Line chart showing improvements in the accuracy of weather forecasts over time. These have improved in the North and Southern Hemisphere.
Weather forecasts have become much more accurate. A four-day forecast today is as accurate as a one-day forecast 30 years ago.
Drawing of expanded view of the GPU and CPU, with explanations for both and a brief description of how they coordinate
✍️ I did an explainer on the CPU and GPU and how they coordinate tasks between them.
Going to a series on rendering💥
This image shows the hourglass shape of the nights shortening and lengthening from winter to summer and from summer to winter, passing clouds, the Moon passing through the night sky every month (diagonal bands) and the Sun climbing higher in the sky during summer.
For the 4th year in a row, my all-sky camera has been taking an image of the sky above the Netherlands every 15 seconds. Combining these images reveal the length of the night changing throughout the year, the passage of clouds and the motion of the Moon and the Sun through the sky. #astrophotography
Painfully accurate Linux meme.
Intel CPU Series "Moist Lake" is apparently a thing!
My past self set a cursed catch-all value for Intel CPU codenames...
Scientists, academics, researchers: We’re excited to share that @altmetric.com is now tracking mentions of your research on Bluesky! 🧪
A visualisation of the nano-gpt LLM
Really interesting interactive visualization and demonstration of how Large Language Models (LLMs) work. These form the basis of technologies such as ChatGPT. bbycroft.net/llm 🧪
Writing bash scripts in ${CURRENT_YEAR}
Still can't bring myself to `rm` my tempfiles
You never know when a cosmic ray will strike the memory containing your $TMPDIR and turn your `rm -rf ${TMPDIR}/var` into `rm -rf /var`
The paranoia is real!
I'll leave cleaning up /tmp to a system service!
I go with the Git Repo full of Markdown that builds on-commit on Cloudflare Pages (GitHub/GitLab Pages also available) using Hugo to generate the website.
Wow, people using BlueSky's Open Network in their own apps to do add discussion threads to.. anything!
This is the sort of global database that Blockchain promised to be, without all the dodgy crypto and high energy use of existing Blockchains.
It's #SC24 week, so what better time for the Bristol Centre for Supercomputing (BriCS) to assemble the 5MW data centre for Isambard-AI. Of course we have typical UK winter weather to contend with, i.e. wind, rain, and today even snow. Fantastic support from HPE and Contour makes this possible #HPC
Thank you for all for blowing up my phone with New Follower notifications!
I plan to start sharing lessons learned in HPC, Cloud Native, Linux, but also considerably less sexy stuff such as documentation & project management approaches.
There, I can't take it back now!
IMO Twitter has ceased to exist, which means "Tweet" is up for grabs as a common verb!
Looking forward to Tweeting across the fediverse!
#TweetMe #SkeetMe #TootMe #SlipIntoDMs
I dropped Twitter over a year ago now, between the new owner gutting the staff, scrapping safety teams and vocal intention to flood the user experience with junky cash-grab features, which all pales against the dodgy stuff he spouts about conspiracy and defamation.
I didn't want my name attached.
I'll never forget our Unified Model / NEMO team being surprised that their codebase... compiled!
They expected it to be wrestling through build errors all day!
Isambard helped prove the GNU/Clang/Cray stacks were supported without too many major caveats beyond a different ISA.
It seems like #SC24 is a popular time to not only announce new supercomputers, but decommission them.
In addition to Summit's farewell party this week (after six years of service!), Isambard-2 is being retired after 6 years as well: gw4.ac.uk/news/gw4-isa...
WHOA, WHERE ARE WE?! WELCOME TO AN ANCIENT TIME, LONG LONG AGO, WHEN WEDGE SNEAKERS WERE POPULAR, GAME OF THRONES WAS, LIKE, ON SEASON TWO- - AND MONOLITHIC APPLICATIONS RULED THE EARTH!
