Andrew Godwin

https://fedi.aeracode.org/@andrew

Tech leader, Django/Python developer, public speaker, occasional youtuber, collector of hobbies, and misplaced Brit. Day job: Lambda Labs. 🏳️‍🌈🐉

Homepage: https://aeracode.org
Location: Denver, Colorado, USA
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2026-06-04 17:14:11 CEST

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That's a good point, probably fits somewhere between points 1 and 2, until those reviews turn out to also miss things.

2026-06-04 16:51:42 CEST

My current prediction of where "vibe" (LLM-assisted) coding goes from here:
- Management says all PRs must be reviewed by senior engineers
- It's a massive time waste, so new metrics are imposed on original authors/LLM users over %age of accepted PRs
- Authors realise it is often quicker to write themselves than review all the code in detail for a mistake that hits their metrics
- LLMs end up being only used for smaller-scale tasks the author understands

2026-05-19 06:09:04 CEST

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And on the drive back I enjoyed a mountain hike via the delightful mid-century modern stylings of the Palm Springs Aerial Tram (as well as riding a nearly empty tram down with the crew as Sweet Home Alabama played over its speakers)
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2026-05-19 06:02:30 CEST

Took a little time away from LA and PyCon to go visit Joshua Tree (in my quest to see every national park) and it was a lovely time.
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2026-05-11 17:08:40 CEST

Last autumn, I finally started on my quest to find the Most American City - and the first city that dropped out of my algorithm was Kalamazoo, Michigan. So I went to see why. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqKFL84Gr78

2026-05-01 04:55:31 CEST

Kind of wondering if I should start streaming occasionally. Some of the ability to talk about stuff without the structure of talks or YouTube videos, though the default content choice still feels like games (streaming projects from the workshop isn’t very doable)

2026-04-30 06:09:44 CEST

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It's also a good reason to watch via the playlist as it's in schedule order!

2026-04-22 19:44:28 CEST

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You should see the 60lb bag full of Stuff I have to fly over to make the conference work 😅

2026-04-22 00:20:28 CEST

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Fortunately, Reduce Transparency does a lot to make it a bit more reasonable.

2026-04-21 20:34:13 CEST

Gotta love physical therapists. Within ten minutes of my first visit, she'd worked out that my left leg is currently a centimeter longer than my right (hopefully due to musculature and tendons rather than the bones)

2026-04-21 07:49:50 CEST

Trying out iPhone for a couple of weeks (Android annoyed me a lot recently) and it's fascinating. Hardware is obviously great, apps are generally smoother and nicer, but wow do I miss there being a universal idea of "back".

2026-04-11 03:42:11 CEST

Of course, from here the astronauts will go to the medical bay so the flight surgeon can give them the all-clear, and then from there they'll be placed in the Possession/Inhabitation Chamber where NASA's Chief Occult Officer will ensure they are not controlled by any evil Moon spirits.

2026-04-11 02:35:11 CEST

Great job to everyone at NASA who made that mission go off apparently flawlessly. Now let's hope the next mission isn't too far away...

2026-04-07 20:21:15 CEST

My other half pays basically no attention to world news and I am honestly envious of him right now.

2026-04-05 22:16:43 CEST

Took my new-ish UV printer for a spin and made a little memento of the Artemis II picture from yesterday. Fits on the coaster really nicely!
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2026-03-27 15:23:38 CET

After a request from both my partner and also (weirdly) my barber back in Denver, I took a trip to a random town in the Midlands.
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2026-03-25 14:54:55 CET

I am increasingly becoming fond of poster sessions as one of the best parts of conferences. The one at KubeCon is unfortunately too small, but still had some great chats with some of the presenters.

2026-03-23 19:10:22 CET

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KubeCon is on this week, and I have the right balance of Important Work Reasons to attend but not have to talk or run a booth, which is always nice.

2026-03-23 15:14:34 CET

I know there's a big conference in town but I ran into someone I knew in central Amsterdam, kilometres away from the venue, within 20 minutes of arriving!

