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An academic funder recently asked my team, “could we cut the software developer budget by using ChatGPT to write the software?”

A view from where the Observatory used to be.

Some friends had a joint birthday party at the Trinity Rooms, former parish rooms and now community centre, 5 minutes walk from my house.

A look into the future Is this what a shopping arcade will be like in the future?

There is so much infuriating nonsense in the world of academic admin.

Way back in 2006, I co-authored a paper with Teresa Dillon on “The potential of open source approaches for education”.

I got distracted by this toot: A bot that automatically does stock trades … … by identifying trades being done by US politicians … … who probably have inside (I.e. and thus basically illegal-to-act-upon) knowledge of market-moving government info … … and…

Dave pointed out this weird trick some years ago: using Github actions as a free engine for checking websites and sending you email alerts when they change.

There’s a local beauty spot called “The Heavens”.

Local archaeologist, Neil Baker (who I mentioned in Mapping The Heavens) has done a lot of fieldwork and documentary research about the area.

I made a zoomable, draggable, 3D relief map of the five valleys of Stroud, using Ordnance Survey maps.