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Steve Loughran

@stevel@hachyderm.io
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A computer scientist pretending to be a software engineer. Bicycles. Mountain Bicycles. Trying not to fall off bicycles. Falling off bicycles.

He/him as in "he has the air of a mad scientist about him" [economist 1995]

Seeking: photos of crash/boot screens of car EV charger stations

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GitHub:
https://github.com/steveloughran
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Steve Loughran
@stevel@hachyderm.io

A computer scientist pretending to be a software engineer. Bicycles. Mountain Bicycles. Trying not to fall off bicycles. Falling off bicycles. He/him as in "he has the air of a mad scientist about him" [economist 1995] Seeking: photos of crash/boot screens of car EV charger stations

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Steve Loughran
Steve Loughran
@stevel@hachyderm.io

A computer scientist pretending to be a software engineer. Bicycles. Mountain Bicycles. Trying not to fall off bicycles. Falling off bicycles. He/him as in "he has the air of a mad scientist about him" [economist 1995] Seeking: photos of crash/boot screens of car EV charger stations

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@stevel@hachyderm.io · Mar 07, 2026

I have just spent a couple of hours with Claude Code on a side project in kotlin. I can't code in kotlin. And it is profound.

Putting aside all morality about AI (the power, as its use of everyone's work,...): Software Development has changed
i'm trying to think of other moments doing software dev when things changed *and it was tangible*

Some big changes (laptops, WiFi) had changes but I didn't realise at the time...

#ai

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Steve Loughran
@stevel@hachyderm.io

A computer scientist pretending to be a software engineer. Bicycles. Mountain Bicycles. Trying not to fall off bicycles. Falling off bicycles. He/him as in "he has the air of a mad scientist about him" [economist 1995] Seeking: photos of crash/boot screens of car EV charger stations

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Steve Loughran
Steve Loughran
@stevel@hachyderm.io

A computer scientist pretending to be a software engineer. Bicycles. Mountain Bicycles. Trying not to fall off bicycles. Falling off bicycles. He/him as in "he has the air of a mad scientist about him" [economist 1995] Seeking: photos of crash/boot screens of car EV charger stations

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@stevel@hachyderm.io · Mar 07, 2026

Saw the University of Bristol's new templemeads campus on Thursday, maybe it'll be ready by September, at least externally. There's a harbour-level bypass of the station going under the cheesegrater 'don't cycle when wet or icy' walk+bike bridge. If this new path works in winter and is illuminated well, it could be a good general feature.
The surface looks concrete slabs lowered into place, which gives some hope.
#bristol #university #cycling #streetphotography

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Steve Loughran
@stevel@hachyderm.io

A computer scientist pretending to be a software engineer. Bicycles. Mountain Bicycles. Trying not to fall off bicycles. Falling off bicycles. He/him as in "he has the air of a mad scientist about him" [economist 1995] Seeking: photos of crash/boot screens of car EV charger stations

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Steve Loughran
Steve Loughran
@stevel@hachyderm.io

A computer scientist pretending to be a software engineer. Bicycles. Mountain Bicycles. Trying not to fall off bicycles. Falling off bicycles. He/him as in "he has the air of a mad scientist about him" [economist 1995] Seeking: photos of crash/boot screens of car EV charger stations

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@stevel@hachyderm.io · Mar 06, 2026

Just a note for AI curious: if you are active OSS maintener, as can be observed from github activity logs, and the project has 15k+ stars, you get claude max for free for six months.

Given its trained on my code *and* on pirate PDFs of my book, I think that's a good first step to make up

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Steve Loughran
@stevel@hachyderm.io

A computer scientist pretending to be a software engineer. Bicycles. Mountain Bicycles. Trying not to fall off bicycles. Falling off bicycles. He/him as in "he has the air of a mad scientist about him" [economist 1995] Seeking: photos of crash/boot screens of car EV charger stations

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Steve Loughran
Steve Loughran
@stevel@hachyderm.io

A computer scientist pretending to be a software engineer. Bicycles. Mountain Bicycles. Trying not to fall off bicycles. Falling off bicycles. He/him as in "he has the air of a mad scientist about him" [economist 1995] Seeking: photos of crash/boot screens of car EV charger stations

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@stevel@hachyderm.io · Mar 01, 2026
Grabbed a photo of the cover of the sole mail on sunday before turning it over and putting it behind something else. TBF be may have a point, because if you are a racist party then you alienate a diverse population. Don't think anyone in our household voted for him Note how the Israel and US attacks on Iran get relegated #ukpol
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Steve Loughran
@stevel@hachyderm.io

A computer scientist pretending to be a software engineer. Bicycles. Mountain Bicycles. Trying not to fall off bicycles. Falling off bicycles. He/him as in "he has the air of a mad scientist about him" [economist 1995] Seeking: photos of crash/boot screens of car EV charger stations

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Steve Loughran
Steve Loughran
@stevel@hachyderm.io

A computer scientist pretending to be a software engineer. Bicycles. Mountain Bicycles. Trying not to fall off bicycles. Falling off bicycles. He/him as in "he has the air of a mad scientist about him" [economist 1995] Seeking: photos of crash/boot screens of car EV charger stations

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@stevel@hachyderm.io · Feb 24, 2026

Montpelier, Bristol, getting lamppost EV charging. Fuuse are handling this, they don't have a bad reputation. Nice to see this being done in an area where very few have off-street parking

But 55p/kWh it's close in cost/mile to that of an ICE vehicle Assuming 3.5 kW it'll take as long as running a cable out your window.

#bristol #ev

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Steve Loughran
@stevel@hachyderm.io

A computer scientist pretending to be a software engineer. Bicycles. Mountain Bicycles. Trying not to fall off bicycles. Falling off bicycles. He/him as in "he has the air of a mad scientist about him" [economist 1995] Seeking: photos of crash/boot screens of car EV charger stations

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Steve Loughran
Steve Loughran
@stevel@hachyderm.io

A computer scientist pretending to be a software engineer. Bicycles. Mountain Bicycles. Trying not to fall off bicycles. Falling off bicycles. He/him as in "he has the air of a mad scientist about him" [economist 1995] Seeking: photos of crash/boot screens of car EV charger stations

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@stevel@hachyderm.io · Feb 23, 2026

I see mandelson even had to suffer the ignominy of being taken to the police station in a Ford Focus rather than a Landrover. No matter how much he ingratiated himself to Epstein, he's still one of the common people
#ukpol #epstein

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Steve Loughran
@stevel@hachyderm.io

A computer scientist pretending to be a software engineer. Bicycles. Mountain Bicycles. Trying not to fall off bicycles. Falling off bicycles. He/him as in "he has the air of a mad scientist about him" [economist 1995] Seeking: photos of crash/boot screens of car EV charger stations

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Steve Loughran
Steve Loughran
@stevel@hachyderm.io

A computer scientist pretending to be a software engineer. Bicycles. Mountain Bicycles. Trying not to fall off bicycles. Falling off bicycles. He/him as in "he has the air of a mad scientist about him" [economist 1995] Seeking: photos of crash/boot screens of car EV charger stations

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@stevel@hachyderm.io · Feb 21, 2026

Modern unix workstation construction: a raspberry pi with 1 TB of NVMe. This is actually the system which did (via docker) the arm64 build of Hadoop-3.4.3 and where the central maven artifacts came from. I decided if I was going to do builds on I should upgrade storage from a microSSD to something faster and reliable.

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