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3/Slightly heart-warming to know my (bad) code went on to be useful to others... so when you're learning, make sure you build cool stuff...

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Slightly heart-warming to know my (bad) code went on to be useful to others... so when you're learning, make sure you build cool stuff to help, then share and open-source it to help others! And thanks to the #TidyTuesday community and team at @Posit for making it all so fun along the way.

2/To celebrate, I've done a wholesale rebuild of the library, bring it up to parity with the original R library...I hope people keep...

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To celebrate, I've done a wholesale rebuild of the library, bring it up to parity with the original R library...I hope people keep finding it useful!

https://github.com/AndreasThinks/PyDyTuesday

Celebration thread 🧵 1/!Years ago, I released (then immediately forgot about) PydyTuesday, a Python library to easily download...

Celebration thread 🧵 1/!

Years ago, I released (then immediately forgot about) PydyTuesday, a Python library to easily download #TidyTuesday datasets. Some nice folks recently told me they'd been finding it useful... and looking at the Pypi stats, turns out they're not alone!

So these are obviously ridiculous, but also my inner crime scientist *really* wishes I could run a proper randomised evaluation on these...

So these are obviously ridiculous, but also my inner crime scientist *really* wishes I could run a proper randomised evaluation on these things because... I suspect they do a decent job reducing shoplifting?

#crime #criminaljustice #academia

Rather notable that the main coins mentioned here are those used (in my view) primarily for scamming, memecoins and speculation. ETH and...

Rather notable that the main coins mentioned here are those used (in my view) primarily for scamming, memecoins and speculation. ETH and BTC, which are, you know, genuinely interesting technical and financial experiments, are clearly something of an afterthought.

This is such a shame. 18F had a reputation for excellence across the international #civicTech and #govTech community, and disbanding it...

This is such a shame. 18F had a reputation for excellence across the international #civicTech and #govTech community, and disbanding it because it's too "woke" is tragic.

https://18f.org/

Open Poster is updated, and now support media uploads!Post to Bluesky, Mastodon, and Twitter/X from one unified interface, from your...

Open Poster is updated, and now support media uploads!

Post to Bluesky, Mastodon, and Twitter/X from one unified interface, from your desktop. Open-source and free 🥳

https://github.com/AndreasThinks/open-social-poster

Well, at least some people are happy.

Well, at least some people are happy.

Well, this is horribly depressing.

Well, this is horribly depressing.

so... have I got media uploads working?

so... have I got media uploads working?

2nd project this week: Open Poster, a free tool to let you post on all your networks (X,AT, and Fediverse) at once. Quite hacky, and...

2nd project this week: Open Poster, a free tool to let you post on all your networks (X,AT, and Fediverse) at once. Quite hacky, and definitely alpha, but feedback welcome!

https://github.com/AndreasThinks/open-social-poster

If you're building with the awesome FastHTML by answer.ai, I've just released a nice helper library you might find useful! User...

If you're building with the awesome FastHTML by answer.ai, I've just released a nice helper library you might find useful! User management and administration out of the box, including letting you modify your SQLite db (v useful if you're on Railway)
https://github.com/AndreasThinks/fasthtml-admin

I've written a bit of code to cross-post to all my networks at once! Assuming this actually posts, that...

I've written a bit of code to cross-post to all my networks at once! Assuming this actually posts, that is...

https://github.com/AndreasThinks/open-social-poster

So bad news, my old @starlabssystems laptop has died 😔Good news, that means I got a refurbished Thinkpad, and that means it's time to...

So bad news, my old @starlabssystems laptop has died 😔
Good news, that means I got a refurbished Thinkpad, and that means it's time to STICK ALL THE STICKERS!! Featuring, amongst others #emfcamp.

The first thing I saw when arriving on the UK. Feels strangely symbolic 😅

The first thing I saw when arriving on the UK. Feels strangely symbolic 😅

I'm pretty sure we just solved the civil service office attendance dilemma...WFH is on the move - https://on.ft.com/3EV5itL via @FTAV

I'm pretty sure we just solved the civil service office attendance dilemma...

WFH is on the move - https://on.ft.com/3EV5itL via @FTAV

My interesting discovery of the day: Paul Marshall (owner of GBNews, Spectator, Unherd, etc) was actually in the liberal democrats, and was...

My interesting discovery of the day: Paul Marshall (owner of GBNews, Spectator, Unherd, etc) was actually in the liberal democrats, and was partly radicalised because his son, who was in Mumford & Sons, got "cancelled" for applauding Andy Ngo.
God the world is strange.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winston_Marshall#Mumford_&_Sons

Applications for the 2025-26 cohort of Newspeak House, the London College of Political Technology's flagship course "Introduction...

Applications for the 2025-26 cohort of Newspeak House, the London College of Political Technology's flagship course "Introduction to Political Technology" are now open!

If you're a mid-career technologist who cares deeply about how technology impacts our society, and would like to spend some time thinking about what *you* can do to improve both, I'd urge you to have a look.

https://newspeak.house/study-with-us

#civictech #techforgood

So I'm at the Helsinki Central Library today, and I'm kind of in love.

So I'm at the Helsinki Central Library today, and I'm kind of in love.

I've been pondering writing something similar for the UK... I'd be curious to hear...

I've been pondering writing something similar for the UK... I'd be curious to hear thoughts!

https://mertbulan.com/2025/02/24/we-dont-need-startups-we-need-digital-mittelstand/