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Matthew Scroggs @mscroggs.co.uk · 1d

Amazing: due to github.com/python/cpyth..., once you've updated to Python 3.14, you can use the command πthon to run your code

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Matthew Scroggs @mscroggs.co.uk · 1d

Python 3.14 is released today.

Happy πthon Day everyone!

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Matthew Scroggs @mscroggs.co.uk · Aug 30

I'm home from #TMiP25. Was great to catch up with a lot of old faces and meet many new faces. I'm very very tired, but not the most tired I've ever been after working on an event with @steckl.es (see 24hourmaths.com)

24 Hour Maths

Fri 28th October 7pm BST to Sat 29th October 2022 7pm BST. Raising money for Beat Eating Disorders, the Rheumatoid Arthritis Foundation, the Disasters Emergency Committee, and the Malala Fund.

24hourmaths.com

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Matthew Scroggs @mscroggs.co.uk · Aug 30

Hmm. This is done through ko-fi which I'd expect to be less broken than something I built. Hopefully they fix their issue quickly

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Matthew Scroggs @mscroggs.co.uk · Aug 30

Also if you're a member of the Finite Group, have look on Discord before paying for this (!)

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Matthew Scroggs @mscroggs.co.uk · Aug 30

If you want to know what the puzzles in Puzzlebug are like, here's the one on the first page for free

Three triangles puzzle: Nine of the points above are the vertices of three non-intersecting triangles. Each of the grey lines intersects the number of triangles that the line is labelled with. No point is part of more than one triangle and one point is not used. Draw the three triangles

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Matthew Scroggs @mscroggs.co.uk · Aug 30

In the last few weeks, I made the first issue of my new puzzle zine, Puzzlebug. You can buy a printable PDF from ko-fi.com/s/9f1f1875c4 if you like puzzles.

Puzzlebug #1 PDF - Matthew Scroggs's Ko-fi Shop

Puzzlebug is a zine full of puzzles. Puzzlebug #1 was published in August 2025. it was written and drawn by Matthew Scroggs. If you buy this zine, yo...

ko-fi.com

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Matthew Scroggs @mscroggs.co.uk · Aug 21

MathsJam (UK) Gathering aka Big MathsJam is always an excellent event and well worth coming to if you've not been before.

Big MathsJam @bigmathsjam.bsky.social · Aug 18

The MathsJam Gathering 2025 is now open for booking! We'll be at a new venue - Kents Hill Park, in Milton Keynes - on 22-23 November 2025. Tickets and more info at mathsjam.com/gatheri...

Matthew Scroggs @mscroggs.co.uk · Aug 21

If you're coming to TMiP, do this session then do the puzzle hunt that I've written quickly afterwards and you should just about get back in time for lunch

Tommaths (he/him) @teakayb.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · Aug 20

What's this? A new session announced for Saturday morning at @TMiP ?

https://talkingmathsinpublic.uk/programme/#saturday-social:~:text=Finding%20Maths%20in%20Museums

#tmipinmuseums #mathstoday #museumed

Matthew Scroggs @mscroggs.co.uk · Aug 20

Printed this puzzle to do at #mathsjam yesterday. It's a great puzzle mathstodon.xyz/@OscarCunnin...

Oscar Cunningham (@[email protected])

Attached: 1 image Nice puzzle from Magma on the ConwayLife discord. They call it 'Internono'. 'Shade some squares of this grid such that the list of unshaded numbers in each row and each column is t...

mathstodon.xyz

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PRL @usrbinprl.bsky.social · Aug 15

Having a clear out of some old computer equipment that's been cluttering up my place for a couple of decades. It's absolutely SPARCtastic.

All free to a good home. r/vintagecomputing are all over it, but if any of my friends here want something then just ask.

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Matthew Scroggs @mscroggs.co.uk · Aug 18

I've done I and II Pixel Remasters so far. I think Tactics might be next though, as I somehow missed at when it came out so am very excited for the Switch re-release

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Matthew Scroggs @mscroggs.co.uk · Aug 18

I'm still yet to play XIII. Need to plug the PS3 back in sometime so I can play it.

I have fond memories of X and fond memories of X-2 except for the Via Infinito that I got stuck on one of the superbosses in.

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Matthew Scroggs @mscroggs.co.uk · Aug 18

Although IX was always my favourite so might do that next

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Matthew Scroggs @mscroggs.co.uk · Aug 18

I did VIII last year and didn't realise how broken it is until I started looking up where stuff I'd missed was. Going to have to do another play through it at some point to do more card mod and junctioning early on.

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Matthew Scroggs @mscroggs.co.uk · Aug 17

I'm very glad that the Switch version of Final Fantasy 12 has a 4× speed mode

Photo of final fantasy 12. On screen it says "Yiazmat vanquished"

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Happy Approximation Day @happyapproxday.bsky.social · Jul 22

Happy π Approximation Day!

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Electromagnetic Field @emfcamp.bsky.social · Jul 20

We are finally ready to announce that EMF 2026 will happen on July 16-19, 2026, at Eastnor Castle Deer Park, Herefordshire.

Expect more updates soon as we start spinning up the organisation again.