Tom Barber Mars Data Engineer @magicaltrout@qoto.org

Mastadon has added 145,000 accounts in the past day. Props to the folks keeping this thing running whilst another migration occurs!

@foxesafloat Hello!

@rubenwardy ah!

@rubenwardy I've used both, I could swear fedifinder found more accounts as well but I might be wrong.

The more ways folks to find each other, the better.

Day off at work today followed by at week or so of not doing too much due to thanks giving holidays so its time to catch up on those projects I've been meaning to get done and havent.

First up is finishing off the web crawler we wrote for a project and then never open sourced and shipped.

Secondly is catching up on a bunch of 2/3 done websites.

Then I've got a trip to Guildford to finish up a portal for UK planning application data.

I've got some drone testing to do to calibrate the multispectral camera I have.

A few short videos.

I'm sure there will be more. Busy few weeks.

I have noticed without an algo feeding me terrible tweets. I have far less hot takes and that can only be a good thing. 😎

@darkuncle @Quinnypig just follows @jeffbarr around...

@milesorchard I got into it 25 years ago with a manually tracked 4 1/2 inch reflector and an SLR film camera. Its certainly moved on since then but you can buy affordable GOTO telescopes and hook up a phone or DSLR to get going. Clearly it scales about as far as your budget allows!

Currently on a QSR call at work where we're talking through the #science #data pipeline platform we're building at #NASA JPL

The other cool thing is that we're building it all in the open on #Github, not a single Private Repository

https://github.com/unity-sds

Build space science platforms in the open!

@dylanparry I dumped a similar comment into work slack. Happy to know I don't have managers like him.

I find it amazing that Elno after sacking half the staff then asks the other half to work crazy long hours on behalf of the worlds richest bro or they can also leave.

Hopefully the majority tell him to get stuffed and head off to somewhere new....

https://us.cnn.com/2022/11/16/tech/elon-musk-email-ultimatum-twitter/index.html

Enjoying a few days back in the office before travelling down to Guildford for a few days next week.

Quite looking forward to being at home for a while so I can get back to my boats, garden, cycling etc all of which has been horribly neglected the last few months.