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Nicola Mustone
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Author of buthonestly.io - Clarity without the comfort. Essays on leadership, programming, and web.
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Nicola Mustone @nicolamustone.bsky.social · 9d
I just spent an unreasonable amount of time turning 270k+ Steam reviews into an NLP playground.

If you’re into NLP, transformers, or real-world text messiness, the full case study is here: buthonestly.io/programming/...

#nlp #machinelearning #sentimentanalysis #emotionanalysis
DistilRoBERTa Emotion Analysis: NLP Case Study on Steam Reviews
How to run DistilRoBERTa emotion analysis in an NLP case study: cleaning a real Steam reviews dataset tagging moods, plotting results, and exploring sentiment.
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Chef 1: "My special sauce is a trade secret."

Chef 2: “Here’s the recipe. If you make it better, you can share your version so everyone can enjoy it.”

That’s the spirit of Open Source.

I wrote a love letter to it here: iterativewonders.com/2025/11/29/t...

#OpenSource #Tech #Developer
The Code We All Share: A Love Letter to Open Source – Iterative Wonders
Imagine you go to a famous burger joint. You love the special sauce. You ask the chef for the recipe, and he looks at you like you just asked for his social sec
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November 29, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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Are you into NLP and ML? I release datasets and notebooks at buthonestly.io/resources/ free to use and explore in your own projects!

Check them out. Available also on Kaggle.

#nlp #engineering #machinelearning #mldataset #kaggle #freeresources
Resources & Assets – BUT. Honestly
Free resources, tools, and assets for you to download and use for leadership, engineering, programming, and fun.
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November 29, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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A giant clock to keep time for the next ten millennia is moving towards completion in a western US desert cavern.

It's meant to promote long-term thinking in an age of short termism. The project, backed by Jeff Bezos, has been a suitably drawn out and enigmatic affair.

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The Clock of the Long Now is a 10,000-year-long timepiece backed by Jeff Bezos
Deep inside a Texas mountain, a vast mechanical clock tries to make humanity measure time on the scale of civilisation itself
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November 28, 2025 at 9:05 AM
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I was not really satisfied with this essay because the dataset was missing, so I dug a bit more into old databases and finally found the dataset!

I’m working on it as I write to clean it up and publish it as a free resource! I’ll update the essay and here when it’s ready.
November 28, 2025 at 10:23 AM
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iterativewonders.bsky.social
Ever stared at a message ending in a period and thought: "Okay, they definitely hate me"?

We used to live in a world where text had no tone. We needed a hero. We got a visionary with a 12x12 pixel grid.

I wrote a tribute to the origin of the Emoji.
iterativewonders.com/2025/11/27/t...
The Architect of Emotion: Shigetaka Kurita, the Inventor of Emojis – Iterative Wonders
The human soul is a complicated thing. It is vast, turbulent, and capable of feeling seven different types of “anxiety” before breakfast. We were a species forc
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November 27, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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I used to price resin miniatures by hand.

Now a quiet bit of business automation with AI predicts how much resin to use for each model in seconds, and I get my evenings back.

buthonestly.io/programming/...

#3DPrinting #ResinPrinting #AIForBusiness #MachineLearning #IndieBusiness #Miniatures
How I Built a 3D Print Cost Calculator with a Neural Network
Learn how I built a 3D printing cost calculator with a tiny neural network to predict resin consumption and automate my resin business.
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November 27, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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Are you looking for Christmas gifts for friends and family? Check the Woo guide to holiday gifts! We selected Woo stores with super cool products for every taste!

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#woo #woocomerce #christmas #holiday #gifts #ecommerce #onlineshopping
The 2025 WooCommerce holiday gift guide
Unique, fun gift ideas for friends, family, or yourself!
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November 27, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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130+ comments and counting. Tell us your story. Celebrate 20 years of WordPress dot com by showing us what you’ve built.

https://wordpress.com/blog/2025/11/21/20th-anniversary/
Celebrating 20 Years of WordPress.com
Join us in celebrating 20 years of WordPress.com! From portfolios to blogs to online stores, see what millions are building on our platform.
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November 26, 2025 at 6:30 AM
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iterativewonders.bsky.social
He stepped away, but the code kept speaking. This is Michel Valdrighi.

