Late to “AI” assisted development?
Earlier this week, someone asked me if they were perhaps late to making use of AI-assisted development, as they dove into it in the past 2 months (using GitHub Copilot) and are already seeing large gains in a small team in terms of leverage of time. I thought for…
Wiggle wiggle go the Github API limits
Apparently I have a shop with some tshirts on it? shorebits.etsy.com
I got bored of buying other peoples
Easily monitor your GitHub API limits
For one reason or another I have run into GitHub core API limits in the last few weeks, which has generally annoyed me, and leads to some workflows (such as using GitHub Copilot in an IDE) to be broken, even though such things seemingly have their own API…
Fixing Wikimedia Commons thumbnail sized (on my blog)
As AI crawling and training continues to stress the web, the Wikimedia foundation continues to change various things in their edge rules and internal processes. Recently the Wikimedia Hackathon Northwestern Europe 2026 was likely one of the…
Wikimedia Hackathon Northwestern Europe 2026
Historically I'm terrible at post Hackathon write ups, though a few do exist... (#hackathon posts). For the past few days I have been attending the Wikimedia Hackathon Northwestern Europe 2026 in Arnhem NL with around 70 other people. Around 42 projects…
Google Antigravity for WSL
If you are anything like me, you might have given Google Antigravity a go, as I did in a recent post, and decided that there is not yet any WSL support given the extension marketplace specifically says This extension is not compatible with Antigravity. However... it…
VS Code Copilot (Agent) vs Google Antigravity (Planning)
Back in July 2025 I did a little comparison of various AI code assistants with a small Golang kata (with some content stripped out), and I'm back for a second attempt using the same kata, but focusing on some of the newer Copilot models, as…
A few days in Tromsø, Norway
It's been a long old while since I have written a travel related post, most recently would be my "digital nomad" boat experience for a year, and before that probably a very specific post on travelling from Santa Elena (Monteverde, Costa Rica) to Granada (Nicaragua)…
I'm still not back on a boat as I was in 2023... But I have been getting up to some fun things in 2025...
And although Grok was the one that removed the content in the first place, Grok also added it back once I told it that it was being silly
Small tweaks seemed to work rather well
It really struggled and refused to fix formatting issues
Editing Grokipedia, a first look
As a long time editor and developer in the Wikipedia and Wikimedia space, I'm of course sceptical about what Grokipedia is trying to be, and if it stands any chance of success. it may struggle to deliver the resilience, transparency, and community processes that…
How much is Wikibase Suite (and deploy) used
At the start of this year, I spent some time visualizing the Wikibase ecosystem by making use of the data that has been collected on wikibase.world. As part of that, I tried to focus in on Wikibase Suite, trying to determine how many possible…
Wikidata Map in 2025
Another year, another map, and another Birthday for Wikidata. Last generated in 2024 by @tarrow and @outdooracorn, this year I have put the work in just ahead of the 13th Wikidata birthday to have a look at what's changed in terms of items with coordinates this past year on…
Slop in, craft out?
Earlier today, I sent this absolutely perfectly crafted piece of slop into GitHub Copilot... Right, but i want thje patche sot be / and /* always And as I already expected, due to using these LLM based coding agents and assistants continually throughout their evolution, the…
I have a bunch of data (Wikidata item locations monthly since the dawn of time)
And I want to make map tiles, served in a web app, for nice display, also with a sort of heatmap view the more you zoom our
Akin to commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidat...
Who can help? :D
Also known as an odd looking seal!
Apparently there is quite the Google takeout delay now, my next export isn't going to start for 2 days...
Maybe I should generate a breakdown of the top 20 things in that "other" grouping too!
This includes a new pie chart with this new method for August 2025
Showing scholarly articles as ~35% (though there will be some double counting)
Interesting to see village of the People's Republic of China (Q13100073) makes it into the top 20!
I just finished generation of an analysis of P31 and P279 usage of Wikidata over time since the beginning.
addshore.com/2025/08/wiki...
Apparently it doesn't want to show the image!
I spent over 6 hours and some number of $ comparing 9 different coding assistant and language model combinations (including video recordings) so that you don't have to!
The user experience really differs between the coding tools and the models
addshore.com/2025/07/ai-c...
#ai #llm #code
Toit: jag monitor –proxy
While developing on ESP32 boards at Lightbug on some of our newer products, I have repeatedly wanted to run Toit and Jaguar without WiFi enabled during a development setting. Either to have WiFi off to keep power consumption lower, turn off the default network so that I…
WikiCrowd for 2025
I wrote the first version of WikiCrowd back in 2022 and haven't really iterated on it much since, beyond adding the odd new set of image categories, and removing features that I decided were not optimum. At the 2025 Wikimedia Hackathon however, WikiCrowd came up as both an…
Dammit, now I need to find a different think to power my blog reading and listening lists...
Profiling Wikibase APIs and import speed
There has been some recent chat once again on the Wikibase telegram groups around importing, and the best approach to import a large amount of data into a Wikibase instance. 2 years ago I started a little GitHub project aimed at profiling the speed of…
