Dr Huw Campbell

Such a relief.

Played with a steam engine toy circa 1950 today. Seems to run about 30Hz, based on the video feed capturing it as nearly still. The company that built this, Mamod, closed in 2024, after existing for almost 90 years.

Spotted this one today, a controversial bird. The Channel-billed cuckoo is the largest brood parasite in the world, laying its eggs often in Magpie nests so the parents raise it instead of their own young. Its juvenile calls are awful (I know). #ausbirds #birding

“You’re absolutely right, I shouldn’t have removed those files!”

I still feel like this could have been a viable getField implementation for Haskell #haskell

I love the stance of this young man.

@pfrazee.com Can we stop the firehose from ingesting the bske.social pds? It's entirely spam.

Hardest thing about seeing your first wild owl is that it’s probably at night. #birding

She looks out for me

Don (Quixote) Trump – still tilting at windmills. Paying a billion dollars to halt the construction of almost complete wind farm projects. Just making electricity more expensive and dirtier for no reason.

Our Ring Tailed Lemur enjoying sweet potato for lunch.

Beautiful female Satin Bowerbird I found. The rest of the tree had a dozen sulphur crested cockatoos. #ausbirds #birding

Apple's Neo looks pretty amazing. Speculatively though, if it's running one year behind on iPhone Pro chips, next year it should get a bump from 8 to 12GB or RAM which would be a big boost for a laptop.

@albomp.bsky.social How can we support the assassination and kidnapping of foreign heads of state? Trump pulled out of the Iran nuclear deal, Iran was following it.

I had some spare cycles and decided to tackle a 20 year old unimplemented #WineHQ feature. gitlab.winehq.org/wine/wine/-/... It's not wonderful just yet, but man that thing is a 12k line piece of unmaintainable tech debt.

Buying a Gerni with the plumbing attachment has saved me thousands is plumbing callouts. But on the other hand, tonight I picked up a garbage bag full of sewage overflow after unblocking the stack. It… wasn’t pleasant.

Got up close with Shifu for some pats today. Taught me something. #wildlife #panda #symbio

Actually started building my #birding app for #atproto. I’ve lexicons for birding observations, oauth login in (ported from @baileytownsend.dev’s rusty statusphere) and have a Tap backed app view ingesting events. I’ve also bought the domain.

Does anyone have a good local developer environment for ATproto apps? I'm thinking just docker compose with a PLC, a PDS and Relay, and maybe Jetstream too. Effectively I want to develop locally without spraying records into the public firehose.

@albomp.bsky.social can we talk about X? Elon has turned X and Grok into a child and non-consensual pornography production machines. Are bans, fines, or criminal charges coming?

Who’s a silly fish?

It’s warm but the misters are on. The Red Pandas are chilling.

Spotted while skiing, right next to the run in Hakuba. #japan #wildlife

One particularly interesting thing about Japan is the large number of birds of prey you see around towns. This fine specimen was near Toyama, but I’ve seen dozens.

Fujisan in winter is gorgeous.

@tangled.org Hey guys, I’m sure you’ve the introducing-tap post. Do you think you will adopt it? I think a key part of the atmosphere experience is that I can spin up my own appview and get a consistent experience with the main app. Also happy to help in this.

@tangled.org hey where did the @ in my URL go?

My Elm and Haskell libraries for Apache Avro were ported to OCaml… and they’re fucking fast. Only 6% slower than the fastest Rust version, but easier to use and with a richer API and complete schema migration support.

I loved reading the Han Solo Trilogy as a kid. Grime, Crime, Mobsters, and good people trying to do the right thing in the face of Fascism.

Sydney Area Programming Languages Interest Group – 2025 was on today and I gave a talk on how Haskell's laziness and the Tardis Monad can make optimisation simpler. I nominated late, so got a shorter time slot; but I spun it by smashing through with wild gesticulations and pretty humorous results.

I've got a real use case for online contextual bandits. My first thought was Vowpal Wabbit, but its apparently not maintained anymore and its python libraries tap out at 3.9. What do people use for old school online contextual bandits these days? #python #machinelearning

Lol. “Hi, It's Me, Wikipedia, and I Am Ready for Your Apology” www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/hi-...

Hey @haskell.org and community! I’m planning on publishing this little library. tangled.org/@huwcampbell... Its implementation is stupidly unsafe, but the results stand out as a nice use case for encapsulation via the ST monad. Let me know of there’s anything else you think it should include.

@github.com This intentional baiting, is so far out of line, it's ridiculous. And it's been this way for months. Hey, there's no notifications... again!

This friend just finished off a huntsman spider for a snack. #ausbirds.

We’re planning a camping trip. My daughter just cried when she found out that there’s toilets available. She wants to do it the hard way :)

I'm currently rocking an iPhone XR. It's 7 years old but actually still works really well, but I want upgrade. But Trump is a fascist. I've cancelled all my subscriptions to American companies (including Apple's). There's too much capitulation in the US by big tech. It's disgusting.

@tangled.sh Maybe a silly question, but if I were to host my own knot and spindles, is there a way to host my private repos in any meaningful way? (Collaboration and viewing in the UI for example).

Apropos of nothing. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox...

Sydney, what happened to Spring?

My dog’s favourite water bowl seems to be my beard after a shower. Why must she try and lick it dry?