During the early days of Kubernetes I had the honor of working with @scottmccloud.bsky.social on the "Smooth Sailing with Kubernetes" comic. cloud.google.com/kubernetes-e...
OK, let's try this to show the HPC community already has momentum and can thrive here on Bluesky ...
If #HPC or #supercomputing is of interest to you, please interact with this post in some way - either repost, quote, like, reply with insights or just your fav gif, tag friends, etc.
This week I'm revisiting pointers in C and this video does an excellent job teaching the fundamentals. Everything from the pacing to the code examples is well executed. youtu.be/MIL2BK02X8A?...
I've developed a pleasingly simple interactive Bash script template over the years, I need to do a write-up explaining it
Bash has such a long legacy some sysadmins will account for issues that have been long solved, or conversely use syntax that hasn't been necessary in well over a decade.
When you've invested too many hours in a platform before you realise it uses JQuery...
Worse that, the JQuery is introducing a 2 second rendering delay... and it's woven into everything so I'd have to rewrite ... Ugh Javascript.. to fix it!
My disappointment is immeasurable, and my day is ruined
Do Your Best. Your "Best" Won't Always Look The Same. Your "Best" will look different each day (and that's perfectly alright). Image: Graph plotting a line at wildly different values each interval, each datapoint labeled "Your Best"
BlueSky lists has really helped turbo charge my feed back to what I used to enjoy on that old website, "Twitter"? Was it?
It was like MySpace but less poorly compressed wav files.. and no custom background images...
Anyway, I'm glad to see my tech people tweeting again!
Red Dwarf - Timeslides. Lister tells Lister from the past: "Stop saying everything's crypto-fascist! You make me sound like I was a complete git!"
Wow, so all it took for people to try a new social media platform was realising they were accidentally fueling a crypto-fascist movement, oopsies!
Welcome to the Internet!
Added Matthias Loibl (@metalmatze.de) director of @PolarSignals.com Cloud to the CNCF Ambassadors Starter Pack 🦋 go.bsky.app/JmYPdtB
A Kubernetes themed code editor displays a yaml manifest for a SocialMediaAccount object. apiVersion: socialmedia/v3 kind: SocialMediaAccount metadata: name: Kubernetes@kubernetes.io platform: BlueSky audience: public owner: ContributorCommsSubproject ownerinfo: https://github.com/kubernetes/community/tree/master/communication/contributor-comms spec: selector: name: KubernetesPublicComms audience: public type: microblogging website: - profileURL: https://bsky.app/profile/kubernetes.io
A Kubernetes themed code editor displays a yaml manifest for a SocialMediaAccount object. apiVersion: socialmedia/v3 kind: SocialMediaAccount metadata: name: K8sContributors@kubernetes.dev platform: BlueSky audience: contributors owner: ContributorCommsSubproject ownerinfo: https://github.com/kubernetes/community/tree/master/communication/contributor-comms spec: selector: name: KubernetesContributorComms audience: contributors type: microblogging website: - profileURL: https://bsky.app/profile/kubernetes.dev
Kubernetes is now on BlueSky! Make sure you follow the community's new accounts - we've got yaml jokes!
Kubernetes news for anyone and everyone: bsky.app/profile/kube...
Kubernetes Contributor news by & for contributors: bsky.app/profile/kube...
Hello 🦋
Happy to see many familiar faces around. Wasn't easy to find all of you (I probably missed many), so I created a starter pack to make it easier to (re)connect and nerd out about distributed systems, programming languages, and container stuff. Let me know who I missed!
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👋🏼 Good to see you on this side. Welcome to Bluesky. I’ve put together a short starter pack of community members who post technical topics about Kubernetes. Hope you enjoy.
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Announcing the Prometheus Starter Pack!
Prometheus maintainers, contributors and close friends.
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I created a starter pack of the guests of OpenObservability Talks🎙️ @openobservability.bsky.social throughout these past 5 years.
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> Note: this is WIP if I missed you DM me