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Our old small TV *finally* broke so we bought a new one, a bit bigger so I can read the writing in detective programmes.

Very happy to find a *non-smart* TV made by Cello: https://celloelectronics.com/collections/non-smart-tvs

Our Steam Deck happily plugs into it and we watch everything […]
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January 21, 2026 at 11:30 AM
Yay, my Overload articles are back on the Internet!

Including Why I Don't Use AI: https://accu.org/journals/overload/33/190/balaam/

Thank you @ACCU !
Why I Don’t Use AI
Many people are embracing GenAI. Andy Balaam encourages us to pause and think about why this might not be a good idea.
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January 21, 2026 at 10:36 AM
I think I've found the actual worst web site at ups.com
January 13, 2026 at 11:05 AM
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To all the open source developers who put hours and hours of their lives into a project they built, put it out into the world, and now it sits with approximately zero users.
January 9, 2026 at 1:24 PM
Ideas for future Rust videos:

* Re-implement a standard thing like Vec
* Implement arbitrary-precision numbers
* Fix the tests from my FizzBuzz video!
* Talk about what exactly an async block is / how does async actually work?
* Something about borrowing
* Draw a Mandelbrot set with arbitrary […]
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January 9, 2026 at 1:31 PM
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I've written several articles[1] for ACCU's Overload journal over the years. A big motivation for submitting to that journal was that the articles were freely available online.

Now ACCU has decided to make all of my old articles unavailable, and put them behind a paywall.

This breaks all the […]
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January 7, 2026 at 11:49 AM
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@andybalaam One more confirmation that it was a wise decision for me to abandon @ACCU . (reasons withheld deliberately)

I only miss meeting so many long time friends there. I also miss those who passed away in the past years.
January 7, 2026 at 12:12 PM
I've written several articles[1] for ACCU's Overload journal over the years. A big motivation for submitting to that journal was that the articles were freely available online.

Now ACCU has decided to make all of my old articles unavailable, and put them behind a paywall.

This breaks all the […]
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mastodon.social
January 7, 2026 at 11:49 AM
Nice video covering some tricky bits of Rust

https://youtu.be/9RsgFFp67eo?si=sySDwQ6ffUIqE-nP

#rustlang
January 6, 2026 at 2:51 PM
My recent videos have similar numbers of views on Peertube as on Youtube.

Previously it was ~10x more on yt.

This video has significantly more views on Peertube than yt. This is the first time this has happened for any video.

https://video.infosec.exchange/w/2YJVJXsJLmN8zNRusaB6kg

I guess my […]
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January 5, 2026 at 11:46 AM
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@andybalaam I’m only 11 minutes in, and plan to finish later today on a proper monitor. 👍 for the spreadsheet approach to visualizing memory 😁
January 2, 2026 at 11:39 AM
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Just had someone leave feedback on my F/OSS project saying “maybe that's fine if a product is focused on your Chinese community.”

I'm Korean. Every single piece of documentation is in English. There's nothing in Chinese anywhere in the project.

This kind of microaggression is exhausting. As a […]
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December 21, 2025 at 2:07 PM
I just wrote up some docs on how to hide images in public rooms on Matrix in several clients.

https://matrix.org/docs/chat_basics/public-rooms/#hiding-images-by-default

If anyone was able to add info for more clients that would be awesome. Here's my change for reference […]
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December 19, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Have you seen my video series "Writing a programming language"? I write the smallest, simplest possible language I can think of, and walk you through it.

https://video.infosec.exchange/w/p/asvKDVo4awUoZ5fCQb89db

#coding #video #python
Writing a programming language
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December 19, 2025 at 11:08 AM
During my software career I have made several changes that made me more comfortable and productive:

- Switching from mostly-GUI to mostly-terminal for e.g. file management, Git
- Going from a heavy IDE to vim (then neovim+lsp)
- Losing my second monitor
- Writing the dumbest possible code I can […]
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December 19, 2025 at 10:36 AM
SVGs are so cool. Things that are just text are so cool. I just edited 64 images using sed.

That is cool.
December 19, 2025 at 10:28 AM
The "extinction" threat is a deliberate distraction from the real threats of AI

https://youtu.be/4lKyNdZz3Vw?si=XJwRfuZW39scLV5q
December 18, 2025 at 9:03 AM
We podcasted about the career of Rob Reiner, who directed an amazing list of films. My fave was This is Spinal Tap. Listen to see what was Andy C's pick.

https://www.artificialworlds.net/goodrobotandys/2025/12/15/s13e02-rob-reiner-the-good-robot-andys/

#podcast #movies
s13e02 Rob Reiner – The Good Robot Andys
https://media.blubrry.com/goodrobotandys/www.artificialworlds.net/goodrobotandys/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/goodrobotandys-s13e02.mp3 Podcast (mp3): Play in new window | Download https://media.blubrry.com/goodrobotandys/www.artificialworlds.net/goodrobotandys/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/goodrobotandys-s13e02.ogg Podcast (ogg): Play in new window | Download Andy C reviews the amazing career of Rob Reiner for Andy B, who was amazed at the list of films made by him. Andy B really loves This is Spinal Tap. Listen in to hear which Rob Reiner film Andy C would save from a fire, if he could pick just one. The Good Robot Andys podcasts and web site by Andy Balaam and Andy Cockerill are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. Music: I dunno by grapes (c) copyright 2008 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) license. Ft: J Lang, Morusque s13e02 Rob Reiner – The Good Robot Andys
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December 15, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Amazing sermon by my friend Jörg. A Christmas message that doesn't shy away from the reality of life in Bethlehem now, and calls us to understand salvation in the context of our collective plight and collective sin.

https://www.youtube.com/live/xfa_lCM9O5E?si=x1Jz82PFacrhpdyJ&t=1785
December 14, 2025 at 1:03 PM