2026-03-23 08:39:15 CET

Woke up somewhere over the Atlantic to the news of AC8646. Just awful stuff. Godspeed to the crew, who seem to have saved the passengers at the cost of their own lives.
Initially looks like ATC controller overload, which should be a big wake-up call given the underfunded state of US ATC for years, but we'll see.

2026-03-22 19:30:36 CET

I did not realise it was the end of spring break and I am already feeling for the gate agent as an entire queue of families are being rearranged so their kids are seated next to them.

2026-03-20 19:23:45 CET

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I am still uncertain if PHM is better - Contact is very special to me - but there's a lot in common in how those movies approach humanity.

2026-03-20 18:55:49 CET

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Villeneuve is off doing great visual work with Dune, that's for sure, but it's not quite my jam. That said, I am so curious what he can do with Rendezvous With Rama - that book was formative for me.

2026-03-20 18:47:02 CET

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There are not enough sci-fi movies that are fundamentally optimistic, and I am so glad we have another. Contact, Arrival, The Martian, and Close Encounters are all very dear to me for this reason, and I am delighted to add to that list. (Interstellar is also good for visuals and music, but not plot)

2026-03-20 06:05:40 CET

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I had not - once I learned they were doing a movie, and having loved The Martian, I decided to wait for the movie first.

2026-03-20 05:44:28 CET

Just finished watching Project Hail Mary and that is a fantastic film. It is going to trouble Contact for my "favourite movie of all time" slot, for sure.

2026-03-16 16:53:45 CET

Got a MacBook Neo last week (as having a Mac is occasionally useful, and my old Mac Mini is basically dead) - and it's a perfectly good laptop. Great build quality, good battery, and barely notice the "low' specs. Only gripe is they need to design for "no touch ID" - like the Windows PIN option.

2026-03-06 23:37:38 CET

I have often said they should make another Pokémon game that doesn't involve fighting and, well, Pokopia is fantastic.

2026-03-05 22:04:45 CET

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I do genuinely use it as a phone number and for data when I'm back in the UK, though, is the thing

2026-03-05 21:00:23 CET

Doing my US tax return involves telling them how much money is in my UK pension, so yesterday I found myself driving 10 minutes to an area where Three UK has a tower with a roaming agreement just so I could receive an MFA code to log in and see the amount, to tell the IRS, so they can ignore it.

2026-02-27 06:34:18 CET

Lovely work Gorton and Denton, and congratulations to Hannah Spencer. Resounding win for hopefulness and sensible politics.

2026-02-10 04:04:11 CET

Unfortunately, while I got to the hotel quickly, it turns out that the hotel aggregator that my company's travel agency made a hotel booking through took the money but didn't actually make the reservation due to a "system error", and now they are arguing about who pays for it while I wait.

2026-02-10 03:07:13 CET

I do love the feeling when you peel away from the hordes of people going towards Lyft/Uber at SFO, walk onto the BART platform, get on a train and it leaves 30 seconds later. Already in Daly City before I would even have got picked up.

2026-02-10 03:04:09 CET

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It's not great out there. They had quite a compelling mixture of features before they screwed it up.

2026-02-03 02:02:19 CET

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My experiments based on someone else's experiments are here: https://github.com/andrewgodwin/tablet-mode-accel

2026-01-28 18:20:29 CET

Just found some game design idea notes of mine for an automation/factory game and the top two notes are "should be optimistic" and "anti-colonialist". Not bad.

2026-01-24 19:37:51 CET

I am supposed to get a lot of personal admin done this weekend and it feels like fiddling on the roof as Rome burns. At least the cats are happy and snoozing without a care in the world.

2026-01-23 16:45:58 CET

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I am in fact flying out today (it was only a couple days for work). I may be back in a few weeks though!

2026-01-23 15:51:06 CET

Finally got a chance to stay in one of my favourite examples of brutalism, the Hyatt Regency San Francisco. As the front desk clerk joked when I asked to check out - "Why would you want to leave?"
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2026-01-22 20:56:52 CET

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Don't worry, I modified the number for comic effect. I actually have 11. But only 8 are currently plugged in!