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Michel Valdrighi: The Coder Whose Code Never Went Silent – Iterative Wonders
Flip a coin. Actually, cheat a little in your favor. That is roughly the statistical probability (about 43%) that a random website you visit is powered by WordP
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November 24, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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The modern internet has a Midas touch problem: if AI touches your work, people treat it like slop, no matter how much effort is behind it.

buthonestly.io/web/ai-slop-...

#AI #Creativity #MachineLearning #NLP #InternetCulture
Touched by AI, Treated Like Slop: The Midas Touch of The Modern Internet
AI slop to many is anything touched by AI: a Reddit dogpile on my Dead by Daylight study and what it taught me about trust, real work, and using AI tools.
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November 24, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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Hey @bhvr.com I did a study of your DbD reviews. 80% good is not actually all good! Check it out and, PLEASE, read our feedback: buthonestly.io/programming/...
November 24, 2025 at 7:20 AM
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Do you take time off as a lead? Do you have a solid plan for when you are away?

#leadership #pto #afk #timeoff #leaderpto
November 23, 2025 at 9:50 AM
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Playing games taught me more about leadership than most “leadership books”.
Pattern spotting, fast decisions, dealing with chaos, adapting under pressure… it’s all there!

I wrote about it here: buthonestly.io/leadership/g...

#leadership #gaming #management #careers #honestly
How Gaming Made Me a Better Leader
From Dungeons & Dragons to Dead by Daylight, discover how games quietly build real leadership skills in communication, empathy, trust, and teamwork.
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November 22, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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“When feedback is grounded in facts and feelings and guided by curiosity, it becomes something more than a correction.”

I wrote about how to actually do this in your day-to-day feedback:

buthonestly.io/leadership/m...

#leadership #feedback #management #teams #communication
Mastering Effective Feedback: Facts, Feelings, and Curiosity
Master effective feedback with a simple framework of facts, feelings, and curiosity that reduces defensiveness and builds psychologically safe, high trust teams.
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November 21, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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iterativewonders.bsky.social
Ever wondered how PHP, the language behind so much of the web, came to be? Turns out, its origin story is a lot like Corn Flakes – a truly brilliant invention that happened entirely by delightful accident.

Here is the full story: iterativewonders.com/2025/11/20/t...
The Accidental Programming Language: PHP Just… Happened – Iterative Wonders
Forget grand blueprints and visionary manifestos. PHP, the language that hums beneath a huge slice of the modern web, essentially tripped and fell into existenc
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November 21, 2025 at 9:12 AM
nicolamustone.bsky.social
I just spent an unreasonable amount of time turning 270k+ Steam reviews into an NLP playground.

If you’re into NLP, transformers, or real-world text messiness, the full case study is here: buthonestly.io/programming/...

#nlp #machinelearning #sentimentanalysis #emotionanalysis
DistilRoBERTa Emotion Analysis: NLP Case Study on Steam Reviews
How to run DistilRoBERTa emotion analysis in an NLP case study: cleaning a real Steam reviews dataset tagging moods, plotting results, and exploring sentiment.
buthonestly.io
November 20, 2025 at 1:25 PM
nicolamustone.bsky.social
I put together a practical guide on building a convolutional neural network with Python and TensorFlow.

I’m curious how others approach model structure, overfitting control, and dataset prep in their own projects. What would you do differently and why?

buthonestly.io/programming/...
Building a Convolutional Neural Network in Python with TensorFlow
Learn how to build, train, and optimize a convolutional neural network in Python with TensorFlow, from MNIST preprocessing to Bayesian hyperparameter tuning.
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November 18, 2025 at 11:53 AM
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emiliusdraws.bsky.social
#3157 A helpful tutorial
A digital drawing of one of those drawing tutorials that says 'don't do this, do this.' The drawing is of an almost naked middle-aged man doing a flying kick. The 'Don't do this' one has a bunch of areas circled and a cross under it. The 'Do this' one is exactly the same but without the circles and a tick instead of a cross. The text reads 'Needlessly adding red circles will ruin your art' and a smaller bit of text at the bottom reads 'Bonus tip! Add a tick under all your art so people think you did it right.'
November 17, 2025 at 11:40 PM
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Why is AI-assisted coding considered smart, but AI-assisted writing feels controversial?

I tried to map where the real line sits between human intention and machine help.

Curious where you stand on this.

buthonestly.io/web/vibe-wri...
Vibe Writing and the Line Between Human and Machine
Vibe writing explores co-writing with AI, questioning originality, intention, and what still makes human created text feel genuinely ours.
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November 17, 2025 at 3:51 PM