Andrew Godwin

Fantastic talk from Elizabeth Bacon at #pybeach about improving computer science education in teaching - the LA school system is incredibly lucky to have her!

Well the Anaheim station (ARTIC) is surprisingly lovely. All they gotta do now is improve the frequencies!

A delightful rarity that leaving DEN was really smooth and then arriving into LAX is the bumpy bit, with some actual rainclouds.

Finally moving across to Jellyfin after Plex apparently laid off the entire player team this week, and it has been mostly seamless. Plus, “Finamp” as a music player name makes me smile every time.

Popped “php” into my history viewer on the browser just to see what is obviously PHP, and among several forums, also includes, one of my VPS hosters and Tampermonkey (fortunately I already disabled user script auto update)

My financial advisor told me it was time to get estate planning/a will done. He’s not wrong, but also every single estate lawyer’s website is basically “DEFEND YOUR HARD EARNED MONEY FROM THE GOVERNMENT” and, ugh.

OK, OK, the version of California with the bathymetry I set printing over the weekend really is much nicer.

A few revisions into my California model and it's looking quite sharp. The firefighters to came to do the annual inspection today were quite interested in it!

Had an idea of how to store my bike more efficiently in the garage, bought one item, and somehow it all worked great first try. A delightful rarity.

Finally got a really nice representation of Colorado in my terrain artwork process - there was real effort to make sure the tallest mountains showed up well. But I am very happy with the result! (If you want one, see scaledindustries.com/products/col...) California is next, and it's going well...

Went to see how to turn off Apple Intelligence on the new MacOS version and... it's already turned off because it can't handle the OS being set to en_US but Siri being set to en_GB. Handy.

Broke the seal on allowing an LLM access to personal data - my food/macros logging, mostly so I can vaguely describe what I had to eat and it'll actually do it properly (fuzzy, low consequence task that fits an LLM, I think). It did then immediately slam me for eating a choc muffin. Good, I think?

Look, sometimes the local 9/11 memorial event makes the news and not for "wow, what a great idea" reasons.

Overbought for my Home Assistant raspi a couple years ago with a 400GB SD card, so now doing fdisk shenanigans to move the install onto a 64GB card so I can reclaim the big one.

Redid the Scaled Industries "front office" a little with some of the new artwork, very happy with how these look together. Not that I get many visitors, but still nice to have some of my own art up at the workshop.

Pleased to announce I will be speaking at PyBeach this year, along with a bunch of other wonderful people: 2026.pybeach.org/speakers.html

Ka kite anō, Aotearoa. And g’day Australia and gurumba bigi Meanjin!

No car this side of the Cook Strait but that’s no issue - caught the rather decent train to Paekākāriki and enjoyed a nice 10km along the Escarpment Track!

For some reason, in my head, The Beehive in Wellington was hexagonal. Having seen it I now get it, but I still think a hex-based extension wouldn’t go amiss.

Sad I can't be at #djangoconus this week but I chose #pyconau this year after a few years of missing it. It will be the very first Djangocon US I have not attended, remarkably, but my role in the framework is also very minimal these days, so mostly a loss for me not being able to see everyone!

After 2,150km of driving and 130km of hiking, I am finally on the ferry across to Wellington. It’s been almost perfect pacing for a road trip for me; not sure I’ll drive the whole way next time, and focus more on longer hikes in the lower South Island, but it’s been really worth it this time.

The winter weather pendulum swung back today - lots of drizzle/rain moved in, so I did a couple of short hikes and called it (but fortunately, this was my planned "rest day" in Hokitika anyway). So have three photos from yesterday, as I forgot to post some, plus a very cloudy Arthur's Pass!

Also, tonight I am staying in Haast, population 100. According to the motel owner, I am apparently the only overnight guest in the entire town tonight. It's lovely here though.

Mostly a travel day today, heading back down and then around from Aoraki to the West Coast. But that doesn't mean there wasn't anything to see, including a short hike to the Blue Pools!

No cheating today - 14km of hiking around the Aoraki National Park trail system, including some very nice swing bridges (apparently quite new!), and all the way up to the glacier lake, which I think had a calving quite recently.

Up to Otago today, and with unexpectedly nice weather I found myself a seat on a helicopter tour over to Milford Sound/Piopiotahi and back. With a stop on a glacier! Absolutely incredible (if a little spendy). But I also need to come back and hike some of this in the summer, it's just so beautiful.

Final thing for today, as it was a 28 hour long travel day and I shouldn't do _too_ much, was popping down to a wonderfully overcast Slope Point to bump my "furthest south" number as high as it's ever been. At least until I finally get to Antartica.

Rather scenic on the flight from AKL to IVC. Glad I sat on the right side!

Kia ora anō, Aotearoa - it has been too long!

Due to the hurricane next to Hawai’i we have basically had to go straight out of SFO and then just turn left, but looks like I will hopefully still make my connection in AKL! Decently bumpy ride though.

Airborne for the first leg of my "relaxing" holiday! It's only DEN ✈ SFO ✈ AKL ✈ IVC 🚘 PCN 🚢 WLG ✈ BNE ✈ SFO ✈ DEN

Air New Zealand: You have a 14kg carryon weight limit, with 10kg max per bag. My bags: 9.5kg and 3.5kg (yes, for a two-week trip!)

Ah yes, the two major parties, a useless racist who claimed he was "fighting against the establishment" and a bin. Back to the investigation with you Nigel!

To celebrate #InternationalCatDay please enjoy this picture of the boys relaxing after a play session with their favourite chase toy and then some churus!

If you are interested in buying some of my terrain artwork, it's now up for sale: scaledindustries.com/collections/... - and you can use code TERRAIN10 if you want 10% off. International shipping _is_ unfortunately quite pricey - if you feel priced out let me know and I'll see what I can do.

Bit of a slow week this week given my partner was sick and I'm (still) recovering from EMF, but finally got all the bits of my NZ trip booked, so excited to have an actual holiday soon!

It's less hot today (yay!) due to the massive plume of wildfire smoke blocking the sun (whoops). The air purifiers I stocked up on during the winter are working well, though both me and my partner feel it when we step outside.

I am officially Very Pleased with how this new generation of terrain art has come out and so I'll hopefully have them up and available for purchase in the next few days or so!