stewleach.bsky.social

Start of a new project. Diving into some programmable robotic car. Started with a Freenove esp32 car. #robot #esp32

Who wants to see some next level particle effects in a real-time 3d environment, directly in your browser? You can now export from Houdini and bring these effects into your own 3D experiences. webfx.app

I'm building a RAG system at work. Codename...Chunk. I need to find a way to feature this.

I'm not sure what world I live in anymore. A mainstream, reputable, newspaper is dedicating bandwidth to this nonsense. And in turn, the opinions expressed in the article appear to be from reputable and knowledgable people. AI is not conscious. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

I got my 9 YO an "old fashioned" mp3 player that you need to manually download songs to by plugging it in to laptop. I have mp3's on a shared NAS drive. Whats the best (windows) software for letting her browse and download songs to the player, like its 2001?!

All this talk about AI, and I'm struggling to get Microsoft Customer Insights Journey to send the same message to a push notification and to a custom API endpoint. The AI's got nothin. I got nothin. What you got? #AI #microsoft #omniwhat #challenge

Every so often you come across something/someone that just blows your mind. I used to generate ray traced caustics in Mental Ray, very slowly, some 20 years ago. The complexity that has been tamed here to do it in realtime is outstanding blog.oimo.io/2025/01/09/d... #tech #devs #graphics #realtime

How good is this for "in the zone" listening www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrqu... #coding #tech #music #beats

There needs to be a new word invented (preferably one of those long concatenated German words) that describes the feeling when a Project Manager assigns you a Jira ticket that has no description, and you've never seen it before, and continually asks you when it will be completed. #tech #dev #agile

Product managers words that fill me with dread. "Just make a form builder". #Tech #Devs #Enterprise #Developers

I'm old enough that I was a tech bro before it was cool to be a tech bro...the first time. #tech #techbro #devs

So just to confirm, providing a status update during standup is still best practice, or not? #tech #agile #scrummaster

@vcfederation.bsky.social This is a long shot..I have an old Turbo Pascal program I wrote in 1997 that uses a third party unit called "Vgraph". I originally found this on a floppy disk at a computer fair in the UK. It has now been lost to time, so I can no longer run my program. Does anyone know it?

When US GenAI lies they call it "Hallucinations". When Chinese GenAI lies they call it "Misinformation". Pick a fuckin side journalists. #GenAI #AI #Deepseek #Tech

If you saw someone walking down the street, eating a cucumber like a banana, you'd call the police. Right?

I'm starting a new personal project. What tech stack to use for the backend user admin portal? Ideally I'd use Rails, but its maybe slow and the lack of type safety bothers me. Also considering Go (Fiber maybe) and Typescript (AdonisJs looks appealing). Any recommendations? #tech #devs #techbuilders

As someone who is new to the hardware electronics scene, thanks to the #micro:bit, this is a welcome resource for a newbie #hardware #electronics #stem www.hardbreak.wiki

Errr 'brew install imagemagick' Computer appears to download every language and framework in existence, with all versions and dependencies, for infinity. I just wanted to format an image in a scriptable way. #devs #tech #coding

Baby steps. Now we can integrate with a breadboard. Things are getting serious! #microbit #electronics #STEM

This is unchartered territory. I've hit an error message on my custom Bluesky feed, and Google only has 1 result, which is no help. I'm lost at sea, without a map here. I've never encountered such a situation. It's like pre internet I know, I'll *takes a deep breath* turn it off and back on again.

I had an old IR blaster lying around (the thing at the bottom of the photo) so figured I'd see if I could interface it with the #micro:bit. So now I have alligator clips, an IR receiver and for good measure, an IR remote control. I'm not sure I can justify this one as being for the kid! #dev #tech

The microbit can talk! There's a "hidden" API that has been conveniently ported to makecode. Queue giggling as the child makes a computer say "fart" and "poo" on repeat 😐😆 microbit-micropython.readthedocs.io/en/v2-docs/s... makecode.microbit.org#editor #microbit #tech #kidscoding

We created a reaction game this morning with the micro:bit. Now the game requests from the child are coming in thick and fast (most requiring some form of AI to achieve...eeeck!) #devs #tech #microbit #kidcoding

I got my 7yo kid a BBC micro:bit for xmas. It's amazing, and so far prompting squeals of delight as we learn how to code it. Its a great and accessible introduction to coding. Watch this space for projects :-) microbit.org #devs #tech #coding #microbit

Merry Christmas...or more accurately, Merry Tech Support Day for 20 family members while eating turkey. #devs #techsupport #tech

Setting up the new Apple Intelligence Siri on MacOS was hilarious. I'm going through the "Hey Siri" baselining prompts while my phones "old" Siri is responding to them like a puppy showing off.

Ultimate high score! #tech #challenge #adventofcode #devs

Are there any details on how much Bandwidth the Bluesky FirehoseSubscriber requires? I want to build out a custom feed. Running locally seems to consume about 2mbytes/s but I can't find any info if this is consistent, or if I can throttle or constrain it. It makes me nervous to host directly.

Hey, for anyone processing the Bluesky #firehose, here are a couple open-source libraries you might want to look at. They both give you a thing you can push "patterns" at and then feed JSON blobs and it tells you which patterns matched. Why is this interesting?

Any Melbourne based techies on here? Any recommendations on local tech? #devs #tech #indiedevs #localtech #techbuilders

On the off chance I'm not shouting into a void, what is the limit to how many users you can add to a list in Bluesky? docs.bsky.app/docs/tutoria... #tech #atproto #indiedev #dev #builder

If I wanted to test out a custom bluesky feed, taking the feed-generator repo as a base, what are the best options? Do I just publish and unpublish as I iterate, or is there a way of publishing to a non-prod feed? @idreesinc.com @pfrazee.com #atproto #devs

I've been mainlining more atproto and bluesky docs and repos in the evening. Came across this which allows for custom hosted long form blogging based on a PDS. Must. Not. Get. Distracted. By. Shiny. Things. github.com/mozzius/mozz...

For anyone wanting to dig into ATproto, I recommend starting with github.com/bluesky-soci... and then once you get the posts returning as endpoint, put them into skyview.social Prepare to be nerd sniped. Also, I want my Alf posts. The results were bitterly disappointing 🤣 #devs #tech #atproto

I spent some time today digging into the ATproto and BskyAgent. Once you connect the dots it's quite remarkable how open it actually is. For example bsky.social/xrpc/com.atp... #Devs #Tech #IndieDevs

If you've ever thought to yourself, gee, I wish I had an easy way of querying OpenStreetMap data to return information I'm interested in, you're in for a real treat! overpass-turbo.eu wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Overpas... #Dev #Tech #GIS #GeoSearch #Developer

Documentation is the hero that doesn't wear a cape. #Code #Tech #Development

I've been trying to understand the AT protocol that Bluesky is built on. From their docs "...a standard format for user identity, follows, and data on social apps, allowing apps to interoperate and users to move across them freely." Any examples, other than Bluesky? #Tech #Social #Bluesky

Do people think AGI is going to be an actual thing in the next 10 years (or even ever)? #AI #AGI #tech #hype #startups

Does anyone have some recommended resources for MarTech and Personalisation within the Sporting industry. I'm keen to understand recent trends and innovations. #MarTech #AdTech #Personalisation #Marketing

Well this seems like a good a place as any to let people know about a thing I built recently. If you've got a website and want to connect with customers easily, or just send a dumb message, check it out. first-contact.net #startup #martech #social #launch #simpletech