in the cloud, anywhere you already work.

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Travis Craft @travislcraft.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I ended up getting first in my last Mario Kart Tour weekly ranking. The highest score I've ever gotten too!

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Travis Craft @travislcraft.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Last day of Mario Kart Tour, it's been fun. Hoping to stay in the top spot of my league before the end tonight.

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Travis Craft @travislcraft.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Gotta start planning for MagicCon Tokyo soon! My friend and I plan to go and travel around Japan beforehand.

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Travis Craft @travislcraft.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Went to see The Transformers: The Movie for the first time tonight. Lots of action for sure!

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Travis Craft @travislcraft.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I got to pop off with Gilgamesh today in our brawl league. I had Black Panther's Claws into Ultima Weapon and two other equipment to take someone out. That was fun to do!

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Travis Craft @travislcraft.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I need to do more studying for the JLPT. I've found some listening test prep videos on YouTube that have been helpful. But I need to get into a more regular rhythm to be better prepared.

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Travis Craft @travislcraft.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I'm more excited for Ocarina than I thought I would be!

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Travis Craft @travislcraft.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I had a good time playing more Gilgamesh today in our custom brawl league. I see I definitely need even more equipment in it so I get more hits on the trigger for that.

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Travis Craft @travislcraft.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I taw Coyote vs. Acme today with friends. Glad it was finally able to be released!

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Travis Craft @travislcraft.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Just finished watching Ironheart and I'm hoping for more. We better get to see more of her story!

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Travis Craft @travislcraft.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Sky Bexten and I ran a Copilot Playground event tonight at the meetup. We wanted to work with Copilot as a group and build out skills for our website. Such as around accessibility and security to get some more experience with guiding and working with AI. docs.github.com/en/copilot/c...

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About agent skills - GitHub Docs

Skills allow Copilot to perform specialized tasks.

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Travis Craft @travislcraft.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I completed the DK Challenges today in Donkey Kong Bananza! The final rehearsal was definitely hard, I didn't think I'd get that one.

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Travis Craft @travislcraft.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

My friend and I have registered for the JLPT in December. Now I really need to study!

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Travis Craft @travislcraft.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

I had a fun time playing Gilgamesh today. My friends and I just started our new Brawl budget league.

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Travis Craft @travislcraft.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

We had our August round of lightning talks tonight and had a good discussion on a number of topics. From cherry picking commits and iteration to AI security concerns, observability, and app store submissions. learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/...

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Service Bus Dead-Letter Queues - Azure Service Bus

Describes dead-letter queues in Azure Service Bus. Service Bus queues and topic subscriptions provide a secondary subqueue, called a dead-letter queue.

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Travis Craft @travislcraft.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Some friends and I played Arkham Horror last night and won! The first time we had played a while back was really difficult but we didn't fully understand the rules and made it harder for ourselves. 😅

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Travis Craft @travislcraft.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

We typically do a code kata night a couple times a year at our meetup. Today an interview question popped up about class prerequisites and so we started with talking about that, then moved onto our normal Codewars.com katas. We also talked about gotos a bit dl.acm.org/doi/epdf/10....

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Letters to the editor: go to statement considered harmful

You have to enable JavaScript in your browser's settings in order to use the eReader.

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Travis Craft @travislcraft.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

At this month’s lightning talks we touched upon Karnaugh maps, AI tooling costs and Menlo Innovations’ High-Tech Anthropologist roles. medium.com/@murmuring/k...

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Karnaugh Map (K-map): Introduction

Computers use 1’s and 0’s to read and run programs. We, as engineers or scholars, sometimes need to double check “computer language.” It’s…

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Travis Craft @travislcraft.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Over the last couple of weeks, I completed a Google vibe coding course on Kaggle.com. There were five days of activities covering agentic engineering, AI skills, graph-based workflows and points on security and testing. You can check out my submission here: www.kaggle.com/competitions...

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UML Generation Agent | Kaggle

Generate draw.io UML diagrams given a description of what you would like to model

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Travis Craft @travislcraft.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Sky Bexten has been working with GitHub Copilot to learn more about its capabilities. He recently had Copilot create a plan for mitigating OWASP top ten issues in his codebase. He walked us through that process tonight for our July meetup presentation. owasp.org/Top10/2025/

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OWASP Top 10:2025

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Travis Craft @travislcraft.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Ran another half marathon today with a friend. We had nice weather as well!

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Travis Craft @travislcraft.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

I’ve become very interested in agentic engineering recently and this week I’m working through Kaggle and Google’s vibe coding course. So I shared some notes I’ve taken for lightning talks tonight. Sky Bexten and James Haring also had AI related topics. www.kaggle.com/competitions...

