Scientific Python developer, Lead of sunpy.org, contributor to Astropy, works on DKIST. Enjoys hacking on Matrix, and games in most forms.
Joined Apr 2018
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Alright, I have been hanging out here silently for long enough, time for an #introduction.
I am Stuart or Cadair as you might know me if you have only interacted with me online 😄.
I am a software developer working in Solar and Astrophysics research. The main things I work on are SunPy, where I am the lead developer, Astropy where I help out in a few places and I also work for the DKIST data centre working on user software and data products. I do all this through aperiosoftware.com.
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Today's service release fixes recently discovered issues and improves compatibility with the upcoming MariaDB v11.0. Thank you to everyone who contributed with pull requests, reported bugs, and helped us test the changes! ✨ https://docs.photoprism.app/release-notes/#june-3-2023
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Move over, Dr. Chaotica, the Star Trek: Voyager S5 #DrunkShimoda standings are in! Harry Kim has a strong season putting up 5 Shimodas, but Chakotay maintains a sizable lead. Can he fend off his competitors for two more seasons? @greatesttrek @benjaminahr @cutfortime
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why does everyone want to own the libs
as an open source developer i own multiple libs
i would happily pay people to take them from me
you do not want to own libs. its so much work
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Please, I'm begging, stop making me log in to your thing by checking my email for a magic link that never arrives and doesn't work and goes to the wrong browser and never mind I don't want to use your thing anyway
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True story*:
Wireless networks were created by a techie with a pet rabbit who chewed through cables.
*Not really. In an alternate reality, maybe. 😀
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IMPORTANT: if you use Matrix, there's currently a fake Space being created, with a bunch of rooms, using my logo and name without permission.
I asked them to stop, they removed my message and did everything they could to pose as the official Matrix space for the channel. I reported them to Matrix for impersonation, but I don't know if they'll do anything about it.
The impersonator created a space called #the-linux-experiment:matrix.org, the official one is #the-linux-experiment:mozilla.org.
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Ideas Lying Around: Milton Friedman was a monster, but he wasn't wrong about this
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Just published in JOSS: 'EISPAC - The EIS Python Analysis Code' https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.04914
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Heads up 99%.
Whenever someone from a think tank talks about “the economy”, mentally insert the words “rich people’s yacht money” into the sentence.
We can’t provide free healthcare, because it might harm rich people’s yacht money.
Nurses are going to have to feed themselves from food banks in order to protect rich people’s yacht money.
We’ve decided to let kids work in slaughter houses to help boost rich people’s yacht money.
It works every time. Give it a try.
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Matrix 1.7 is out now! It's got reactions (finally 💖), better mentions, async uploads, and a whole lot more.
Check out the blog post: https://matrix.org/blog/2023/05/25/matrix-v-1-7-release
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👾🖖
“This must be Thursday,' said Arthur to himself, sinking low over his beer. 'I never could get the hang of Thursdays.”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Happy Towel Day and happy Thursday, nerds.
art by Lemonly:
🔗: https://lemonly.com/blog/celebrating-douglas-adams-on-towel-day
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why do hitchhikers need towels
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🚨 RED ALERT 🚨
🚨 RED ALERT 🚨
THE #LOWERDECKS CAMEO IS HAPPENING. THIS IS NOT A DRILL.
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Wow, I love this 2023 map of European sleeper train routes, done in a subway-map style. Gotta catch 'em all. Source: https://back-on-track.eu/night-train-map/ /cc @lmc @jkottke #Tågskryt
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"Mastodon 'may be just a passing fad as people give up on it'" #Mastodon #Internet #SocialMedia
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To UK academics (students and staff).
⚠ If you're offered work marking in the next months, please say no!
It's likely an attempt to break our marking and assessment boycott, our most effective industrial action to avoid threatened pay cuts.
Please boost if you have UK followers.
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‘The whole thing stinks’: UK water firms to pay £15bn to shareholders as customers foot sewage bill - https://theguardian.com/money/2023/may/20/the-whole-thing-stinks-uk-water-firms-to-pay-15bn-to-shareholders-as-customers-foot-sewage-bill it's simple: no dividends until the infrastructure is upgraded, and no price rises. if investors don't like it, they can move elsewhere.
investors do not have an inviolable right to dividends; the public does have a right to rivers and seas without sewage - if companies can't do this, nationalise them
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A Mobius strip walks into a bar, sobbing.
The bartender asks, "What's wrong?" The Mobius strip replies, "Where do I even begin?"
Scientific Python developer, Lead of sunpy.org, contributor to Astropy, works on DKIST. Enjoys hacking on Matrix, and games in most forms.
Joined Apr 2018
