Functional programmer, physicist, trainee zoo keeper, circus performer, and Dad.https://bsky.app/profile/huwcampbell.comhttps://bsky.app/profile/huwcampbell.com/post/3mrac445qwc2pHardest thing about seeing your first wild owl is that it’s probably at night. #birding22 Jul 2026 12:09 +0000at://did:plc:6e7msnu5o3mdboitzv7oxbxm/app.bsky.feed.post/3mrac445qwc2phttps://bsky.app/profile/huwcampbell.com/post/3mrabve7lwc2pShe looks out for me22 Jul 2026 12:06 +0000at://did:plc:6e7msnu5o3mdboitzv7oxbxm/app.bsky.feed.post/3mrabve7lwc2phttps://bsky.app/profile/huwcampbell.com/post/3mkmqq7v53c2gDon (Quixote) Trump – still tilting at windmills. Paying a billion dollars to halt the construction of almost complete wind farm projects. Just making electricity more expensive and dirtier for no reason. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-wind-energy-settlements-climate-b2940566.html29 Apr 2026 09:07 +0000at://did:plc:6e7msnu5o3mdboitzv7oxbxm/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkmqq7v53c2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/huwcampbell.com/post/3mjtlenwel22aOur Ring Tailed Lemur enjoying sweet potato for lunch.19 Apr 2026 08:54 +0000at://did:plc:6e7msnu5o3mdboitzv7oxbxm/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjtlenwel22ahttps://bsky.app/profile/huwcampbell.com/post/3mhs23ovjhk2sBeautiful female Satin Bowerbird I found. The rest of the tree had a dozen sulphur crested cockatoos. #ausbirds #birding24 Mar 2026 07:22 +0000at://did:plc:6e7msnu5o3mdboitzv7oxbxm/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhs23ovjhk2shttps://bsky.app/profile/huwcampbell.com/post/3mhav2pnrnc2yApple's Neo looks pretty amazing. Speculatively though, if it's running one year behind on iPhone Pro chips, next year it should get a bump from 8 to 12GB or RAM which would be a big boost for a laptop.17 Mar 2026 11:37 +0000at://did:plc:6e7msnu5o3mdboitzv7oxbxm/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhav2pnrnc2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/huwcampbell.com/post/3mh3n6q4asc23Guess who's posting #atproto posts from their shiny new Haskell implementation?15 Mar 2026 09:33 +0000at://did:plc:6e7msnu5o3mdboitzv7oxbxm/app.bsky.feed.post/3mh3n6q4asc23https://bsky.app/profile/huwcampbell.com/post/3mg55up3xqk2e@albomp.bsky.social How can we support the assassination and kidnapping of foreign heads of state? Trump pulled out of the Iran nuclear deal, Iran was following it.03 Mar 2026 06:38 +0000at://did:plc:6e7msnu5o3mdboitzv7oxbxm/app.bsky.feed.post/3mg55up3xqk2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/huwcampbell.com/post/3mfszt4du2227I had some spare cycles and decided to tackle a 20 year old unimplemented #WineHQ feature. https://gitlab.winehq.org/wine/wine/-/merge_requests/10191 It's not wonderful just yet, but man that thing is a 12k line piece of unmaintainable tech debt.27 Feb 2026 05:59 +0000at://did:plc:6e7msnu5o3mdboitzv7oxbxm/app.bsky.feed.post/3mfszt4du2227https://bsky.app/profile/huwcampbell.com/post/3mf7bjfbomc2pBuying a Gerni with the plumbing attachment has saved me thousands is plumbing callouts. But on the other hand, tonight I picked up a garbage bag full of sewage overflow after unblocking the stack. It… wasn’t pleasant.19 Feb 2026 09:24 +0000at://did:plc:6e7msnu5o3mdboitzv7oxbxm/app.bsky.feed.post/3mf7bjfbomc2phttps://bsky.app/profile/huwcampbell.com/post/3mevbvqnxds2mGot