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5-Day AI Agents: Intensive Vibe Coding Course With Google

June 15 - 19, 2026

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Travis Craft @travislcraft.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Security, maintainability and code coverage are a few of the areas tools like SonarQube can track and highlight for software projects. At the meetup tonight I presented on configuring SonarQube with GitHub Actions. www.sonarsource.com/products/son...

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Code Quality, Security & Static Analysis Tool with SonarQube

SonarQube automates code quality & security reviews and provides actionable code intelligence so developers can focus on building better, faster.

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Travis Craft @travislcraft.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

I'm circling back to work toward the N5 Japanese Language Proficiency Test. Working with a group to create study materials for the Kanji, grammar and vocab. Anyone have tips or feedback on preparing?

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Travis Craft @travislcraft.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

How has using AI been going for you? Sky Bexten shared an article at the lightning talks tonight about how an agent recently deleted a company’s database and all their backups. Hopefully better than that. www.pcgamer.com/software/ai/...

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Here we go again: AI deletes entire company database and all backups in 9 seconds, then cheerfully admits 'I violated every principle I was given'

"If you pay for car airbags and they don’t deploy because they don’t exist is that your fault because you got in the accident?"

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Travis Craft @travislcraft.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

This morning I attended the Thinkies World Congress II event hosted by Kent Beck and Arty Starr. Kent’s been collecting patterns (thinkies) on brainstorming ideas and problem solving since the early 90s. www.eventbrite.com/e/thinkies-w...

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Thinkies World Congress II

Stuck in predictable thinking grooves? Join Thinkies World Congress II, May 20, to practice creative tools for generating fresh ideas.

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Travis Craft @travislcraft.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

I completed another Spartan Race! This time it was the Beast!

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Travis Craft @travislcraft.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Security is always an important part of software development but often it’s a low priority for teams. Sky Bexten had the opportunity to research clickjacking at work recently and shared what he learned with us tonight. owasp.org/www-communit...

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Clickjacking | OWASP Foundation

Clickjacking on the main website for The OWASP Foundation. OWASP is a nonprofit foundation that works to improve the security of software.

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Travis Craft @travislcraft.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Nice work! I just went for a run this morning too with a friend.

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Travis Craft @travislcraft.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

I got another trail run in this morning. I should be good on the distance for my next Spartan race in a couple weeks!

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Travis Craft @travislcraft.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

We made omurice at our last Japanese class tonight. Oishikatta!

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Travis Craft @travislcraft.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

I played my new Ayara deck today and won a game by sneak attacking in Depthshaker Titan and Blast-Furnace Hellkite!

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Travis Craft @travislcraft.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Do you have experience with DNS records or wafer production? We discussed these topics at tonight’s lightning talks. I’ve been working on setting up an email flow for my website and James Haring gave a nice overview of the machines he supports. www.youtube.com/watch?v=3y3H...

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ClassOne Solstice Single-Wafer Platform for Advanced Packaging

Our flexible Solstice® single-wafer platform offers a broad portfolio of electroplating and surface preparation applications on a single, compact system to address advanced packaging applications.…

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Travis Craft @travislcraft.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Today I joined Jason Gorman’s workshop on test-driven development. I haven’t gotten into the habit of pure TDD, but I like leaning more about it (as I do care about unit tests with PRs). I’m looking forward to learning more! codemanship.co.uk/papers.html

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codemanship | Free Stuff

Free white papers, e-books and videos on code craft by Codemanship

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Travis Craft @travislcraft.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

The Mario movie was a good time!

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Travis Craft @travislcraft.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

Our second Japanese Language meetup is today. We're only in the beginning so we're developing a plan for how we move forward. I'm initially leaning toward some writing practice, grammar and speaking practice.

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Travis Craft @travislcraft.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

I had planned to compare GitHub Copilot and Claude Code. Doing both with complete vibe coding and then again with more instructions and context. But I only ended working with Copilot given the time I had.

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Travis Craft @travislcraft.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

What has been your experience with AI assistants? I’ve used them a bit but wanted to get more hands-on with them. At tonight’s meetup I talked through my time building tic-tac-toe with different levels of vibe coding and Taka Goto's helpful Claude skill. takagoto.github.io/blog/reducin...

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Reducing App Store Rejection Friction with a Pre-Flight Audit

How I built a repo-level pre-flight audit to catch App Store rejection issues before submitting — covering IAP, permissions, privacy, and reviewer access.

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Travis Craft @travislcraft.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

I held our first Japanese language meetup today and it went well. The local Japanese teacher attended and let her past students know. We had 13 people in all, including two past Aikido students from our dojo. That was a nice start!

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Travis Craft @travislcraft.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Looks like you all had a fun time!

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