2026-01-22 20:36:22 CET

"Spend company money like it's your own", says our expense policy. So you're saying the company should buy five 3D printers, import lots of British chocolate, and acquire a series of increasingly esoteric laptops?

2026-01-17 20:48:07 CET

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This was an interesting use of LLM assistance to help with some of the HID/event code; they were good at dealing with the generalist C stuff and basic interactions, but failed when it got to the weird edge cases in the HID reports. Still, it was a big speed increase as it saved me re-researching a lot of "how do I do <X> in C".

2026-01-17 20:41:08 CET

I have had the Lenovo Yoga Book 9 for just two days, and I have already solved the bottom-touchscreen driver issue in Linux with some terrifying C code: https://github.com/andrewgodwin/lenovo-yoga-book-9/tree/main/yoga-splitter
I should probably go submit a hid-multitouch patch, but this gets things working immediately for now.

2026-01-16 23:02:45 CET

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It's just a Perfectly Normal Laptop!

2026-01-16 19:13:43 CET

Did I need the silly two-screen laptop? No. Am I delighted with the build and OLED screen quality, surprised how useable the touchscreen keyboard-and-touchpad Lenovo wrote for it is, and happy that a decent amount works in Linux out of the box? Yes.
(Also, what a way to play Factorio)
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2026-01-16 04:25:51 CET

Went to a lovely local bakery/brunch place this morning that had "Croissants and Gravy" on the menu and I am torn between this being a food crime and being actual genius.

2026-01-10 23:40:24 CET

Passed my EMR exam so I am now certified to give oxygen, splint things, patch up bad holes, and mostly go "oh yes, you really need someone much more qualified than me".
Will probably go up to EMT at some point but that requires quite a bit more hands-on training!

2026-01-10 17:43:57 CET

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It is really lovely to see the wonderful ridiculousness all laid out like this. (Have been enjoying the recent rules variants too!)

2025-12-25 19:13:56 CET

Pictured: One cat, shortly before he realises that now there are presents under the tree he can avoid the anti-cat spikes and try to climb it
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2025-12-23 22:21:06 CET

Nice long break ahead means I can finally get around to rewriting my travel checklist app properly (and add on the house regular-maintenance items functionality I've always wanted).
Past me would have added user accounts and stuck it up for everyone to use; now I'm instead thinking "what if I didn't go through all that hassle?"

2025-12-21 23:22:26 CET

In rather excellent news, we're now at the point where a light aircraft can detect its pilot being incapacitated and successfully land and then shut the engines off fully automatically. My hat is off to the Garmin engineers who built this system.
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2025-12-21 18:48:26 CET

For reasons known only to myself, I documented and reviewed nine different Christmas sandwiches on my trip back to London. Please, maybe, enjoy.
(Mostly I wanted to get practice at lower-effort single take filming!)
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2025-12-17 14:33:09 CET

The new V&A East Storehouse is fantastic. Not only is it the most pure, channeled form of the V&A's eclectic collection, but the big pieces on display are great, including an ENTIRE FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT OFFICE.
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2025-12-16 17:29:02 CET

Popped into Hamleys (the world's oldest toy shop, and something of a dream destination when I was little!) and while it is definitely still delightfully packed with toys, wow is it smaller than I remember. Though I guess I'm a lot bigger now as well.

2025-12-16 11:02:44 CET

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I'd also prefer having none at all but that seems impossible these days

2025-12-16 06:58:20 CET

Lost my Google TV dongle a trip ago and decided to try a Roku stick in its place.
I'm quite impressed - power still works off a TV USB port, you can Bluetooth your phone to it, you can have it send audio to your phone (and headphones), and it asks if you're sure when you press the Netflix button!

2025-12-15 10:01:53 CET

Always nice to see the standard UK weather from the other side.
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2025-12-15 01:08:44 CET

Rideshares to the airport were $45 one way today. Parking in the "economy" lot is $20 a day. But it turns out that parking at my local train station, which has a train direct to the airport every 15 minutes, is just $2 a day. Feel a bit silly I didn't do this before (it does take slightly longer!)

