James Wheare

The tragedy of AI goes beyond environmental and political to a far worse sin: turning interesting intelligent people into the biggest bores on the planet. Get a grip on yourselves fuck. This is how I used to post and it’s why I stopped.

Cursed doomscroll algorithm tech: shame detection. Track when a user urgently scrolls past a thirst trap ad to avoid being linger detected.

Related: either we had a bird strike or it’s time to replace the anemometer.

The Beaufort scale: calm -> 32 variants of a bit breezy -> dead.

A Bluesky client for Roku TV Personal project 4 weeks in, update epitomical.co.uk/blueku/ #softwaredev #dev #bskyclient

I put together a mosaic of 2025 from the timelapse camera on my roof jwheare.com/year-mosaic/... (not a keogram, but inspired by @cbassa.bsky.social)

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London, not even once.

An incredible high wind gust was recorded on the Isle of May weather station as storm Éowyn hit #Fife in late January. An insane 98MPH top windspeed was recorded! 😱😱😱 The live dashboard for this station is available on my website's main page: www.fifeweather.co.uk

Love it when we get the alternative camera angle DVD extra from the Aberdour webcam.

Where I live we now have got through the 10 weeks of the year with less than 9 hours of daylight and are approaching what I like to call the "rapidly lengthening daylight" period of the year. This #dataviz shows the weekly loss and gain of daylight at 51 degrees north.

Right, time to close all these tabs and go for a wallk... oh wait. (spoilers for another project)

Lenticular clouds. January 16 2025 Full length on Youtube: youtu.be/2rZ3nUkFZnw

Lenticular clouds at sunset, Kinghorn.

Happy New Year from Kinghorn! 🎇🥂

Wrote up some notes on the Online Safety Act guidance and how it applies to small websites, because Ofcom's guidance is terrible: russ.garrett.co.uk/2024/12/17/o...

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Snowy Tankersley sunset last night.

Torbain standing stanes