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Arthur Vickers

@ajcvickers.bsky.social

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Neuroscientist. Programmer. Life-long learner. Married. Animal lover. Currently working on Database Experience at MongoDB. Formerly co-creator of EF Core at Microsoft. Interests: books/music/history/fenlands/physics/F1/ Lego/nature/VR/Amiga/C++/C#/Go/Rust

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Arthur Vickers @ajcvickers.bsky.social · 2d

My first blog post for MongoDB: Vector search with embeddings using EF Core against MongoDB. Super easy to get started, everything running free and locally for no hassle trying stuff out! #EFCore #MongoDB #dotnet
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MongoDB Vector Search With EF Core

This post was written by Arthur Vickers, Staff Engineer at MongoDB The 8.3.3 and 9.0.3 releases of...

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Arthur Vickers @ajcvickers.bsky.social · Aug 13

Today I really got into the zone, coding for hours. It was beautiful. #coding

Arthur Vickers @ajcvickers.bsky.social · Jul 19

My little gnome really came through!

Arthur Vickers @ajcvickers.bsky.social · Jul 19

Just joined 2.6% of players and completed Baldur's Gate III in Honour mode! #bg3

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Arthur Vickers @ajcvickers.bsky.social · Jul 14

DBNull is so right it's wrong.

Arthur Vickers @ajcvickers.bsky.social · Jul 14

Current A.I. is like that really helpful friend...that you just can't trust. They will always answer your question whatever it is, and usually they give accurate information. But you can never really trust them, because when they don't know, they just make stuff up. 😆

Arthur Vickers @ajcvickers.bsky.social · Jul 1

In April, I sowed some woodland wildflower seeds in a dark corner of the garden. They have been doing really well, and are now starting to bloom. Ten pounds well spent! #garden

Arthur Vickers @ajcvickers.bsky.social · Jun 30

I'm proud to announce that today I start a new job at MongoDB as a staff engineer in the Database Experience team. Really excited to be working with a lot of great folks to make using MongoDB in your applications even better than it already is! #lifeatmongodb

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Arthur Vickers @ajcvickers.bsky.social · Jun 29

If we do need some magic, then I have that covered...
#bg3

Arthur Vickers @ajcvickers.bsky.social · Jun 29

Here's the party doing all the heavy lifting in my Baldur's Gate honour run. Magic? What's that? Pfft; we just sneak up and hit things really hard! And if that don't work, we blow them up! #bg3

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Arthur Vickers @ajcvickers.bsky.social · Jun 29

Just starting Act 3 of Baldur's Gate III in honour mode with Piper: a deep gnome rogue4/monk6. Working really well.

Str: 10
Dex: 23
Con: 14
Int: 17
Wis: 16
Cha: 12

AC: 21

Deception, persuasion, and intimidation all +9, so I don't fight unless I want to! #bg3

BG3 character sheet for a deep gnome rogue/monk

Arthur Vickers @ajcvickers.bsky.social · Mar 28

Sunrise over the fens, from last weekend. #Fenlands #Norfolk

Arthur Vickers @ajcvickers.bsky.social · Mar 3

#Mushrooms (with a touch of garlic.)

Arthur Vickers @ajcvickers.bsky.social · Mar 1

Spring has arrived in our garden! #Spring

Arthur Vickers @ajcvickers.bsky.social · Feb 28

We haven't been getting out enough, so yesterday we went to Cleethorpes. Lovely snowdrops in the Wolds, and then very cold on the seafront! Steels Corner House was the perfect cure for that. Then a drive by Franklin College and the Healing schools. Great mood booster! 💙

Arthur Vickers @ajcvickers.bsky.social · Feb 28

Thank you so much for the kind words. 💙

Arthur Vickers @ajcvickers.bsky.social · Feb 25

Signal unlock.

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Jeremy David Engels @jeremydavidengels.bsky.social · Feb 21

Good morning friends! Sending you all a big hug on this Friday morning. Today I will be trying to remember that even small acts of kindness and love matter—and to do a few.

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The Onion @theonion.com · Feb 21

Exhausted Friends Slowly Realize They Were Playing Board Game Wrong Entire 6 Hours

MILWAUKEE—Growing more despondent as each turn brought them no closer to a conclusion, an exhausted group of friends was reportedly coming to the realization Friday that they had been playing the boar...

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Nellie Cubed @nelnelnellie.bsky.social · Feb 21

Ann Patchett (author and bookstore owner at @parnassusbooks.bsky.social) recommends BEOWULF (translated by Seamus Heaney) as the book that will allow us to sleep at night and put the world into perspective.

(This is from her “If You Haven’t Read It, It’s New to You” segment.) 📚💙

The author and bookstore owner stands in front of a shelf of book holding a copy of the book BEOWULF translated by Seamus Heaney.

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Arthur Vickers @ajcvickers.bsky.social · Feb 20

We have peacocks in the neighborhood. And now in the house too! #Lego #Peacocks

Arthur Vickers @ajcvickers.bsky.social · Feb 20

First time on a racing sim and already better than me! (Okay, that's a very low bar, but still...)

Arthur Vickers @ajcvickers.bsky.social · Feb 19

Willow. #dogs

Arthur Vickers @ajcvickers.bsky.social · Feb 19

One of my favourite books!

Arthur Vickers @ajcvickers.bsky.social · Feb 19

I guess I'm not putting my laundry away until later... #cats