2025-12-13 01:27:45 CET

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I will be qualified to splint and give oxygen and not much else! But hey, that is a lot of what we need up in the mountains.

2025-12-12 22:08:42 CET

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I will be doing a 30 minute drive for the EMR license for a similar reason.

2025-12-10 07:38:29 CET

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As for the machine itself - it's the perfect small size where it's still very typeable, it weighs less than a kilo, runs Linux (in this case Bazzite, which is now my daily driver) superbly, and lasts for over 6 hours on a charge - and all for less than US$400 (and even cheaper in places without tariffs)

2025-12-10 07:36:35 CET

Spent a little bit of time tonight working on a tablet mode (hinge angle) service for this delightful little machine - the Chiwu Minibook X N150.
Was just taking someone's existing Go project and changing a few things, but it _did_ involve udev rules so I think that at least counts as Real Work.
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2025-12-05 00:34:38 CET

Now OpenAI has bought 40% of the world's DRAM capacity and prices have shot up, starting to wonder when the 384GB of RAM in my basement server will outpace my house's value...

2025-11-28 09:07:07 CET

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Let's not discuss what the US does with domestic phases as it's just a different kind of weird.

2025-11-28 03:49:26 CET

I have owned a Thermomix for five years and have only just discovered that it can make a very decent custard in 13 minutes. This has revolutionised tonight's apple pie.

2025-11-27 22:30:29 CET

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I'm so glad he did this after he previously hooked up a powerful electric heater in a similar way

2025-11-27 08:18:19 CET

What I love about Lumines Arise is that there will be a level with an emotional song about the meaning of humanity, and then a few levels later one that's just a fun piano riff about how cool pigeons are.

2025-11-26 05:40:27 CET

I am very much enjoying Lumines Arise, but I wish they had put the music and visuals on a game I was any good at.
(I am getting better, but it's hard to beat decades of getting better at Tetris)

2025-11-24 20:30:31 CET

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This also marks my 39th state visited so I'm gonna have to make some decisions soon about which one I visit last (and ensure it's not North Dakota)

2025-11-15 19:06:44 CET

My attempts at a nice relaxing weekend have immediately been undone by my garage door opener failing (pulled off the top and the belt sprocket is at much more of a jaunty angle than it should be)

2025-11-05 05:29:23 CET

I need to get one or two more flights in this year so you bet I'm going to head to Mayor-Elect Mamdani's fine city and try at least some of the food recommendations he's dropped during the campaign.

2025-11-04 01:27:23 CET

Not only does everyone just get opted in to vote by mail here, but they make sure you still get the sticker. And even better, my closest drop-off box is right next to both Halal Guys and Five Guys.
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2025-10-23 22:50:38 CEST

For cursed reasons, I find myself needing to create a 10-pin Mini USB (yes, that's a thing) to composite video cable - "compatible with the GoPro Hero 3", as the spec sheet says. Great, let me just go back to 2012.

2025-08-21 18:34:05 CEST

Are there any other good pluggable-reconciliation-loop frameworks that aren't Kubernetes? (Where you can use entirely custom CRDs/controllers but it's pushing it a bit).
I find it odd there's not other obvious ones out there considering how nice it is as a code architecture...

2025-07-28 03:14:19 CEST

A hotel nearby has had this on its sign for the last three years or more and... I don't know why. It puzzles me every time I drive past.
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2025-07-17 23:00:05 CEST

Lovely day to take a day off and go hiking today though. Weather is very pleasant, not a lot of people on the trails, and the chipmunks were very active!
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2025-04-27 02:15:58 CEST

Current status: Doing network admin for a conference 1,000 miles away while taxiing in a plane that is inbound to said conference.
(Sorry for the blip, #nbpy, we went through 50GB of data in half the time as last year)

2025-04-18 20:10:24 CEST

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Are the space heaters as giant and terrifying as the fans?