up close with Shifu for some pats today. Taught me something. #wildlife #panda #symbio15 Feb 2026 10:04 +0000at://did:plc:6e7msnu5o3mdboitzv7oxbxm/app.bsky.feed.post/3mevbvqnxds2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/huwcampbell.com/post/3mdzca5bghk2uActually started building my #birding app for #atproto. I’ve lexicons for birding observations, oauth login in (ported from @baileytownsend.dev’s rusty statusphere) and have a Tap backed app view ingesting events. I’ve also bought the domain.04 Feb 2026 06:55 +0000at://did:plc:6e7msnu5o3mdboitzv7oxbxm/app.bsky.feed.post/3mdzca5bghk2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/huwcampbell.com/post/3mdmdlo2sxc2sDoes anyone have a good local developer environment for ATproto apps? I'm thinking just docker compose with a PLC, a PDS and Relay, and maybe Jetstream too. Effectively I want to develop locally without spraying records into the public firehose.30 Jan 2026 03:15 +0000at://did:plc:6e7msnu5o3mdboitzv7oxbxm/app.bsky.feed.post/3mdmdlo2sxc2shttps://bsky.app/profile/huwcampbell.com/post/3mdeterhbh222@albomp.bsky.social can we talk about X? Elon has turned X and Grok into a child and non-consensual pornography production machines. Are bans, fines, or criminal charges coming?27 Jan 2026 03:36 +0000at://did:plc:6e7msnu5o3mdboitzv7oxbxm/app.bsky.feed.post/3mdeterhbh222https://bsky.app/profile/huwcampbell.com/post/3mdcv76tgck2pWho’s a silly fish?26 Jan 2026 09:04 +0000at://did:plc:6e7msnu5o3mdboitzv7oxbxm/app.bsky.feed.post/3mdcv76tgck2phttps://bsky.app/profile/huwcampbell.com/post/3mdcv4ayhlc2pIt’s warm but the misters are on. The Red Pandas are chilling.26 Jan 2026 09:02 +0000at://did:plc:6e7msnu5o3mdboitzv7oxbxm/app.bsky.feed.post/3mdcv4ayhlc2phttps://bsky.app/profile/huwcampbell.com/post/3mbznq7ajlc22Spotted while skiing, right next to the run in Hakuba. #japan #wildlife09 Jan 2026 23:31 +0000at://did:plc:6e7msnu5o3mdboitzv7oxbxm/app.bsky.feed.post/3mbznq7ajlc22https://bsky.app/profile/huwcampbell.com/post/3mbspb7iiuc2wOne particularly interesting thing about Japan is the large number of birds of prey you see around towns. This fine specimen was near Toyama, but I’ve seen dozens.07 Jan 2026 05:10 +0000at://did:plc:6e7msnu5o3mdboitzv7oxbxm/app.bsky.feed.post/3mbspb7iiuc2whttps://bsky.app/profile/huwcampbell.com/post/3mbawvj73kc2cFujisan in winter is gorgeous.31 Dec 2025 03:38 +0000at://did:plc:6e7msnu5o3mdboitzv7oxbxm/app.bsky.feed.post/3mbawvj73kc2chttps://bsky.app/profile/huwcampbell.com/post/3mad6wvkjuc2r@tangled.org Hey guys, I’m sure you’ve the introducing-tap post. Do you think you will adopt it? I think a key part of the atmosphere experience is that I can spin up my own appview and get a consistent experience with the main app. Also happy to help in this. https://docs.bsky.app/blog/introducing-tap19 Dec 2025 07:42 +0000at://did:plc:6e7msnu5o3mdboitzv7oxbxm/app.bsky.feed.post/3mad6wvkjuc2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/huwcampbell.com/post/3mad6h3jrvc2r@tangled.org hey where did the @ in my URL go?19 Dec 2025 07:34 +0000at://did:plc:6e7msnu5o3mdboitzv7oxbxm/app.bsky.feed.post/3mad6h3jrvc2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/huwcampbell.com/post/3m6ochb7gls2zThe Australian Government passed the Environment Protection Reform Bill