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WHOA … I’ve won the inaugural Luca Trevisan Award for Expository Work in Theoretical Computer Science! This has a particular meaning for me as someone who knew Luca Trevisan as well as I did for 25 years — who had him as a professor and...
ESP-IDF v6 dropped back in March and the GitHub releases page is already showing v6.0.1 - so I figured it was time to stop hiding in the v5.x cave and actually try it out. This is a nice gentle introduction. We’ll install the IDF, wire...
When I was 18 I started studying physics at University and got my first real taste of “the struggle”.
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I’m getting old. I know I’m getting old because (a) at this gig, at one point, I knelt down to take a photo and seriously had a moment of wondering exactly how I was expected to get back up again, and (b) because Alfie Saunters (git)...
Andy Emler pianoClaude Tchamitchian double bassEric Echampard drumsRecorded July 17-18 and mixed July 21-22, 2026, by Gérard de Haro at Studios La BuissonneMastering by Nicolas Baillard at La Buissonne Mastering StudiosSteinway grand...
A very short workweek, with Bank Holiday Monday, the GitHub Maintainers Summit and Matt's funeral on Thursday Had a chilled Bank Holiday Monday Was nice to be invited to the GitHub Maintainers Summit, and found it a good time! I didn't...
Notes on LLM RecSys Product – Edition 5 of a newsletter focused on building LLM powered products. Four posts into this series on how LLMs are changing product building, we’ve spent all our time on what we build. We’ve talked about why I...
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“Vegetarian pizza”, “So this is the Ortolano pizza, it has augergine, zucchini, mozeralla, artichoke and pepperoni” “Peppeoni is meat” “Without the peperonni then”. I’ve been wandering through historical Rovereto for about an hour and a...
I’ve just put out a review of various Star Trek: Lower Decks spin-off publications over on my books-movies-and-TV blog, one of which may have crossover appeal to regular readers here – that’s Warp Your Own Way, a...
I recently started listening to Tom Lake by Ann Patchett (read by Meryl Streep, no less) and quickly decided to pause. I don’t know how much of the novel is about putting on a production of Our Town (1938) by Thornton Wilder, but