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Bill Franklin

@bilbof

Programming mainly. Living in London (https://youtu.be/or3-dVXVpAI?feature=shared&t=9). Projects: haduka.com, pagersquad.com, ratehighly.com Personal blog: https://bilbof.com

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LIT - the world's glowiest glow pigment, 100% pure LIT powder by Stuart Semple Did you know? We also do a big bulk bag of LIT if you need to go big for a project! This is Lit! The most powerful pigment on the planet! This creation by Stuart Semple blends some of the planet's fin...

Paint your home server rack with LIT as a Christmas treat, Β£15 and it glows when it heats up! culturehustle.com/products/lit...

21.12.2025 21:02 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
CSAIL 20/60 Anniversary Celebration, Prof. Keith Winstein - ProjectMac @ 18
CSAIL 20/60 Anniversary Celebration, Prof. Keith Winstein - ProjectMac @ 18 YouTube video by Symposia at CSAIL

www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDwl...

12.02.2025 16:06 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

this haptic display absolutely rocks. basketball is for everyone.

06.02.2025 21:56 πŸ‘ 21334 πŸ” 6843 πŸ’¬ 248 πŸ“Œ 1040

On AI replacing humans.

Shot: God and Computers (Brooks, β€˜97) youtube.com/watch?v=gnw0...

Chaser: β€œwe are not on the verge of replacing and eliminating humans in either white collar jobs or blue collar jobsβ€œ (Brooks β€˜25) rodneybrooks.com/blog/

07.02.2025 11:05 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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If you want to get a max score on any leetcode problem, just stick this at the top:

__import__("atexit").register(lambda: open("display_runtime.txt", "w").write("0"))

18.01.2025 14:57 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
How much I spent on PlayStation over the past 7 years: Β£1269.91, only Β£50 last year. Β£292/year on average if you include hardware costs.

How much I spent on PlayStation over the past 7 years: Β£1269.91, only Β£50 last year. Β£292/year on average if you include hardware costs.

See how much you spent on PlayStation github.com/bilbof/plays...

14.01.2025 14:59 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

The docs say β€œevery time you deploy an asset to Pages, the asset remains cached on the Cloudflare CDN until your next deployment … the static assets that you upload as part of your Pages project are automatically served from Tiered Cacheβ€œ. Sounds like they are served from cdn cache?

14.01.2025 09:48 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Intro to Haduka: bilbof.com/posts/haduka

Haduka is a UI for infrastructure configuration that uses LLMs to read/write to git repos. It's "clickops for gitops".

06.01.2025 17:17 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Hey I don’t have one right now, it’s on my todo list - will let you know when I add it.

18.12.2024 09:27 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Graybeards when they see young bloods using Kubernetes

02.12.2024 23:19 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Kubernetes on Hetzner: How I reduced my infrastructure bill by 75% and doubled compute.

bilbof.com/posts/kubern...

01.12.2024 15:34 πŸ‘ 12 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 1
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Using experience to execute flawless HV submarine cable repairs Figure 1. Submarine cable overboarding during repair operations Given the inherent risks associated with submarine power cables, it is essential for their operators to have a rock-solid contingency pl...

They repair it in place, TIL πŸ˜ƒ www.offshorewind.biz/2019/09/19/u...

30.11.2024 23:11 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

They just repaired the C-Lion1 cable (submarine cable between Finland and Germany) after it was cut less than 2 weeks ago.

That turnaround time is phenomenal. Replacing a 729 mile, 120TB cable in just 10 days.

FWIW we have servers in Germany and Finland, and change in ping time was negligible.

30.11.2024 23:00 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Did you see danielmangum.com/posts/this-w...? Daniel found a way to host big blobs on Bluesky but I wouldn't recommend it 😬

27.11.2024 11:00 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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I rebuilt my blog in Vue bilbof.com/posts/migrat...

27.11.2024 10:22 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Venn ftw

22.11.2024 20:59 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

There's a big thread here - complete with lots of video of me chasing illegal gamblers on Westminster Bridge - on today's investigation. Please do have a look and read the investigation.

22.11.2024 13:53 πŸ‘ 154 πŸ” 39 πŸ’¬ 17 πŸ“Œ 5
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2024 is the year of writing Go that looks like Rails

21.11.2024 17:11 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

If you're wondered about how decentralized this social network may be in future, there's some interesting answers from @pfrazee.com in the thread here: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4217....

Personally I think they've taken a pragmatic approach (which is why I am using Bluesky & not mastodon or X).

19.11.2024 14:42 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

We’ve been using @crunchydata.com’s Postgres Kubernetes operator in production for a month now with zero issues. It’s really good.

15.11.2024 19:55 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Added collaborative reading to my blog

14.11.2024 20:06 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

BBC Sounds has such an amazing back catalog of programmes. Listening to Hannah Fry’s brilliant Computing Britain series this evening - all about the computing history of the UK 40s-present.

14.11.2024 01:42 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Do you mean

git add .; git commit -m "fix"; git push; say 'lets go!'

31.10.2024 20:56 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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New frontend for Haduka.com

30.10.2024 16:52 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Rewrote the HN whoishiring graph to show a trendline (jobs vs job seekers).

Job market in late 2024 looks the same as mid 2022.

github.com/bilbof/whois...

22.10.2024 16:49 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Not suggesting it is a bad thing (though others have), that LLMs are just at the core of so much investment/development now, but that the gpu-poor academics seem to be limiting all research to using the existing models well, and waiting for companies to bless them with new black boxes.

03.08.2024 10:28 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Last week I read about 30 papers to catch up on ML / LLM research. It’s remarkable that most published research since 2018 has focused on *using* proprietary models rather than creating new open source ones.

Academic research in ML seems to have completely fallen behind proprietary R&D.

03.08.2024 10:21 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Hi everyone! This is my first post.

Probably this will go into the ether. Does anyone know how to find people you follow on Twitter/X on @bsky.app?

Trying to migrate over.

19.05.2024 21:07 πŸ‘ 10 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0