today – a massive milestone for Australia and establishing a national EPA, updating environmental standards and increasing penalties for breaches. But, you may not have seen it in the news, because Trump is an unhinged fuckwit. https://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Bills_Legislation/Bills_Search_Results/Result?bId=r739828 Nov 2025 06:54 +0000at://did:plc:6e7msnu5o3mdboitzv7oxbxm/app.bsky.feed.post/3m6ochb7gls2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/huwcampbell.com/post/3m6jbmxl7f22zMy Elm and Haskell libraries for Apache Avro were ported to OCaml… and they’re fucking fast. Only 6% slower than the fastest Rust version, but easier to use and with a richer API and complete schema migration support. [contains quote post or other embedded content]26 Nov 2025 06:56 +0000at://did:plc:6e7msnu5o3mdboitzv7oxbxm/app.bsky.feed.post/3m6jbmxl7f22zhttps://bsky.app/profile/huwcampbell.com/post/3m6h3epkpj22vI loved reading the Han Solo Trilogy as a kid. Grime, Crime, Mobsters, and good people trying to do the right thing in the face of Fascism.25 Nov 2025 09:59 +0000at://did:plc:6e7msnu5o3mdboitzv7oxbxm/app.bsky.feed.post/3m6h3epkpj22vhttps://bsky.app/profile/huwcampbell.com/post/3m6emsqfhys2gSydney Area Programming Languages Interest Group – 2025 was on today and I gave a talk on how Haskell's laziness and the Tardis Monad can make optimisation simpler. I nominated late, so got a shorter time slot; but I spun it by smashing through with wild gesticulations and pretty humorous results.24 Nov 2025 10:33 +0000at://did:plc:6e7msnu5o3mdboitzv7oxbxm/app.bsky.feed.post/3m6emsqfhys2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/huwcampbell.com/post/3m5uw3lwalk2sI've got a real use case for online contextual bandits. My first thought was Vowpal Wabbit, but its apparently not maintained anymore and its python libraries tap out at 3.9. What do people use for old school online contextual bandits these days? #python #machinelearning18 Nov 2025 04:36 +0000at://did:plc:6e7msnu5o3mdboitzv7oxbxm/app.bsky.feed.post/3m5uw3lwalk2shttps://bsky.app/profile/huwcampbell.com/post/3m5drko6gzs2gSenate Democrats roll over again, when their position had never been stronger. Coming off an historic win on election night, after Republicans were rightly blamed for their shutdown, and the mandate to fight having never been stronger. The idiots said "LOL. It was us, health care doesn't matter".11 Nov 2025 09:00 +0000at://did:plc:6e7msnu5o3mdboitzv7oxbxm/app.bsky.feed.post/3m5drko6gzs2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/huwcampbell.com/post/3m4pp4gwn4k2cLol. “Hi, It's Me, Wikipedia, and I Am Ready for Your Apology” https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/hi-its-me-wikipedia-and-i-am-ready-for-your-apology03 Nov 2025 09:23 +0000at://did:plc:6e7msnu5o3mdboitzv7oxbxm/app.bsky.feed.post/3m4pp4gwn4k2chttps://bsky.app/profile/huwcampbell.com/post/3m2lqzx2ph22cHey @haskell.org and community! I’m planning on publishing this little library. https://tangled.org/@huwcampbell.com/haskell-list-builder Its implementation is stupidly unsafe, but the results stand out as a nice use case for encapsulation via the ST monad. Let me know of there’s anything else you think it should include.07 Oct 2025 08:56 +0000at://did:plc:6e7msnu5o3mdboitzv7oxbxm/app.bsky.feed.post/3m2lqzx2ph22c