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If you drive from Cambridge (UK) to Wimpole, you'll see some impressively large radio telescopes that belong to the Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory (MRAO). However, there's muc…

There is a wild bald eagle that has taken up residency in Woodland Park Zoo, and has constructed a huge nest in the tree on top of the hill in the Elk enclosure. You can see it fro…

I like that metric. If we instead consider "time to cows" then Cambridge does quite well. Midsummer Common, Stourbridge Common and The Backs have (seasonal) cows. https://www.bbc.c…

Box2D has moved from C++ to C for this v3.0 release. Erin has explained why further down in the post: https://box2d.org/posts/2024/08/releasing-box2d-3.0/#moving-...

Try the following: install_demos cd demos load hello.p8 run

I've been considering getting a Playdate as a means of having a constrained environment to develop a small game in. I didn't realise there has been such a long wait to get one, so …

Here are the two main packaging issues I run into, specifically when using Poetry: 1) Lack of support for building extension modules (as mentioned by the article). There is a worka…

As a young child, one day at school we had to fill in a "travel to school" questionnaire. I remember finding it funny that one option was "hovercraft", when the only one applicable…

There's a lot I could say, but for now I need to keep it brief. The practical side of the transition (visa, bank account, social security number, renting, etc.) was a lot of work, …

In 2019, after six years living in Cambridge, I moved to Seattle. A few weeks before the move I stumbled across these pictures as postcards in a local shop. They perfectly captured…

https://sam.hooke.me Mostly tech stuff, and some games. Recent topics have been: Python, Django, C, CMake, SDL2. These days I generally use it as a place to write up notes on whate…

I'd suggest looking into Netlify, which I use to host my hugo powered website. The free plan works well for a personal website, and they have good documentation on setting up hugo.…

https://sam.hooke.me/ I mostly use it as a place to write up my notes about whatever I was working on that day, with typical topics covering things such as embedded software, TrueN…

The "incentive trap" has also been referred to as the "incessant obsolescence postulate", in this paper from 2011 titled "Energy, incessant obsolescence, and the first interstellar…