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Notes on AI, programming, photography, and the rest of it. Written when I have something worth saying.

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Teaching a Model to Recognise My Garden

What started as a weekend camera trap turned into six months of training an image classifier on my own back porch — and a lesson about which photographs actually matter.

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Photography

Shooting at 1/4000 and Still Missing

A hummingbird wing beats around fifty times a second. Freezing it is less about shutter speed than about accepting how many frames you are going to throw away.

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Quilting

The Quilt That Taught Me Version Control

Half a metre into a queen-size top I made a cutting error I could not undo, and finally understood why I have spent twenty years insisting on commits.

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Programming

The Config File That Outlived the Project

A YAML file I wrote for a weekend experiment in 2019 is now load-bearing in three unrelated systems, and nobody including me remembers what half the keys do.

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