Very positive first outing for auto-turkey yesterday 🙌 some feature requests for 2026 - mainly for the OR tools part:

1. Parallel tasks e.g I can make the turkey stock at the same time as the turkey resting
2. Endgame tasks e.g the yorkshire puds would ideally be done in the final hour

Not even your christmas dinner spreadsheet is safe from digital transformation:

github.com/owen-lacey/a...

This Pikachu took me more time than I care to admit 😅

Woke up to a message from @samwho.dev saying I was on the front of Hacker News?! news.ycombinator.com

Update:

- Putting the entire graph in a web app was EXTREMELY slow. I pivoted to show an anchor node (which is what the project is all about) 😮‍💨
- I enjoyed revisiting high school maths to calculate a nice location for each costar 🤓
- Learning loads about CSS animations whilst I'm at it 🙌

My 2025 💪 this is my personal gh, so it's basically me messing around with my stuff (mainly website & blog)

2026 I want to find more nerdy side quests to play with, and start contributing to some open source projects I'm passionate about 🙌

Right, we're getting somewhere 🙌

This is:
- A graph of actors, connected by movies they've co-starred in (according to www.themoviedb.org)
- Filtered to the most "Recognisable" ones (according to AI)
- Bigger circle = more connected

wayyyyy simpler 👌

Tell me you're on pat leave without telling me you're on pat leave

Gephi go brrrr

Next stupid side project 👀

How it's going:

Vibe-coding some FPL prediction models. I'm avoiding learning python purely out of pride now...

Lads we're getting a trombone emoji

Finished! It's not lost on me that I'm probably the 1,000,000th person to do this, but I enjoyed myself:

blog.owenlacey.dev/2025/04/28/n...

Current side project taking shape 👀

....really?

It finally happened! #lfc #redsky