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willscott⎷ @wills.co.tt · 22/09/2026

What happens when I upgrade to “OSName 27”?

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willscott⎷ @wills.co.tt · 06/09/2026

I think I may be the target audience for the advertising in shibuya

Signs in a shibuya mall saying “chaos culture geek”

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willscott⎷ @wills.co.tt · 12/08/2026

Made it back to defcon after quite a few years. The "sterile" conference center is less inviting than CCC. It’s interesting that art&culture hasn’t found a toe-hold in the US, though follows from the work rather than hobbyist focus.

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willscott⎷ @wills.co.tt · 21/12/2025

Baking bread is an immensely gratifying persuit

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willscott⎷ @wills.co.tt · 28/11/2025

Thankful for friends and family

A table full of food for a thanksgiving celebration

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willscott⎷ @wills.co.tt · 11/10/2025

Mushrooms from a morning walk in the woods

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willscott⎷ @wills.co.tt · 20/09/2025

Great end of summer bike riding out of Berlin today.

Fields with a heron to the west of Berlin

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willscott⎷ @wills.co.tt · 04/08/2025

A great conclusion to the ride today. After a bit of wading in sand, we got the majority of the day on a not busy service road for the train. After a large steep hill into Nairobi we got a final chaotic ride through traffic on a dual carriageway to complete the loop.

The train accsss road, with upcoming hill to the ridge ahead.

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willscott⎷ @wills.co.tt · 03/08/2025

A slog in the morning, though interesting to see kfc and a more built up narok than any city yet on this trip. Then a payoff in the afternoon with a big downhill ride to suswa.

Oloiparak as far as I can tell is mostly a gas station. The gas station store did have ice cream though, so I’m a fan.

A recently built train station in suswa. The Chinese construction and resemblance is striking.

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willscott⎷ @wills.co.tt · 02/08/2025

A day of skynet, corn, empty gas stations, and open road

A building with its facade painted “the skynet”

Roadside corn drying as a step in processing

Bikes parked outside of an unfinished gas station at ololunga junction

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willscott⎷ @wills.co.tt · 01/08/2025

Started the day with a big climb out of kisii. The road quality degraded a bit in the middle of the ride, but never felt too bad. Cooler temperatures and much of the climbing behind us now.

Reaching the top of a hill in great weather. I don’t think of 2100m passes when I think of Kenya, but they’re there.

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willscott⎷ @wills.co.tt · 31/07/2025

Had a hilly day from the Kenyan border to Kisii 90 km north. Easy to stay distracted from the work by the regularity of villages we got to pass through.

The Kenyan-Tanzanian border town of Isibania this morning

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willscott⎷ @wills.co.tt · 30/07/2025

Back on the bike today, and back to Kenya. A long day but full of adventure with a local ferry, 20km of dirt roads, and a lot of curious faces.

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willscott⎷ @wills.co.tt · 29/07/2025

Had a great few days exploring the Serengeti and seeing the great GNU migration. Left the park today for lake Victoria.

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willscott⎷ @wills.co.tt · 26/07/2025

A break from biking today as we entered the Serengeti. Saw all the charismatic mega-fauna and really impressed by the place.

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willscott⎷ @wills.co.tt · 25/07/2025

A transition day today. A short bike ride to the edge of the national park, and then exploration of the area. There was a huge bi-weekly market at the neighboring town.

A family of mongoose colonizing a termite mound on the side of the road.

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willscott⎷ @wills.co.tt · 24/07/2025

I’ve had a great first couple days biking in Tanzania. Left Arusha this morning after some great Indian food, for a day on the Savana as we head towards the Serengeti.

A (somewhat muddy) Bicyclist on the road in Tanzania

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willscott⎷ @wills.co.tt · 23/07/2025

Setting off this morning from Nairobi for a couple weeks of bicycling in Kenya and Tanzania.

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willscott⎷ @wills.co.tt · 25/02/2025

I ❤️ u too, ufos (and retro-futurism murals generally)

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willscott⎷ @wills.co.tt · 25/01/2025

Didi - the uber equivalent- shows a count down in seconds for red lights. It doesn’t have an API but rather enough density of drivers to estimate the traffic light cycles.

A phone navigating with didi showing that a red light will turn green in one second.

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willscott⎷ @wills.co.tt · 24/01/2025

Bagels have gotten much more popular, but are seen as sweet as much as savory.

Spicy and savory bagels as a convenience store

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willscott⎷ @wills.co.tt · 24/01/2025

Capybaras are currently “cool” in china

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willscott⎷ @wills.co.tt · 23/01/2025

The subway has expanded enormously - and in Beijing accepts creditcard taps for payment in addition to WeChat scans - but the signage remains a bit variable. The second picture is signage for the ring line going in the clockwise direction.

The line 2 signage for a clockwise train. The signage is counter-clockwise

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willscott⎷ @wills.co.tt · 23/01/2025

Gentrification continues apace. Boutiques that could be in any international city have proliferated around stubborn vestiges of previous eras.

A phone repair stall next to a fancy coffee shop in Shanghai

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willscott⎷ @wills.co.tt · 21/01/2025

I wonder if there are other examples like this of business models that exist downstream of pervasive surveillance. The flower vending machine is a high tech version of the honor system.

A bouquet vending machine, that is just a bunch of flowers in a refrigerator

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willscott⎷ @wills.co.tt · 21/01/2025

cheese continues to slowly find it’s way into snacks and dishes

A counter serving cheesy pineapple buns - a sweet bread popular in the region

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willscott⎷ @wills.co.tt · 20/01/2025

I didn’t know I wanted my teapot to have incense and music features.

An advertisement for a teapot assembly with incense and music

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willscott⎷ @wills.co.tt · 19/01/2025

Tea kettle setups are more advanced than last time

An electric tea kettle with presets and auto-pouring

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willscott⎷ @wills.co.tt · 19/01/2025

KFC (in Shenzhen at least) does not appear to sell a standard coffee, but only apple, lemon, and coconut coffee-adjacent-drinks.

The coffee portion of a kfc menu in Shenzhen, offering no option for a plain coffee

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willscott⎷ @wills.co.tt · 19/01/2025

Finally made my way back to China after several years away. Lots that feels the same, and immediately overwhelming scale of things in the lead up to the new year.

Sign saying “shenzhen welcomes you” in the Shenzhen train station

Many thousands of people waiting for their trains in the shenzhen train station

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willscott⎷ @wills.co.tt · 24/11/2024

Have you pet your servers recently?

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willscott⎷ @wills.co.tt · 22/11/2024

Winter means it’s cookie season 🍪

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willscott⎷ @wills.co.tt · 19/11/2024

One of those weird pieces of history - a North Korean cellular data USB stick.

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willscott⎷ @wills.co.tt · 14/11/2024

The view for the near-future at "defensive accelerationism day" paints a pretty wild ride ahead of us.

Vitalik describing “survive” vs “thrive” future tech

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willscott⎷ @wills.co.tt · 29/10/2024

Dev term upgraded with an Ethernet cartridge.

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willscott⎷ @wills.co.tt · 01/10/2024

Ate really well over the last week in France. Really enjoyed many of the local specialties - from porcini fondue in the alps to Algerian mezze in Valence

Leeks, broccoli, and baked cheese in Marseille

Burrata with fresh tomato’s from pont-st-espirit

French pastries and coffee for breakfast

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willscott⎷ @wills.co.tt · 29/09/2024

Wandered around Marseille today. Really interesting city with a vibrant chaos that co-exists with a lot of history. A nice end to the 675km bike tour from Geneva (which could not be a more different city)