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Christine Lemmer-Webber @dustyweb.bsky.social · 4d

I can't understate how good of a job the @inkandswitch.com folks did at this Automerge website. Wow, holy shit automerge.org

And the fact that you can *interact* with the visual demo at the top?

This is the new high bar for a technical website. Holy moly.

Automerge

Automerge is a library for building collaborative, local-first applications.

automerge.org

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Tony Onodi @tonyonodi.bsky.social · 4d

Interesting. I'm sure the police do it for crimes they actually care about to be honest. I suspect they just wheel this excuse out from time to time when they are under-resourced.

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Alex Selby-Boothroyd @alexselbyb.bsky.social · 4d

This is so brilliantly simple, even the police could do it

Tony Onodi @tonyonodi.bsky.social · 4d

I built a free tool to try to embarrass British police into doing their job cctv.numpad.io. More info here: onodi.co/bisect/

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James O'Malley @jamesomalley.co.uk · 4d

This is utterly brilliant:

Tony Onodi @tonyonodi.bsky.social · 4d

I built a free tool to try to embarrass British police into doing their job cctv.numpad.io. More info here: onodi.co/bisect/

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Tony Onodi @tonyonodi.bsky.social · 4d

Inspired by a story this week in @londoncentric.media

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Tony Onodi @tonyonodi.bsky.social · 4d

I built a free tool to try to embarrass British police into doing their job cctv.numpad.io. More info here: onodi.co/bisect/

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Classical Studies Memes for Hellenistic Teens @csmfht.bsky.social · 12d

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Tony Onodi @tonyonodi.bsky.social · 16d

I read Surely You're Joking Mr Feynman last year and thought "Wow, he really writes exactly as he speaks!" before realising it's one big transcription of recorded interviews

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Saloni @scientificdiscovery.dev · 23d

In general I think it's hard to combat scientific misinformation when some of the best research is locked behind an academic paywall, while lots of nonsense gets published free for everyone to read in predatory journals.

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Tony Onodi @tonyonodi.bsky.social · Sep 17

I thought a MWh battery might be ~shipping container size, or something impractical like that. But with a reasonable-to-low density estimate it turns out to be roughly 3,300 litres, or a cube with 1.5m sides. Not terrible!

energy density = 300Wh/l
energy = 1 megawatt hours
volume = energy / energy density in l = 3,333 litres
cbrt(volume) in m = 1.49m

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Tony Onodi @tonyonodi.bsky.social · Sep 17

I thought a MWh battery might be ~shipping container size, or something impractical like that. But with a reasonable-to-low density estimate it turns out to be roughly 3,300 litres, or a cube with 1.5m sides. Not terrible!

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Tony Onodi @tonyonodi.bsky.social · Sep 12

What did non-full-online access look like?

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · Sep 12

Since WW2, 19 seats in Westminster have been won with less than 30% of the vote. Ten of those were last year. They'll be a lot more next time.

Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · Sep 12

5 parties on more than 12%, winner gains seat with under 30%. Results like this used to be rare, freak outliers. Now they are routine (there was a second just like this yesterday). Electoral chaos.

Election Maps UK @electionmaps.uk · Sep 11

Newmarket East (West Suffolk) Council By-Election Result:

➡️ RFM: 29.7% (New)
🌳 CON: 25.0% (+4.1)
🔶 LDM: 17.2% (-3.1)
🌹 LAB: 15.3% (-8.3)
🌍 GRN: 12.8% (New)

No WSI (-19.2) or Ind (-16.1) as previous.

Reform GAIN from Labour.
Changes w/ 2023.

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Tony Onodi @tonyonodi.bsky.social · Sep 11

Apparently I forgot to post my new blog post on here. Oops! numpad.substack.com/p/using-misd...

Using Misdirection to Make a Local-First App Load Fast

It's cheating, but I think it's mostly OK...

numpad.substack.com

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Local-First News @localfirstnews.bsky.social · Sep 11

2025.09.11 edition now out, featuring:

@maxiferreira.com
@livestore.dev
@tonyonodi.bsky.social
@electric-sql.com
Excali Organizer
Slingshot
@obsidian.md

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Tony Onodi @tonyonodi.bsky.social · Sep 11

It’s only just occurred to me that the mantra of TikTok videos is “tell don’t show”

Jenny Frecklington-Jones #IStandWithWatermelon🍉🍉 @joneshowdareyou.bsky.social · Sep 10

Bohemian Rhapsody Flashmob consisting of 30 musicians and singers on a street in Paris.

I reckon Freddie Mercury would have loved this.

[Sorry ... had to choose the lowest quality and cut into two for BlueSky. Hopefully the audio survived.]

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~daniel_barker~ @daniel-barker.bsky.social · Sep 10

Well fucking do something about it then

Met Office - weather and climate @metoffice.gov.uk · Sep 10

Have you noticed the nights drawing in a little earlier?

September is one of the months where we lose sunlight the quickest as we move towards the autumnal equinox

Sunrise and sunset times across the UK on Wednesday 10 September 2025.

Lerwick: Sunrise = 06:20, Sunset = 19:40
Edinburgh: Sunrise = 06:35, Sunset = 19:43
Belfast: Sunrise = 06:47, Sunset = 19:52
Hull: Sunrise = 06:26, Sunset = 19:29
Wrexham: Sunrise = 06:37, Sunset = 19:39
Peterborough: Sunrise = 06:27, Sunset = 19:27
Cardiff: Sunrise = 06:39, Sunset = 19:38
London: Sunrise = 06:27, Sunset = 19:26
Penzance: Sunrise = 06:50, Sunset = 19:46

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Tony Onodi @tonyonodi.bsky.social · Aug 12

Oh! Yes, sorry. I forgot that wasn’t actually mentioned in this thread.

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Tony Onodi @tonyonodi.bsky.social · Aug 12

…so the heuristic GPT-5 relies on is “if I get quizzed about how many letters are in a berry word, the answer is probably 3”

Tony Onodi @tonyonodi.bsky.social · Aug 12

The LLM sees a token for “blue” then “berry” but it can’t see the individual letters. So it presumably has to infer what they are from its training data. I think it gets this wrong because GPT-4 famously thought “strawberry” has two “r”s, and this fact is likely in GPT-5’s training data…

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Tony Onodi @tonyonodi.bsky.social · Aug 12

See here: bsky.app/profile/tony...

Tony Onodi @tonyonodi.bsky.social · Aug 10

LLMs struggle with this because they can’t “see” individual letters, they get given chunks of letters called tokens. Similarly optical illusions happen because the unconscious parts of our brain process the raw data from our eyes before it gets to the conscious parts and we never see the raw data

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Tony Onodi @tonyonodi.bsky.social · Aug 10

LLMs struggle with this because they can’t “see” individual letters, they get given chunks of letters called tokens. Similarly optical illusions happen because the unconscious parts of our brain process the raw data from our eyes before it gets to the conscious parts and we never see the raw data

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Tony Onodi @tonyonodi.bsky.social · Aug 9

IMO you’re not allowed to feel smug about weird LLM tokenisation illusions unless your visual system can resolve A and B as the same colour

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Gil @guy-normal.bsky.social · Aug 8

John Burn-Murdoch has broken into my apartment and is charting my personal decline across key metrics in red paint over the walls

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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · Jul 27

There's a realistic chance we get to a position where Wikipedia is blocked while official government accounts are posting on a site that created MechaHitler AI

Clord TC, Comics Guy @clordtc.bsky.social · Jul 26

OSA is gonna make us lose access to fucking wikipedia

write to your MPs.

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