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Anyone else received 10+ emails from #strava today about the developer summit? Someone's got some code to fix tomorrow.

08.10.2025 11:30 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Love the article. Tiny spelling mistake here: "There are entire conferences for RISC-V, so surely people will _stay_ pay attention to Python even though LLMs exist".

03.08.2025 06:28 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

What is this? Some sort of AI engagement account? Can we not do this please?

27.07.2025 20:55 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Looks beautiful!

21.07.2025 09:49 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Love a niche blog post like this!

21.07.2025 09:45 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
How to make money on the ByBit Testnet An article listing a number of tips for how to make money on the ByBit testnet, and some quirks of this specific test exchange.

I wrote a little post explaining how to make loads of fake money on the #ByBit #testnet. It might be useful if you're writing a bot to trade on #ByBit for any reason.

johnscolaro.xyz/blog/how-to-...

20.07.2025 03:15 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Who or What is Eekas? A mysterious and prolific Brisbane-based grafitti artist.

Anyone else in Brisbane seeing a lot of #eekas #graffiti lately? I have, so I made a page of all the tags I see while walking around.

johnscolaro.xyz/blog/who-or-...

18.07.2025 22:04 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Whatcha building?

03.07.2025 05:15 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
"getattr" is bad A plea for Python developers to stop using getattr so often

A classic issue newer developers fall into is overuse of getattr() in #Python. You can read my thoughts on the matter here.

17.06.2025 12:28 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Uber Eats Data Visualiser Explore your eating habits, spending trends, and more.

Have you ever wanted to visualise your personal #UberEats data? Well now you can: johnscolaro.xyz/projects/ube...

17.06.2025 12:06 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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If you can show me a public toilet with a better view, I'll eat my hat

#loowithaview #mooloolaba

24.05.2025 22:37 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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So you think you know Brisbane? A game where you attempt to guess Brisbane's suburbs using a map of adjacent suburbs.

Think you know #Brisbane?

How well do you know the suburbs all around you?

28.04.2025 12:16 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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I experimented with a few of my own, but could never get it to actually create a valid QR code. It's a shame because there is definitely something unexplored here.

27.04.2025 12:17 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
A bouquet of flowers, but a QR code made of petals is seamlessly tied into the design.

A bouquet of flowers, but a QR code made of petals is seamlessly tied into the design.

I saw this on the discover page of #sora and it piqued my interest. I've been enjoying watching the different "trends" as people discover new prompts that yield interesting results, but I've never seen anyone experiment with QR code generation before.

#openai #image-generstion

27.04.2025 11:54 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Great picture!

26.04.2025 22:59 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Review: The Will of the Many A review of "The Will of the Many" by James Islington

I finished reading "The Will of the Many" yesterday and here is my review of it. What a fantastic book!

#thewillofthemany
#hierarchyseries

26.04.2025 22:56 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Are we really getting angry with a *checks notes* text box with a submit button?

If communicating via text boxes on the internet doesn't spark joy, then jeez, what are we all doing here?

22.04.2025 20:35 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
LLM Fight Club Using technology to answer important questions like: Who would win in a fight, X or Y.

Who would win in a fight between a Jellyfish and a Platypus? I used AI to simulate a round robin fighting competition between all animals.

johnscolaro.xyz/blog/llm-fig...

21.04.2025 05:19 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Here is what the distribution of Google Maps reviews looks like for restaurants in #Brisbane. I'd be curious to see how it differs for different cities around #Australia or the world.

10.04.2025 07:03 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Brisbane's Best Restaurants - 2025 I do some data analysis to find Brisbane's best restaurants.

Want to try a new restaurant in #brisbane? Check this out:

johnscolaro.xyz/projects/bri...

I used Google maps data to find Brisbanes most popular!

08.04.2025 22:40 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

@mattsayar.com I really enjoyed your blog. I actually adapted your work for my city of Brisbane here: johnscolaro.xyz/blog/brisban...

05.04.2025 04:19 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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02.04.2025 07:07 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I've just returned home from a bunch of travelling around Japan and Korea, and it's made me realise how much I love Brisbane's copious seating at train stations.

27.03.2025 12:53 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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That feeling when you accidentally use the right keywords. Thanks benevolent Google. #seo #googlesearchconsole

27.03.2025 11:37 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
'Data' sucks The most consistently bad variable name.

In my time as a software engineer, I've seen a lot of variables called "data". Can we please stop?

27.03.2025 11:34 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Business idea: restaurant reviews, but somehow on the AT protocol so people own their reviews instead of giving it to Google.

14.03.2025 11:51 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
A picture of 5 pink pokemon cards. All the pokemon are adorable.

A picture of 5 pink pokemon cards. All the pokemon are adorable.

My partner and I tried to find the cutest #pokemon cards in Japan. I wrote more about it here:

johnscolaro.xyz/blog/buy-cut...

09.03.2025 20:52 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Brisbane has too many Suburbs And my personal quest to remember all 190+ of them

Do you think #brisbane has too many suburbs? If so, you might enjoy my unhinged rant about this problem.

31.01.2025 11:03 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

"no hat no play!"

29.01.2025 20:41 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I was today years old when I learnt that #dynamodb has 573 reserved words. Thanks #Amazon.

22.01.2025 11:53 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0