Arthur Vickers

Intelligence is unreliable.

My first blog post for MongoDB: Vector search with embeddings using EF Core against MongoDB. Super easy to get started, everything running free and locally for no hassle trying stuff out! #EFCore #MongoDB #dotnet dev.to/mongodb/mong...

Today I really got into the zone, coding for hours. It was beautiful. #coding

DBNull is so right it's wrong.

Current A.I. is like that really helpful friend...that you just can't trust. They will always answer your question whatever it is, and usually they give accurate information. But you can never really trust them, because when they don't know, they just make stuff up. 😆

In April, I sowed some woodland wildflower seeds in a dark corner of the garden. They have been doing really well, and are now starting to bloom. Ten pounds well spent! #garden

I'm proud to announce that today I start a new job at MongoDB as a staff engineer in the Database Experience team. Really excited to be working with a lot of great folks to make using MongoDB in your applications even better than it already is! #lifeatmongodb

Just starting Act 3 of Baldur's Gate III in honour mode with Piper: a deep gnome rogue4/monk6. Working really well. Str: 10 Dex: 23 Con: 14 Int: 17 Wis: 16 Cha: 12 AC: 21 Deception, persuasion, and intimidation all +9, so I don't fight unless I want to! #bg3

Sunrise over the fens, from last weekend. #Fenlands #Norfolk

#Mushrooms (with a touch of garlic.)

Spring has arrived in our garden! #Spring

We haven't been getting out enough, so yesterday we went to Cleethorpes. Lovely snowdrops in the Wolds, and then very cold on the seafront! Steels Corner House was the perfect cure for that. Then a drive by Franklin College and the Healing schools. Great mood booster! 💙

Signal unlock.

Good morning friends! Sending you all a big hug on this Friday morning. Today I will be trying to remember that even small acts of kindness and love matter—and to do a few.

Exhausted Friends Slowly Realize They Were Playing Board Game Wrong Entire 6 Hours

Ann Patchett (author and bookstore owner at @parnassusbooks.bsky.social) recommends BEOWULF (translated by Seamus Heaney) as the book that will allow us to sleep at night and put the world into perspective. (This is from her “If You Haven’t Read It, It’s New to You” segment.) 📚💙

We have peacocks in the neighborhood. And now in the house too! #Lego #Peacocks

First time on a racing sim and already better than me! (Okay, that's a very low bar, but still...)

Willow. #dogs

I guess I'm not putting my laundry away until later... #cats

I also found a picture of my #Amiga 500, with GVP 52MB SCSI HD and 2MB fast RAM. There is also an AT-Once board in it, so I could boot into DOS and use WordPerfect! 🤣 🤣 (The ergonomics here suck, but it was the best I could do while renting a room as a neuroscience intern.)

I found photographs that my mother took when I was a kid of my #Amiga screen with generated #Mandelbrot images. (We didn't have a printer, and certainly not a color one!) The quality isn't great, but it _is_ great to have a record of these! #Fractals

I'm excited to announce the first beta of our official #AzureSDK for #rustlang crates! This initial release includes Key Vault Secrets and Keys, Event Hubs including AMQP support, our core crates, and Identity. Cosmos is following soon. We have more planned including some usability improvements.

I know I'm weird, but I love the coloring of the fur around Toast's eyes. #dogs

The MySQL query plan visualizer is going to be 🔥

The incredibly detailed late 19th century pulpit at Peterborough Cathedral 🤩 (Wider view in comment below)…

The finished, slightly wonky, cake. (Putting the frosting on is not my strong point! 🤣) #Baking

Adder in Thetford Forest last year.

Now listening to Live at Reading to get the blood flowing! #Nirvana #musicsky open.spotify.com/album/01Z1nu...

Just listened to "Nirvana MTV Unplugged". My favorite #Nirvana record, and that's saying a lot! Looking back, the song choice was inspired. The Meat Puppets rock. And my dad used to listen to Lead Belly, so that cover has always been special for me. #musicsky open.spotify.com/album/1To7kv...

Still my favorite edition of Monopoly. But Mac can make it challenging! 🤣🐱💙 #Monopoly #MLP #cats

Re-reading parts of NoSQL Distilled today. Still one of the best overviews of the fundamental problems associated with database scale out. Clearly written, short, and simple explanations. Despite the name, it cuts through the original NoSQL hype to the concepts underneath. #booksky #databases

I was not asked, and I do not approve

Lovely little jaunt up to Little Ingleborough today in the sunshine. Plan was to have lunch on Ingleborough but the wind really picked up to the point we decided to do the sensible thing and head back down. Yorkshire Dales looking splendid and it was great to visit Gaping Gill minus the winch 😊

It's a cold and miserable day here in Sheffield but take heart. Spring is just around the corner. These photos are from the end of February 2023. On a South facing hillside on the banks of the Don the sun casts a beautiful light on our once forgotten cemetery.