2025-04-15 07:50:06 CEST

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I always enjoy hearing what you're up to, and have this picture of a friend's new puppy who has old dog face way before her time!
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2025-04-15 02:27:54 CEST

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You might well have to go private for it over there, at which point it might just be cheaper to get a booster again anyway...

2025-04-15 02:20:17 CEST

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Welp, interesting development - the mumps and rubella parts are still reactive, the measles part is not. Booster time!

2025-04-14 18:52:25 CEST

Got my MMR titre done with my usual lab screens today and it's still reactive, so that's reassuring.

2025-03-10 17:13:48 CET

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Shout-out to Nils Kal on this one for a really nice base model including some lovely wire routing tips, leaving me to just have to do some soldering and electronics changes to add a dimmer: https://www.printables.com/model/40386-desk-stranding-the-death-stranding-desk-lamp

2025-03-10 17:09:49 CET

Built a fun 3D-printed desk lamp over the weekend (coincidentally right before the Death Stranding 2 trailer released), and am very happy as my partner looked at it and thought I'd bought a commercially-produced one.
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2025-03-07 19:05:57 CET

With the PSVR 2 price drop to $400, went ahead and bought one and it's the best wired PC VR headset I've used, with perfect SteamVR support from Sony themselves. Just ignore the actual PS5 VR game selection...

2025-02-24 03:12:04 CET

Today I discovered that GoPros overheat very quickly when filming while exposed to vacuum.

2025-01-25 05:53:40 CET

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The new "how much can you get everything from Costco" challenge looms

2025-01-21 19:09:37 CET

Finally got my entirely 3D printed hexacopter frame working yesterday, and it flies surprisingly well! Even in -15C/5F! Proper video coming soon, but here's a few clips of it flying.
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2024-12-23 20:03:34 CET

Big fan of the recently-available-in-the-US Covid + Flu A/B lateral flow tests - even more peace of mind after returning from international travel. Now if they'd just do one that had a few other things as well...

2024-12-15 01:44:53 CET

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I suspect I shall endeavour to have breakfast in NJ tomorrow since I can basically see it from my hotel room.

2024-12-15 01:41:58 CET

With lunch in Connecticut today, I'm now at 35 US states/districts visited! (I only count a state if I eat or stay overnight there outside of an airport)
Just AL, AR, DE, IN, KY, MD, MI, MN, MS, NJ, ND, OK, RI, VT, WV and WI to go...

2024-12-14 03:39:19 CET

Oh, Newark Liberty International Airport. It has not been long enough.

2024-12-09 22:19:40 CET

I am at the dentist and their Christmas playlist has a bad cover of Slade's Merry Christmas Everybody. A perfect fusion of bad experiences.

2024-11-15 21:30:48 CET

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That would be lovely, but unfortunately Mastodon is really being held back by its B(?)DFL... there at least seem to be some good bridges, though.

2024-11-15 19:18:27 CET

We're (rapidly!) approaching the point where my Bluesky feed takes longer to scroll through than my Mastodon feed.

2024-11-04 00:33:29 CET

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It runs on a Seeed Studio ReTerminal (so I can have a touchscreen to stab at for buttons). Currently just controls a few DC loads via a Sonoff 4ch Pro flashed with open firmware - my water pump (turns off when moving), my propane heater, and my water heater (via a 40A relay). Will hook the lights up... eventually.

2024-11-04 00:04:42 CET

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Going to be camping totally off grid for this one - national forest/grassland abounds - so I did spend yesterday redoing more of my camper van to be Home Assistant integrated, and tie the hot water system to run when there's excess solar/alternator power.

2024-11-04 00:03:09 CET

Don't want to be at home stressing over the US election for the next few days so I've bought some mashed potato and I'm doing a four day trip up to a certain national monument in north east Wyoming.

2024-10-21 06:59:47 CEST

Bluesky mostly works well but is still lacking one feature I use a lot - the ability to follow a user but disable their reposts. Unless I'm just missing it somewhere.

2024-10-19 09:24:13 CEST

Bluesky definitely appears to be picking up steam, which I think is good - Mastodon has its issues that aren't really being fixed in good time, and some competition with good network effects is probably healthy at this point!