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The Quest for Night Mode

Implementing a Pebble Watch Night Hiking App, and the quest for similar on my Apple Watch.

Rich Infante · EN

Retro Christmas Lights Reviews

Comparing several popular "retro glow" style LED christmas lights.

Rich Infante

Easily create cool random images in python with randimage

I was planning to add profile pictures to my now defunct social-app for musicians Riff on That and I wanted to offer a randomly generated picture as a default option. I had a look around for existing solutions in python and couldn’t find anything to my liking, so I came up with randimage. This is… The post Easily create cool random images in python with randimage appeared first on Renato Budinich .

Renato Budinich · EN

Topic modeling with transformers: farewell LDA

Topic Modeling is an unsupervised learning procedure similar to clustering. In this post I give a brief overview of Topic Modeling, present my library transformertopic and apply it to scraped news about COVID The post Topic modeling with transformers: farewell LDA appeared first on Renato Budinich .

Renato Budinich · EN

COVID news topics

Topic Modeling is an unsupervised learning procedure similar to clustering. In this post I give a brief overview of Topic Modeling, present my library transformertopic and apply it to scraped news about COVID The post COVID news topics appeared first on Renato Budinich .

Renato Budinich · EN

If you take away the hype, blockchains remain mega-cool

I’ve heard some valid criticism of blockchain tech: it is a very inefficient database, there’s nothing substantially new people are doing with it, DeFi is self-referential. All of these have some truth in them. On top of this the industry is over-hyped and inundated by startups with millions in funding and flashy websites with a… The post If you take away the hype, blockchains remain mega-cool appeared first on Renato Budinich .

Renato Budinich · EN

Reimagining LLMs: one industry they will change forever (and no one will complain)

DE is hard and often requires for ad-hoc code changes to deal with the idiosyncrasies of the specific dataset. LLMs could offer a big help in assisting and eventually automating these tasks. The big players to watch out for are those with established low-code DE solutions, especially those already intimate with ML such as anomalo. The post Reimagining LLMs: one industry they will change forever (and no one will complain) appeared first on Renato Budinich .

Renato Budinich · EN

zkPass.org: a technical deep dive

zkPass allows to unlock web2 data for web3 applications, with privacy. Scroll down to get the full technical deep dive. What is zkPass? zkPass is a protocol that uses Zero-Knowledge proofs to let you prove facts about your private Web2 data (from any HTTPS website) to Web3 applications. You can verify your identity, reputation, or… The post zkPass.org: a technical deep dive appeared first on Renato Budinich .

Renato Budinich · EN

Vault Bridge: a permissioned MCP middleware for agentic workflows

TL;DR: Giving LLMs access to a knowledge base is easy. Giving them scoped, permissioned, read/write access without handing over the keys to the kingdom is hard. Vault Bridge is a Rust middleware layer that sits between an Obsidian LiveSync database (CouchDB) and an MCP client, enforcing policy-as-code boundaries. The code is available at https://github.com/nareto/vault-bridge. The… The post Vault Bridge: a permissioned MCP middleware for agentic workflows appeared first on Renato Budinich .

Renato Budinich · EN

How to stop trading safety for speed

Five checks to keep your AI coding agents' speed and stay safe, with a 5-minute checklist. Read it here or download the free PDF. The post How to stop trading safety for speed appeared first on Renato Budinich .

Renato Budinich · EN

31st October 2026 at 08:21

Lovely walk round Portchester Castle with the kids yesterday afternoon

Robb Knight • Everything • RSS Feed · EN

I’m Just Drunk (Lexi's texts) [feat. Jaret Reddick]

This is fun

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31st October 2026 at 13:55

Day 31 - Flex Inktober? Completed it mate ✅

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2nd November 2026 at 08:51

[Keeley] Men do love a song with an instruction, right? [Rebecca] Like a grown-up version of “Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes.” I didn't expect to be attacked like this while watching Ted Lasso last night.

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2nd November 2026 at 11:45

Zippy, Bungle, George, and Geoffrey will return in Avengers: Doomsday (not long now before I can't post these any more 😞)

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St Jude Drawings Gallery

Now it's been a month of so since the end of St Jude September I think enough time has passed that I think everyone's drawings should have arrived now so I can share them. It's hard to pick a favourite but here's a selection of them I wanted to highlight here because I enjoy them. I won't be including Jimothy because I included him in the last post, not because I don't love him. I can't wait to do this again next year. I scanned all the drawings this year so I've put them all up on the 2026 gallery for your perusal.

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Ted Lasso

The relentless positivity was really grating on me in the first couple of episodes but they won we over by the end.

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3rd November 2026 at 07:40

Pokémon Go Chicago Archipelago Flamingo Pogo Indigo …to the polls

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I take notes in the first person

I write in the first person because it helps me think through how I understand the world, and speaks better to my Future self when I visit past notes. The practice also keeps me from the trap of writing for others, trying to meet their unstated needs. Technical, how-to style notes, do not follow this convention. There is no value in rewriting my earlier notes. Email a comment

The Quantum Garden · EN

Now, 23 October 2026

My last Now update was some time ago. Life well and truly got in the way and as Dickens said, "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times." Looking back at Now, 26 July 2026 , the signs of what was to come were already there. My wife, who has struggled with dislocating kneecaps for 40 years had her left knee totally replaced two days later. It was planned, and I was already feeling the impact beforehand. Recovery has not gone as well as she expected/wanted though it has always progressed week to week. Today she drove us to the hospital for her physio appointments and that's were I'm w

The Quantum Garden · EN

I don't blog to a schedule

A schedule of regular writing puts a pressure on me that I don't need. It implies I am writing for an external audience and not myself. Scheduling requires a degree of planning that cuts across the creative process. Either I need to find ideas or hold them back. Email a comment

The Quantum Garden · EN

Displaying Flickr photos on my iPhone's lock screen

I've never been one for keeping photos on my iPhone. I transfer them to Mediabank nightly and tend to delete them afterwards. What I do have as of today are 300+ photos in My flickr account that I'd like to display on my lock screen. Thankfully, part of the staging for Flickr upload using IMatch to Site meant I had JPEGs readily available. Resize JPEGs to 2000 pixels on longest side Connect to my iCloud account using a browser Create a Flickr album Upload 300+ photos Create a new lock screen with a Photos shuffle Select the Flickr album as the source of photos to use I set to a new photo every

The Quantum Garden · EN

The need to be certain drives uncertainty

This year I've been thinking about confidence ratings. I find that when clients don't sufficiently understand the technology decision in front of them, then instead of relying on the advice given, they seek certainty (or 100% confidence). Even when I'm highly confident I have the right answer, this can trigger a need for me to feel like I need certainty as well and that leads to second-guessing and double-checking. I know and support the Colin Powell 40-70 rule says it's ok to move without complete certainty so having noticed this behaviour I'm curious to find a way to cut across it. Email a c

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Why are we ok being asked to do more with less?

Why is it ok that we are constantly asked to do more with less? Why can't we do less with less? "You have to because I have to," isn't any more justification than the "because" we told not to use a a child. AI isn't the answer either. All it does is push the same problem further down the road. Ulitmately I suspect this is a failure to have conversations about Core concerns . Not that we can. There isn't enough time. Email a comment

The Quantum Garden · EN